The Source of Our Restlessness
“We just cannot get a break.” Surely that is the universal sentiment of the past year. Yet in trying to rationalize a catastrophic year, there is something we can […]
MoreDo Better: Truth and Good as Process
In our societies, the Good and the True are ultimate values. They are ideals we strive for and the primary standards by which we judge people and claims. There are […]
MoreAn Existentialist Tocqueville? Beauvoir against America
Americans have made a kind of civic cult out of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. Perhaps it was hoped that praising to the skies one Frenchman’s opinion of our […]
MoreThe Company and The Banisters We Keep
“Dear Gerhard, … Your letter contains a number of uncontroversial claims—uncontroversial because they are quite simply wrong. I’ll begin with them so we can move on to the issues worth […]
MoreShould Defenders of Truth Defend Democracy?
This is the first review in our book forum on Sophia Rosenfeld’s Democracy and Truth: A Short History. A short history of the relation between democracy and truth from […]
MoreQue peut la théorie critique aujourd’hui ?
Axel Honneth et Jacques Rancière, Recognition or Disagreement. A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identity, édité par Katia Genel et Jean-Philippe Deranty (Columbia University Press, 2017) […]
MoreTen Theses on Charisma
Editor’s note: The following post by Vincent Lloyd is based on the arguments in his new book out this month from Columbia University Press, In Defense of Charisma. 1. Charisma is […]
MoreMarcel Gauchet: “There has been an absolute victory of the democratic principle”
Marcel Gauchet is a philosopher and historian. He is an emeritus director of studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, and editor in chief of the journal Le […]
MoreMarcel Gauchet: “Les trente dernières années ont vu la victoire absolue du principe démocratique”
Marcel Gauchet est philosophe et historien, directeur d’études émerite à l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales et rédacteur en chef de la revue Le débat. Il est notamment […]
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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