In this article, I look at Eastern European history in an attempt to specify the logic of coloniality and distinguish it from the logic of imperiality, with which it is often entangled, but should not be confused. At stake are differing... more
In this article, I look at Eastern European history in an attempt to specify the logic of coloniality and distinguish it from the logic of imperiality, with which it is often entangled, but should not be confused. At stake are differing modes of resistance provoked when one logic or the other is recognized. Because coloniality appears as to the colonized as an alien force, anti-colonialism tends to focus on removing the alien element. But imperiality, because it is never pure, compels anti-imperial movements to ask themselves who they are.
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There is a rich tradition of interaction between anthropology and philosophy. This article reflects on the character of this interaction, arguing that it is not a case of two separate, parallel traditions that mutually influence one... more
There is a rich tradition of interaction between anthropology and philosophy. This article reflects on the character of this interaction, arguing that it is not a case of two separate, parallel traditions that mutually influence one another, but rather of two interconnected disciplines that have become necessary to one another’s development. Both disciplines aim at a universalistic understanding of the human being, but each does so by different means. Philosophy allows the autonomous work of reason to criticize established categories of thought, positing new concepts of the human; but it risks becoming too autonomous – too self-sufficient and self-referential – thus allowing its categories to become resistant to criticism, established as marks of “civilization” that distinguish philosophical ideas from ideas that are non-philosophical, irrational, and barbarous. Anthropology, for its part, reveals the limitations of premature universalism, pointing to forms of reason excluded from dominant systems of thought. Philosophy can turn to anthropology in order to expand and bring in new concepts. Anthropology can turn to philosophy in order to recall its original impulse toward conceptualizing the universal, in an expansive form that I call “barbarous universalism.”
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The historical existence of socialist folkloristics surprises no one. Yet communist folkloristics remains an enigma. If lower-cased “socialism” is typically understood generically as a political practice, then there is no difficulty... more
The historical existence of socialist folkloristics surprises no one. Yet communist folkloristics remains an enigma. If lower-cased “socialism” is typically understood generically as a political practice, then there is no difficulty comprehending specific ways that ruling regimes in the Soviet Western Borderlands, following official Soviet policy, made use of folkloric material and supported its academic study for a variety of propagandistic purposes on behalf of the Soviet form of Communism (with a capital C). If the generic form of lower-cased “communism,” on the other hand, is an ideology, that is to say, a set of broadly interlacing ideas, then its relationship to folklore appears more complicated. Indeed, few researchers operating outside the framework of Communist Party hegemony have devoted much attention to the role of philosophically communist ideas in the folkloristics of Communist-led Europe. More often, researchers have emphasized the nationalist and romantic-agrarian ideologies that accompanied folkloristics in the region long before the field became the object of official Communist policy. As a result, the phenomenon of communist folkloristics tends to be discussed as if it were a historical peculiarity, a meeting of two incongruous worldviews, which only political expedience or happenstance could have brought together. Yet popular, amateur artistic activity, with folklore as its paradigmatic form, was a central aspect of cultural policy during most of the period of Communist Party ascendancy in the region, and probably no other coordinated public intervention in support of folklore has ever been undertaken on so grand a scale. Could it really be that the long cohabitation of Communism and folklore was only a marriage of convenience?
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An article, in Czech, on Czech dissident notions of "antipolitics," on the power of these notions in the dissident movement and on the unfortunate consequences of maintaining the same notions in the changed conditions of post-Communism.... more
An article, in Czech, on Czech dissident notions of "antipolitics," on the power of these notions in the dissident movement and on the unfortunate consequences of maintaining the same notions in the changed conditions of post-Communism. The English title would be "Contradictions of dissident antipolitics."
Václav Havel píše ve známém výroku z roku 1984, "Jsem příznivcem ,antipolitické politiky' ." Co mohl mít na mysli, když tak zjevně politicky aktivní člověk se hlásil k postoji "antipolitickému"? V odpovědi na tuto otázku spočívá klíč k pochopení specifika politického myšlení českého disentu v jeho nejvlivnější podobě - tj. v podobě, která nechává stopy v české politice podnes.
Václav Havel píše ve známém výroku z roku 1984, "Jsem příznivcem ,antipolitické politiky' ." Co mohl mít na mysli, když tak zjevně politicky aktivní člověk se hlásil k postoji "antipolitickému"? V odpovědi na tuto otázku spočívá klíč k pochopení specifika politického myšlení českého disentu v jeho nejvlivnější podobě - tj. v podobě, která nechává stopy v české politice podnes.
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Drawing on Hegel’s interpretation of narrative and Lyotard’s rejection of “grand” dialectical narratives, this paper addresses the relationship between emancipatory dialectics and narrative form. It begins by establishing the intimate... more
Drawing on Hegel’s interpretation of narrative and Lyotard’s rejection of “grand” dialectical narratives, this paper addresses the relationship between emancipatory dialectics and narrative form. It begins by establishing the intimate connection between dialectical thought and narration. On this basis, the paper argues that varying conceptions of dialectics can be associated with varying structures of narrating history. Finally, the paper makes the case for identifying a specific narrative form adequate to the radical re-readings of Hegel that have replaced the perspective of the master (the subject privileged by a given system of historicity) with the perspective of the slave (who, while excluded from historicity, struggles against this exclusion). This narrative form corresponds to none of the classical Greek genres; it is best described as a trickster tale.
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In the following essay-manifesto, Contradictions editor Joseph Grim Feinberg lays out his view of the journal as a platform for confronting the central contradictions of post-communism, working through the problems of Central and Eastern... more
In the following essay-manifesto, Contradictions editor Joseph Grim Feinberg lays out his view of the journal as a platform for confronting the central contradictions of post-communism, working through the problems of Central and Eastern Europe in global context, and seeking the continued contemporary relevance of the history of emancipatory and critical thought. Contradictions, he writes, should enable philosophy and its neighboring fields to engage with this region, at this moment, while telling world history something that no other time or place has told it before.
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A critique, in Slovak, of Axel Honneth's idea of socialism. In English, the title would be "On the idea of socialism, or Why socialists don’t respect the autonomy of the private and political spheres." An English translation may be coming... more
A critique, in Slovak, of Axel Honneth's idea of socialism. In English, the title would be "On the idea of socialism, or Why socialists don’t respect the autonomy of the private and political spheres." An English translation may be coming soon.
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The Czech Marxist philosopher Karel Kosík was a humanist. He was also a humanist who problematised the meaning of the human. The central tensions of humanism run through Kosík’s work. Kosík held up the human being as a transcendent ideal... more
The Czech Marxist philosopher Karel Kosík was a humanist. He was also a humanist who problematised the meaning of the human. The central tensions of humanism run through Kosík’s work. Kosík held up the human being as a transcendent ideal in contrast with an alienating reality, even while he pointed toward the historical contingency of this transcendent ideal. Kosík never fully resolved this tension, but he pointed to one possibility for resolution. In his notion of ‘democracy’, especially ‘radical democracy’, a term emerges that mediates between the absolute, abstract human ideal and the relative, concretely alienated person. This term, ‘the people’, points to an alternative conception of humanity, grounded in social form and emancipatory struggle. If the people’s activity is ‘radical’, it reaches for humanity’s roots.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “And the ‘Thing Itself’ Is Man: Radical Democracy and the Roots of Humanity.” In Karel Kosík and the Dialectics of the Concrete, ed. Joseph Grim Feinberg, Ivan Landa, and Jan Mervart, Leiden: Brill, 2022, pp. 187–204.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “And the ‘Thing Itself’ Is Man: Radical Democracy and the Roots of Humanity.” In Karel Kosík and the Dialectics of the Concrete, ed. Joseph Grim Feinberg, Ivan Landa, and Jan Mervart, Leiden: Brill, 2022, pp. 187–204.
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The chapter focuses on how the legacy of dissident antipolitics operates in the context of post-Communist Slovakia, and in particular in the context of the long predominance of the centrist nationalism of Vladimir Mečiar and the social... more
The chapter focuses on how the legacy of dissident antipolitics operates in the context of post-Communist Slovakia, and in particular in the context of the long predominance of the centrist nationalism of Vladimir Mečiar and the social nationalism of Robert Fico. While in Poland and Hungary the anti-communist legacy was used by conservatives in order to fight culture wars against liberals, in the Czech Republic and Slovakia this legacy served to create an alliance of conservatives and liberals in the struggle against “populism” and the “legacy of communism,” supporting a depoliticized struggle for “decent politics,” diverting attention from socio-economic issues. Thus, post-dissident framings can be used also for discourse policing to conceal a race to the bottom in social policy. This discourse is characterized by an accent on the image of a “decent” and “cultivated” civil society struggling against the state, which further strengthens the apolitical character of post-dissident opposition. At the same time, the chapter also shows how opposition to this post-dissident narrative can lead the left into the same political corner as national conservatives. In the conclusion, the author proposes a dialectical reaction to post-dissident rhetoric—to formulate a new dissident position adequate for the situation of real capitalism.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim, “Post-Dissent and the New Right: Problems and Potential of Post-Communist Dissent in Slovakia and Beyond.” In The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 Years into the ‘Transition’: New Left Perspectives from the Region, ed. Ágnes Gagyi and Ondřej Slačálek, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 151–67.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim, “Post-Dissent and the New Right: Problems and Potential of Post-Communist Dissent in Slovakia and Beyond.” In The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 Years into the ‘Transition’: New Left Perspectives from the Region, ed. Ágnes Gagyi and Ondřej Slačálek, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 151–67.
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After years of prophecy that electronic and digital media are irresistibly replacing other modes of social interaction, the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that human beings are still not ready to live our lives entirely online. But life... more
After years of prophecy that electronic and digital media are irresistibly replacing other modes of social interaction, the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that human beings are still not ready to live our lives entirely online. But life under lockdown has given us a heightened awareness of just how much of our daily lives is still not ‘mediated’ at all in the typical sense we have given to the notion of mediation. ‘Media,’ in common parlance, has become synonymous with the so-called ‘new,’ electronic media. Perhaps we are due for reflection on the role of face-to-face orality in the modern world, the role of old media as full players in the contemporary configuration of communication. This theoretical turn would entail understanding face-to-face oral communication as a medium – not an absence of mediation, but a structure of mediation that shapes meaning and experience in specific ways, enabling certain forms of social organization and certain kinds of emancipatory vision related to these organizational forms.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim, “Emancipation and Old Media: The Mediation of Immediacy between Oral and Networked Society.” Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie, Band. 7 (2021), pp. 179–97.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim, “Emancipation and Old Media: The Mediation of Immediacy between Oral and Networked Society.” Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie, Band. 7 (2021), pp. 179–97.
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This paper engages with radical democratic theory in light of the so-called "return of the people" taking place in contemporary political discourse. I argue that the return of the people should not be seen only as a return of politics... more
This paper engages with radical democratic theory in light of the so-called "return of the people" taking place in contemporary political discourse. I argue that the return of the people should not be seen only as a return of politics strictly speaking, but also as a process by which elements of the social that had previously been excluded from politics enter the political sphere. Framing the problem in this way calls for a view to how politics is circumscribed, distinguished from the social but also, at various moments, broken open. At the same time, I call for paying increased attention to how the notion of the people takes shape beyond the political sphere, off the metaphorical political stage. By examining how the people is constructed in cultural and social movements, off the political stage, we can better understand the form taken by the people when it appears in politics.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “De-staging the People: On the Role of the Social and Populism beyond Politics.” Thesis Eleven vol. 164, no. 1 (2021), pp. 104–19.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “De-staging the People: On the Role of the Social and Populism beyond Politics.” Thesis Eleven vol. 164, no. 1 (2021), pp. 104–19.
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A postscript to the volume Revolutions for the Future, about 1968 in Paris and Prague. Here I look at the next big revolution in Czechoslovakia, in 1989, and I compare the critical role played by philosophers during and after earlier... more
A postscript to the volume Revolutions for the Future, about 1968 in Paris and Prague. Here I look at the next big revolution in Czechoslovakia, in 1989, and I compare the critical role played by philosophers during and after earlier revolutions with the affirmative, uncritical position taken by many former dissidents after 1989.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “1989: The Triumph of Truth and the Burial of Philosophy.” In Revolutions for the Future: May ’68 and the Prague Spring, ed. Jana Ndiaye Beránková, Michael Hauser, and Nick Nesbitt, Lyon: Suture, 2020, pp. 300–17.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “1989: The Triumph of Truth and the Burial of Philosophy.” In Revolutions for the Future: May ’68 and the Prague Spring, ed. Jana Ndiaye Beránková, Michael Hauser, and Nick Nesbitt, Lyon: Suture, 2020, pp. 300–17.
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In this paper I take up an idea that was central to Lukács’s best-known work, “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat,” but which has become the object of extensive criticism: that the antinomies of bourgeois thought can be... more
In this paper I take up an idea that was central to Lukács’s best-known work, “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat,” but which has become the object of extensive criticism: that the antinomies of bourgeois thought can be overcome when approached from “the standpoint of the proletariat.” Lukács’s diagnosis of the problem of reification in modern consciousness is still widely discussed, but his proposed response to this situation has been much less readily accepted: that there exists a privileged subject-object of history that can transgress the limits placed on thought by reification, and that this subject-object is the proletariat. As I reinterpret certain of the key conceptual moves made by Lukács in developing this idea, I draw attention to the ways in which Lukács de-emphasizes the empirical understanding of the proletariat as a set of people defined positively by the fact that they earn wages or identify as workers, in favor of a negative understanding of the proletariat as an entity that is included in capitalism but excluded from bourgeois society and, for this reason, is capable of viewing this society from outside, grasping the social totality. Although this conception is implicit in Lukács’s essay, it is not explicitly laid out. By developing what Lukács left unspecified, I offer a potential solution to several of the problems that Lukács’s argument has been forced to confront, such as his alleged privileging of the working class over other oppressed groups and his reliance on the party to achieve the consciousness that the working class seems unable to achieve on its own. In my interpretation, the standpoint of the proletariat does not indicate a privileged position available only to one social group. Rather, it is a point at which multiple forms of domination intersect, due to the specific form of inclusive exclusion that lies at the heart of bourgeois society. The organizational form taken by the movement toward proletarian consciousness, thus understood, would not be a party that leads and exclusively represents the proletariat, but an international of the excluded. It would be the organizational form of a movement of all those who stand outside the society that they have helped build, and who from this point outside are able to see and change the world.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “György Lukács’s Archimedean Socialism.” In Confronting Reification: Revitalizing Georg Lukács’s Thought in Late Capitalism, ed. Gregory R. Szmulewicz-Zucker, Leiden: Brill, 2020, pp. 186–202.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “György Lukács’s Archimedean Socialism.” In Confronting Reification: Revitalizing Georg Lukács’s Thought in Late Capitalism, ed. Gregory R. Szmulewicz-Zucker, Leiden: Brill, 2020, pp. 186–202.
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Performance theorists have long been drawn to the potential of performance to subvert established institutions. The results of performance are never fully determined in advance; performances subject established images to reinterpretation;... more
Performance theorists have long been drawn to the potential of performance to subvert established institutions. The results of performance are never fully determined in advance; performances subject established images to reinterpretation; they take place before an audience that can criticize and intervene. But performative principles also play a role in maintaining established institutions and ways of being. Performance demands that participants take on roles and perform them more or less effectively. Performance also establishes a separation between the relatively active people who have the authority to perform publicly important roles and relatively passive audiences who observe those institutionalized performances. In this paper I argue for a balanced view of the subversive potential of performance, taking seriously the tradition of anti-theatricality, in order to determine the role of performance both in undermining and in upholding established institutions, and I call attention to the potentially subversive (but often contradictory) role of what I call anti-performance, the attempt (which is just as contradictory as performance itself) to move beyond the performativity that is imposed by established institutions, in order to achieve new forms of being that are experienced not only as “played” but as “real.”
Available through open access here: https://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/article/view/279
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Understanding Anti-Performance: The Performative Division of Experience and the Standpoint of the Non-Performer.” Performance Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 2 (2020), pp. 332–48.
Available through open access here: https://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/article/view/279
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Understanding Anti-Performance: The Performative Division of Experience and the Standpoint of the Non-Performer.” Performance Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 2 (2020), pp. 332–48.
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An essay on the meaning of folklore in Eastern European Communist thought. Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Lid jako filosof. Folklór a masový intelektualismus v socialistickém hnutí.” In Ivan Landa, Jan Mervert et al., Imaginace... more
An essay on the meaning of folklore in Eastern European Communist thought.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Lid jako filosof. Folklór a masový intelektualismus v socialistickém hnutí.” In Ivan Landa, Jan Mervert et al., Imaginace a forma. Mezi estetickým formalizmem a filosofií emancipace. Studie Josefu Zumrovi. Prague: Filosofia, 2018, pp. 231–38.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Lid jako filosof. Folklór a masový intelektualismus v socialistickém hnutí.” In Ivan Landa, Jan Mervert et al., Imaginace a forma. Mezi estetickým formalizmem a filosofií emancipace. Studie Josefu Zumrovi. Prague: Filosofia, 2018, pp. 231–38.
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This study attempts to reconstruct key elements in the thought of literary critic and folklorist Bedřich Václavek. Václavek is generally recognized as a prominent figure in interwar literary development and as a researcher who examined... more
This study attempts to reconstruct key elements in the thought of literary critic and folklorist Bedřich Václavek. Václavek is generally recognized as a prominent figure in interwar literary development and as a researcher who examined genres of popular tradition that had previously eluded scholarly attention. Yet his thought is not well known as a synthetic whole. The reception of his work is divided into two separate fields, and interpreters have paid little attention to the importance of his folkloristic work on his understanding of literature, and to the importance of his literary theory on his understanding of folklore. Václavek’s work as a whole remains little known. Nevertheless, Václavek dealt with parallel issues in his two main fields, elaborating complementary conceptual frameworks, each of which contributed to the originality of the other. If we view Václavek only as a literary critic, we may see him as a figure who voiced and confronted crucial challenges of his times, but who does not particularly stand out from among the many other critics of his day who made similar attempts to bridge the experimental literary ambitions of the avant-garde and the social objectives of those political movements that the avant-garde most frequently embraced. And if we view Václavek only as a folklorist, we may see him as a careful scholar who contributed to the development of his discipline, but who did not go beyond its boundaries to lay out the more general social importance of this work. It is only when we look at Václavek’s work in its entirety that we perceive the conceptual innovation he brought to literary criticism from folklore studies, as well as the social importance acquired by folklore studies when it is connected to the overall aesthetic expression of the people in society. What emerges from a synthetic reconstruction of Václavek’s thought is his systematic attempt to explain the concept of “people” and its role in aesthetic development, both in the literary sphere and in the sphere of oral tradition — and (perhaps even more importantly for Václavek) in the space between the written and the spoken word, where literature and folklore meet and general “culture” emerges from this fusion.
In Czech.
Openly accessible here: https://asjournals.lib.cas.cz/ceskaliteratura/article/uuid:53e2569e-2815-488c-a2ed-c227eaf9b024
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Básník a lid. Bedřich Václavek mezi literaturou a folklorem” [The poet and the people: Bedřich Václavek between literature and folklore]. Česká literatura, vol. 65, no. 6 (2017), pp. 823–45.
In Czech.
Openly accessible here: https://asjournals.lib.cas.cz/ceskaliteratura/article/uuid:53e2569e-2815-488c-a2ed-c227eaf9b024
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Básník a lid. Bedřich Václavek mezi literaturou a folklorem” [The poet and the people: Bedřich Václavek between literature and folklore]. Česká literatura, vol. 65, no. 6 (2017), pp. 823–45.
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This article examines the relationship between the political theories of Central European dissidents and the social practice of “tramping,” a back-to-nature movement that was associated with oppositional politics and “anti-politics” in... more
This article examines the relationship between the political theories of Central European dissidents and the social practice of “tramping,” a back-to-nature movement that was associated with oppositional politics and “anti-politics” in Czechoslovakia from the end of World War I until 1989. The article reflects on the potential political significance of the tramping movement’s ideal uncivilized society as an alternative to the dissidents’ concept of “civil society,” which began as a call for “antipolitical” transformation, and yet after 1989 became an ideological justification for explicitly elitist modes of liberal-conservative governance. The concept of “uncivilized society,” which can be drawn from the discourse of tramping, has parallels in contemporary autonomist calls for tactical from oppressive modernity. The article concludes that the tramping movement’s emphasis on internal organization best distinguishes the movement both from East-Central European dissent before 1989 and from autonomism today.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “The Uncivilized Society of Czechoslovak Tramps: An Exploration in Proletarian Fantasy.” Studia Ethnologica Pragensia, vol. 3, no. 2 (2017), pp. 30–50.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “The Uncivilized Society of Czechoslovak Tramps: An Exploration in Proletarian Fantasy.” Studia Ethnologica Pragensia, vol. 3, no. 2 (2017), pp. 30–50.
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A study in the history of the concept of "civil society" in Czechoslovakia. The article shows that during the reform movement in the 1960s, the concept was still far from its uncritical, normative post-communist usage, and instead denoted... more
A study in the history of the concept of "civil society" in Czechoslovakia. The article shows that during the reform movement in the 1960s, the concept was still far from its uncritical, normative post-communist usage, and instead denoted a sphere of society that was the object of reformers critique as well as increasing fascination.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Občan alebo človek? Alebo, či v reformnom procese šlo vôbec o občiansku spoločnosť...” In Príliš ľudská tvár socialismu? Reforma zdola a okolnosti reformného procesu v Československu v roku 1968, ed. Miroslav Tížik and Norbert Kmeť, Bratislava: Institute for Sociology, 2016, pp. 64–89.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Občan alebo človek? Alebo, či v reformnom procese šlo vôbec o občiansku spoločnosť...” In Príliš ľudská tvár socialismu? Reforma zdola a okolnosti reformného procesu v Československu v roku 1968, ed. Miroslav Tížik and Norbert Kmeť, Bratislava: Institute for Sociology, 2016, pp. 64–89.
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Introduction to a collection of essays by G. M. Tamás. In Czech. (For an English translation, contact the author.) Text accessible online: http://filosofia.flu.cas.cz/soubory/tituly/Tamas_uvod.pdf Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph... more
Introduction to a collection of essays by G. M. Tamás. In Czech. (For an English translation, contact the author.)
Text accessible online: http://filosofia.flu.cas.cz/soubory/tituly/Tamas_uvod.pdf
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Z trosek civilizace. Barbarská filosofie G. M. Tamáse." In G. M. Tamás, K filosofii socialismu. Ed. Pavel Siostrzonek and Joseph Grim Feinberg. Prague: Filosofia, 2016, pp. 9–30.
Text accessible online: http://filosofia.flu.cas.cz/soubory/tituly/Tamas_uvod.pdf
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Z trosek civilizace. Barbarská filosofie G. M. Tamáse." In G. M. Tamás, K filosofii socialismu. Ed. Pavel Siostrzonek and Joseph Grim Feinberg. Prague: Filosofia, 2016, pp. 9–30.
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Based on an ethnographic study of folklore performance in contemporary Slovakia, this paper critically engages with “performance theory,” arguing that sometimes performance can be best understood by looking beyond moments of performance... more
Based on an ethnographic study of folklore performance in contemporary Slovakia, this paper critically engages with “performance theory,” arguing that sometimes performance can be best understood by looking beyond moments of performance to the long, often arduous work of preparing for performance and reflecting on performances past. The author proposes studying folklore (and art more generally) not only as performance but also as “organization,” that is, as a set of enduring yet always shifting social relations. This approach enables us to see the modes of collectivity that emerge out of the social experience of art and, specifically, folklore.
In Slovak.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “‘Jeden veľký kolektív’. Folklór ako vystúpenie a organizácia.” Sociológia – Slovak Sociological Review vol. 48, no. 4 (2016), pp. 357–76.
See also https://www.sav.sk/?lang=sk&doc=journal-list&part=article_response_page&journal_article_no=12369
In Slovak.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “‘Jeden veľký kolektív’. Folklór ako vystúpenie a organizácia.” Sociológia – Slovak Sociological Review vol. 48, no. 4 (2016), pp. 357–76.
See also https://www.sav.sk/?lang=sk&doc=journal-list&part=article_response_page&journal_article_no=12369
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When twentieth-century interpreters of Marx sought new significance in his thought, they often returned to Marx’s “young” works, which presented the possibility of enriching Marx’s critique of political-economy with a critique of... more
When twentieth-century interpreters of Marx sought new significance in his thought,
they often returned to Marx’s “young” works, which presented the possibility of enriching Marx’s critique of political-economy with a critique of alienated consciousness. This article, however, seeks to go back still further, to works written by Marx before the now-famous Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. These works of the “even younger Marx” can supplement the critique of alienation with a critique of the state and civil society. Today, the relation between the state and civil society is a central theme of political thought; yet civil society is often understood unidimensionally as a normative category opposed to the state or to politics, which take on one-sidedly negative significance in contrast to civil society. An interpretation of the works of the “even younger Marx” enables a critical evaluation of the social role of civil society in connection with its complex (rather than purely oppositional) position with regard to the state. The “even younger Marx” offers a political theory of civil society that captures at once its emancipatory potential as well as its potential to serve continued unfreedom.
In Czech.
Article openly accessible online: https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/view/uuid:2cee6c9c-343e-4f2a-9b65-9f4539fc67da?article=uuid:caaff0ac-77d8-49fc-a29f-8226fecd04a4
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Ještě mladší Marx, antipolitik a antiobčan” [The even younger Marx, anti-political and anti-civic]. Filosofický časopis vol. 63, no. 3 (2015), pp. 357–77.
they often returned to Marx’s “young” works, which presented the possibility of enriching Marx’s critique of political-economy with a critique of alienated consciousness. This article, however, seeks to go back still further, to works written by Marx before the now-famous Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. These works of the “even younger Marx” can supplement the critique of alienation with a critique of the state and civil society. Today, the relation between the state and civil society is a central theme of political thought; yet civil society is often understood unidimensionally as a normative category opposed to the state or to politics, which take on one-sidedly negative significance in contrast to civil society. An interpretation of the works of the “even younger Marx” enables a critical evaluation of the social role of civil society in connection with its complex (rather than purely oppositional) position with regard to the state. The “even younger Marx” offers a political theory of civil society that captures at once its emancipatory potential as well as its potential to serve continued unfreedom.
In Czech.
Article openly accessible online: https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/view/uuid:2cee6c9c-343e-4f2a-9b65-9f4539fc67da?article=uuid:caaff0ac-77d8-49fc-a29f-8226fecd04a4
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Ještě mladší Marx, antipolitik a antiobčan” [The even younger Marx, anti-political and anti-civic]. Filosofický časopis vol. 63, no. 3 (2015), pp. 357–77.
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Interview (and debate) with Agnes Heller on the meaning of emancipation. In Czech translation. Openly accessible online:... more
Interview (and debate) with Agnes Heller on the meaning of emancipation. In Czech translation.
Openly accessible online: https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/view/uuid:2cee6c9c-343e-4f2a-9b65-9f4539fc67da?article=uuid:8c5a9eb6-fe3d-4c21-8da4-1c4152161074
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Cestami emancipací.” Filosofický časopis vol. 63, no. 3 (2015), pp. 325–38.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Cestami emancipací.” Filosofický časopis vol. 63, no. 3 (2015), pp. 325–38.
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Introduction to a book of essays and literary prose by the Czech Marxist Humanist Ivan Sviták. The uploaded file is a draft. The final version is available in print (or contact the author). Full citation: “Human, All Too Human?... more
Introduction to a book of essays and literary prose by the Czech Marxist Humanist Ivan Sviták.
The uploaded file is a draft. The final version is available in print (or contact the author).
Full citation: “Human, All Too Human? (Introduction and Homage to Ivan Sviták).” In Ivan Sviták, The Windmills of Humanity: On Culture and Surrealism in the Manipulated World. Ed. and trans. Joseph Grim Feinberg. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 2014, pp. 7–26.
The uploaded file is a draft. The final version is available in print (or contact the author).
Full citation: “Human, All Too Human? (Introduction and Homage to Ivan Sviták).” In Ivan Sviták, The Windmills of Humanity: On Culture and Surrealism in the Manipulated World. Ed. and trans. Joseph Grim Feinberg. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 2014, pp. 7–26.
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This paper follows a contemporary Slovak movement to “return folklore to the people,” since people have allegedly forgotten what authentic folklore is like due to the popularity of folklore-inspired spectacles under Communist rule. The... more
This paper follows a contemporary Slovak movement to “return folklore to the people,” since people have allegedly forgotten what authentic folklore is like due to the popularity of folklore-inspired spectacles under Communist rule. The paper looks argues that folklore revival movements can be understood as attempts to bring something intimate (belonging to localized “folk”) into public (where it risks being perceived as inauthentic), and the paper follows a fundamental transformation in the way this intimacy-publicity tension has been addressed between the Communist era and today.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Returning Folklore to the People: On the Paradox of Publicizing Folklore in Post-Communist Slovakia.” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde vol. 116, no. 3+4 (2013), pp. 404–27.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Returning Folklore to the People: On the Paradox of Publicizing Folklore in Post-Communist Slovakia.” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde vol. 116, no. 3+4 (2013), pp. 404–27.
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What is the notion of citizenship that reveals itself in such varied and successive appearances as “civic” participation, “civil” society, and “civil” rights? The law provides us with positive definitions, defining individuals’... more
What is the notion of citizenship that reveals itself in such varied and successive appearances as “civic” participation, “civil” society, and “civil” rights? The law provides us with positive definitions, defining individuals’ relationship to given states, which grant rights to participate in civil society. But such definitions conceal as much as they reveal. The full meaning of citizenship comes out only in relation to other categories which citizenship excludes. This is true not only because all categories of meaning are defined against their opposites, but also because citizenship as a specific category is characterized fundamentally by the principle of exclusion. Citizenship, typically conceived as a bundle of rights, functions de facto as a bundle of privileges, that is to say, of rights that must be granted, rights which (in spite of universalist justifications) are always granted to some and not to others, and which are granted on the condition that right-holders renounce their claims on other rights. The non-citizen tends to become not only uncivil but also uncivilized, deprived not only of specific civil rights but also of human dignity. The citizen is civilized while the non-citizen is made barbaric. It becomes necessary therefore to develop the following thesis: that the essence of the citizen is the proletarian tramp.
The uploaded text is a draft. Final version available through open access here: https://sdonline.org/issue/63/civic-and-proletarian. Typeset version here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2013.832078 (or contact the author).
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “The Civic and the Proletarian.” Socialism and Democracy vol. 27 (2013), no. 3, pp. 1–31. Revised Czech translation: Contradictions, vol. 3, no. 1 (2019), pp. 65–91 (accessible here: https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/en/archive/80).
The uploaded text is a draft. Final version available through open access here: https://sdonline.org/issue/63/civic-and-proletarian. Typeset version here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2013.832078 (or contact the author).
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “The Civic and the Proletarian.” Socialism and Democracy vol. 27 (2013), no. 3, pp. 1–31. Revised Czech translation: Contradictions, vol. 3, no. 1 (2019), pp. 65–91 (accessible here: https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/en/archive/80).
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There is some basis to the perennial fear that folklore draws every day nearer to extinction. But this is true not so much because the traditional sources of folklore are disappearing; it is rather because the very idea of folklore has... more
There is some basis to the perennial fear that folklore draws every day nearer to extinction. But this is true not so much because the traditional sources of folklore are disappearing; it is rather because the very idea of folklore has fallen on hard times. Folklore is less popular in the public sphere than it once was, but it is also less popular among scholars, who have been gradually abandoning folkloristics for other fields or have been renaming and redefining folkloristics, with the result that the discipline is decreasingly identifiable as the study of something called “folklore”. This essay takes such criticisms of folklore as its point of departure, offering its own proposal for critically reexamining and reconceptualizing – but not abandoning – the idea of folklore. The author argues that a serious engagement with the idea of “the folk” can serve as an entry point for understanding the symbolic ambiguity as well as the social significance and political power of what scholars call (or used to call) folklore. Scholars should neither uncritically accept the ideology of the folk, nor hastily banish the idea to the safe realm of the “emic” as if it had no bearing on the way we as scholars think. If the study of folklore has relevance in today’s world, it is above all because of the unusual notion that some kinds of expression are conditioned by some kind of social entity that can be called a folk, which continues to provide the most productive basis for a scholarly discipline studying folklore.
Full citation" Feinberg, Joseph Grim, “Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Folk?” Slovenský národopis vol. 61, no. 5 (2013), pp. 548–560. Available online at http://www.uet.sav.sk/files/etno5-2013-text-web.pdf.
Polish translation in Studia etnologiczne i antropologiczne 16 (2016), pp. 15–32.
Full citation" Feinberg, Joseph Grim, “Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Folk?” Slovenský národopis vol. 61, no. 5 (2013), pp. 548–560. Available online at http://www.uet.sav.sk/files/etno5-2013-text-web.pdf.
Polish translation in Studia etnologiczne i antropologiczne 16 (2016), pp. 15–32.
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A critical reflection on the study of the public sphere. In Slovak. The uploaded file is a draft. Final version available in print. Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Verejnosť bez seba.” In Kritická teória Jürgena Habermasa v... more
A critical reflection on the study of the public sphere. In Slovak.
The uploaded file is a draft. Final version available in print.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Verejnosť bez seba.” In Kritická teória Jürgena Habermasa v sociologickom výskume, ed. Miroslav Tižík. Bratislava: Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2013, pp. 104–9.
The uploaded file is a draft. Final version available in print.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Verejnosť bez seba.” In Kritická teória Jürgena Habermasa v sociologickom výskume, ed. Miroslav Tižík. Bratislava: Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2013, pp. 104–9.
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A critical look at the history and legacy of dissent in East-Central Europe – at how the legacy of a movement to democratize socialism came to be used to justify limiting democratic choice under neoliberalism. The uploaded file is... more
A critical look at the history and legacy of dissent in East-Central Europe – at how the legacy of a movement to democratize socialism came to be used to justify limiting democratic choice under neoliberalism.
The uploaded file is draft. Final version available here: http://journal.telospress.com/content/2008/145/47.full.pdf+html (or contact the author).
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “The Unfinished Story of Central European Dissidence.” Telos 145, winter 2008, pp. 47–66. Also translated into Slovak, Greek, and Czech translations: Slovak in Nové Slovo (Bratislava, Slovakia), Nos. 22, 24, 26–27, and 29, 2007; Greek as a pamphlet: Δημοκρατία χωρίς δήμο: Νεοφιλελευθερισμός εναντίον κοινωνίας, trans. Gerasimos Lykiardopoulos (Athens: Erasmos, 2012); Czech in Dějiny – teorie – kritika 2014, no. 2, pp. 293–318.
The uploaded file is draft. Final version available here: http://journal.telospress.com/content/2008/145/47.full.pdf+html (or contact the author).
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “The Unfinished Story of Central European Dissidence.” Telos 145, winter 2008, pp. 47–66. Also translated into Slovak, Greek, and Czech translations: Slovak in Nové Slovo (Bratislava, Slovakia), Nos. 22, 24, 26–27, and 29, 2007; Greek as a pamphlet: Δημοκρατία χωρίς δήμο: Νεοφιλελευθερισμός εναντίον κοινωνίας, trans. Gerasimos Lykiardopoulos (Athens: Erasmos, 2012); Czech in Dějiny – teorie – kritika 2014, no. 2, pp. 293–318.
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An essay on politics and dialectics. The uploaded file is a draft; final version available in open access here: https://sdonline.org/issue/49/we-are-dialectic-essay-positive-politics. Typeset version here:... more
An essay on politics and dialectics.
The uploaded file is a draft; final version available in open access here: https://sdonline.org/issue/49/we-are-dialectic-essay-positive-politics. Typeset version here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300802635957 (or contact the author).
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “We Are the Dialectic: An Essay for Positive Politics.” Socialism and Democracy, vol. 23, no. 1 (March 2009), pp. 124–28.
The uploaded file is a draft; final version available in open access here: https://sdonline.org/issue/49/we-are-dialectic-essay-positive-politics. Typeset version here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300802635957 (or contact the author).
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “We Are the Dialectic: An Essay for Positive Politics.” Socialism and Democracy, vol. 23, no. 1 (March 2009), pp. 124–28.
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One major strand of Pierre Bourdieu’s work involved revealing the interests, struggles, and structures of domination underlying apparently disinterested values and ideals. This article discusses the set of values and ideals surrounding... more
One major strand of Pierre Bourdieu’s work involved revealing the interests, struggles, and structures of domination underlying apparently disinterested values and ideals. This article discusses the set of values and ideals surrounding folklore and reconstructs Bourdieu's analysis of the idea of “folk” or “popular” (“populaire”), showing that Bourdieu regarded the use of the term populaire as an instance of misrecognition or mystification. Bourdieu’s formulation implies, in other words, that the popular and the ideals attached to it – mere mystifications – are less real than the relations of domination that they conceal. This article, by contrast, asks what kind of critical analysis might enable social scientists to adequately account for the reality of ideals even while also understanding the complex role that ideals play in social struggles – struggles for domination as well as for solidarity and liberation. The guiding question of the article is thus at once methodological, ontological, and political: how can researchers criticize their objects of research while still respecting the legitimacy of these objects as things in the world, and without placing researchers' own analytic categories in a world apart from the categories that structure their objects of research?
Article in Slovak.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Má folklór právo existovať? K teórii a metodológii ľudového realizmu.” In Teória Pierra Bourdieua ako inšpirácia pre sociologický výskum, ed. Miroslav Tížik, Bratislava: Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2013, pp. 120–136.
Full text of book volume: http://www.sociologia.sav.sk/cms/uploaded/1771_attach_Pierre_Bourdieu_2013_fulltext.pdf
Article in Slovak.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Má folklór právo existovať? K teórii a metodológii ľudového realizmu.” In Teória Pierra Bourdieua ako inšpirácia pre sociologický výskum, ed. Miroslav Tížik, Bratislava: Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2013, pp. 120–136.
Full text of book volume: http://www.sociologia.sav.sk/cms/uploaded/1771_attach_Pierre_Bourdieu_2013_fulltext.pdf
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A polemical reflection on the methodology of cultural anthropology. Published online: http://ucexchange.uchicago.edu/letters/participation.html Citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Participation or Observation?” In Chicago Anthropology... more
A polemical reflection on the methodology of cultural anthropology.
Published online: http://ucexchange.uchicago.edu/letters/participation.html
Citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Participation or Observation?” In Chicago Anthropology Exchange, spring 2006.
Published online: http://ucexchange.uchicago.edu/letters/participation.html
Citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Participation or Observation?” In Chicago Anthropology Exchange, spring 2006.
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This is an English translation of Karel Teige's Marketplace of Art. Trans. Greg Evans. Helsinki and Prague: Rab-Rab and Contradictions, 2022.
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Kontradikce / Contradictions is a journal devoted to original research and theoretical reflection on the history and present of critical social thought in Central and Eastern Europe, and on the "post-communist" situation throughout world.... more
Kontradikce / Contradictions is a journal devoted to original research and theoretical reflection on the history and present of critical social thought in Central and Eastern Europe, and on the "post-communist" situation throughout world. The English-language issue of the journal's third volume, edited by Joseph Grim Feinberg, includes texts by Russell Rockwell on H. Marcuse and K. Kosík, Monika Woźniak on M. Siemek and E. Ilyenkov, Jiří Holba on Buddhism and Egon Bondy, Nikolay Karkov on autonomist Marxism in Eastern Europe, Noam Chomsky on the meaning of dissent, Jan Svoboda on T. G. Masaryk, Lubomír Sochor on "actually existing socialism," and more. A special thematic section presents critical approaches to civil society and citizenship by Jeremy Walton, Veronika Stoyanova, and Nishat Awan.
For more, see https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/en/archive.
For more, see https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/en/archive.
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Kontradikce / Contradictions is a journal devoted to original research and theoretical reflection on the history and present of critical social thought in Central and Eastern Europe, and on the "post-communist" situation throughout world.... more
Kontradikce / Contradictions is a journal devoted to original research and theoretical reflection on the history and present of critical social thought in Central and Eastern Europe, and on the "post-communist" situation throughout world. The Czech-language issue of the journal's third volume, edited by Joseph Grim Feinberg, includes texts by Jan Svoboda on T. G. Masaryk, James Mark Shields on Buddhism and Marxism, Lubomír Sochor on "actually existing socialism," Jacques Rancière on fiction, and more. A special thematic section presents critical approaches to civil society and citizenship by Joseph Grim Feinberg, Ondřej Holub, Engin F. Isin, Zdeněk Mlynář, and Miroslav Kusý.
For more, see https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/archiv
For more, see https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/archiv
Research Interests: Marxism, Marxism and Ecology, Anarchism, Nationalism, Louis Althusser, and 14 moreJacques Rancière, Post-Socialist Societies, Russian Revolution, Socialism, Socially Engaged Buddhism, Russian Formalism, Civil Society, Fiction, Soviet Dissidents, Dissent, Post-Communist Studies, Ernst Fischer, Egon Bondy, and Tomáš Garique Masaryk
The English-language issue of Contradictions, vol. 2, includes texts by Dan Swain on Marxism and theories of justice, Nicole Pepperell on Lukács, Peter Steiner on Václav Havel, Robert Kalivoda on Marx and Freud, Alain Badiou on communism,... more
The English-language issue of Contradictions, vol. 2, includes texts by Dan Swain on Marxism and theories of justice, Nicole Pepperell on Lukács, Peter Steiner on Václav Havel, Robert Kalivoda on Marx and Freud, Alain Badiou on communism, and others.
For more, see https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/en/archive
For more, see https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/en/archive
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The Czech-language issue of Kontradikce/Contradictions, vol. 2, includes texts by Vít Bartoš on the dialectics of nature, Ivana Komanická on croletarian culture in revolutionary Košice, Nick Nesbitt on Deleuze and music, Matěj Metelec on... more
The Czech-language issue of Kontradikce/Contradictions, vol. 2, includes texts by Vít Bartoš on the dialectics of nature, Ivana Komanická on croletarian culture in revolutionary Košice, Nick Nesbitt on Deleuze and music, Matěj Metelec on Charta 77 and the left today, Vratislav Effenberger on poetry, Herbert Marcuse on aesthetics.
For more, see https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/archive
For more, see https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/archive
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Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought is a bilingual (Czech and English) publication that assesses and creatively revives radical intellectual traditions of Central and Eastern Europe, bringing them to bear on the historical... more
Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought is a bilingual (Czech and English) publication that assesses and creatively revives radical intellectual traditions of Central and Eastern Europe, bringing them to bear on the historical present and bringing them into international discussions of emancipatory social change.
This is the English-language issue of Contradictions, vol. 1. For more, see https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/en/archive.
This is the English-language issue of Contradictions, vol. 1. For more, see https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/en/archive.
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Kontradikce. Časopis pro kritické myšlení / Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought is a bilingual (Czech and English) publication that assesses and creatively revives radical intellectual traditions of Central and Eastern Europe,... more
Kontradikce. Časopis pro kritické myšlení / Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought is a bilingual (Czech and English) publication that assesses and creatively revives radical intellectual traditions of Central and Eastern Europe, bringing them to bear on the historical present and bringing them into international discussions of emancipatory social change.
This is the Czech-language issue of Kontradikce / Contradictions, vol. 1. For more, see https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/archiv
This is the Czech-language issue of Kontradikce / Contradictions, vol. 1. For more, see https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/archiv
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Karel Kosík (1926–2003) was one of the most remarkable Czech Marxist philosophers of the twentieth century. His reputation as a creative thinker is owed largely to his philosophical ‘blockbuster’ Dialectics of the Concrete, first... more
Karel Kosík (1926–2003) was one of the most remarkable Czech Marxist philosophers of the twentieth century. His reputation as a creative thinker is owed largely to his philosophical ‘blockbuster’ Dialectics of the Concrete, first published in Czechoslovakia in 1963. In reintroducing Kosík’s philosophy to English-speaking readers, we show that Kosík’s work is important not only as a leading intellectual document of the Prague Spring, but also as an original theoretical contribution with international impact that sheds light on the meaning of labour and praxis, cognition and economic structure, and revolution and the crises of modernity.
Contributors include: Ian Angus, Siyaves Azeri, Vít Bartoš, Jan Černý, Joseph Grim Feinberg, Diana Fuentes, Gabriella Fusi, Tomáš Hermann, Tomáš Hříbek, Xiaohan Huang, Peter Hudis, Petr Kužel, Ivan Landa, Michael Löwy, Jan Mervart, Anselm K. Min, Tom Rockmore, Francesco Tava, and Xinruo Zhang.
Contributors include: Ian Angus, Siyaves Azeri, Vít Bartoš, Jan Černý, Joseph Grim Feinberg, Diana Fuentes, Gabriella Fusi, Tomáš Hermann, Tomáš Hříbek, Xiaohan Huang, Peter Hudis, Petr Kužel, Ivan Landa, Michael Löwy, Jan Mervart, Anselm K. Min, Tom Rockmore, Francesco Tava, and Xinruo Zhang.
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V současném světě dochází ke změně pohledu na liberální demokracii. Přestává platit obecná politická a kulturní shoda na tom, že liberální demokracie představuje završení dějin, že společenská individualizace je tím nejlepším a... more
V současném světě dochází ke změně pohledu na liberální demokracii. Přestává platit obecná politická a kulturní shoda na tom, že liberální demokracie představuje završení dějin, že společenská individualizace je tím nejlepším a nezrušitelným principem, kdežto kolektivní identity jsou věcí minulosti. Liberální společnost, dosud oslavující postmoderní mnohost a jinakost, se proměňuje ve společnost roztříštěnou do uzavřených komunit, v níž se vytrácí jednotící ideál občanství a lidských práv. Kniha nabízí analýzu vznikajících nových forem politického a myšlenkového sjednocování, tak jak se projevují v současných teoriích lidu, v myšlení teologického hnutí „radikální ortodoxie“ a v populistických hnutích.
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Who determines what is "real"? Observing the activities of urban folk dance enthusiasts in Slovakia, Joseph Grim Feinberg sets out to scrutinize the processes by which "authentic folklore" is identified, talked about, represented,... more
Who determines what is "real"?
Observing the activities of urban folk dance enthusiasts in Slovakia, Joseph Grim Feinberg sets out to scrutinize the processes by which "authentic folklore" is identified, talked about, represented, reconstructed, reenacted, and revived.
In Slovakia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe after World War II, Communist governments promoted folklore revivals and staged performances of song and dance as representations of "the people." When the Communists fell from power in Slovakia in 1989, folklore was also discredited in the eyes of many. By the early twenty-first century, however, a new generation launched a movement to revive folklore's reputation and reintroduce it to a broad public.
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Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. The Paradox of Authenticity: Folklore Performance in Post-Communist Slovakia. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. Revised Slovak translation published as: Vrátiť folklór ľuďom. Dialektika autentickosti na súčasnom Slovensku, trans. Renáta Tížiková Nemcová, Bratislava: AKAmedia and Sociologický ústav SAV, 2018.
Observing the activities of urban folk dance enthusiasts in Slovakia, Joseph Grim Feinberg sets out to scrutinize the processes by which "authentic folklore" is identified, talked about, represented, reconstructed, reenacted, and revived.
In Slovakia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe after World War II, Communist governments promoted folklore revivals and staged performances of song and dance as representations of "the people." When the Communists fell from power in Slovakia in 1989, folklore was also discredited in the eyes of many. By the early twenty-first century, however, a new generation launched a movement to revive folklore's reputation and reintroduce it to a broad public.
For more information, see
See: https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5691.htm
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. The Paradox of Authenticity: Folklore Performance in Post-Communist Slovakia. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. Revised Slovak translation published as: Vrátiť folklór ľuďom. Dialektika autentickosti na súčasnom Slovensku, trans. Renáta Tížiková Nemcová, Bratislava: AKAmedia and Sociologický ústav SAV, 2018.
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An anthology of writing by Czech Marxist humanist philosopher and occasional poet Ivan Sviták, edited, translated, and with an introduction by Joseph Grim Feinberg. Full citation: Sviták, Ivan. The Windmills of Humanity: On Culture and... more
An anthology of writing by Czech Marxist humanist philosopher and occasional poet Ivan Sviták, edited, translated, and with an introduction by Joseph Grim Feinberg.
Full citation: Sviták, Ivan. The Windmills of Humanity: On Culture and Surrealism in the Manipulated World. Ed. and trans. Joseph Grim Feinberg. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 2014.
See https://www.akpress.org/windmillsofhumanity.html
Full citation: Sviták, Ivan. The Windmills of Humanity: On Culture and Surrealism in the Manipulated World. Ed. and trans. Joseph Grim Feinberg. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 2014.
See https://www.akpress.org/windmillsofhumanity.html
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An entry in The International Encyclopedia of Surrealismon the College of Sociology (Collège de Sociologie). The text here is not final. The final version is available in The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism, ed. Michael... more
An entry in The International Encyclopedia of Surrealismon the College of Sociology (Collège de Sociologie).
The text here is not final. The final version is available in The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism, ed. Michael Richardson, et al., vol. 1. London: Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 498–501.
The text here is not final. The final version is available in The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism, ed. Michael Richardson, et al., vol. 1. London: Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 498–501.
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This is an entry in The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx on the reception of Marx in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. There is probably no part of the world where Marx's thought has enjoyed such prestige and currently finds itself in... more
This is an entry in The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx on the reception of Marx in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
There is probably no part of the world where Marx's thought has enjoyed such prestige and currently finds itself in such disrepute as Eastern Europe and the former territory of the Soviet Union. Indeed, the region itself is typically defined by its history of rule by "Marxist" regimes whose actions have done as much to discredit Marxism as they ever succeeded in promoting it. The history of Marxism in the region, however, reveals a continual series of intellectual debates whose emancipatory insight was never exhausted in service to state or party policy. It was, at the same time, marked by the need to repeatedly rethink itself in the face of limiting conditions-and of its own role in the genesis of those conditions. Eastern European Marxism developed in close contact with Marxism in those parts of Germany and Austria that would later be considered "Western" Europe. Nevertheless, Marxism developed in new directions as it responded to the problems raised by the new social conditions in which it found itself, and under the influence of the intellectual and social movements that proceeded it and competed with it, most notably the romantic revolutionary movements that defended the peasantry and the common people, as well as the region's movements for Westernizing modernization and national liberation. After the October Revolution of 1917, the establishment of the Soviet Union spurred the region's Marxists to distinguish themselves still further from their comrades and rivals elsewhere, reflecting on the emerging problems of building a socialist society and, eventually, on how those constructive efforts may have gone wrong.
The uploaded text is uncorrected. For the final version, see https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbury-companion-to-marx-9781350189843/ or contact me.
The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx, ed. Jeff Diamanti, Andrew Pendakis, and Imre Szeman. London: Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 445–50.
There is probably no part of the world where Marx's thought has enjoyed such prestige and currently finds itself in such disrepute as Eastern Europe and the former territory of the Soviet Union. Indeed, the region itself is typically defined by its history of rule by "Marxist" regimes whose actions have done as much to discredit Marxism as they ever succeeded in promoting it. The history of Marxism in the region, however, reveals a continual series of intellectual debates whose emancipatory insight was never exhausted in service to state or party policy. It was, at the same time, marked by the need to repeatedly rethink itself in the face of limiting conditions-and of its own role in the genesis of those conditions. Eastern European Marxism developed in close contact with Marxism in those parts of Germany and Austria that would later be considered "Western" Europe. Nevertheless, Marxism developed in new directions as it responded to the problems raised by the new social conditions in which it found itself, and under the influence of the intellectual and social movements that proceeded it and competed with it, most notably the romantic revolutionary movements that defended the peasantry and the common people, as well as the region's movements for Westernizing modernization and national liberation. After the October Revolution of 1917, the establishment of the Soviet Union spurred the region's Marxists to distinguish themselves still further from their comrades and rivals elsewhere, reflecting on the emerging problems of building a socialist society and, eventually, on how those constructive efforts may have gone wrong.
The uploaded text is uncorrected. For the final version, see https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbury-companion-to-marx-9781350189843/ or contact me.
The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx, ed. Jeff Diamanti, Andrew Pendakis, and Imre Szeman. London: Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 445–50.
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An analysis of the "new" xenophobic right. Published in German under the title "Europas neue Recht. Die fremdenfeindlichen Bewegung und Parteien erklären Freiheit und Wohlstanzu knappen Güttern," in the Monde diplomatique's Atlas der... more
An analysis of the "new" xenophobic right. Published in German under the title "Europas neue Recht. Die fremdenfeindlichen Bewegung und Parteien erklären Freiheit und Wohlstanzu knappen Güttern," in the Monde diplomatique's Atlas der Globalisierung. Welt in Bewegung. Berlin: Le Monde diplomatique.
The uploaded file is the original English text of the article.
The uploaded file is the original English text of the article.
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A review of Lea Ypi's book Free.
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A review essay on Lea Ypi's memoir Free, about growing up in Albania before and after the "transition." Online: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/against-concepts Citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. "Against Concepts." NLR Sidecar 27... more
A review essay on Lea Ypi's memoir Free, about growing up in Albania before and after the "transition." Online: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/against-concepts
Citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. "Against Concepts." NLR Sidecar 27 January 2022.
Citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. "Against Concepts." NLR Sidecar 27 January 2022.
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Review of Danaher, David S. Reading Václav Havel. In Slavic and East European Journal vol. 61, no. 1 (2017), pp. 146–47. The uploaded text is a draft. Final version here:... more
Review of Danaher, David S. Reading Václav Havel. In Slavic and East European Journal vol. 61, no. 1 (2017), pp. 146–47.
The uploaded text is a draft. Final version here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26633724?refreqid=excelsior%3A0ffe03427d00cc515f36dc6e21965eb5 (or contact the author).
The uploaded text is a draft. Final version here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26633724?refreqid=excelsior%3A0ffe03427d00cc515f36dc6e21965eb5 (or contact the author).
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Some of the most interesting writing on folklore, it seems, is not really about folklore at all. Perhaps this is because it has always been one of folklore studies' central tasks to ask what folklore is, and what folklore becomes at the... more
Some of the most interesting writing on folklore, it seems, is not really about folklore at all. Perhaps this is because it has always been one of folklore studies' central tasks to ask what folklore is, and what folklore becomes at the seemingly eternal moment when it disappears.
Review of Songbook: How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe by Marisa Galvez. Journal of Folklore Research Reviews, March 18, 2015
Online: https://jfr.sitehost.iu.edu/review.php?id=1584).
Review of Songbook: How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe by Marisa Galvez. Journal of Folklore Research Reviews, March 18, 2015
Online: https://jfr.sitehost.iu.edu/review.php?id=1584).
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Review of Jonathan Bolton, Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012). The uploaded file is a draft; final version published... more
Review of Jonathan Bolton, Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012).
The uploaded file is a draft; final version published in Dějiny - Teorie - Kritika, 2013, no. 1, pp. 177–81 (in Czech).
See also http://www.dejinyteoriekritika.cz/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabIndex=1&TabId=2&Jid=15&Aid=209&Mid=12
The uploaded file is a draft; final version published in Dějiny - Teorie - Kritika, 2013, no. 1, pp. 177–81 (in Czech).
See also http://www.dejinyteoriekritika.cz/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabIndex=1&TabId=2&Jid=15&Aid=209&Mid=12
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Review of The Big Red Songbook, ed. Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno, afterword by Utah Phillips (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 2007). The uploaded file is a draft. Final version published in the... more
Review of The Big Red Songbook, ed. Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno, afterword by Utah Phillips (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 2007).
The uploaded file is a draft. Final version published in the Journal of American Folklore 123, no. 488, spring 2010, pp. 233–35. Available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerfolk.123.488.0233 (or contact the author).
The uploaded file is a draft. Final version published in the Journal of American Folklore 123, no. 488, spring 2010, pp. 233–35. Available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerfolk.123.488.0233 (or contact the author).
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Review of: From Folklore to World Music / Od folkloru k world music. Edited by Irena Přibylová and Lucie Uhlíková. Náměšť nad Oslavou, Czech Republic: Městské kulturní středisko, 2003. From the East to the West and from the West to... more
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From Folklore to World Music / Od folkloru k world music. Edited by Irena Přibylová and Lucie Uhlíková. Náměšť nad Oslavou, Czech Republic: Městské kulturní středisko, 2003.
From the East to the West and from the West to the East / Od východu na západ a od západu na východ. Edited by Martina Pavlicová and Irena Přibylová. Náměšť nad Oslavou, Městské kulturní středisko, 2005.
The Magic of World Music: From Rituals to Web Pages / Kouzla ve world music: Od rituálů k webovým stránkám. Edited by Martina Pavlicová and Irena Přibylová. Náměšť nad Oslavou, Městské kulturní středisko, 2006.
My Heart’s in the Highlands / Mé srdce je na Vysočině. Eds. Martina Pavlicová and Irena Přibylová. Náměšť nad Oslavou, Městské kulturní středisko, 2007.
Ethnocultural Traditions in Contemporary Society / Etnokulturní tradice v současné společnosti. Ed. Marta Troncová. Brno, Czech Republic: Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2007.
The uploaded file is a draft. Final version published online: https://jfr.sitehost.iu.edu/review.php?id=871
From Folklore to World Music / Od folkloru k world music. Edited by Irena Přibylová and Lucie Uhlíková. Náměšť nad Oslavou, Czech Republic: Městské kulturní středisko, 2003.
From the East to the West and from the West to the East / Od východu na západ a od západu na východ. Edited by Martina Pavlicová and Irena Přibylová. Náměšť nad Oslavou, Městské kulturní středisko, 2005.
The Magic of World Music: From Rituals to Web Pages / Kouzla ve world music: Od rituálů k webovým stránkám. Edited by Martina Pavlicová and Irena Přibylová. Náměšť nad Oslavou, Městské kulturní středisko, 2006.
My Heart’s in the Highlands / Mé srdce je na Vysočině. Eds. Martina Pavlicová and Irena Přibylová. Náměšť nad Oslavou, Městské kulturní středisko, 2007.
Ethnocultural Traditions in Contemporary Society / Etnokulturní tradice v současné společnosti. Ed. Marta Troncová. Brno, Czech Republic: Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2007.
The uploaded file is a draft. Final version published online: https://jfr.sitehost.iu.edu/review.php?id=871
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An essay on neoliberalism, the so-called refugee crisis, and the rise of the new extreme right The uploaded file is a draft. The final version is available online here: http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/an-austere-place-of-refuge/;... more
An essay on neoliberalism, the so-called refugee crisis, and the rise of the new extreme right
The uploaded file is a draft. The final version is available online here: http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/an-austere-place-of-refuge/; and in abridged form here: http://politicalcritique.org/cee/2016/austere-place-of-refuge/. Published in German translation as “Die Verteidiger Europas. Warum die neue radikale Rechte in Ost und West so erfolgreich ist,” Le monde diplomatique, Deutsche Ausgabe, April 2016, pp. 6–7. In Czech as “Strohé útočiště. Prolamování hradeb pevnosti Evropa”, A2 8/2016, pp. 18–19. in Greek as “Ένα καταφύγιο λιτότητας για τους πρόσφυγες,” Elaliberta.gr, March 18, 2016.)
The uploaded file is a draft. The final version is available online here: http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/an-austere-place-of-refuge/; and in abridged form here: http://politicalcritique.org/cee/2016/austere-place-of-refuge/. Published in German translation as “Die Verteidiger Europas. Warum die neue radikale Rechte in Ost und West so erfolgreich ist,” Le monde diplomatique, Deutsche Ausgabe, April 2016, pp. 6–7. In Czech as “Strohé útočiště. Prolamování hradeb pevnosti Evropa”, A2 8/2016, pp. 18–19. in Greek as “Ένα καταφύγιο λιτότητας για τους πρόσφυγες,” Elaliberta.gr, March 18, 2016.)
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An essay on Europe and the crisis of Greece and the Eurozone.
Citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Europe and Its Ends.” Heathwood, Oct. 19, 2015. (Originally published online at www.heathwoodpress.com, a site no longer active.)
Citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Europe and Its Ends.” Heathwood, Oct. 19, 2015. (Originally published online at www.heathwoodpress.com, a site no longer active.)
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An essay on engaged literature (in Czech). The uploaded file is a draft, before typesetting. Final version available online here: http://old.itvar.cz/prilohy/856/Tvar09-2014.pdf Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Kritérium... more
An essay on engaged literature (in Czech).
The uploaded file is a draft, before typesetting. Final version available online here: http://old.itvar.cz/prilohy/856/Tvar09-2014.pdf
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Kritérium neolyrického věku.” Tvar 2014, no. 9, pp. 10–11.
The uploaded file is a draft, before typesetting. Final version available online here: http://old.itvar.cz/prilohy/856/Tvar09-2014.pdf
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Kritérium neolyrického věku.” Tvar 2014, no. 9, pp. 10–11.
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An essay on anti-populism and what I call "neo-aristocratism" in bourgeois, and especially post-communist, society. Abridged English published in Chronos, no. 7, (Nov. 2013). Originally published on www.chronosmag.eu. Longer Czech... more
An essay on anti-populism and what I call "neo-aristocratism" in bourgeois, and especially post-communist, society.
Abridged English published in Chronos, no. 7, (Nov. 2013). Originally published on www.chronosmag.eu. Longer Czech version in Analogon no. 69, 2013, pp. 18 – 23.
Abridged English published in Chronos, no. 7, (Nov. 2013). Originally published on www.chronosmag.eu. Longer Czech version in Analogon no. 69, 2013, pp. 18 – 23.
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Twelve social-theoretical theses on the destructive nature of automobile. Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Cars Can Never Run Cleanly: The Automobile as an (Anti–)Social Form.” Carbusters.org, Nov. 8, 2010. (Originally published... more
Twelve social-theoretical theses on the destructive nature of automobile.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Cars Can Never Run Cleanly: The Automobile as an (Anti–)Social Form.” Carbusters.org, Nov. 8, 2010. (Originally published online; no longer accessible.) Also published in Slovak in Nové slovo, No. 9, 2010.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Cars Can Never Run Cleanly: The Automobile as an (Anti–)Social Form.” Carbusters.org, Nov. 8, 2010. (Originally published online; no longer accessible.) Also published in Slovak in Nové slovo, No. 9, 2010.
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A polemical essay against the grant system. The uploaded file is the complete text. An abridged version was published as: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Academic Grants Foster Waste and Antagonism, Not Scholarship.” Chronicle of Higher... more
A polemical essay against the grant system.
The uploaded file is the complete text. An abridged version was published as: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Academic Grants Foster Waste and Antagonism, Not Scholarship.” Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 17, 2010 (online: http://www.chronicle.com/article/Academic–Grants–Foster–Waste/124920/?sid=at).
A Czech translation of the long version was published as: “Proti grantům.” In Nová vědecká éra? Od byrokratické komerce ke kreativitě ve veřejném zájmu. Prague: Epocha, 2021, pp. 39–59.
The uploaded file is the complete text. An abridged version was published as: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “Academic Grants Foster Waste and Antagonism, Not Scholarship.” Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 17, 2010 (online: http://www.chronicle.com/article/Academic–Grants–Foster–Waste/124920/?sid=at).
A Czech translation of the long version was published as: “Proti grantům.” In Nová vědecká éra? Od byrokratické komerce ke kreativitě ve veřejném zájmu. Prague: Epocha, 2021, pp. 39–59.
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An essay on labor song, the university, and the proletarian public sphere. The uploaded file is a draft. Final version available online: https://www.aaup.org/article/singing-all-way-union#.WHO7WlzkjJo Full citation: Feinberg,... more
An essay on labor song, the university, and the proletarian public sphere.
The uploaded file is a draft. Final version available online: https://www.aaup.org/article/singing-all-way-union#.WHO7WlzkjJo
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. "Singing All the Way to the Union." Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP, vol. 96, no. 1 (Jan–Feb. 2010), pp. 18–20.
The uploaded file is a draft. Final version available online: https://www.aaup.org/article/singing-all-way-union#.WHO7WlzkjJo
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. "Singing All the Way to the Union." Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP, vol. 96, no. 1 (Jan–Feb. 2010), pp. 18–20.
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An essay on the peculiar post-communist desire to deny the existence of anything before capitalism. Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “The Ontology of the Post-Communist Right.” ZNet, May 30, 2003 (published online: now archived at... more
An essay on the peculiar post-communist desire to deny the existence of anything before capitalism.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “The Ontology of the Post-Communist Right.” ZNet, May 30, 2003 (published online: now archived at https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-ontology-of-the-post-communist-right-by-joseph-grim-feinberg/).
Also published in Slovak on Hej rup!, June 14, 2003 and on Nové Slovo, no. 30/31, July 23, 2003. and Slovo, No. 30/31, 2003.
Full citation: Feinberg, Joseph Grim. “The Ontology of the Post-Communist Right.” ZNet, May 30, 2003 (published online: now archived at https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-ontology-of-the-post-communist-right-by-joseph-grim-feinberg/).
Also published in Slovak on Hej rup!, June 14, 2003 and on Nové Slovo, no. 30/31, July 23, 2003. and Slovo, No. 30/31, 2003.