Cultural Revolutions

Profound change in society may involve shifting control of political power, the character of economic systems, or access to resources, but it can also have to do with the structures of meaning we bundle together in various understandings of culture. This issue of Telos looks at the explosive forces located specifically in the intangible dimensions of culture and how they may play out in revolutionary or counter-revolutionary processes.

Cultural Revolutions?
Russell A. Berman

Global Islamism and World Society
Jörg Friedrichs

From Secular Temporality to Post-Secular Timelessness: Trekking the Past’s Future and Future’s Past
Greg Melleuish and Susanna Rizzo

Twentieth-Century British Christian Democratic Movements: The Search for a Political Space
Paolo Morisi

Language and Revolution in Egypt
Reem Bassiouney

From Politics to Lifestyle and/or Anti-Politics: Political Culture and the Sense for the State in Post-Communist Italy
Danilo Breschi

Culturalism: When the Culture becomes Political Ideology
Jens-Martin Eriksen

Philosophy From Oracles: Heraclitus, Aquinas, and Heidegger on the Metaphysics of Prolēpsis
Chris Hackett

But Who Created the Controllers? Control as Social Production of Meanings of Consumption
Shay Hershkovitz

Reviews

Post-Continental Philosophy as Non-Philosophy
Joshua Rayman