By Laëtitia Riss Before I begin, I would like to warmly thank Professor Bernard Harcourt for inviting me to present my research in the framework of this seminar, Professor Étienne Balibar for agreeing to discuss the first results of my… Continue Reading
Par Laëtitia Riss Avant de commencer, je tiens à remercier chaleureusement le professeur Bernard Harcourt de m’avoir invitée à présenter mes recherches dans le cadre de ce séminaire, le professeur Étienne Balibar d’avoir accepté d’échanger autour des premiers résultats de… Continue Reading
Karuna Mantena specializes in political theory with research interests in the theory and history of empire, South Asian intellectual history, and postcolonial democracy. Karuna holds a B.Sc.(Economics) in International Relations from the London School of Economics (1995), an M.A. in… Continue Reading
Kendall Thomas is a scholar of comparative constitutional law and human rights whose teaching and research focus on critical race theory, legal philosophy, feminist legal theory, and law and sexuality. Thomas is the co-founder and director of the Center for… Continue Reading
By Laëtitia Riss Bronislaw Baczko reports that in 1730, the effervescence of the Enlightenment, which he likes to call the “century of utopias,” led the most daring to shake up the language by inventing the verb “to utopize” (in French,… Continue Reading
By Dorothea Nikolaidis “TINA: There is no alternative.”[1] Margaret Thatcher’s famous phrase has become the dying groan of a body politic apparently entering into a state of premature rigor mortis. The dismal slogan announced the beginning of a capitalist reconfiguration… Continue Reading
Robert Gooding-Williams is the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy and of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. His research and teaching interests include Social and Political Philosophy (especially the… Continue Reading