The following paper was presented at the Eighth Annual Telos Conference, held on February 15–16, 2014, in New York City. Two french communist authors recently devoted a book to an attempt at the systematic demolishment of the logic of democracy. What makes their gesture interesting is that their critique of democracy is made in the very name of autonomy, equality, and emancipation, that is, of the very principles that democracy is supposed to promote and uphold. One usually knows how to rea...| Telos Press
With Donald Trump’s second presidential term now underway, it is the perfect time to pick up your copy of Timothy W. Luke’s The Travails of Trumpification.| Telos Press
Telos 210 considers the ways in which state power interacts with popular attitudes and social institutions in order to establish the basis for sovereignty and law.| Telos Press
Hamid Dabashi's critique of Hegel as a racist philosopher misrepresents Hegel’s ideas, and this dismissal serves exclusionary regional ideologies, marginalizing the Kurds and Jews.| Telos Press
Telos 208 (Fall 2024): Carl Schmitt and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy is now available for purchase in our store. Individual subscriptions to Telos are also available in both print and online formats. It hardly needs mentioning that liberal democracy is facing a number of threats today, both internal and external. Even if the political parties in the United States cannot agree on the main source of the threats, they both believe that democracy is in danger. Democrats point to the January 6...| Telos Press
