THEORIAA Journal of Social and Political Theory

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Theoria is an engaged, multidisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal of social and political theory. Published every quarter, its purpose is to address, through academic debate, the many challenges posed by the major social, political and economic forces that shape the contemporary world, especially but not only with regard to Africa, the global South, and their relations with the global North. Theoria wishes to promote discussion of and writing about social and political theory in any form and from any time and place, regardless of ideological perspective and methodological approach.

Editor-in-Chief: Lawrence Hamilton, University of the WitwatersrandManaging Editor: Sherran Clarence, University of Western Cape

RECENT ARTICLES

Pan-African Linguistic and Cultural Unity: A Basis for Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance

SIMPHIWE SESANTI

Kant’s Contradiction in Conception Test: A Causal-Teleological Version of the Logical Contradiction Interpretation JAMES FURNER

The Nemesis of the Suburbs: Richard Turner and South African Liberalism STEVEN FRIEDMAN

The Unfeasibly Narrow Rawlsian Interpretation of FraternityJOAN VERGÉS-GIFRA

Wiping Away the Tears of the Ocean: Ukusulaizinyembezizolwandle

MOGOBE RAMOSE

Distinguishing Injustice, Exploitation and Harm: The Impossibility Result

ELIAS L. KHALIL

ISSN 0040-5817 (Print) • ISSN 1558-5816 (Online)Volume 65/2018, 4 issues p.a.

Critical Theory of the Contemporary

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Europe and the WorldWorld War I as Crisis of UniversalismEdited by Kai Evers and David Pan

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Series: Telos Investigations

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With contributions by Étienne Balibar, Annette Becker, Russell Berman, Jörn Leonhard, among many others, Europe and the World: World War I as Crisis of Universalism focuses within Europe on the conflicts between nationalism and cosmopolitanism as a universalist political project and globally on the conflicts between European imperial politics and universal ideals. This collection of essays probes how these conflicts defined the war as the transition point to a new structure of global relations and postcolonial understandings of cultural identity.

Praise for Europe and the World“This fascinating selection of essays sheds new light on the great caesura that was the First World War. Above all, the essays here remind us that the war was authentically global in its reach and unsparing in its impact on civilian populations.”—Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution,

Stanford University, and author of The Pity of War and The War of the World

“Europe and the World opens up an important interdisciplinary conversation about the centrality of World War I to the global transformations that it unleashed and that have created the outlines of our world”—Susan Grayzel, author of Women and the First World War

GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY

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German Politics and Society is the only American publication that explores issues in modern Germany from the combined perspectives of the social sciences, history, and cultural studies. The journal provides a forum for critical analysis and debate about politics, history, film, literature, visual arts, and popular culture in contemporary Germany. Every issue includes contributions by renowned scholars commenting on recent books about Germany.

Editor: Jeffrey J. Anderson, Georgetown UniversityManaging Editor: Eric Langenbacher, Georgetown University

RECENT ARTICLES

Understanding Germany’s Short-lived “Culture of Welcome”: Images of Refugees in Three Leading German Quality Newspapers

MAXIMILIAN CONRAD AND HUGRÚN AÐALSTEINSDÓTTIR

Investing in Early Crisis Relief or Reelection?: Comparing German Party Responses to the Euro Crisis

ALEXANDRA HENNESSY

The Birth of Autotune and the Loop of (West) German Identity CYRUS SHAHAN

Cues for Integration: Foreign Policy Beliefs and German Parliamentarians’ Support for European Integration

A. BURCU BAYRAM

Imagining European Diversity in an Age of MigrationKATRIN SIEG

Borderland of the Mind: The Free City of Danzig and the Sovereignty Question

ELIZABETH M. CLARK

ISSN 1045-0300 (Print) • ISSN 1558-5441 (Online)Volume 36/2018, 4 issues p.a.

Political Theology Today as Critical Theory of the Contemporary: Reason, Religion, Humanism

The 2019 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute ConferenceFebruary 15–17, 2019 ◆ New York City

Across the globe the liberal logic of capitalism and technocracy has seemingly tri-umphed, and with it a culture of secularism, now the dominant ideology of the liberal establishment that prefers progress to tradition, an individualized identity to a sense of shared belonging, and free choice to common purpose. As much as this regime has produced wealth, it has also generated inequality and dissatisfaction. The populist in-surgency that is sweeping the West is in large part a repudiation of this secular politics, opening the space for a post-liberal political theology. A resurgence of religion is un-derway that marks the failure of the secularization thesis and the need for alternative cultural resources, beyond positivism, to understand the place of humanity within the cosmos. Is this our new "Great Awakening"?

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Critical Theory for Practical Problems

Asymmetricality, the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, and Abrahamic Peace

The 2018 Telos Israel ConferenceNovember 18–20, 2018

University of Haifa and Al-Qasemi College, Israel ◆ Haifa, Israel

The aim of this conference is to develop common approaches among Jews, Christians, and Muslims to foster pluralist readings of the scriptures and other religious texts. We believe that rigid fundamentalist readings and their translation into action is deleterious in terms of working toward a peaceful resolution of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and of other domestic and international political conflicts that are equally infused by fanatic religious rhetoric and practice.

Visit www.telosinstitute.net/israel2018/ for more details about the conference.

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Critical Theory of the Contemporary

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Democracy and PopulismThe Telos Essaysby Alain de BenoistEdited and Introduced by Russell A. Berman and Timothy W. Luke

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The crisis of democracy, the consequences of neoliberalism and globalization, the limits of sovereignty, and of course the rise of populism: few thinkers have given more sustained attention to these matters than the French author Alain de Benoist. Democracy and Populism collects de Benoist’s essays from the journal Telos, where many of his writings first appeared in English translation. Reading de Benoist in Telos provides access to a distinctive transatlantic intellectual dialogue and to an array of prescient insights into the current political condition on both

Praise for Democracy and Populism“Europe has been on a long vacation from politics—for understandable reasons—but the price has been a failure to understand the most basic human questions, or even to ask them. Alain de Benoist reminds us that this vacation will have to end.”—Peter Thiel, entrepreneur, investor, and author of Zero to One: Notes on

Startups, or How to Build the Future

continents. De Benoist clearly anticipated today’s political condition: the critique of neoliberalism, the contradictions in liberalism created by the postcolonial frictions of identity politics, and the implications of a resurgent populism. The specific forms of populist movements are sure to vary in the coming years, but the crisis of liberal democracy will remain the defining feature of political life for the foreseeable future. De Benoist explains why.

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Land and Sea: A World-Historical Meditationby Carl SchmittTranslated by Samuel Garrett Zeitlin. Edited and with Introductions by Russell A. Berman and Samuel Garrett Zeitlin

Originally published at the height of the Second World War, Land and Sea recounts Carl Schmitt’s view of world history “as a history of the battles of sea powers against land powers.” Schmitt leads us from the Peloponnesian War to European colonial expansion, while polemically setting Nazi Germany as a continental land power against Britain and the United States as its maritime enemies. In addition, Schmitt offers his interpretations of the rise of Venice, piracy, “corsair capitalism,” the spatial revolution of European colonial expansion, and the rise of the British Empire.

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Free Radicals: Agitators, Hippies, Urban Guerrillas, and Germany’s Youth Revolt of the 1960s and 1970sby Elliot NeamanWith a Foreword by Timothy W. Luke

Elliot Neaman’s Free Radicals presents a comprehensive panorama of the West German youth revolt in the 1960s, as well as its subsequent fragmentation and descent into terrorism in the 1970s. Neaman argues that the activists of the 1960s fundamentally misconstrued the nature of the young German republic, conflating it with earlier problematic German polities, and offered hazy world-shattering utopias to replace it based on artificial historical comparisons.

Mastering the Past: Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe and the Rise of Illiberalismby Ellen Hinsey

Over the last decade Ellen Hinsey has traveled across Central and Eastern Europe researching a critical shift in the European political landscape: the rise of illiberalism. Through a series of eyewitness reports, Mastering the Past offers an insider’s view of key political events, including the 2012 Russian elections, the Polish presidential plane crash in Smolensk, and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s vision for a new Hungary. Hinsey explores the darkening hour of European politics with an incisive mind and an eye for detail, recording the urgent danger that illiberalism represents for the new century.

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