De Victor Dansaert Introduction « Mon intention, ne vous méprenez pas sur ce point, je vous prie, n’est pas le moins du monde de m’acharner sur Nietzsche, qui, si je dois être sincère, est celui des ‘’grands’’ philosophes auquel je dois… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt With Herbert Marcuse pronouncing the “End of Utopia” in his 1967 lecture at the Free University of West Berlin (which we just discussed at Utopia 10/13) and the passing of the first generation of the Frankfurt… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “What changes later is that it comes out of space into time, with the later utopians of the 18th, especially the 19thcentury, Fourier and Owen and Saint-Simon and Cabet, who transfer utopia into the future. It… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The rich and provocative conversation with Rahel Jaeggi and Martin Saar on the Frankfurt School and utopian thought, at Utopia 10/13, underscored the productivity of Critical Theory’s ambivalence toward the concept of utopia—the productivity of its… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt With regard to Critical Theory, the concept of Utopia was predominantly of interest to the first generation of the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer and Adorno, and later Marcuse) and to their adjacent thinkers, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin,… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The night of October 16, 2011, twelve University of Chicago graduate students were arrested at an Occupy Chicago protest in Grant Park, downtown Chicago. Handcuffed and manhandled, they were transported in police vans to stations in… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Like prison abolition, reparations for slavery, and public debt cancellation movements, these initiatives [the Black Lives Matter movement and Occupy Wall Street] link a concrete demand to a holistic vision of a fundamentally different way of… Continue Reading
By Amna A. Akbar In the late twentieth century, critical legal theorists recognized law as politics and understood law not as superstructure but a terrain of struggle in the way that Nicos Poulantzas had insisted in State, Power, and Socialism decades… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt It is a privilege to welcome Amna Akbar, Derecka Purnell, and Cornel West to the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought to revisit and rethink Professor West’s landmark article on the role of law, of the… Continue Reading
By Gary Wilder I did not set out to write a book on “concrete utopianism.” This work emerged organically over a number of years, mostly in the wake of my previous book Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of… Continue Reading