Now Available for Pre-order: Ernst Jünger’s Eumeswil

Telos Press Publishing is pleased to announce that Ernst Jünger’s Eumeswil is now available for pre-order. The book will be released on September 1, 2015. Pre-order your copy today, and we will ship it as soon as it becomes available.

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In Memoriam: Ben Agger

Ben Agger passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, after experiencing a brief illness. Part of the larger Telos community, as an advocate, reader, and supporter since the 1960s and 1970s in Toronto, Ben was a native of Oregon who became a undergraduate and graduate student at York University before receiving his PhD in Political Economy at the University of Toronto in 1976. After teaching at Bishop’s University in Quebec and the University of Waterloo in Ontario, he returned to the United States to work from 1981 to 1994 at SUNY-Buffalo. He then moved to the University of Texas-Arlington to be the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Sociology until 1998. Since that time, he served as Professor of Sociology and Humanities as well as the Director of the Center for Theory.

Ben Agger was a truly a critical social theorist, a much admired teacher, a prolific author, and one of Telos‘s best friends. He will be missed.

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Matthias Küntzel on Germany, Iran, and the Bomb

Writing at the Times of Israel, Jeffrey Herf explains why Matthias Küntzel’s Germany and Iran: From the Aryan Axis to the Nuclear Threshold should be on your must-read list this summer. You can purchase a copy in our online store. Save 20% through the end of June by using the coupon code TELOS1968.

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Telos Press Anniversary Sale!

We’re celebrating forty-seven years of publishing the journal Telos by offering a 20% discount on all books and back issues purchased at our online store between now and the end of May. Just enter the coupon coupon code TELOS1968 during the checkout process to apply the discount to your order.

It’s been many years since that momentous summer of 1968, when we published the very first issue of Telos, but we are still going strong thanks to the support and engagement of readers like you. From all of us at Telos Press, thank you for being a part of our continuing journey in the worlds of philosophy, politics, and critical theory.

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Joel Kotkin and the Embattled Middle Class

In a recent issue of First Things, Naomi Schaefer Riley reviewed Joel Kotkin’s The New Class Conflict:

Ever since the 2000 election, we have talked about an America divided between red and blue. But in his new book, Joel Kotkin argues that we are experiencing more than a geographical divide. For the first time since its founding, he suggests, America is experiencing a potentially devastating class conflict—the kind of division between the elites and the rest of America that could all but break the country’s middle-class backbone.

It is striking that Kotkin, a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal‘s editorial pages, is making this claim. For years, the left has argued that class warfare is a fact of life in America, even encouraging class resentment to achieve its political aims.

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Call for Papers: The 2016 Telos Conference in New York


Beyond Nostalgia:
Ethics, Politics, and the Critique of Modernity

January 15–16, 2016
New York, NY

On January 15–16, 2016, the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute will hold its annual conference in New York City. The theme of the conference will be “Beyond Nostalgia: Ethics, Politics, and the Critique of Modernity.” If you wish to participate in the conference, please send an abstract (no more than 250 words) and short c.v. to telosnyc@telosinstitute.net by August 15, 2015, and place “The 2016 Telos Conference” in the email’s subject line.

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