What is an intuition as opposed to a defined concept of something? Are intuitions separate and qualitatively different than concepts? Are they just fuzzy concepts? Do they really exist at all? The essays in Telos 206 explore in one way or another this question of the status of conceptual knowledge as opposed to intuitive awareness.
Every war forces us to reconsider the character of war and the forms that it can take. In Telos 205, we consider the different ways of understanding the relationship between conflict and insight in war as well as examples of how the conceptualization of conflict affects the outbreak, progress, and outcome of wars.
In this wide-ranging and incisive new volume, Timothy Luke traces the trajectory of Soviet and post-Soviet geopolitics, from the ideological dynamics of revolutionary Russia through the Cold War and the "War on Terror" to, most recently, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
In this issue of Telos, we investigate the theories and ideologies that have transformed the politics of race and gender over the last half century, as well as the quandaries this transformation has given rise to in the present.
Combining elements of memoir and critical reflection on the history of mind-altering substances in society, Approaches attests to Jünger’s belief that drugs can facilitate a deeper spiritual journey into dimensions of human existence that have been eclipsed by the ambient noise of modern life.
The crucial problem running through the essays in Telos 203 is the difficulty of establishing a unified foundation for human rights given the variety of cultural, legal, moral, and political perspectives that we find in the world regarding the question of how we relate to each other as humans.
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.
- Free Speech and Campus Antisemitism: Academic Freedom, to What End? The video of the sixth webinar in the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s Israel Initiative is now available and can be viewed here. Titled “Free Speech and Campus Antisemitism: Academic Freedom, to What End?,” the panel featured Michael S. Kochin, Geoff Shullenberger, and Jacob Siegel, and their conversation was moderated by Israel Initiative director Gabriel Noah Brahm. The next webinar in the Israel webinar… (continue reading)
- Overcoming Antisemitism by Reinvigorating Twentieth‑Century Liberalism I am a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Oregon, and I am an observant, progressive Jew. I appreciate the efforts of conservatives, some of whom have made valuable contributions to the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's Israel initiative, to expose antisemitism in my profession and among my students since October 7. I share their concern that anti-Zionism has become one… (continue reading)
- Matthias Küntzel on the Nazi Roots of October 7 In the latest episode of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute podcast, Gabriel Noah Brahm, director of TPPI's Israel Initiative, talks with German political scientist Dr. Matthias Küntzel about the Nazi roots of the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, and about the dangers posed today by Iran. This conversation follows TPPI's webinar of February 7, 2024, "Historians on Ideology and Politics in the 1948… (continue reading)
- The Return of the Two Cultures in the Israel–Hamas War Protests The following essay is part of a special series of responses to recent events centered, for now, at Columbia University, and extending beyond its confines to include the wider array of societal problems that the disorder there symptomatizes. For details, see Gabriel Noah Brahm, "From Palestine Avenue to Morningside Heights."—Gabriel Noah Brahm, Director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s Israel initiative In… (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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