Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

Nancy Fraser, New Left Review: Here, I want to examine a different aspect of Israel’s genocidal onslaught on Gaza: its significance as a ‘world event’, an epochal turning point that also serves to reveal, and so to signify, the nature … Weiterlesen →

In society’s perception, the reality of constant psychological mobilization and the tense expectation of global military conflict became a way of life to be reproduced by two generations, for whom fidelity to convictions was always inextricably linked to fear and … Weiterlesen →

Jeremy Morris, Red Threads: What was lost is self-evident to anyone alive today in the Russian Federation: an industrialized workforce with job guarantees and symbolic capital, if poor working conditions. What is preserved is an embedded sense that the rush … Weiterlesen →

I can perhaps make this abjuration of philosophical neutrality in the interest of political liberalism more palatable by referring yet again to the Wittgensteinian analogy between vocabularies and tools. —Richard Rorty, Contingency, irony, and solidarity, (New York: Cambridge University Press, … Weiterlesen →