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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Steven Lukes, New York University

Karuna Mantena, Yale University

Ann Stoler, The New School

and Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University

Read and discuss

“Truth and Politics” by Hannah Arendt

Praxis and Action: Contemporary Philosophies of Human Activity (pp. ix-xv, 11-83) by Richard Bernstein

A Pure Theory of Illusions, Values, and Tactics and An Answer to the Question: “What Is To Be Done?” by Bernard Harcourt

as well as a short selection from

Theory and Practice: History of a Concept from Aristotle to Marx (pp. 3-15, 109-139) by Nicholas Lobkowicz

6:15 – 8:45 pm

at Maison Française, Buell Hall, Columbia University

September 12, 2018, 6:15-8:45

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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Judith Revel, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

Jackie Wang, Harvard University

McKenzie Wark, The New School

and Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University

read and discuss

Now by The Invisible Committee

6:15 – 8:45 pm

in Jerome Green Annex, Columbia University

October 3, 2018, 6:15-8:45

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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Amna Akbar, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

Brandon Terry, Harvard University

Adam Tooze, Columbia University

in conversation with

Etienne Balibar, Jean Louise Cohen, Reinhold Martin, and Bernard E. Harcourt

reading and discussing

Bernie Sanders’ Guide to Political Revolution by Bernie Sanders

as well as

Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda by Indivisible

in Jerome Green Annex, Columbia University

October 24, 2018, 2018, 6:15-8:45

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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Karl Ekeman, Uppsala University, Sweden

Zeynep Gambetti, Bogazici University

Renata Salecl, Birkbeck, University of London

Jason Stanley, Yale University

moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University

read and discuss

Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance by Guillaume Faye

A Fair Hearing: The Alt-Right in the Words of Its Members and Leader edited by George T. Shaw

in the Common Room, Heyman Center, Columbia University

November 14, 2018, 6:15 – 8:45 pm

with selections from

The Real Right Returns: A Handbook for the True Opposition by Daniel Friberg

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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Etienne Balibar, Department of French and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Camille Robcis, Columbia University

Mikhaïl Xifaras, Sciences Po, Paris

in conversation with Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia University) Daniele Lorenzini (CCCCT), Camila Vergara (Columbia Political Science), and Katharina Pistor (Columbia University)

reading and discussing

Commonwealth by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

with special emphasis on Preface and Chapter 1.1: “The Republic of Property” , 6.2 “Insurrectional Intersections” and 6.3 “Governing the Revolution“

and Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Assembly (Oxford, 2017), Chapter 6 “How to Open Property to the Common”

at Maison Française, Buell Hall, Columbia University

December 5, 2018, 6:15 – 8:45 pm

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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Martin Saar, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

and Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University,

rethink Critique and Praxis in Frankfurt,

at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

reading and discussing

Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour

One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (selections) by Herbert Marcuse

“Marginalia to Theory and Praxis” by Theodor W. Adorno

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Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Journée d’étude à l’EHESS

en liaison avec le séminaire de Bernard E. Harcourt Théories critiques et contre-critiques : la pensée et la pratique critique au XXIe siècle

à l’EHESS

en liaison avec le séminaire de Bernard E. Harcourt
Théories critiques et contre-critiques : la pensée et la pratique critique au XXIe siècle