Capital without capitalism?
Review: Michael Sonenscher, ‘Capitalism: The Story behind the Word’, (Princeton University Press, 2022) Before what we now call ‘capitalism’, there were commercial societies founded upon the division of labour, […]
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This is the third of three reviews in our series on Axel Honneth’s The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal (Polity, 2017). Axel Honneth’s Idea of Socialism is an […]
MoreWidening the Gyre
This is the first of three reviews in our series on Axel Honneth’s The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal (Polity, 2017). Axel Honneth’s The Idea of Socialism seeks a […]
MoreContested Freedoms: Michaël Fœssel on the Legacy of Rousseau, Kant, and Hegel
Samuel Walker is an American engaged in graduate studies of philosophy and international relations at the Freie Universität in Berlin, where he also works as an editor and translator. — […]
MoreJean-Claude Monod: “Il y a une figure qu’on peut exhumer, le chef émancipateur”
Directeur de recherches au CNRS et professeur de philosophie à l’Ecole normale supérieure, Jean-Claude Monod est l’auteur de Qu’est-ce qu’un chef en démocratie?, une réflexion sur le charisme et l’autorité dans la […]
MoreJean-Claude Monod: “After the totalitarian experience, we can recover the emancipatory leader”
Jean-Claude Monod is a research director at the CNRS and professor of philosophy at the Ecole normale supérieure. In Qu’est-ce qu’un chef en démocratie? [What is a leader in a democracy?], he […]
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