Book Review: Why Should We Still Read Max Weber?
Michael Symonds, Why Should We Still Read Max Weber? (Routledge, 2027)
Reviewed by Harry Blatterer
Book Review: Nationalism as a Way of Life
Siniša Malešević, Nationalism as a Way of Life: The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Reviewed by John A. Hall
Book Review: The Years of Theory – Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson, The Years of Theory. Postwar French Thought to the Present (Verso 2024)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Who was Fredric Jameson? What were the years of Theory? Jameson died last year, leaving behind a thick and rich legacy of, well, Theory. Already in advance, the title of this book of lectures seems to anticipate the possibility that Theory may also be terminal. Has the moment of Theory then passed?
Issue 195, August 2026 – Bauman in Chengdu: Legacy and Promise
This special issue is based on papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Marxist Critical Theory in Eastern Europe: In Memory of Zygmunt Bauman, held at Sichuan University, China, in 2024. Many thanks to all contributors.
Expressions of Interest: Friendship in Troubled Times
Expressions of interest are invited for contributions to an edited collection on Friendship in Troubled Times: Social, Cultural and Political Perspectives, following an approach by a reputable academic press.
Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026): A Philosopher of the Twentieth Century
by Angus Nicholls
This essay offers a deep historicization of Jürgen Habermas’s career in postwar Germany, arguing that three untranslated texts written during the 1950s and early 1960s provide insight into his intellectual development and the contemporary relevance of his thought.
New Book: American Fascism and the Battle over Culture
by Christopher G. Robbins and Eric Ferris
This book examines the intensification of fascist politics in contemporary America via an analysis of the fundamental shift in relationships between political fringes and institutions of power, situating the rise of contemporary fascist politics within a broader culture of pedagogy.
Book Review: Revolutions. A New History
Donald Sassoon, Revolutions: A New History (Verso, 2025)
Reviewed by Archie Brown
Donald Sassoon, a skilled and erudite comparative historian, has turned his hand to the study of revolutions. The result is a stimulating and highly readable book, richly endowed with provocative judgements and witty asides.
Thesis Eleven Annual Lecture: Decline of the West (again)? with Craig Calhoun
This year Professor Craig Calhoun (Arizona State University and Princeton University) joins us to reflect on the future of liberal democracy amid the Western world’s crises, institutional decline, and the resurgence of authoritarianism in a dialogue with Peter Beilharz.
5:30-7:30pm, 25 August, 2026
At the Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture
Raise Your Soul: Female Resistance, Storytelling, and Democracy – In Conversation with Yanis Varoufakis
by Maya Papastergiadis
On the occasion of his recent visit to Melbourne, Maya Papastergiadis had the opportunity to be in conversation with Yanis Varoufakis who leads MeRA25 in Greece, is co-founder of the pan European movement DiEM25, and is on the council of the Progressive International. He is an academic economist who served as Greece’s Finance Minister in 2015, and the author of best-selling books
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