by Howard Prosser
This interview with Martin Jay took place in January 2025. The conversation focuses on the conceptual elements of his book Magical Nominalism: The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment, and the Photograph (2025). The discussion traces the place of nominalism within philosophy and in connection to Critical Theory, history, and art.
Ghislain Deslandes, Postcritical Management Studies: Philosophical Investigations (Springer, 2023)
Reviewed by Reviewed by Thomas Klikauer
Stephen Kalberg, Max Weber’s Sociology of Civilizations: A Reconstruction (Routledge, 2021)
Reviewed by Sam Whimster
Bringing together the various heterodox traditions, groups and scholars that came under the heading of Open Marxism for the first time, this book assesses the evolution of Open Marxism from the initial usage of the term by Kostas Axelos in France in the 1950s and the journal, Arguments, principally the ‘anarchist Marx’ of Maximilien Rubel and the ‘Libertarian Marxism’ of Daniel Guérin, through Open Marxism as it was developed in Eastern Europe, especially in the scholarly work of Karel Kosik in Czechoslovakia, the work of the Polish Open Marxists and the Praxis group in Yugoslavia …
Zygmunt Bauman, Theory and Society (Polity, 2024).
Edited by Tom Campbell, Dariusz Brzezinski, Mark Davis and Jack Palmer, with translations by Katarzyna Bartoszynska
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Christine Mintrom, New Zealand Musicians in Australia 1959 – 1976 Vol. 1 and 2 (Tangerine Press, 2025)
Melbourne launch 2pm Sunday February 23 @ Wolfhound, 386-388 Brunswick St, Fitzroy.
Despite strong criticism, functional reasoning is still present in social theory and research. However, references often remain hidden. As a consequence, potentials cannot unfold, nor shortcomings be reflected. Starting from this consideration, our special issue aims to reconsider the potentials and shortcomings of functional lines of thinking in current sociology.
The Socialist Side of World Literature explores Socialist Realism in English-language publications since 1935. While many studies have focused mainly on the Soviet Union and Europe, often overlooking significant figures from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and marginalized groups in the First and Second Worlds, this book looks at the many crucial questions that have remained unanswered, including why the emergence of Socialist Realism in Eastern Europe constituted a pivotal cultural event for Russia.
Boris Frankel, No Country for Idealists. The making of a family of subversives (Greenmeadows, Melbourne, 2023)
Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo, My Father’s Shadow. A memoir (Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, 2023)
Reviewed by Alastair Davidson
This conference centers on exchanges in literature, film, and acrobatics between the (former)Third World and the (former)First and (former)Second Worlds, alongside interactions within and across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Equal emphasis is placed on addressing gender and minority issues within these contexts. We invite submissions from scholars across disciplines to engage in this vibrant intellectual exchange.
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