By Telos Press · Friday, August 10, 2018 Telos 50th Anniversary Sale! To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of Telos, we are offering a 20% discount on individual subscriptions and books purchased through the Telos Press website! Just use the coupon code TELOS50 during the checkout process. Offer expires August 31, 2018.
Writing at City Journal, Fred Siegel reports on the lively conversations at the Telos 50th anniversary event, held in June in New York City. An excerpt:
 Describing the vibrant intellectual life of New York in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Anatole Broyard’s Kafka Was the Rage is one of my favorite books. “Alienated from alienation,” Broyard was fascinated by the lively parties where people debated so intensely that “we didn’t know where books ended and we began.”
Recently, I had the good fortune to attend such a gathering: a celebration held in honor of the 50th anniversary of Telos, the lively, unpredictable highbrow magazine founded in 1968 by Paul Piccone, then a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Buffalo. Piccone died in 2004, but Telos, unsubsidized by any university and unwilling to bend to any ideology, has continued as an independent journal under the talented tutelage of his widow, Mary, and the current editor, Russell Berman, who has written insightfully about the great German writer Ernst Jünger. Telos began as part of the New Left but later broke with all orthodoxy, publishing the Schmittians of the Left and Gramscians of the Right (referring to hard-Right 1930s German political philosopher Carl Schmitt and 1930s Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, both back in vogue today, but in unexpected places).
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By Timothy W. Luke · Wednesday, July 11, 2018 On June 8, 2018, Telos celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at a special event held in New York City. Speakers included Telos editors Russell Berman, Tim Luke, David Pan, and Adrian Pabst, as well as Jacob Siegel, who delivered a talk on “Telos, Post-liberal Politics, and a Veteran’s Reading of Ernst Jünger.” Videos of the event are available at the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute website. Telos 183 (Summer 2018), our fiftieth anniversary issue, is available for purchase in our store. Presented below is a transcript of Tim Luke’s remarks at the anniversary event.
To address the history of Telos, I will open this brief account tonight about the journal by recalling my history with Telos since 1975. As a new cadre in “the St. Louis TELOS group,” I began by unloading boxes of Telos 26 (Winter 1975–76) from a panel truck early on a Saturday morning during the winter break outside of McMillan Hall, where Paul Piccone and the Telos office were embedded in the Sociology Department of Washington University, St. Louis. Working then as what we call an “intern” today, I soon was translating “into” the American English various versions of different draft manuscripts. Many articles at that time came through the mail as pages of disorderly text that another individual, like the author or an associate, with some English skills translated “out of” Czech, German, Hungarian, Italian, or Polish into a global semi-Anglophonic creole.
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By Telos Press · Tuesday, March 1, 2016 From the Desk of Mary Piccone, Publisher
Dear Friends of Telos,
I am reaching out to you and asking for your help.
When you purchase a subscription to Telos, you make it possible for us to publish the kinds of writing that you want to read. As a small independent publisher, we rely on the support of our readers to continue producing new, challenging works in politics, philosophy, and critical theory.
If your library is not a current subscriber to Telos, you have the power to influence your library’s decision to subscribe. It’s your recommendation and your interest in Telos, rather than sales calls from publishers, that make a difference in library subscription decisions.
And when it comes to our books, it really helps support our mission when you order directly from our online store at telospress.com. Online shopping sites like Amazon require publishers to accept significant distribution costs to carry their books, and that is certainly challenging for small independent presses like ours. At our website, you can save 20% on the list price of all our books. Just enter the coupon code BOOKS20 during the checkout process, and the discount will be applied to your order.
My passion for continuing Telos is to keep Paul Piccone’s legacy alive and thriving. Telos is a unique forum that gives each of you a place to speak and be heard, and now more than ever such forums are essential. This May we are celebrating forty-eight years of publishing our journal. Let’s make it fifty, and then a hundred. Paul would be proud!
Warm wishes,
Mary Piccone
Publisher, Telos Press Publishing
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By Telos Press · Monday, June 2, 2014 This month we’re celebrating 46 years of publishing the journal Telos by offering a 10% discount on all books and back issues purchased at our website. It’s been a long road since that fateful summer of 1968, back when the first issue of Telos appeared on the scene, but we’re still going strong thanks to the loyalty and support of our dedicated readers. Thank you for being a part of our continuing journey in worlds of philosophy, politics, and critical theory. You can take advantage of this month’s discounts by shopping in our online store.
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