-
13Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should BeThe European Legacy 1-4. forthcoming..
-
4Diane Coyle is an economist and Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, and co-director of the Bennett Institute. She serves in many other capacities, including as expert...
-
4Ruben Andersson is a Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford University, and author of No Go World (2019) and Illegality, Inc. (2014), among other works. David Keen is a Professor of Conflict St...
-
3The Crisis of Transcendent Values: Higher Education at a CrossroadsThe European Legacy 1-16. forthcoming.The faith in progress that propelled the West for over four centuries is in decline due to its own success. The emergence of capitalism with its novel market imperatives has created both the poverty that causes political crises and the material growth that has destabilized the Earth’s climate. There is a growing sense that we are dominated by the technologies and social organizations that we hoped would liberate us. Individualism and secularity have left people feeling isolated and without a sen…Read more
-
9The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism (review)The European Legacy 29 (2): 230-232. 2023.Matt Zwolinksi, Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego, and John Tomasi, President of the Heterodox Academy in New York City, have teamed up to write a thorough and thought-provokin...
-
7Why Did Trump Happen? Insights from the Political Thought of Christopher LaschThe European Legacy 29 (1): 94-100. 2023.Donald Trump’s election and the subsequent roiling of the U.S. political scene have been an unsettling spectacle and have occurred during an increase in right-wing power around the world.1 Why did...
-
12Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America (review)The European Legacy 29 (1): 118-120. 2023.Stephen Bullivant is a senior lecturer in theology and ethics, and Director of the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society at St. Mary’s University, London. He is the author or co-author of te...
-
25A Ghost of a Chance, After AllDerrida Today 2 (2): 166-176. 2009.Does a Postal Principle, a principle of destinerrance, hold true for computer mediated communication (CMC)? Perhaps. However, the question is not one concerning technology. Is it rather the case that we must ask, after Derrida, after all, whether destinerrance ever held true, as a principle? This paper considers the prospect that the Postal Principle was, in principle, or as a principle, an expression of a truth value from something that can not in fact, be held at all: the ghost in the machine.…Read more
-
7Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of RealismCornell University Press. 1993.This original book has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides's history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. While acknowledging that neither thinker fits perfectly within the confines of international relations realism, Laurie M. Johnson proposes Hobbes's philosophy is more closely aligned with it than Thucydides's.
-
13Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe, by Larry M. Bartels, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2023, 252 pp., $29.95/£25.00 (cloth) (review)The European Legacy 28 (7): 799-802. 2023.Larry Bartels is one of the most prominent political scientists in the areas of democracy, electoral politics, and public opinion. He is the May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Sci...
-
7In Search of the Soul: A Philosophical EssayThe European Legacy 28 (3): 420-422. 2022.John Cottingham is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading, a renowned Descartes scholar, and author of over 30 books. His latest book, In Search of the Soul: A Philosophical...
-
5Political theorist Laurie M. Johnson deals with Jung's analysis of the effects of modern scientific rationalism on the development of communism, fascism and Nazism in the 20th century and applies this analysis to the rise of the New Right in the 21st century. Jung's thought provides much needed insight into contemporary ideologies such as neoliberalism, Identitarianism and the Alt-Right. Johnson explains Jungian analytical psychology as it relates to these topics, with a chapter devoted to Jung'…Read more
-
7Thinking with Deleuze (review)The European Legacy 28 (1): 107-108. 2022.Ronald Bogue, Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia, has compiled many of his previously publ...
-
8The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble But Flawed Ideal (review)The European Legacy 28 (1): 105-107. 2022.Martha Nussbaum has an impressive list of books to her credit, including the great Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (2016), and her latest, Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accoun...
-
16This book is the English translation of Alain Badiou’s seminar on Nicolas Malebranche, part of a series of seminars on Being, the One, and the Infinite. In this extraordinary seminar, originally ta...
-
6Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution: by Todd McGowan, New York, Columbia University Press, 2019, 270 pp., $30.00/£24.00 (cloth) (review)The European Legacy 26 (3-4): 439-440. 2021.Todd McGowan is professor of film studies at the University of Vermont and author of The Impossible David Lynch and Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets. This most...
-
9Lacan: Anti-philosophy 3: by Alain Badiou, translated by Kenneth Reinhard and Susan Spitzer, New York, Columbia University Press, 2018, xli–260 pp., $30.00The European Legacy 26 (7-8): 857-859. 2021.This book, first published in French in 2013, has now been published in English, opening to a wider readership Alain Badiou’s understanding of, and at times disagreement with, the Freudian psychoan...
-
12Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory RevolutionThe European Legacy 26 (3-4): 439-440. 2020.Todd McGowan is professor of film studies at the University of Vermont and author of The Impossible David Lynch and Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets. This most...
-
18No Go World: How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics: by Ruben Andersson, Oakland, University of California Press, 2019, 337 pp., $29.95.00/£24.00The European Legacy 26 (1): 97-98. 2021.Oxford anthropologist Ruben Andersson has written a book that is accessible for a general audience, because it is so engagingly written, and is full of information and arguments that should be read...
-
9Before Anarchy: Hobbes and His Critics in Modern International Thought: by Theodore Christov, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015, 297 pp., $31.99/£24.67The European Legacy 25 (6): 710-712. 2020.Volume 25, Issue 6, September 2020, Page 710-712.
-
24Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution: by Wendy Brown, New York, Zone Books/near Futures, 2015, 229 pp., $18.95/£14.02The European Legacy 24 (6): 674-676. 2019.Volume 24, Issue 6, September 2019, Page 674-676.
-
25Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism (review)The European Legacy 22 (6): 746-748. 2017.
-
13The psychology of religion, ideology and state powerHistory of European Ideas 20 (1-3): 511-516. 1995.
-
26Radicals and Reactionaries in Twentieth-Century International Thought (review)The European Legacy 23 (1-2): 1-2. 2018.
-
5Honor in America?: Tocqueville on American EnlightenmentLexington Books. 2016.This book analyzes Tocqueville’s views on religion, family and gender roles, politics, relations with Native Americans, white southerners and slavery, and the military. It explores how these views can help form a uniquely American honor code, one that re-envisions aristocratic elements of honor within a modern democratic and capitalist society.