Thesis Eleven wishes a very warm happy birthday to Ágnes Heller on the occasion of her 90th birthday today. Ágnes has lived through much of the Twentieth Century and continues to live well into the Twenty-first. She has experienced the worst of modernity but stayed focused on its best. Her intellectual contribution provides us with…
Maria Markus. In Memoriam Issue 151, April 2019.
It is now eight years since Thesis Eleven published a Festschrift for Maria Márkus. Since then things have changed. Maria died over a year ago in September 2017. The world has been over-turned too.
Agnes Heller enthusiastically summarises her concept of the beautiful in under 5 mins at the Workshop on Civilisation and Modernity hosted by Sichuan University and co-sponsored by Thesis Eleven 2018
Thesis Eleven editor Sian Supski features in this fascinating episode of The History Listen on RN that explores Evi Balint’s story of migration through the lens of recipe books, cooking and the kitchen radio.
Special Issue: Watersheds: America, Australia, China, India
Issue 150, February 2019
Humans have, by biological necessity, always lived in watersheds…
‘Cornelius Castoriadis and the project of Autonomy in Greco-Western Civilization’
This public lecture concluded a day meeting at the Greek Cultural Centre in Melbourne celebrating and examining the intellectual contribution of Cornelius Castoriadis.
Double Special Issue: Populism(s) and Lunch with Bauman
#149, December 2018
Agnes Heller discusses modernity and globalisation at the ‘Workshop on Civilisation and Modernity’ hosted by Sichuan University and co-sponsored by Thesis Eleven. Heller argues that technology, science, popular culture and high culture are all globalised in modernity whereas political traditions and social relations retain particular cultural and regional articulations.
Utopia in Chaos Volume 148 Issue 1, October 2018 Articles: (Plebiscitary) leader democracy: The return of an illusion? Alan Scott There is a revival of notions of leader democracy (LD) and plebiscitary leader democracy (PLD) both at the level of politics (e.g. the rhetoric of strong leadership) and in academic debate. This paper focuses largely…
The 17th Thesis Eleven Annual Lecture (July 2018)
Dr Emilia Palonen, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
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