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The Contraction of the West What Westerners call the West or Western civilization is a geopolitical space that emerged in the 16th century and expanded continuously until the 20th

Church, State, Resistance Following the sad death of the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, we republish one of his most important essays which engages with law and the political. The

The Winter of Absolute Zero: Interview with Shaj Mohan The silent 20th century consensus was that philosophy was Western, which then was split into ‘continental’ and ‘Anglo-Saxon’. In recent decades we have

Against Agamben: Is a Democratic Biopolitics Possible? Giorgio Agamben’s recent intervention which characterizes the measures implemented in response to the Covid-19 pandemic as an exercise in the biopolitics

Pierre Bourdieu: Habitus Key Concept In Outline of a Theory of Practice (1977) Pierre Bourdieu provides a framework both for understanding the way that cultural settings