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Eduardo Mendieta

Institute, School, Tradition: On the Centenary of the Frankfurt School

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In 2023 we were celebrating the centenary of the so-called Frankfurt School. However, there is a semiotic slippage in this terminology. First, there was the Institute for Social Research, then the moniker of the Frankfurt School was coined, and then this was associated with the vague and wide: “Critical Theory.” There would not have been…

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My Trump

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I grew up in New Jersey and working in NYC, then I move to NY-Long Island with my wife to raise our kids. This was in the eighties and early nineties. Depending on whether I used a bus or the train, I had to go through terminals. I also walked through subway stations, in NYC,…

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Interspecies Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Discourse Ethics Grounding of Animal Rights

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1. Introduction There is a fundamental contradiction at the core of the notion of cosmopolitanism, one that I will argue is not idle but generative. On the one hand, there is a reference to the whole wide world, to the universe, to the boundless expanse of nature, the known and unknown ‘cosmos.’ On the other…

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