First Question: It is said that Marx’s concept of revolution, will not stand up to the new facts of industrial society. It has become an anachronism; it no longer has any constituency. The working ...

Hermann Weber has added about nine hundred pages to the already long bibliography of German Communist history, with his massive work Die Wandlung des deutschen Kommunismus.footnote 1 The first ...

The prize-winner in the contest for the greatest blunder of 1998 was a Latin American patriotic terrorist who sent a letter-bomb to a us consulate in order to protest against the Americans interfering ...

Iris Young and I seem to inhabit different worlds.footnote 1 In her world, there are no divisions between the social Left and the cultural Left. Proponents of cultural politics work cooperatively with ...

In 1922 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote to a friend that he was haunted by the possibility of an eventual flight to Russia. About two years later he sent the same friend some newspaper clippings of ...

While I was fishing in the dull canal’; but it is also that of ‘the violet hour, the evening hour that strives / Homeward, ...

Ihope that the almost Wildean title of my lecture is not misleading.footnote ＊ I intend to be totally serious. If there is a place for irony in today’s talk, then it is as one of those ‘ironies of ...

The world of South and Southeast Asia has always featured prominently in theoretical discussions seeking to open European ideas up to the world, from the importance of India for postcolonial theory to ...

‘Nature poetry’—where the natural world itself is the main focus of interest and not just a background setting, however superbly describedfootnote 2 —was written in Western classical antiquity, as ...

They have invested too much political capital in this goal of ‘victorious’ peace to walk away now. It is still to early to ...

These are strange times. Capitalism, crippled by its own contradictions—there are thirty million people out of work in the oecd countries alone—is nonetheless triumphant. From New York to Beijing, via ...