Truth and Power
Every ideal asserts an absolute ability to interpret the world and structure our relationship to it, yet the variety of such ideals prevents any single one from claiming universal validity. Each ideal inevitably comes into conflict with various competing “truths,” and so the relationship of truth to power remains constantly in doubt and subject to revision. In this issue of Telos, we focus on the complexity of this relationship of truth to power, particularly in the case of theological and philosophical perspectives.
Introduction
David Pan
Negative Theology, Power, and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
Aryeh Botwinick
The Tragic Paradox of Political Zionism
Menachem Fisch
When Arendt Said “We”: Jewish Identity in Hannah Arendt’s Thought
Annabel Herzog
Conscience, Morality, Judgment: The Bond between Thinking and Political Action in Hannah Arendt
Lenka Ucnik
Is Fascism the Main Danger Today? Trump and Techno-Neoliberalism
Mark G. E. Kelly
Natural Spontaneity, or Adorno’s Aesthetic Category of the Shudder
Justin Neville Kaushall
Forum on Universal Human Rights
Reflections on Rights
Russell A. Berman
The United States, National Traditions, and Human Rights
Peter Berkowitz
Making Human Rights Readable: The Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights
Ruth Starkman
Some Further Thoughts on the Nature, Scope, and Source of Human Rights
Christopher Tollefsen
Reflections of a Rapporteur
F. Cartwright Weiland
Unalienable Rights, the 1619 Project, and Nation-State Sovereignty
David Pan
Reviews
With and against Marx: Ágnes Heller’s Philosophy
Lilla Balint
Apocalypse and Politics
Maxwell Kennel
