Critical Theory of the Contemporary

Now available from Telos Press Save 20% at telospress.com with coupon code BOOKS20 Anthropocene Alerts Critical Theory of the Contemporary as Ecocritique by Timothy W. Luke

From the late 1970s, Timothy W. Luke has developed critical analyses of significant social, political, and cultural conflicts, with a particular focus on the entangled politics of culture, economy, and nature. Luke’s “ecocritiques,” many of which first appeared in the pages of Telos, advance a critical theory of the contemporary that takes aim at our ongoing ecological crisis, a period marked by rapid climate change, extensive biodiversity loss, and deep ecospheric damage. The essays collected here range across diverse topics, from the politics of the Anthropocene, Paolo Soleri’s Paperback • $29.95 • 304 pages urban design experiments, the Unabomber ISBN 978-0-914386-75-9 manifesto, the Trump administration’s attacks on environmental protections, and the informationalization of ecological change, to community agriculture projects, deep ecology, the symbolic politics of climate change treaties, Edward Abbey’s ecological writings, and the biopolitics of and the Dark Enlightenment. Praise for Anthropocene Alerts “Tim Luke is a leading critical theorist of his generation. These lively, varied essays analyze incisively sociopolitical and cultural responses to accelerating ecological problems that threaten life on the planet and civilization, as we have known them.” —Robert J. Antonio, Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas “Luke astutely unpacks the intricate relationships between capitalist political economy, culture, and nature that undergird and reinforce these devastating developments. A must-read for critical theorists, activists, and concerned citizens!” —Bradley J. Macdonald, Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University

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Now available from Telos Press Save 20% at telospress.com with coupon code BOOKS20 Europe and the World World War I as Crisis of Universalism Edited by Kai Evers and David Pan With contributions by Étienne Balibar, Annette Becker, Russell Berman, Jörn Leonhard, among many others, Europe and the World: World War I as Crisis of Universalism focuses within Europe on the conflicts between nationalism and cosmopolitanism as a universalist political project and globally on the conflicts between European imperial politics and universal ideals. This collection of essays probes how these conflicts defined the war as the transition point to a new structure of global relations and postcolonial understandings of cultural identity. Paperback • $26.95 ISBN 978-0-914386-69-8 Praise for Europe and the World Series: Telos Investigations “This fascinating selection of essays sheds new light on the great caesura that was the First World War. Above all, the essays here remind us that the war was authentically global in its reach and unsparing in its impact on civilian populations.” —Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and author of The Pity of War and The War of the World “Europe and the World opens up an important interdisciplinary conversation about the centrality of World War I to the global transformations that it unleashed and that have created the outlines of our world” —Susan Grayzel, author of Women and the First World War

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Now available from Telos Press Save 20% at telospress.com with coupon code BOOKS20 The Tyranny of Values and Other Texts by Carl Schmitt Translated by Samuel Garrett Zeitlin Edited by Russell A. Berman and Samuel Garrett Zeitlin With a Preface by David Pan Written during the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era, and the Cold War, this collection of occasional pieces provides an instructive look at the ways in which Carl Schmitt employed his theories in order to make judgments about contemporary historical events and problems. Covering topics such as the political significance of universalism and jurisprudence, the meaning of the partisan, the world-historical significance Paperback • $29.95 • 230 + xx pages of the Cold War, the deterioration of ISBN 978-0-914386-73-5 metaphysics into “values,” the relationship between theoretical concepts and concrete historical situations, and his views on thinkers such as Machiavelli, Bodin, and Rousseau, these essays establish a revealing counterpoint to his more formal work. Praise for The Tyranny of Values and Other Texts “The Tyranny of Values and Other Texts is a crucial contribution to the study of far- right in the Cold War era—and in our own.” —John P. McCormick, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago “This is a brilliantly curated selection of texts. They exemplify important transitions and transformations in Schmitt’s thinking about law and politics as he confronted the challenges of the Second World War and its aftermath, in Europe and across the globe.” —David Bates, Professor, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

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After the Welfare State: Reconceiving Mutual Aid

The 2020 Annual Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Conference February 15–16, 2020 ◆ New York, NY The collapse of the welfare state model in advanced post-industrial countries has prompted a search for new forms of solidarity. The contemporary interest in struc- tures of mutual aid relates to the fact that we are living in an era that is clearly looking for new models of human flourishing and social development. Not only must we deal with multiple and recurring crises, but there is a growing recognition that today’s nor- mative agenda has to be much more encompassing and holistic, including issues of gender equality, fair trade, environment, and cultural and religious diversity. Are fam- ily, nation, and religion the key categories that would embed mutual aid in broader affective, ethical, and metaphysical frameworks, or are there alternative possibilities that would establish new types of networks? This conference seeks to develop new concepts of mutual aid that are not predetermined by conceptions of biological, eco- nomic, or political certainties. Visit www.telosinstitute.net/conference2020/ for more details about the conference.

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