Essays
Conflict In Israel-Palestine
A New Judaism?*
A fundamental question: “Are we, Israelis, still Jews?”, asked the philosopher Ernest Simon in 1953.[1] What looks like a provocative…
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A Humanist Perspective on the Causes, Reasonings and Consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian War
Introduction Wars always cause human suffering, even when they are justified. Although suffering is not measurable, it is possible to…
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Has Labor Reawakened?
For the past four decades the labor movement in the United States has been somnolent. Ever since the administration of…
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The Backlash Continues: How Two Recent SCOTUS Rulings Pose a Threat to LGBTQ+ and Especially Trans and Gender Non-Binary Persons
Our Present Context My research and analysis of the backlash against LGBTQ+ and trans inclusion since the Obergefell decision of…
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The Rise of Trumpism
In today’s politics, Donald Trump supporters praise him as welcome relief to what they consider failed politics and policies. Trump…
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Trump and Trumpism: An American Brand of Fascism
All too often, pundits depict Trump and Trumpism as a unique expression of political extremism, but Trumpism is not entirely…
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Africa, We the Underdeveloped: Wynter’s Discontent in the Light of Hegel’s Conception of Development
*Originally presented at the Caribbean Philosophical Association, Brown University, June 2019 Introduction A passing note, couched in one of the…
Erich Fromm’s Contribution to Critical Theory
Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1900, Erich Fromm completed a sociological dissertation with Alfred Weber at the University of…
Kant After Three Centuries
April 22, 2024 was Immanuel Kant’s three-hundredth birthday. Kant is the most influential modern European philosopher, viewed as a direct…
Marcuse’s Most Famous Student: Angela Davis on Critical Theory and German Idealism*
*This article is adapted from a chapter in Joy James’s new book, Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of Icon.…
Review Essays
Pasolini’s Aesthetics
Works Discussed: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting, edited and translated by Ara H. Merjian and Alessandro Giammei…
Book Review
Determinism and Freedom: A Review of Michael Löwy’s Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark
Few thinkers in the radical left have had a more sustained and creative engagement with the thought of Rosa Luxemburg…
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Joy James’s New Bones Abolition
New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (after)life of Erica Garner is an urgent and cogent addition to the…
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Fred Camper’s Seeking Brakhage
Early in the volume of Fred Camper’s collected writings on the films of Stan Brakhage, an essay appears titled “Senses…
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Chelsea Schields’s Offshore Attachments
“The offshore accounts for the archipelagos of legal pluralism, extraterritoriality, and supposed exception forged by colonial powers and redefined in…
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2024: Vol. 23, No. 2
Latest Issue
2024: Vol. 23, No. 2
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