Call for Papers: Special Issue of Telos on the Russo-Ukrainian War

CALL FOR PAPERS

War and Time: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and the Eclipse of Peace

Coedited by Michael Marder and Denys Sultanhaliiev

In what appears to be a peculiar paradox of our time, the Russo-Ukrainian war—initially a profound rupture in the European political imagination—has gradually receded into the background noise of global media circulation. Saturated coverage has not yielded conceptual clarity. On the contrary, despite the overwhelming volume of commentary, there remains a striking absence of sustained theoretical engagement with the war’s implications for political thought. Rather than catalyzing new frameworks, the conflict has too often been instrumentalized as confirmatory evidence for already established positions.

This special issue of Telos seeks to address this philosophical void.

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