Heidegger’s ghosts

Joshua Broggi (Oxford): Heidegger in Plain English: The Phenomenology in Being and Time. Derek Robert O’Connell (Illinois): Heidegger’s Authenticity. Sacha Golob (KCL): Heidegger's “Black Notebooks”: The Occlusion of the Political. Babette Babich (Fordham): The “New” Heidegger. Misadventures in political philosophy: Mahon O’Brien on the right sort of question to ask about Heidegger’s philosophy and politics. Heidegger’s ghosts: Heidegger has powerful adherents in societies as different as Russia and Iran — if liberal democracies are to reckon with his followers, they must wrestle with his thought. Sheldon Richmond reviews Heidegger’s Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse by Richard Wolin.

Timothy Burns (Baylor): Leo Strauss’ Recovery of Classical Political Philosophy. John P McCormick (Chicago): European Legitimacy Crises — Weimar and Today: Rational and Theocratic Authority in the Schmitt-Strauss Exchange.

From the Journal of Cultural Research, Arthur Bradley (Lancaster) and Antonio Cerella (Central Lancashire): Introduction: The Future of Political Theology and the Legacy of Carl Schmitt; and Antonio Cerella (Central Lancashire): Encounters at the End of the World: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and the Tyranny of Values. Eva Imbsweiler (Georgia State): Individualism, the Total State and Race in the Views of Carl Schmitt. Paul Gottfried reviews Carl Schmitt: A Biography by Reinhard Mehring. Flaminia Incecchi (St. Andrews): The Concept of the Political in Carl Schmitt and Chantal Mouffe. You can download The Problem of Political Theology, ed. Pawel Armada, Arkadiusz Gornisiewicz, and Krzysztof C. Matuszek (2012).

Anna Jurkevics (Yale): Hannah Arendt reads Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth: A Dialogue on Law and Geopolitics from the Margins. Natan Sznaider (MTA): Hannah Arendt: Jew and Cosmopolitan. Roger Berkowitz (Bard): Reconciling Oneself to the Impossibility of Reconciliation: Judgment and Worldliness in Hannah Arendt’s Politics. Before and after Eichmann in Jerusalem: Kathleen B. Jones on Hannah Arendt and the human condition. The state that I am in: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft on Hannah Arendt in America. Katie Kilkenny on why Hannah Arendt matters in 2016: The controversial German philosopher is enjoying renewed pop culture significance.

Andrew Johnson (UCSB): Viral Politics: Jacques Derrida’s Reading of Auto-Immunity and the Political Philosophy of Carl Schmitt. Leon Surette (Western): Deconstruction on Trial. Embarrassing ourselves: Geoffrey Bennington on Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology: “Like other seismic events of thought, Derrida’s insight is quite simple, yet in its very simplicity hard to grasp”.