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Complete listing of all 262 posts from The New Polis.


Politics And Its Double – Deleuze And Political Ontology, Part 1 (Borna Radnik)
Friedrich Engels
Politics And Its Double – Deleuze And Political Ontology, Part 1 (Borna Radnik)

The following is the first of a four-part series. Is the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze directly political? There are...

03 July 2019 thenewpolis
Making Higher Education More Affordable Requires A Closer Examination Of Its Financing (Carl Raschke)
2008 Financial Crisis
Making Higher Education More Affordable Requires A Closer Examination Of Its Financing (Carl Raschke)

The scramble is now on between the proliferating number of candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination to...

26 June 2019 thenewpolis
The Dialectic Of Enlightenment From A Postsecular Lens – Part 1 (Roger Green)
Alia Wong
The Dialectic Of Enlightenment From A Postsecular Lens – Part 1 (Roger Green)

I am often perplexed, sometimes disturbed, and generally intrigued by the use of Literature in philosophical arguments....

19 June 2019 Roger Green
Walter Benjamin’s Notes On Various Topics, Proximity And Distance, Part 4
Distance
Walter Benjamin’s Notes On Various Topics, Proximity And Distance, Part 4

Translated by Rachel Thomas. Edited by Carl Raschke. The following is the fourth part of a series of translated...

08 June 2019 thenewpolis
The Political Enigma Of Jordan Peterson (Jonathan Cole)
Cathy Newman
The Political Enigma Of Jordan Peterson (Jonathan Cole)

The political narrative regarding Jordan Peterson now appears set in stone – he is an ideological warrior of the right....

31 May 2019 thenewpolis
Walter Benjamin’s Notes On Various Topics, The Body And Sexuality, Part 3
Asceticism
Walter Benjamin’s Notes On Various Topics, The Body And Sexuality, Part 3

Translated by Rachel Thomas. Edited by Carl Raschke. The following is the third part of a series of translated fragments...

25 May 2019 thenewpolis
Amorous Agonism And The Allergy To Difference – Part 3 (Roger Green)
Political
Amorous Agonism And The Allergy To Difference – Part 3 (Roger Green)

I ended my previous post pointing to a critique of Spirit in its eurochristian derivation. This series of posts has been...

21 May 2019 Roger Green
“Fake News” And Political Polarization In America (Christopher Layton)
2016 Presidential Election
“Fake News” And Political Polarization In America (Christopher Layton)

Fake news has flourished in the current politically polarized climate that has persisted over the past thirty years. In...

15 May 2019 thenewpolis
Amorous Agonism And The Allergy To Difference – Part 2 (Roger Green)
Amorous Agonism
Amorous Agonism And The Allergy To Difference – Part 2 (Roger Green)

In my previous post, I drew on a longer genealogy of liberalism by Aryeh Botwinick to address Catherine Keller’s recent...

07 May 2019 Roger Green
Amorous Agonism And The Allergy To Difference, Part 1 (Roger Green)
Aryeh Botwinick
Amorous Agonism And The Allergy To Difference, Part 1 (Roger Green)

This is the first in a multi-part series of posts. In the following series of posts, I want to address some themes...

29 April 2019 Roger Green