Upcoming Telos Conferences in Australia, China, Italy, and the United States
The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute has several important events in the works for 2014, including conferences and symposia in Melbourne, Australia, Beijing, China, L'Aquila, Italy, and Irvine,...
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From Shanghai, Facing North
In this series of entries, Jacob Dreyer investigates the spatial forms of modernity in China, notably that of the Metropolis (e.g., Shanghai) and the Wasteland (e.g., Heilongjiang). In his last piece,...
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出路: Leaving Town
For the outsider, the metropolis—a visual, tangible representation of the economic activities that it sites—appears to be endlessly seductive, complicated, and enthralling. And yet, for the urbanites...
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The Carceral Experience, 1957
As has been observed about Russian and Japanese modernisms, Chinese modernism was initiated with a sense of lack: the contact with an Other civilization (e.g., that of the West) more capable of...
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Facing the People
In China as in the Soviet Union, it seemed particularly cruel to "political" prisoners that thieves, rapists, and murderers should be placed higher in the camp hierarchy than they were. From the...
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Telos 171 (Summer 2015): Politics and Values: The Middle East and China
Telos 171 (Summer 2015) is now available for purchase in our store. Standard accounts of American politics invoke an oscillation between idealist and realist inclinations. The idealists appeal to...
View ArticleCosmopolitanism and Alternative Modernity in Twentieth-Century China
Sheldon Lu's "Cosmopolitanism and Alternative Modernity in Twentieth-Century China" appears in Telos 180 (Fall 2017), a special issue on Cosmopolitanism and China. Read the full article at the Telos...
View ArticleBetween Localism and Cosmopolitanism: A Look at Zhou Zuoren’s Early...
Lisa Chu Shen's "Between Localism and Cosmopolitanism: A Look at Zhou Zuoren's Early Construction of the Individual" appears in Telos 180 (Fall 2017), a special issue on Cosmopolitanism and China....
View ArticleFrom Shanghai Modern to Shanghai Postmodern: A Cosmopolitan View of China’s...
Ning Wang's "From Shanghai Modern to Shanghai Postmodern: A Cosmopolitan View of China's Modernization" appears in Telos 180 (Fall 2017), a special issue on Cosmopolitanism and China. Read the full...
View ArticleCosmopolitan Translation and Cross-Cultural Paradigms: A Chinese Perspective
Yifeng Sun's "Cosmopolitan Translation and Cross-Cultural Paradigms: A Chinese Perspective" appears in Telos 180 (Fall 2017), a special issue on Cosmopolitanism and China. Read the full article at the...
View ArticleCosmopolitanism, Tianxia, and Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator”
David Pan's "Cosmopolitanism, Tianxia, and Walter Benjamin's 'The Task of the Translator'" appears in Telos 180 (Fall 2017), a special issue on Cosmopolitanism and China. Read the full article at the...
View ArticleSovereignty and Grand Strategy: Some Observations on the Rise of China and...
Aaron Zack's "Sovereignty and Grand Strategy: Some Observations on the Rise of China and Decline of the Americans" appears in Telos 181 (Winter 2017). Read the full article at the Telos Online...
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The Reemergence of the State in the Time of COVID-19
Once upon a time, there was an illusion that the state would disappear. It was the fiction Marxists told each other at bedtime, and it was the lie of the Communists, once they had seized state power....
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Telos 191 (Summer 2020): Going Viral
Telos 191 (Summer 2020): Going Viral is now available for purchase in our store. Individual subscriptions to Telos are also available in both print and online formats. While "going viral" has taken on...
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The Virus from China and American Political Debate
The following essay is part of a group of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic that appear in Telos 191 (Summer 2020): Going Viral, which is now available for purchase in our store. Individual...
View ArticleThe Telos Press Podcast: Russell A. Berman on the Commission on Unalienable...
In today's episode of the Telos Press Podcast, Camelia Raghinaru talks with Russell A. Berman about his article "Reflections on Rights," one of a group of essays from Telos 192 (Fall 2020) on the U.S....
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Dictatorship, Democracy, Effectiveness: Comments on Brussig
To read more in depth from Telos, subscribe to the journal here. A distinctive feature of public debate in Germany involves prominent literary authors, especially novelists, expounding on current...
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Risk More Dictatorship
This essay was published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on February 9, 2021, and appears here in translation with permission of the author. Footnotes have been added for clarification. Translated by...
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Telos 195 (Summer 2021): Global Perspectives on Constitutionalism and Populism
Telos 195 (Summer 2021): Global Perspectives on Constitutionalism and Populism is now available for purchase in our store. Individual subscriptions to Telos are also available in both print and online...
View ArticleU.S. in Desperate Need of a Foreign Policy Renewal
The following essay originally appeared at The Hill. It is republished here by permission of the author. The Biden administration promised to return American foreign policy to reliability and...
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