Thoughts on the History of Telos, 1968–2018

On June 8, 2018, Telos celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at a special event held in New York City. Speakers included Telos editors Russell Berman, Tim Luke, David Pan, and Adrian Pabst, as well as Jacob Siegel, who delivered a talk on “Telos, Post-liberal Politics, and a Veteran’s Reading of Ernst Jünger.” Videos of the event are available at the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute website. Telos 183 (Summer 2018), our fiftieth anniversary issue, is available for purchase in our store. Presented below is a transcript of Tim Luke’s remarks at the anniversary event.

To address the history of Telos, I will open this brief account tonight about the journal by recalling my history with Telos since 1975. As a new cadre in “the St. Louis TELOS group,” I began by unloading boxes of Telos 26 (Winter 1975–76) from a panel truck early on a Saturday morning during the winter break outside of McMillan Hall, where Paul Piccone and the Telos office were embedded in the Sociology Department of Washington University, St. Louis. Working then as what we call an “intern” today, I soon was translating “into” the American English various versions of different draft manuscripts. Many articles at that time came through the mail as pages of disorderly text that another individual, like the author or an associate, with some English skills translated “out of” Czech, German, Hungarian, Italian, or Polish into a global semi-Anglophonic creole.

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Telos 183 (Summer 2018): 50th Anniversary Issue

Telos 183 (Summer 2018), celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the journal Telos, is now available for purchase in our store.

Telos began this anniversary year with our previous issue’s exploration of the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., tragically assassinated fifty years ago in April. That too was 1968, the excitement of profound social change and the bitter taste of disappointment. So much in our culture today remains framed by that specific polarity. Now, in this issue of the journal, we take stock more broadly: not a judgment on that one year but a return to some of the key themes that have defined Telos. We have been able to carry on these discussions thanks to the vision of the founder, Paul Piccone, the support of our publisher, Mary Piccone, the dedication of our editorial group, the intellectual agility of our authors, and the loyalty of our readers. Thanks to all.

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Telos Press 46th Anniversary Sale! Save 10% on Books and Back Issues

This month we’re celebrating 46 years of publishing the journal Telos by offering a 10% discount on all books and back issues purchased at our website. It’s been a long road since that fateful summer of 1968, back when the first issue of Telos appeared on the scene, but we’re still going strong thanks to the loyalty and support of our dedicated readers. Thank you for being a part of our continuing journey in worlds of philosophy, politics, and critical theory. You can take advantage of this month’s discounts by shopping in our online store.

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Tim Luke and Matt Applegate on the Telos Press Global Internship Program

As many regular Telos readers know, Telos Press maintains an active, ongoing, and global internship program. One of the key features of this program is our TELOSthreads blogging project, in which students with an academic background in politics, philosophy, or a related field produce short pieces of writing and research based on individual articles from the Telos archive. At the recent Telos Conference in New York City, Tim Luke, Telos Press’s Book Editor, and Matt Applegate, a former Telos Press intern, sat down to talk about the program.

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Russell A. Berman receives Dinkelspiel Award at Stanford University

Telos editor Russell A. Berman has received the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contributions to Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. This award, named after the president of the Board of Trustees who served from 1953 to 1958, recognizes distinctive contributions to undergraduate education or to the quality of student life.

Berman is the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, a professor of comparative literature and German Studies, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was honored “for more than three decades of excellence as a teacher and scholar at Stanford and as a national voice, working to re-envision humanities education in this time of transition.”

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