ACCLAIMING: NOTES FOR A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE CHORAL VOICE 1

Book 2015

Adorno on Politics after Auschwitz

In the minds of many critical theorists, Theodor W. Adorno epitomizes the failure of critical theory to provide any concrete guidance for political practice. His name is almost synonymous with the retreat of the progressive intellectual from the creeping totalitarianism of contemporary mass democracy. This book endeavo...

Gary A. Mullen · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Michail Theodosiadis:

If political tyranny implies the exclusion of the people from public affairs, then freedom is the practice of common ownership of political institutions. Theodosiadis (2025:5-6) develops this approach by tracing its ancient Greek roots, clarifying its American traditions and identifying its institutional forms for a de...

Eleni Boliaki · Dianoesis · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Foucault, war and nationalism

This article provides a brief response to contributions by Bartmanski and Phillips, and Hewson. While acknowledging the importance of their innovative and quite different deployment of Foucauldian analytical tools to the analysis of culture as a way of life and the possible erasure of humanity, respectively, it also id...

Siniša Malešević · Dialogues in Sociology · 1 citation

Book 2013

Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy

This collection of essays focuses on the roles that coercion and persuasion should play in contemporary democratic political systems or societies. A number of the authors advocate new approaches to this question, offering various critiques of the dominant classical liberalism views of political justification, freedom,...

Unknown authors · 0 citations

Sep 2026

Criticism, Crisis, and Krisis: Reading Questions for Critics of the Bible Today

Forty years since Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza’s 1987 SBL Presidential Address, we see a retreat from reading ideology and a recommendation to emphasize reading pleasure by a number of prominent scholars in the fields specifically mentioned by Schüssler Fiorenza to describe the interdisciplinary turn in biblical stud...

Tat-siong Benny Liew · Biblical Interpretation · 0 citations

Review Sep 2026

Philosophy and Rhetoric in Leviathan: Revisiting the Rapprochement Thesis

This paper is a contribution to a special issue of Hobbes Studies considering Quentin Skinner’s Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes at thirty. One of the central claims of Skinner’s book is that, having rejected humanist methods of composition based on the manipulation of rhetorical proofs for a metho...

T. Raylor · Hobbes Studies · 0 citations