The Perils of Nonviolent Islamism
by Elham Manea
With a Foreword by Russell A. Berman
Elham Manea's critical investigation of nonviolent forms of Islamist fundamentalism sounds the alarm on a crisis that can no longer be ignored.
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Telos 193 · Winter 2020
Race, Russia, and Rights
What is not up for discussion? In this issue of Telos, we consider three areas—race, Russian politics, and human rights—in which discussability has become the main issue, leading to implacable conflict.

Read David Pan's introduction to the issue here.
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Screens of Power
Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society
by Timothy W. Luke
With a Foreword by Ronald J. Deibert
This new edition of Screens of Power reintroduces the innovative critique of informational culture, politics, and society outlined by Timothy W. Luke in Telos and other publications during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Fred Siegel - The Crisis of Capitalism
 
The Crisis of Liberalism
Prelude to Trump
by Fred Siegel
With a Foreword by Joel Kotkin
In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Fred Siegel leverages New York City to uncover the key political conflicts and social contradictions in American liberalism over the last century.
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Anthropocene Alerts
Critical Theory of the Contemporary as Ecocritique
by Timothy W. Luke
Timothy W. Luke’s “ecocritiques,” many of which first appeared in the pages of Telos, advance a critical theory of the contemporary that takes aim at our ongoing ecological crisis, a period marked by rapid climate change, extensive biodiversity loss, and deep ecospheric damage.
 
Mastering the Past:
Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
and the Rise of Illiberalism
by Ellen Hinsey
Through a series of eyewitness reports, Ellen Hinsey's Mastering the Past documents a critical shift in the Central and Eastern European political landscape: the dangerous rise of illiberalism.
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The Indian Farmers' Movement 2020–21: Part II: The Global Indian Diaspora and Digital Activism

By B. Venkat Mani

To read more in depth from Telos, subscribe to the journal here. On February 2, the second day of Black History Month, a tweet from a Black woman in the United States unleashed a war of words in India, with global resonance. Rihanna, the Barbados-born U.S. singer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and cultural activist posted a one-liner: "why aren't we talking about this?!" . . . (continue reading)

The Indian Farmers' Movement 2020–21: Part I: Reclaiming Postcolonial Nationalism from the State

By B. Venkat Mani

To read more in depth from Telos, subscribe to the journal here. On November 26, 2020, when international borders were still partially closed due to the global coronavirus pandemic, a new democratic and peaceful movement was taking shape in India, led by farmers. They wanted to register their protest against three contentious agricultural reform laws covering "Produce Trade and Commerce," "Agreement . . . (continue reading)

How White Is Kant's White Race, after All?

By Dieter Schönecker

To read more in depth from Telos, subscribe to the journal here. To begin with, Kant was a racist. Some philosophers still hold he was not, but it's hard to see why (though it may well be disputed whether Kant's racist thinking is also reflected in his moral philosophy). Kant was not only a racist because he, incidentally, as it were, . . . (continue reading)

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Telos has always celebrated rejuvenation and renewal, and in recent years we’ve embraced that change in a variety of ways. We’ve taken Telos online and digitized our complete archive, allowing institutional subscribers from around the world to access the journal over the Internet. We’ve created a regular conference series in New York City and another more recently in Europe, which have brought together an increasing number of scholars to discuss today’s critical issues in politics and philosophy . . . (continue reading)

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