Agamben: Homo Sacer II.3, Sacrament of Language
Giorgio Agamben The Sacrament of Language (Homo Sacer II.3): oath, performativity, liturgy, and speech-acts parallel to political exception and...
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Agamben: Homo Sacer II.2, Civil War & Stasis
Giorgio Agamben Civil War as a Political Paradigm (Homo Sacer II.2): Greek stasis, Hobbes, Schmitt, and civil war as the repressed model of...
Agamben: Homo Sacer II.1, State of Exception
Giorgio Agamben State of Exception (Homo Sacer II.1): Carl Schmitt, sovereign decision, Roman iustitium, martial law, and emergency power in...
Agamben: Homo Sacer I, Bare Life & Biopolitics
Giorgio Agamben Homo Sacer I: bare life, homo sacer, biopolitics after Foucault, inclusive exclusion, sovereignty, and the camp as paradigm of...
Jackson: The Determination of Union
H. W. Brands’ Andrew Jackson biography: Scots-Irish frontier ethos, New Orleans, the presidency, Indian removal, and Jackson as blunt democratic...
La Boétie: Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (English)
English translation of Étienne de La Boétie’s Discours de la servitude volontaire—tyranny, popular consent, and why collective refusal would...
The Lead Age: Climate Studies of Late Antiquity
From Paul Stephenson’s New Rome: Roman Climate Optimum, Greenland ice-core lead, metallurgy, diet, and how lead pollution and climate shift...
Weber: Science and Politics as Vocation
Max Weber’s “Science as a Vocation” and “Politics as a Vocation” in the NYRB edition: Beruf, disenchantment, charisma, academic careerism, and the...
The Origins of Western Law: Early Greek Jurisprudence
Michael Gagarin’s Early Greek Law: how classical Greek legal procedure grew with literacy, oral vs written norms, and what “law” meant before and...