Telos 210
Telos 210 · Spring 2025
Rethinking State Power

The essays in Telos 210 consider the ways in which state power interacts with popular attitudes and social institutions in order to establish the basis for sovereignty and law. The issue also features a special section on the prospects for Trump’s second presidency.

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  • Telos 210 (Spring 2025): Rethinking State Power by David Pan Telos 210 (Spring 2025): Rethinking State Power is now available for purchase in our store. Individual subscriptions to Telos are also available in both print and online formats. Frustrating the hopes of cosmopolitans and globalists, state power is back. Rather than imagining a replacement of sovereignty with law, political debates now revolve around the particular forms that state sovereignty might take.… (continue reading)
  • Telos 209 (Winter 2024): Democracy Today? by David Pan Telos 209 (Winter 2024): Democracy Today? is now available for purchase in our store. Individual subscriptions to Telos are also available in both print and online formats. Since the supposed triumph of liberal democracy with the end of the Cold War, democracy seems now to be in retreat. The hung parliaments in France and Germany, reminiscent of the divides of Germany's… (continue reading)
  • Dabashi’s Misrepresentation of Hegel: Hegel, Jews, and Kurds by Peshraw Mohammed Hamid Dabashi's critique—or more accurately, his attack—on Hegel in the article "War on Gaza: How Hegel's Racist Philosophy Informs European Zionism" represents an emerging trend in certain intellectual circles: dismissing European philosophy as fundamentally racist while advancing exclusionary regional ideologies, often excluding nations like Kurds and Jews by denying their identities and national aspirations. While Dabashi ostensibly raises valid concerns about… (continue reading)
  • Telos 208 (Fall 2024): Carl Schmitt and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy by David Pan Telos 208 (Fall 2024): Carl Schmitt and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy is now available for purchase in our store. Individual subscriptions to Telos are also available in both print and online formats. It hardly needs mentioning that liberal democracy is facing a number of threats today, both internal and external. Even if the political parties in the United States cannot… (continue reading)

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Telos has always celebrated rejuvenation and renewal, and in recent years we’ve embraced that change in a variety of ways. We’ve taken Telos online and digitized our complete archive, allowing institutional subscribers from around the world to access the journal over the Internet. We’ve created a regular conference series in New York City and another more recently in Europe, which have brought together an increasing number of scholars to discuss today’s critical issues in politics and philosophy . . . (continue reading)

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