Posts tagged: germany

Thank God, It’s Over: Eight years of Wolfgang Schäuble

Schäuble drove euro nations to the brink of collapse and allowed the German state to record an enormous current account surplus at exactly the wrong time.
The Duty of Hospitality: Oskar Negt's Überlebensglück

Adrian Wilding reviews a new book by critical theorist Oskar Negt, "an autobiography that is also a profound philosophical, psychological and sociological inquiry."
Manual of War: on Bertolt Brecht’s War Primer

Brecht considered War Primer part of “a satisfactory literary report on my years in exile,” as he wrote in a 1944 journal entry. Since this first English language reception of War Primer on the centenary of Brecht’s birth in 1998, what are we now to make of his poignant modernist epic of four-liner lyrics and scrapbook photos? Today, in our post-crash era, with its renewal of Marxism, Brecht the formalist can be freed from a series of postmodern qualifications. War Primer’s historical intervention can be seen in a new way today. With the far right politically relevant again, Brecht’s image-by-image analysis of social democracy, America, and fascism, which is the veritable heart of War Primer, possesses fresh relevance.
When I Think of France
[Audio]: Frédéric Lordon and Cédric Durand discuss Internationalism and Democracy after the Eurozone Crisis
Philosophy and Revolution: from Kant to Marx — an interview with Stathis Kouvelakis
How We Wrote Armed Insurrection
How Would a Eurozone Break-Up Affect Balance Sheets?
No Judgement About Motives, Only Actions: In Memory of Rosa Luxemburg
Three Objectives for the Left in Europe
After the Referendum, An Oligarchy Aggrieved
Walter Benjamin: Conversations with Brecht