By Telos Press · Monday, June 10, 2013 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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By Telos Press · Monday, May 6, 2013 Save 20% when you purchase at telospress.com
 The Democratic Contradictions of Multiculturalism, by Jens-Martin Eriksen and Frederik Stjernfelt, is now on sale in the Telos Press store. Purchase it here and save 20% off the list price!
What is multiculturalism? Is it every person’s right in a democratic society to choose his or her religion and culture and to express criticism regardless of taboos and moralistic norms? Or is it the right of cultures and religions to be protected from insult and to preserve themselves against change? Jens-Martin Eriksen and Frederik Stjernfelt examine the ideology and the reality of multiculturalism, including the Muhammad cartoons, laws against blasphemy, hijab, the Islamic ban on apostasy, and the limits of the freedom of religion.
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By Telos Press · Monday, March 18, 2013 Who Should Be The Next Mayor Of New York?
Discussions on a Wide-Open Race
St. Francis College is proud to host what promises to be a lively discussion on “Who Should be the Next Mayor of New York,” featuring a selection of reporters and activists from across the political spectrum.
Who: Panelists include John Avlon (CNN), Michael Powell (New York Times), Maggie Haberman (Politico), Harry Siegel (Daily Beast), and Michael Meyers (New York Civil Rights Coalition). The panel will be moderated by St. Francis College Scholar in Residence Fred Siegel.
Where: St. Francis College, Founders Hall, 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights, NY 11201
When: Tuesday, March 19, 7:00pm–9:00pm
The event is free and open to the public.
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By Telos Press · Monday, February 25, 2013 Telos has always been about big ideas. Populism. Federalism. Traditions. The intersection of politics and religion. The legacy of totalitarianism and the ongoing threat of terrorism. Over the years we’ve dedicated special issues to these and other topics in order to give them the wider critical attention they deserve.
In the spirit of big ideas, we’re offering a 20% discount on select special issues of Telos from today through the end of March. There’s no better time than now to explore our rich history of critical engagement with the pivotal concerns of politics and philosophy.
Browse the back issues of Telos here. Note: Articles from out-of-stock special issues are available in digital form at the Telos Online website.
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By Telos Press · Saturday, January 26, 2013 An excerpt from Carl Abrahamsson’s recent review of Ernst Jünger’s The Adventurous Heart, published by Telos Press. Read the full review here.
 The Adventurous Heart is a perfect title for the book. Once inside, each page is like an adventure and it does indeed belong more in the sphere of the heart than in the rational mind. Strolling through nature—both the chlorophyllic and the human—Jünger ponders phenomena as well as his own conclusions in an intuitive way. Aloof, yes, but always intriguing enough to keep you hooked. It’s an unpredictable mystery, very subtly designed, and which works over and over and over (try re-reading On the Marble Cliffs or this one and see how much new stuff actually appears. A literary tricking of memory or simply a living, sentient text?). . . .
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By Telos Press · Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Gary Lachman reviews Ernst Jünger’s The Adventurous Heart for Reality Sandwich:
The Adventurous Heart is a collection of short essays, thoughts, stories, dreams, philosophical musings, and other unclassifiable writings on a number of experiences: nature, death, travel, sex, drugs, antique shops, museums, practically anything that caught Jünger’s ever inquisitive eye. It provides, as Jünger says, “small models of another way of seeing things.” This “other way” is what Jünger calls “stereoscopy,” the ability to see things in a dual aspect, perceiving their surface and depth simultaneously. . . . Jünger’s “stereoscopy” revealed to him the “secret correspondences existing between things,” and his reflections, written in an elegant, often lapidary style, trigger in the attentive reader a similar effect.
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