CMLT 6040 – 1968 Politics After Aesthetics

Adorno:

Alway, Joan.  Critical Theory and Political Possibilities: Conceptions of Emancipatory Politics in the Works of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas.  Westport, CT:     Greenwood Press, 1995. 
Berman, Russell. “Adorno’s Politics.”  In: Adorno: A Critical Reader.  Ed. Nigel Gibson and Andrew Rubin. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.  110-131.  [Also, this volume generally]. 
—.  “Politics: Divide and Rule,” Modern Language Quarterly 62:4 (December 2001), 317-330.
Bernstein, J. M.  Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 
Brunkhorst, Hauke.  Adorno and Critical Theory.  Cardiff: University of Wales, 1999.  [electronic book; oncampus or vpn] 
Hammer, Espen. Adorno and the Political.  London: Rougledge, 2006. 
Jarvis, Simon.  “Adorno, Marx, Materialism.”  In The Cambridge Companion to Adorno.  Ed. Tom Huhn.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Menke, Christoph. The Sovereignity of Art: Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. 
Pensky, Max.  Ed.  The Actuality of Adorno: Critical Essays on Adorno and the Postmodern.  Albany, NY: State University Press of New York, 1997. 

Agamben:

Calcaro, Matthew, and DeCaroli, Steven.  Sovereignty and Life.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.
Enns, Diane. “Political Life Before Identity.”  Theory and Event 10.1(2007).
Mills, Catherine.  “Agamben's Messianic Politics: Biopolitics, Abandonment and the Happy Life.”  Contretemps 5 (December 2004), 42-62.  
Norris, Andrew.  “Agamben and the Politics of the Living Dead.”  Diacritics 30.4 (Winter 2000), 38-58. [Also in following entry]. 
—.  Ed.  Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 
Wall, Carl Thomas.  Radical Passivity: Lévinas, Blanchot, and Agamben.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.
Wetters, Kirk.  “The Rule of the Norm and the Political Theology of ‘Real Life’ in Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben.”  Diacritics 36.1 (Spring 2006), 31-46.

Arendt:

Beiner, Ronald, and Nedelsky, Jennifer.  Eds.   Judgment, Imagination, and Politics: Themes From Kant and Arendt.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. [on order] 
Bradshaw, Leah.  Acting and Thinking: The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989. 
Calhoun, Craig and McGowan, John.  Eds.  Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 
Canovan, Margaret.  Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of Her Political Thought.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 
— .  The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. 
Cowan, Margaret.  Hannah-Arendt: A Reinterpretation of her Political-Thought.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Gottsegen, Michael G.  The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994.
Hinchman, Lewis, P., and Hinchman, Sandra K.  Eds.  Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays.  Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1994. 
Passerin-Entrèves, Maurizo.  The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt.  London: Routledge, 1994.
Pirro, Robert C.  Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy.  DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001.
Villa, Dana R.  Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political.  Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996.
Wolin, Richard.  Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 

Badiou:

Ashton, Peter, Bartlett, A. J., and, Clemens, Justin.  Eds. The Praxis of Alain Badiou.  Melbourne: re.press, 2006.  [Contains bibliography of works by and on Alain Badiou up until 2006, pdf here].
Balibar, Étienne.  “The History of Truth: Alain Badiou in French Philosophy.”  Radical Philosophy 115 (2002), 16-28.  Also in Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy.  Ed. Peter Hallward.  London: Continuum, 2004.  21-38.
Barker, Jason.  Alain Badiou: A Critical Introduction.  Pluto Press, 2002. 
Calcagno, Antonio.  Badiou and Derrida: Politics, Events and Their Time.  New York: Continuum, 2007.
Copjec, Joan.  “Gai Savoir Sera: The Science of Love and the Insolence of Chance.”  In Alain Badiou: Philosophy and its Conditions.  Ed. Gabriel Riera.  Albany, NY: State University of New York, 2005.  119-35.
Critchley, Simon.  “On Alain Badiou.”  Theory and Event 3.4 (2000). 
Dews, Peter.  “Uncategorical Imperatiaves: Adorno, Badiou and the Ethical Turn.”  Radical Philosophy 111 (2002), 33-37. 
Hallward, Peter.  Badiou: A Subject to Truth.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
—.  “Politics: Equality and Justice.”  In Hallward, Badiou: A Subject to Truth.
—.  Ed.  Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy.  London: Continuum, 2004.
Hewlett, Nick.  Ed.  Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere: Rethinking Emancipation.  London: Continuum 2007.  
Marchart, Oliver.  Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou, and Laclau.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
Nicolacopoulos, Toula, and Vassilacopoulos, George.  “Philosophy and Revolution: Badiou's Infidelity to the Event.”  InThe Praxis of Alain Badiou.  Ed. Paul Ashton.  367-85.
Nancy, Jean-Luc.  “Philosophy without Conditions.”  In Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy.  Ed. Peter Hallward.  London: Continuum, 2004.  39-49.
Power, Nina.   “Towards and Anthropology of Infinitude: Badiou and the Political Subject.”  InThe Praxis of Alain Badiou.  Ed. Paul Ashton.  311-38.
Rancière, Jacques.  “Aesthetics, Inaesthetics, Anti-Aesthetics.”  In Peter Hallward, ed., Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy.  London: Continuum, 2004. 218-31.

Balibar:

Hewlett, Nick.  Badiou, Balibar, Rancière: Rethinking Emancipation.  London; New York: Continuum, 2007. 

Laclau/Mouffe:

Bertram, Benjamin.  “New Reflections on the ‘Revolutionary’ Politics of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.”  boundary 2, 22. 3 (Autumn, 1995), 81-110. 
Butler, Judith, and Laclau, Ernesto.  “The Uses of Equaliy.” Diacritics 27.1 (Spring, 1997), 3-12.
Critchley, Simon and Marchant, Oliver.  Laclau: A Critical Reader.  New York: Routledge, 2004.
Marchart, Oliver.  Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou, and Laclau.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 
Miklitsch, Robert.  “The Rhetoric of Post-Marxism: Discourse and Institutionality in Laclau and Mouffe, Resnick and Wolff.”  Social Text 45 (Winter, 1995), 167-196.
Smith, Anna Marie.  Laclau and Mouffe: The Radical Democratic Imaginary.  New York: Routledge, 1998. 

Marx:

Balibar, Etienne.  The Philosophy of Marx.  1995.  London: Verso, 2007.
Barbour Charles, and Kemple, Thomas M.  “Writing the Republic: Politics and Polemics in The German Ideology.”  Telos 130 (Spring 2005).  9-37.
Derrida, Jacques.  Spectres of Marx.  New York: Routledge, 1994. 
Gilbert, Alan.  “Political Philosophy: Marx and Radical Democracy.”  In The Cambridge Companion to Karl Marx.  Ed. Terrell Carver.  Cambridge University Press 1991.  
     168-95. 
Seliger, Martin.  The Marxist Conception of Ideology: A Critical Essay.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1979.

Nancy:

Badiou, Alain.  “L'Offrande réservée.”  In Sens en tous sens: autour des travaux de Jean-Luc Nancy.  Ed. Francis Guibal and Jean-CLet.  Paris: Galilée, 2004.  13-24
Levett, Nicholas.  “Taking Exception to Community (between Jean-Luc Nancy and Carl Schmitt).”  Journal of Cultural Research 9.4 (October 2005). 
Marchart, Oliver.  Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou, and Laclau.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
Ojakangas, Mika.  “Philosophies of Concrete Life: From Carl Schmitt to Jean-Luc Nancy.” Telos 132 (2005),  25-45.
Ross, Alison.  “Nancy: Touching the Limits of Presentation.”  In her The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy. 
    Stanford University Press, 2007.  134-163.

Rancière:

Bennett, Tony.  “Habitus Clivé: Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu.”  New Literary History 38 (2007), 201-228. 
Deranty, Jean-Philippe.  “Jacques Rancière and Contemporary Political Ontology.”  Theory and Event 6.4 (2003). 
—.  “Jacques Rancière's Contribution to the Ethics of Recognition.”  Political Theory 31.1 (February 2003) , 136-156. 
Dillon, Michael.  “A Passion for the (Im)possible Jacques Rancière, Equality, Pedagogy and the Messianic.”  European Journal of Political Theory 4.4, 429-452.
Hewlett, Nick.  Badiou, Balibar, Rancière: Rethinking Emancipation.  London; New York: Continuum, 2007.
May, Todd.  “Jacques Rancière and the Ethics of Equality.”  SubStance 36.3 (2007), 20-36.
—.   The Political Thought of Jacques Rancière.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2008.  [on order] 
Méchoulan, Eric.  Ed.  Special Issue of SubStance on Jacques Rancière.  SubStance 108 (2004).  [On-campus or VPN connection required]
Newman, Saul.  “Anarchism, Poststructuralism and the Future of Radical Politics.”  SubStance 113/36.2, (2007), 3-16. 
Rancière, Jacques.  “Dissenting Words.”  Interview.  Diacritics 30.2 (2007), 113-126.
—.   “Introducing Disagreement.”  Angelaki 9.3 (2004), 3-9.
—.   “Literature, Politics, Aesthetics: Approaches to Democratic Disagreement.”  Interview by  Solange Guénoun, James H. Kavanagh, and Roxanne Lapidus.  SubStance 92 (2000), 3-24.
Pallidino, Paolo, and Moreiras, Tiago.  “On Silence and the Constitution of the Political Community.”  Theory and Event 9.2 (2006). 
Robson, Mark.  Jacques Rancière: Politics, Aesthetics, Philosophy.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006.  [on order] 

Schmitt:

Derrida, Jacques.  “On Absolute Hostility: The Cause of Philosophy and the Spectre of the Political.”  In On Friendship.  London, New York: Verso, 2005.  112-37.
Hirst, Paul.  “Carl Schmitt's Decisionism.”  Telos 72 (Summer 1987), 15-26.
Kennedy, Ellen. “Carl Schmitt and the Frankfurt School.”  Telos 71 (Spring 1987), 37-66.
Lefebvre, Alexandre.   “The Political Given: Decisionism in Schmitt's Concept of the Political.” Telos 132 (2005),  83-98.
Levett, Nicholas.  “Taking Exception to Community (between Jean-Luc Nancy and Carl Schmitt).”  Journal of Cultural Research 9.4 (October 2005). 
Marder, Michael.  “Carl Schmitt and the Risk of the Political.” Telos 132.  5-24.
Mouffe, Chantal.  Ed.  The Challenge of Carl Schmitt.  London: Verso, 1999. 
Müller, Jan-Werner.  A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Norris, Andrew.  “Carl Schmitt on Friends, Enemies and the Political.”  Telos 112 (Summer 1998), 68-88.
—.   “Carl Schmitt's Political Metaphysics: On the Secularization of ‘the Outermost Sphere.’”  Theory and Event 4.1(2000). 
Ojakangas, Mika.  “Philosophies of Concrete Life: From Carl Schmitt to Jean-Luc Nancy.” Telos 132 (2005),  25-45.
Soellner, Alfons. “Beyond Carl Schmitt: Political Theory in the Frankfurt School.”  Telos 71 (Spring 1987), 81-96. 
Wetters, Kirk.  “The Rule of the Norm and the Political Theology of ‘Real Life’ in Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben.”  Diacritics 36.1 (Spring 2006), 31-46.

Agamben, Giorgio.  Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
—.  Means Without End: Notes on Politics.  Trans. Vincenzo Binetti, Cesare Casarino.  Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
—.  Profanations. Trans. Jeff Fort.  New York : Zone Books, 2007.
—.  State of Exception..  Trans. Kevin Attell.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Arendt, Hannah.  Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought.  New York, Viking Press, 1968.
—.  “The Decline of the Nation State and the End of the Rights of Man.”  In The Origins of Totalitarianism.  1948.  New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1973.
—.  Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy.  Ed. Ronald Beiner.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
—.  The Origins of Totalitarianism.  New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.
—.  “The Rights of Man.”  In Modern Review 3 (Summer 1949-1950).
Badiou, Alain.  Peut-on penser la politique?  Paris: Seuil, 1985.  [on order] 
—.  La politique des poètes : pourquoi des poètes en temps de détresse?   Paris: A. Michel, 1992. 
Balibar, Étienne.  “Citizen Subject.”  In Who Comes After the Subject?  Ed. Eduardo Cadava, Peter Connor, and Jean-Luc Nancy.   New York: Routledge, 1991.
—.  “The Infinite Contradiction.”  In Yale French Studies 88 (1995), 142-64.
—.  Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies on Politics and Philosophy Before and After Marx.  Trans. James Swenson.  New York : Routledge, 1994.
—.  Spinoza and Politics.  Trans. Peter Snowdon.  London: New York, Verso, 1998.
—.  “What is a Politics of the Rights of Man?”  [online text] 
Blair, Jonathan.  “Context, Event, Politics: Recovering the Political in the Work of Jacques Derrida.”  Telos 149 (Winter 2007), 149-65.
Blanchot, Maurice.  Écrits politiques. Paris: Éditions Lignes & Manifestes, 2003.  [on order; pdf available] 
Butler, Judith.  Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative.  New York: Routledge, 1997. 
Devenney, Mark.  Ethics and Politics in Contemporary Theory: Between Critical Theory and Post-Marxism.  New York: Routledge, 2004. 
Drury, Shadia B.  Alexandre Kojève: The Roots of Postmodern Politics.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Laclau, Ernesto.  Elusive Universality.  London: Routledge, 2008. 
—.  The Making of Political Identities.  London: Verso, 1994.
—.  On Populist Reason. London: Verso, 2007. 
—.  “Universalism, Particularism, and the Question of Identity.”  In The Question of Identity.  Ed. John Rajchman. London: Routledge, 1995.  93-108.
Laclau, Ernesto, and, Butler, Judith.  “The Uses of Equality.”  Diacritics 27.1 (Spring, 1997).  3-12.
Laclau, Ernesto, and Mouffe, Chantal.  Hegemony and Socialist Strategy.  2nd edition.  London: Verso, 2001. 
Laclau, Ernesto, and, Reiter-McIntosh, Amy G.  “Psychoanalysis and Marxism.”  Critical Inquiry, 13.2 (Winter, 1987).  330-333.
Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe, and, Nancy, Jean-Luc.   Retreating the Political.  Trans. Simon Sparks.  London: Routledge, 1997.
Mouffe, Chantal.  “Citizenship and the Political Idenity.”  October 61 (Summer 1992), 28-32.
—.  The Democratic Paradox.  London: Verso, 2000. 
—.  “Democratic Politics and the Question of Identity.”  In The Question of Identity. Ed. John Rajchman. London: Routledge, 1995.  33-45.
—.  “Every Art Form Has a Political Dimension.”  Interview.  Grey Room 2 (Winter, 2001), 98-125.
—.  “Freedom's Basis in the Indeterminate.”  In The Identity in Question.  Ed. John Rajchman.  New York : Routledge, 1995.  [BD236 .I42 1995]
—.  The Return of the Political.  London: Verso, 2006.  (JC423 .M737 1993). 
Rancière, Jacques.   Hatred of Democracy.  London: Verso, 2006.
—.  “The Order of the City.”  Critical Inquiry 30 (Winter 2004), 267-291. 
—.  The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible.  London: Continuum, 2006. 
—.  “The Politics of Literature.”  SubStance 103/33.1 (2004), 10-24.
—.  “Politics, Identification, and Subjectivization.”  In The Identity in Question.  Ed. John Rajchman.  New York : Routledge, 1995.  64-70
—.  “Ten Theses on Politics.” Theory and Event 5.3 (2001).  [Responses: Theory and Event 6.4 (2003)].
—.  “Thinking Between Disciplines: An Aesthetics of Knowledge.”  Parrhesia 1(2006), 1-12. 
—.  “What Does it Mean to be Un?”  Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 21.4 (2007), 559-569. 
—.   “Who Is the Subject of the Rights of Man?”  South Atlantic Quarterly 103:2/3 (Spring/Summer 2004), 297-310. 
Ross, Alison.  “Lacoue-Labarthe: Aesthetic Presentation and the Figuring of the Political.”  In her The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, 
     Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 109-33. 
Zizek, Slavoj.  The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology.  London and New York: Verso, 2000.

Links to Lectures/Seminars on Video:

Badiou, Alain.   Seminar: “Democracy, Politics, Philosophy.”  European Graduate School, 2006.  In 5 parts. 
—.  Seminar: “The Event of Truth.”  European Graduate School, 2002.  [In 7 parts (search for part 4 separately)].
Nancy, Jean-Luc.  Seminar:  “Love and Community.”  European Graduate School, 2001. [ Link to Parts 1-9; Link to Part 10].