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En este documento nos interesa exponer y poner en debate algunas perspectivas sobre la noción de mesianismo dentro del movimiento social que defiende el EZLN. Haremos una revisión de los comunicados del Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos a... more
This paper addresses a range of issues relating to the reading of Heidegger's Back Notebooks. It thus approaches the Notebooks from a hermeneutical perspective, although it also considers the issue of the way Heidegger's thinking during... more
This paper starts from the assumption that states may have a right to control their borders and thus regulate migration. Nonetheless, I argue that governments face severe moral restrictions in the exercise of their right to control... more
This is a revised version of a text presented in part at the American Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting, April 10, 2018, in New Orleans.
"The French Revolution and American Radical Democracy" (Part 1) in Mesechabe 2 (Winter 88-89): 6-12 and (Part II) in Mesechabe 3 (Spring 1989): 21-30.
The intention of this paper is to observe Plato's Epistles as a unique epistolary message. The idea stems from the similarity of the topics covered in the letters, their intertwining, and even the fragmentary repetition of content, given... more
Rabindranath Tagore has stood out prominently in world literature for more than a hundred years. Although his literary works are primarily in Bengali-one of India's many languages which is also the world's seventh most widely spoken... more
This text later appeared as Chapter 7 of the book The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism. It incorporates much of the material from the articles entitled "A Letter from New Orleans" and "Postscript to a Letter from... more
This is a revised version of an earlier text written for the book Rêves et passions d’un chercheur militant: Mélanges offerts à Ronald Creagh (Lyon: Atelier de Création Libertaire, 2016), pp. 29-39.
A critique of "The Politics of Cosmology," a thousand-page manuscript by social ecologist and political theorist Murray Bookchin, based on his study of the history of philosophy and his lectures on that topic. It appears on my PM Press... more
Αν μια εποχή η «εθνική» αγκιτάτσια περί ελληνικής αποκλειστικά και μόνο Μακεδονίας αποτέλεσε την πολεμική ιαχή επέκτασης του ελληνικού κεφαλαίου στα «παρθένα» εδάφη που εγκατέλειπε μια καταρρέουσα οθωμανική αυτοκρατορία, δεν πρέπει να... more
The paper attempts to read together two otherwise unrelated questions – Deleuze’s views on philosophy and the question of nationalism in India – to explore what both can offer to each other without reducing the specificity of each. The... more
In this work I aim to explain the theory of tyranny outlined by Alexandre Kojève in the essay entitled Tyrannie et Sagesse, that was originally composed as a review of Leo Strauss' On Tyranny. The paper tries to demonstrate that this... more
Se detallan los pilares para la edificación de una política científica, tecnológica y transhumanista, la cual, propongo, es la extrapolítica. Esta propuesta posee una visión del filosófica científica, se basa en la evidencia científica y... more
An analysis of the radically libertarian and communitarian dimensions of the early Black Panther program. Published on the "It Is What It Isn't" Blog, Changing Suns Press, Nov. 25, 2015.
Haack replies to a series of questions about how she came to be interested in pragmatism, what work she has done in the area, what she regards as its future, and so on. This paper was written in response to an invitation from the editor,... more
Review of Chad Jorgenson, The Embodied Soul in Plato’s Later Thought, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Elizabeth Frazer and Martin O'Neill discuss a vision of teaching Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) 'fit for the 21st century'. In an edition of the ISRF bulletin entitled 'Economics - ...Serious, But Not Hopeless' they discuss the... more
That man is rational, is the most universal concept, the most axiomatic concept and yet, intrinsically not understood. Plato, in his philosophical inquiry thought of man as a composite of soul and body, with the 'soul' being a part of the... more
A revised translation of the Portuguese published version of a conference Emmanuel Faye gave in Rio de Janeiro in April 2011, so that graduate students in Brazil can read Faye.
Paper for the 8th annual London Conference in Critical Thought, 6 July 2019, @ the Centre for Invention and Social Process at Goldsmiths, University of London. The attempt of my speech is to play with Canguilhem’s work on social and... more
Offering the first developed account of political liberal education, this book combines a thorough analysis of the theoretical groundwork of political liberal education with application-oriented approaches to contemporary educational... more
W: "Myślenie dziś", red. Mateusz Falkowski, Fundacja na Rzecz Myślenia im. Barbary Skargi, Warszawa 2013
In order to prepare the field for an analysis of the role played by Sein und Zeit inside Heidegger's pathway of thinking, it proves decisive to show the theoretical horizon from which this first fundamental work of his takes its... more
J. C. Nyiri has argued in a series of papers that Ludwig Wittgenstein is a conservative philosopher. In ‘Wittgenstein 1929-31: The Turning Back’ Nyiri cites Wittgenstein’s admiration for Grillparzer as well as... more
Given the civic needs of open Western societies which respect pluralism, democracy and human rights, how should Christians read the Qur’an?
Previous literature has demonstrated the important role that trust plays in developing and maintaining well-functioning societies. However, if we are to learn how to increase levels of trust in society, we must first understand why people... more
Fake news and hate speech have always been inextricably linked, coexisting symbiotically, and commonly serve the interests of groups that aim to achieve or maintain power. These are two subjects curiously morphologically confused these... more
lato in his philosophy gives very important place to the idea of justice. He used the Greek word "Dikaisyne" for justice which comes very near to the word morality or righteousness, it properly includes within it the whole duty of man.... more
This essay explores Jacques Derrida's writings on hospitality and his collaboration on the Cities of Asylum project of the International Parliament of Writers. This chapter of Gene Ray, Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory... more
“Who Struggles for Recognition? Axel Honneth’s Moral Logics of Social Conflicts”. (Kto zabiega o uznanie? Moralna logika konfliktu społecznego według Axela Honnetha) a review of A. Honneth’s The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar... more