By Telos Press · Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Telos Press congratulates Matthias Küntzel on receiving the ADL Paul Ehrlich-Gunther K. Schwerin Human Rights Award. Below is a press release from the Anti-Defamation League announcing the award. Purchase Matthias Küntzel’s Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 at our website and receive 10% off through the month of February.
 Palm Beach, FL—A German political scientist and writer who has laid bare the genocidal intent of Iran’s nuclear program and exposed a link between the anti-Semitism of the Nazis and of the Iranian regime was honored today by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for his ongoing research in the roots and manifestations of modern Jew-hatred.
Dr. Matthias Küntzel was presented with the ADL Paul Ehrlich-Gunther K. Schwerin Human Rights Award during the League’s National Executive Committee meeting in Palm Beach, Florida.
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By Telos Press · Monday, February 7, 2011 Timothy Wong’s “Steward of the Dying Voice: The Intrusion of Horatio into Sovereignty and Representation” appears in Telos 153 (Winter 2010). Read the full version at TELOS Online website.
 This article examines the issue of early modern sovereign succession and political representation through the figure of Horatio. Using Carl Schmitt’s comments on the “dying voice” in the first appendix of Hamlet or Hecuba, and his theory of political representation, this essay argues that Horatio represents the transitional space between the fading vestiges of political theology, and the first traces constituent sovereignty. In his role as mediator of the sovereign word of King Hamlet and the dying voice of Prince Hamlet, Horatio becomes the proto-constituent subject who signals the genesis of a reoriented political agency that is constituted by popular consent rather than authoritarian rule. Furthermore, Horatio is the paradoxical representative that both represents the body politic (in the sense of the King’s two bodies) to the people and the popular will to itself.
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By Telos Press · Thursday, January 13, 2011 Drew Daniel’s “‘Neither Simple Allusions Nor True Mirrorings’: Seeing Double with Carl Schmitt” appears in Telos 153 (Winter 2010). Read the full version at TELOS Online website.
In response to recent criticisms of Schmitt’s argument as “tendentious” and symptomatic, this essay seeks to perform a reparative reading of the central claim of Hamlet or Hecuba for a substantial resemblance between the events within Shakespeare’s play and the murky circumstances surrounding the death of King James’s father, Lord Darnley. First, the historical archive surrounding Lord Darnley’s death is sounded for evidence that might support Schmitt’s claim and illuminate unresolved questions within the plot of Hamlet (in particular, the mysterious “sins” referred to by the Ghost). Secondly, the archive of James’s own published writings on sovereignty, demonology, and witchcraft are placed into relation with Jean Bodin’s similar writings, and brought to bear upon Schmitt’s reading of Shakespeare’s ghost scenes. The cruxes within Shakespeare’s play and Schmitt’s text about the ghost scene (“spirit of health” or “goblin damned”? Catholic or Protestant?) illuminate the relationship between sovereignty and demonology in early modern England: the two discourses are linked by the attempt to establish the divine status of sovereignty and the corresponding subordination of demons and ghosts to theologically established limits and laws. Departing from Schmitt’s initial arguments, this essay extends them in order to illuminate the political-theological terrain within which Hamlet functions.
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By Telos Press · Thursday, December 23, 2010 Season’s Greetings from all of us at Telos Press!
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By Telos Press · Saturday, December 4, 2010 From Telos 152 (Fall 2010), Dimitri Ginev’s “The Erotic Attitude Toward Nature and Cognitive Existentialism.” Read the full version at TELOS Online website.
 The article considers the relevance of Herbert Marcuse’s project for a “new science” to the contemporary studies in hermeneutics of science. This project involves new criteria of epistemological rationality, non-traditional views of nature, and new empirical data models for verifying science’s hypothesis. In scrutinizing the idea of an “erotic attitude toward nature,” the article suggests an approach to revealing the interpretative fore-structure and the hermeneutic situation of the “dialogue with nature.” According to the principal argument, the chance for such a dialogue lies in science’s hermeneutic and self-critical potential. The only way of putting the dialogue with nature into effect is by actualizing alternative possibilities projected by readable technologies of scientific research. The essay makes the case for the claim that since the dialogue is necessarily involved in the reading that constitutes meaning within domains of research, then there is a non-eliminable political dimension that will be associated with the search for an “authentic normality” of nature’s entities. It suggests a broadening the scope of the critique of scientism, in opposing at the same the constructivist rejection of a “politics of nature.”
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By Telos Press · Wednesday, December 1, 2010 From Telos 152 (Fall 2010), Gabriel Alkon’s “Freedom and Integral Will: The Abandonment of Sovereign Power in Emerson, Melville, and Agamben.” Read the full version at TELOS Online website.
According to Giorgio Agamben, the Aristotelian conception of the act presupposes a sovereign decision on the passage to actuality. Only an utterly abandoned potentiality, says Agamben, would escape the logic of sovereignty. One of his figures for this pure-because-abandoned potentiality is Bartleby the Scrivener in Herman Melville’s story. Against Agamben this article argues that the notion of pure potentiality remains within the logic of sovereignty, which depends on the separation of actuality and potentiality. This separation establishes the sovereign will by placing it between potentiality and actuality and apart from both. By reducing it to preference and absolving it from action, Bartleby protects his sovereign will and reveals its essential emptiness.
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