Michael Lazarus, Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx, Stanford University Press, 2025
Absolute Ethical Life will be launched in both Sydney (on August 12) and in Melbourne (August 19).
When Words Fail Us: Reclaiming a Language of Love
The 2025 Simone Weil Lecture will be delivered by Professor Stan Grant. This event is hosted by the ACU School of Philosophy
Within American cultural sociology, Jeffrey Alexander’s strong program has emerged as the strongest attractor in the field. Having made a name as a social theorist before moving into cultural sociology, Alexander has been able to deploy his own approach both as a general sociology of culture in the neo-Durkheimian tradition, and as a sociological theory of the middle range that can be applied over and over again in case studies that show how codes, meanings and performances bring society together, or drive it apart.
The editors of Thesis Eleven would like to express their support for Faculty of Arts staff at Macquarie University affected by proposed job cuts. As a journal of critical theory and historical sociology, we particularly extend our support to staff in sociology, politics, history, and gender studies disciplines.
Peter Murphy, Stranger Cities. Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind, A Profile of Portal Modernity (Brill, 2023)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Anthony Elliott, Algorithms of Anxiety: Fear in the Digital Age (Polity Press, 2024)
Reviewed by James Smithies
Critical Theory: Chengdu Review, Volume One, Edited by Fu Qilin (Sichuan University Press, 2024)
Reviewed by Li Jing
Contributors: Slawomir Czapnik and Tomasz Krawczyk, Howard Prosser, Ricardo P Regatieri and Lucas Trindade, Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen, Dikshit Sarma Bhagabati, Bernardo Paci, Sonny Osman, Henrique Augusto Alexandre, Janine Gertz, Theresa Petray, Miriam Jorgensen, Alison Vivian and Coralie Achterberg, Raymond Grenfell and Fausto Butta, Mathijs van de Sande and Gaard Kets, Franz-Josef Deiters, David Roberts, and Edmund Mendelssohn
Speaker: Professor James Smithies
Co-Chairs: Prof Joy Damousi and Prof Peter Beilharz
Convener: A/Prof Rachel Busbridge
When: Friday 1 August 2-4pm AEDT.
Where: Australian Catholic University, Melbourne Campus
by Lloyd Cox
The 2025 Australian federal election will be remembered for both the scale of Labor’s victory and the implosion of the Liberal and National Party Coalition whose leader, Peter Dutton, lost his own seat. Together, they almost guarantee Labor at least another six years in power, while raising serious doubt about the long-term viability of an aging Liberal Party now at war with itself.
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