The feuilletons of Western Europe, pale shades of their former selves, still occasionally allow an argument to pinball around the continent. In March 2013, two months after the eu’s Fiscal Compact ...

The title Traces footnote 1 mobilizes for the purposes of philosophical theory the primary experiences derived from reading Red Indian stories. A broken twig, a footprint on the ground, speak volumes ...

The family of Khalilullah Rezai occupies a special place in the tormented annals of Iran’s revolution. During the reign of the Shah, Mr Rezai’s children were actively involved in supporting the ...

The ‘Act to Modernize Nationality Law’ has come into force. The law is a way for the German state to move closer to the mouth ...

Rouch initially chose to train, though, not as an artist or anthropologist but as an engineer, enrolling at the Écoles des Ponts et Chaussées in 1937. He would later apply the rigorous disciplines of ...

Judith Butler’s essay is welcome on several counts.footnote 1 It returns us to deep and important questions in social theory that have gone undiscussed for some time. And it links a reflection on such ...

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

Jurists were once revered as priests, high guardians of the law endowed, in the Roman adage, with ‘knowledge of what is equitable and just’. If such dicta continue to adorn many a courthouse and ...

A commanding survey of the world economy from 1950 to the present, from the author of the acclaimed The Boom and the Bubble. Originally published as NLR I/229, this is now a Verso book: For years, the ...

We now know that this was a tragic delusion, and that after two ‘development decades’ most people in sub-Saharan Africa are poorer than they were thirty years ago, while a chronic dependence on ‘aid’ ...

In many respects, the emergence of neoliberalism since the mid-1970s has enhanced the legibility of capitalist social relationships.footnote 1 New disciplines have been imposed on both workers and ...

If we begin, then, with what I have called the minimum necessary condition of Marx’s science, this methodological requirement to which he assigns an exceptional importance, the first question which ...