War and Civil War
Has American political life ever been as polarized as it is today? The evaporation of anything like a bipartisan consensus in the political class leaves us staring at a battlefield, with few common bonds or shared attachments. Politics has become the internalization of war by other means. Given this increasingly divided state of affairs, Telos 181 turns to conflict as its special theme, as an opportunity to discuss relevant aspects of the political theory tradition and to place them in relation to some current topics.
Introduction
Russell A. Berman
Interpretation and Critique: Jacob Taubes, Julien Freund, and the Interpretation of Hobbes
Samuel Garrett Zeitlin
The Contemporaneity of Thomas Hobbes
Julien Freund
Leviathan as Mortal God: On the Contemporaneity of Thomas Hobbes
Jacob Taubes
Beyond Just War: Jan Patočka’s Solidarity of the Shaken
Steven Torrente
Risk or Security: Carl Schmitt’s Ethos of the Event
Kellan Anfinson
Giorgio Agamben’s Inclusive Exclusion of Étienne de La Boétie
Mikkel Flohr
Sovereignty and Grand Strategy: Some Observations on the Rise of China and Decline of the Americans
Aaron Zack
Deleuze, Affect Theory, and the Future of Realism
Hyeryung Hwang
Deliberation in Context: Reexamining the Confrontation between the Discourse Ethics and Neo-Aristotelianism
Ryan Holston
Palestinian Counter-Hero: Samir El-Youssef’s Anglo-Palestinian Fiction
Rachel S. Harris
Beyond Engaged Literature: Samir El-Youssef’s The Illusion of Return
Russell A. Berman
Critical Theory of the Contemporary
Erdoğan and the Intellectuals
Azade Seyhan
Can We Save Archie Bunker?
Kenneth D. Johnson
The Ambiguities of Memory and Ambivalences of Monuments: Confederate Memorials in America
Timothy W. Luke
On the Retreat of Liberalism and the Renewal of Politics
Adrian Pabst
Populist Politics and the New Campus Culture Wars
David Pan
