By Bernard E. Harcourt The epilogue to Uprising 1/13 serves as a useful pivot from Marx to Mao and to a different modality of uprising that might be called insurrection or insurgency: a pivot from the modern concept of revolution… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt I had originally suggested, in my previous post, that it was largely the modern historians who spoiled the potential of revolutionary action by inventing “the modern concept of revolution”—twined with its inherent exhaustion or inevitable failure,… Continue Reading
By Simona Forti Instead of asking myself, reformulating the famous title of a chapter in On Revolution[1], which are the lost treasures of the Modern Revolutionary Tradition, I will start from the question: “Which are, if there are, the hidden… Continue Reading
By Étienne Balibar Prepared for the Keynote Lecture, International Society for Intellectual History Conference: “Rethinking Europe in Intellectual History,” University of Crete, Rethymnon, 3 May 2016; revised with some changes and a new conclusion on May 6 at the MEGARON… Continue Reading
By Melvyn Ingleby Thanks to the financial support of CCCCT, I was able to attend a Granada summer school organized by DialogoGlobal, a collective of decolonial academics and activists that also hosts similar events in Barcelona, Mexico City, Bahia (Brazil),… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “In politics, words and their usage are more important than any other weapon.” — Reinhart Koselleck, “Historical Criteria of the Modern Concept of Revolution,” 1968. Is it possible to think through the modern concept of “revolution”… Continue Reading
Simona Forti is an Italian philosopher and academic, whose main interests are in political philosophy and contemporary ethics. She is Professor of History of Political Philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont and one of the founding members of FINO, a PhD Program… Continue Reading
Sandra Laugier is Professor of Philosophy at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris, France) and a Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She has studied at the École Normale Supérieure and at Harvard University. She is Director of the… Continue Reading