March is Small Press Month: Save 20% on Books and Back Issues of Telos

In celebration of Small Press Month, Telos Press is now offering a 20% discount on all books and all back issues of Telos purchased at our website during the month of March. It’s a great chance for you to catch up on our latest books, including Ernst Jünger’s The Forest Passage and The Adventurous Heart, as well our recent special issues on Italian Jews and Fascism, Politics After Metaphysics, and Hans Blumenberg.

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Event Reminder: The Eighth Annual Telos Conference

Don’t forget: the Eighth Annual Telos Conference will be held this upcoming weekend, February 15–16, 2014, in New York City. Registration is now closed, but if you are still interested in attending the conference, please RSVP to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. Please note that some of the talks are limited to registered attendees only.

Additional details about the conference, as well as the complete conference program, are available at the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute website.

We look forward to seeing you this weekend!

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<em>The Democratic Contradictions of Multiculturalism</em> Wins Best Non-Fiction Title at London Book Festival

Congratulations to Jens-Martin Eriksen and Frederik Stjernfelt for winning best title in the non-fiction category at the London Book Festival for their book The Democratic Contradictions of Multiculturalism, published by Telos Press.

Congratulations in the same category to Timothy W. Luke and Ben Agger, who received Honorable Mention for their anthology A Journal of No Illusions: Telos, Paul Piccone, and the Americanization of Critical Theory.

The awards will be presented at the British Library on January 23, 2014.

To celebrate the awards, we’re offering a 20% discount on both books when purchased at our online store through the end of January.

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The 2014 Telos in Europe Conference: Call for Papers: The Idea of Europe

The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute is pleased to announce its second biennial colloquium in L’Aquila, Italy. The theme of the conference will be “The Idea of Europe.” A full description of the conference, as well as the call for papers, is available on the Institute’s website.

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Now Available! Ernst Jünger’s The Forest Passage

Telos Press is pleased to announce the publication of Ernst Jünger’s The Forest Passage, now available for purchase in our online store. Expertly translated by Thomas Friese, who previously translated Jünger’s The Adventurous Heart, and with an introduction by Russell A. Berman, this key text from Jünger’s oeuvre is finally accessible to English-language readers.

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Subjectivity After Wittgenstein by Chantal Bax

Chantal Bax’s Subjectivity After Wittgenstein: The Post-Cartesian Subject and the “Death of Man” is now available in paperback from Bloomsbury Academic. Although Wittgenstein is often held co-responsible for the so-called death of man as it was pronounced in the course of the previous century, no detailed description of his alternative to the traditional or Cartesian account of human being has so far been available. By consulting several parts of Wittgenstein’s later oeuvre, Subjectivity after Wittgenstein aims to fill this gap.

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