Category Archives: Democratic Theory

  1. From Žižek to Badiou to Benedict XVI…

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    September 25, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    Saw this sentence in The New Republic’s Review (a bit delayed) of the Pope’s Caritas in Veritate: According to Rowan …
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    Category: Badiou, Current Events, Democratic Theory, Žižek

  2. Goldstone Report, Israel, and the Call for More Debate on Just War Theory

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    September 20, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    This is I think the longest response of any I’ve seen in the US to the UN Golstone report released …
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    Category: Democratic Theory, General Thoughts, Off topic, Polemics

  3. Nostalgia for the 1940s and 50s

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    September 17, 2009 by Peter Gratton

      I was making this point in class earlier today and I had missed David Brooks’ eulogy for the lost …
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    Category: Critical Race Theory, Democratic Theory, General Thoughts, Polemics

  4. Adam Kotsko, meet Mark Lilla

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    September 15, 2009 by Peter Gratton

      Adam Kotsko has a nice rendering of a widespread logic employed in conservative thinking. It just so happened that …
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    Category: Articles of Interest, Critical Race Theory, Current Events, Democratic Theory, Feminism, Foucault, General Thoughts, Heidegger, Polemics, Rancière

  5. Foucault on Power

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    September 10, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    I’m editing something of mine right now on Foucault. It seems suitable for here, since for now I’m leaving it …
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    Category: Democratic Theory, Foucault, General Thoughts, Polemics

  6. Women in Philosophy

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    September 7, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    I guess a day spent reading Beyond Good and Evil is not the best time to post on women and …
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    Category: Articles of Interest, Democratic Theory, Feminism, General Thoughts, Polemics, Unsolicited Advice

  7. Conclusion from tomorrow’s paper on Speculative Realism

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    September 3, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    I’m editing my paper to get it down to the time limits for the CRESC objects conference. Since I don’t …
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    Category: Animal Ethics, Articles of Interest, Conferences, Democratic Theory, Graham Harman, Heidegger, Larval Subjects, Meillassoux, Nancy, Speculative Realism

  8. Humans and other Animals

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    August 31, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    Renee at Womanist Musings and Feministe had a post up on the perhaps perverse effect of the animal rights’ movement on the politics of …
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    Category: Animal Ethics, Articles of Interest, Critical Race Theory, Democratic Theory, Derrida

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