Primary Readings Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique de la raison dialectique (Paris: Gallimard, 1960) Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason (London: Verso, 1991) Jean-Paul Sartre, Search for a Method (New York: Vintage Books, 1968) (this essay, written in 1957, serves as the introduction to Critique of Dialectical… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In the intense conversation at Critique 7/13 on Adorno’s Negative Dialectics, the discussion returned, again and again, to the question of “productivity”: Is it possible to speak of the productivity of Adorno’s method given that it… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In Critique 7/13, we return to Adorno, but this time to the late Adorno of the Negative Dialectics (1966), in conversation with Martin Saar, Professor of Social Philosophy at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main. You will… Continue Reading
This new article can be downloaded for free and safely from SSRN here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3497030 Bernard E. Harcourt, “Foucault’s Keystone: Confessions of the Flesh. How the Fourth and Final Volume of The History of Sexuality Completes Foucault’s Critique of Modern… Continue Reading
De Guillaume Le Blanc Que pouvons-nous trouver dans un texte sur la sexualité chrétienne qui aurait dû paraître en 1982 voire en 1984 et qui finalement ne le sera qu’en 2018 ? Étrange situation puisque nous lisons ce livre aujourd’hui alors… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The initial project of this series of studies, exposed in The History of Sexuality, Volume I: The Will to Know (1976), was not to reconstitute the historical sequence of sexual conducts and practices, nor to analyze the… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Judith Revel’s essay and presentation focus us on one of the most important and contemporary dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir’s work: the relationship between gender and work, which takes on particular significance in the context of… Continue Reading
Preface to the Chinese Edition of the Selected Works of Louis Althusser By Étienne Balibar, translated by Xavier Wyche Flory It is a great honor to write the preface to the Chinese edition of this rich collection of the works… Continue Reading
By Sabina Vaccarino Bremner In the Second Sex, Beauvoir suggests that women, as the ‘second sex’, have nearly always been in a position of subordination to men. This marks a key difference between women and other oppressed groups: while enslaved… Continue Reading