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Value, Capital, and Digitality Before Computers
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What is the relationship between capitalism and the digital? Is the seamless integration between capital and digitality merely the result of a serendipitous encounter between this mode of production and the invention of the digital computer, or is it possible to identify deeper continuities at work? This book seeks to articulate a materialist answer to this question by drawing on various strands of contemporary Marxist theory to reconceptualise digital technologies and capitalist society as sharing a common logic of abstraction and abjection. It argues that the digital recapitulates specific aspects of capitalist abstraction, manifested as a discretising logic and content-indifferent formalism underpinning both computational machines and the social relations theorised within the Marxian tradition under the concept of value.
Value, Capital, and Digitality Before Computers
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What is the relationship between capitalism and the digital? Is the seamless integration between capital and digitality merely the result of a serendipitous encounter between this mode of production and the invention of the digital computer, or is it possible to identify deeper continuities at work? This book seeks to articulate a materialist answer to this question by drawing on various strands of contemporary Marxist theory to reconceptualise digital technologies and capitalist society as sharing a common logic of abstraction and abjection. It argues that the digital recapitulates specific aspects of capitalist abstraction, manifested as a discretising logic and content-indifferent formalism underpinning both computational machines and the social relations theorised within the Marxian tradition under the concept of value.
Die Philister-Sprüche in den prophetischen Büchern der Hebräischen Bibel
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Wie beeinflussen sich die Wahrnehmung des Eigenen und des Anderen? Diese Studie geht dieser Frage anhand der Trias Jahwe–Israel–Völker als Analyse- und Deutungsinstrument nach und bietet erstmals eine systematische Untersuchung der Philister-Sprüche. Mit einem synchronen und kanonischen Ansatz analysiert sie die Völkersprüche und gibt zugleich einen Überblick über Israels Begegnungen mit den Philistern. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Philister nicht nur als Nachbarn, Fremde und Feinde fungieren, sondern vielmehr auch als Spiegel israelitischer Selbstwahrnehmung. Durch die Verbindung soziologischer, literarischer und intertextueller Perspektiven wird deutlich, wie ein komplexes Beziehungsgefüge zwischen Identität, Fremdheit und Selbstreflexion gestaltet wird.
How do perceptions of the self and the other shape one another? This study addresses this question by employing the triad YHWH–Israel–nations as an analytical and interpretive framework, and offers the first systematic investigation of the oracles against the Philistines. Using a synchronic and canonical approach, it analyzes these texts and provides an overview of Israel’s encounters with the Philistines. The findings show that the Philistines function not only as neighbors, foreigners, and enemies, but also as mirrors of Israel’s self-perception. By combining sociological, literary, and intertextual perspectives, the study demonstrates how complex relational frameworks of identity, foreignness, and self-reflection are constructed.
How do perceptions of the self and the other shape one another? This study addresses this question by employing the triad YHWH–Israel–nations as an analytical and interpretive framework, and offers the first systematic investigation of the oracles against the Philistines. Using a synchronic and canonical approach, it analyzes these texts and provides an overview of Israel’s encounters with the Philistines. The findings show that the Philistines function not only as neighbors, foreigners, and enemies, but also as mirrors of Israel’s self-perception. By combining sociological, literary, and intertextual perspectives, the study demonstrates how complex relational frameworks of identity, foreignness, and self-reflection are constructed.
Die Philister-Sprüche in den prophetischen Büchern der Hebräischen Bibel
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Wie beeinflussen sich die Wahrnehmung des Eigenen und des Anderen? Diese Studie geht dieser Frage anhand der Trias Jahwe–Israel–Völker als Analyse- und Deutungsinstrument nach und bietet erstmals eine systematische Untersuchung der Philister-Sprüche. Mit einem synchronen und kanonischen Ansatz analysiert sie die Völkersprüche und gibt zugleich einen Überblick über Israels Begegnungen mit den Philistern. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Philister nicht nur als Nachbarn, Fremde und Feinde fungieren, sondern vielmehr auch als Spiegel israelitischer Selbstwahrnehmung. Durch die Verbindung soziologischer, literarischer und intertextueller Perspektiven wird deutlich, wie ein komplexes Beziehungsgefüge zwischen Identität, Fremdheit und Selbstreflexion gestaltet wird.
How do perceptions of the self and the other shape one another? This study addresses this question by employing the triad YHWH–Israel–nations as an analytical and interpretive framework, and offers the first systematic investigation of the oracles against the Philistines. Using a synchronic and canonical approach, it analyzes these texts and provides an overview of Israel’s encounters with the Philistines. The findings show that the Philistines function not only as neighbors, foreigners, and enemies, but also as mirrors of Israel’s self-perception. By combining sociological, literary, and intertextual perspectives, the study demonstrates how complex relational frameworks of identity, foreignness, and self-reflection are constructed.
How do perceptions of the self and the other shape one another? This study addresses this question by employing the triad YHWH–Israel–nations as an analytical and interpretive framework, and offers the first systematic investigation of the oracles against the Philistines. Using a synchronic and canonical approach, it analyzes these texts and provides an overview of Israel’s encounters with the Philistines. The findings show that the Philistines function not only as neighbors, foreigners, and enemies, but also as mirrors of Israel’s self-perception. By combining sociological, literary, and intertextual perspectives, the study demonstrates how complex relational frameworks of identity, foreignness, and self-reflection are constructed.
Materials for an Alternative
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Intersubjectivity or Transindividuality examines several key moments of modern and contemporary philosophical thought, reading them in light of the alternative between the categories of intersubjectivity and transindividuality – between a philosophy that poses the space of interiority of the ego as a logical and ontological prius and a philosophy that radically conceives of relations as constitutive. The book’s chapters explore the different variations of this alternative, turning to Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Stirner, and Husserl on the one hand, and Spinoza, Marx, Freud, Simondon, Althusser, Pêcheux, and Balibar on the other. These figures provide theoretical underpinnings for a transindividual political position, in which the critique of the category of intersubjectivity appears as the expression of a philosophy of possessive individualism.
Materials for an Alternative
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Intersubjectivity or Transindividuality examines several key moments of modern and contemporary philosophical thought, reading them in light of the alternative between the categories of intersubjectivity and transindividuality – between a philosophy that poses the space of interiority of the ego as a logical and ontological prius and a philosophy that radically conceives of relations as constitutive. The book’s chapters explore the different variations of this alternative, turning to Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Stirner, and Husserl on the one hand, and Spinoza, Marx, Freud, Simondon, Althusser, Pêcheux, and Balibar on the other. These figures provide theoretical underpinnings for a transindividual political position, in which the critique of the category of intersubjectivity appears as the expression of a philosophy of possessive individualism.
The Theory of Civil/Bourgeois Society after Hegel
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The book analyses the theories of bourgeois society by Hegel, Marx and Honneth. Two things become apparent. On the one hand, Hegel's project of integrating the atomistic market economy into his theory of ethical life proves to be unconvincing. This also applies to Axel Honneth's attempt to actualise Hegel's idea of an intrinsic morality of the market. On the other hand, Hegel's approach is helpful for discussing fundamental normative questions: What reasons speak against capitalism? And what forms of sociality characterise the economy of a free community?
The Theory of Civil/Bourgeois Society after Hegel
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The book analyses the theories of bourgeois society by Hegel, Marx and Honneth. Two things become apparent. On the one hand, Hegel's project of integrating the atomistic market economy into his theory of ethical life proves to be unconvincing. This also applies to Axel Honneth's attempt to actualise Hegel's idea of an intrinsic morality of the market. On the other hand, Hegel's approach is helpful for discussing fundamental normative questions: What reasons speak against capitalism? And what forms of sociality characterise the economy of a free community?
Despite the long-standing image of him as a cool and rational thinker, Machiavelli keenly understood that passions perform a key function in politics: ambition, anger, fear, hope, and love are just some of the emotions that inhabit the works of Niccolò Machiavelli. Nonetheless, his thoughts on passions have never been thoroughly explored in scholarship. To fill this gap, this book gathers fifteen essays by scholars with different academic backgrounds and approaches to this topic. The outcome is a compelling, multidisciplinary, and groundbreaking analysis of the entanglement of passions and politics in Machiavelli’s political, historical, and literary writings.
Contributors are: Claudia Antonini, Lucio Biasiori, Tommaso De Robertis, Alberto Fabris, Guido Frilli, Jayne Knight, Manuel Knoll, Diego Lazzarich, Julien Le Mauff, César Morales Oyarvide, Alessio Panichi, Julia Penafiel, Andrea Polegato, Ron Schmidt, and Valentina Serio.
Contributors are: Claudia Antonini, Lucio Biasiori, Tommaso De Robertis, Alberto Fabris, Guido Frilli, Jayne Knight, Manuel Knoll, Diego Lazzarich, Julien Le Mauff, César Morales Oyarvide, Alessio Panichi, Julia Penafiel, Andrea Polegato, Ron Schmidt, and Valentina Serio.
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Thinking in Extremes, Volume: 5
Despite the long-standing image of him as a cool and rational thinker, Machiavelli keenly understood that passions perform a key function in politics: ambition, anger, fear, hope, and love are just some of the emotions that inhabit the works of Niccolò Machiavelli. Nonetheless, his thoughts on passions have never been thoroughly explored in scholarship. To fill this gap, this book gathers fifteen essays by scholars with different academic backgrounds and approaches to this topic. The outcome is a compelling, multidisciplinary, and groundbreaking analysis of the entanglement of passions and politics in Machiavelli’s political, historical, and literary writings.
Contributors are: Claudia Antonini, Lucio Biasiori, Tommaso De Robertis, Alberto Fabris, Guido Frilli, Jayne Knight, Manuel Knoll, Diego Lazzarich, Julien Le Mauff, César Morales Oyarvide, Alessio Panichi, Julia Penafiel, Andrea Polegato, Ron Schmidt, and Valentina Serio.
Contributors are: Claudia Antonini, Lucio Biasiori, Tommaso De Robertis, Alberto Fabris, Guido Frilli, Jayne Knight, Manuel Knoll, Diego Lazzarich, Julien Le Mauff, César Morales Oyarvide, Alessio Panichi, Julia Penafiel, Andrea Polegato, Ron Schmidt, and Valentina Serio.
This edited volume demonstrates the intellectual power of Marxist thought. From the vantagepoint of multiple fields and disciplines, the authors compare Marxist and non-Marxist approaches regarding a wide range of issues and articulate how being informed by a Marxist approach can produce a unique, essential and comprehensive analysis of pressing political, social, economic and ecological issues. The series of volumes of which this is the second suggests that Marxism is an important step in the development of human knowledge overall and encourages non-Marxists to view Marxism as a contribution that needs to be engaged.
This edited volume demonstrates the intellectual power of Marxist thought. From the vantagepoint of multiple fields and disciplines, the authors compare Marxist and non-Marxist approaches regarding a wide range of issues and articulate how being informed by a Marxist approach can produce a unique, essential and comprehensive analysis of pressing political, social, economic and ecological issues. The series of volumes of which this is the second suggests that Marxism is an important step in the development of human knowledge overall and encourages non-Marxists to view Marxism as a contribution that needs to be engaged.
Radical Republicanism in Early Modern Europe challenges the conventional narrative of republican political thought by shifting the spotlight from familiar, moderate figures to the often-overlooked radicals who pushed the boundaries of early modern republicanism. By applying the lens of “radical republicanism” to the early modern period, the contributors to this volume offer fresh insights into the revolutionary possibilities embedded in republican thought—insights that resonate far beyond their historical context. Aimed at historians, political theorists, and anyone interested in the roots of democratic dissent, this book opens new avenues for rethinking the legacy and future of republicanism itself.
Contributors are: Jérémie Barthas, Alessandro Mulieri, John McCormick, Filippo del Lucchese, Elia Zaru, Saul Newman, Gaby Mahlberg, Rachel Hammersley, Geertje Bol, Alan Coffee, Nicolai von Eggers, Ariane Fichtl, and Ross Carrol.
Contributors are: Jérémie Barthas, Alessandro Mulieri, John McCormick, Filippo del Lucchese, Elia Zaru, Saul Newman, Gaby Mahlberg, Rachel Hammersley, Geertje Bol, Alan Coffee, Nicolai von Eggers, Ariane Fichtl, and Ross Carrol.
Radical Republicanism in Early Modern Europe challenges the conventional narrative of republican political thought by shifting the spotlight from familiar, moderate figures to the often-overlooked radicals who pushed the boundaries of early modern republicanism. By applying the lens of “radical republicanism” to the early modern period, the contributors to this volume offer fresh insights into the revolutionary possibilities embedded in republican thought—insights that resonate far beyond their historical context. Aimed at historians, political theorists, and anyone interested in the roots of democratic dissent, this book opens new avenues for rethinking the legacy and future of republicanism itself.
Contributors are: Jérémie Barthas, Alessandro Mulieri, John McCormick, Filippo del Lucchese, Elia Zaru, Saul Newman, Gaby Mahlberg, Rachel Hammersley, Geertje Bol, Alan Coffee, Nicolai von Eggers, Ariane Fichtl, and Ross Carrol.
Contributors are: Jérémie Barthas, Alessandro Mulieri, John McCormick, Filippo del Lucchese, Elia Zaru, Saul Newman, Gaby Mahlberg, Rachel Hammersley, Geertje Bol, Alan Coffee, Nicolai von Eggers, Ariane Fichtl, and Ross Carrol.
Contemporary Issues in Aesthetics (2026)
How do we perceive catastrophe when it unfolds too slowly to feel urgent? How does art make visible the violence we are trained to ignore? This volume brings together philosophers, artists, and scholars across political philosophy, film studies, feminist theory, and performance studies to confront these questions head-on. From the sensory vulnerabilities of birth to colonial urban landscapes, from ecological collapse to armed conflict, the contributors reveal emergency as radically heterogeneous—unfolding at different tempos and demanding different modes of attention. It shows that rethinking crisis begins not with policy, but with perception.
Contemporary Issues in Aesthetics (2026)
How do we perceive catastrophe when it unfolds too slowly to feel urgent? How does art make visible the violence we are trained to ignore? This volume brings together philosophers, artists, and scholars across political philosophy, film studies, feminist theory, and performance studies to confront these questions head-on. From the sensory vulnerabilities of birth to colonial urban landscapes, from ecological collapse to armed conflict, the contributors reveal emergency as radically heterogeneous—unfolding at different tempos and demanding different modes of attention. It shows that rethinking crisis begins not with policy, but with perception.
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In this systematic study of Rosa Luxemburg’s ideas, Isabel Loureiro demonstrates, from a Brazilian perspective, the continued relevance of the most important Marxist theorist of the early twentieth century. Her revolutionary thought, marked by dilemmas and tensions, such as those between laws of history and revolutionary will, rejection of terror and defense of revolutionary violence, shows how Luxemburg’s struggle to build a socialist democracy based on a broad, conscious popular mass remains until today an unresolved problem for the anti-capitalist left.
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In this systematic study of Rosa Luxemburg’s ideas, Isabel Loureiro demonstrates, from a Brazilian perspective, the continued relevance of the most important Marxist theorist of the early twentieth century. Her revolutionary thought, marked by dilemmas and tensions, such as those between laws of history and revolutionary will, rejection of terror and defense of revolutionary violence, shows how Luxemburg’s struggle to build a socialist democracy based on a broad, conscious popular mass remains until today an unresolved problem for the anti-capitalist left.
Analysen und Kommentare zu Eric Voegelins Hauptwerk – Analyses and Commentaries on Eric Voegelin's Major Work
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Eric Voegelin zählt mit Hannah Arendt und Leo Strauss zu den Hauptvertretern der neoklassischen Politischen Philosophie. Der vorliegende Band enthält fünf zentrale Essays von Peter J. Opitz zu Voegelins Werk The Ecumenic Age, an dem Voegelin 17 Jahre gearbeitet hat. Die Essays liegen auf Deutsch und Englisch vor. Die Sammlung, die Opitz bescheiden „Protokolle einer Werksgeschichte“ nennt, sind viel mehr als das: Seine Analysen machen Voegelins kompliziertes Werk sowie dessen Denk- und Arbeitsweise überhaupt erst transparent; ohne sie sind weite Teile von The Ecumenic Age nur schwer verständlich. Peter J. Opitz war zuerst Assistent von Voegelin, später selbst Professor für Politische Wissenschaft an der LMU München und dort Gründer und langjähriger Leiter des Eric-Voegelin-Archivs. Die Herausgeber Axel Bark und Harald Bergbauer waren viele Jahre Mitglieder in dem von Opitz geleiteten „Lesekreis“ zu diesem Band.
Analysen und Kommentare zu Eric Voegelins Hauptwerk – Analyses and Commentaries on Eric Voegelin's Major Work
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Eric Voegelin zählt mit Hannah Arendt und Leo Strauss zu den Hauptvertretern der neoklassischen Politischen Philosophie. Der vorliegende Band enthält fünf zentrale Essays von Peter J. Opitz zu Voegelins Werk The Ecumenic Age, an dem Voegelin 17 Jahre gearbeitet hat. Die Essays liegen auf Deutsch und Englisch vor. Die Sammlung, die Opitz bescheiden „Protokolle einer Werksgeschichte“ nennt, sind viel mehr als das: Seine Analysen machen Voegelins kompliziertes Werk sowie dessen Denk- und Arbeitsweise überhaupt erst transparent; ohne sie sind weite Teile von The Ecumenic Age nur schwer verständlich. Peter J. Opitz war zuerst Assistent von Voegelin, später selbst Professor für Politische Wissenschaft an der LMU München und dort Gründer und langjähriger Leiter des Eric-Voegelin-Archivs. Die Herausgeber Axel Bark und Harald Bergbauer waren viele Jahre Mitglieder in dem von Opitz geleiteten „Lesekreis“ zu diesem Band.