The invisible women of the Frankfurt School

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-03-29/yes-there-were-women-in-the-frankfurt-school-feminists-militants-and-researchers.html #women #marxism #criticalphilosophy #materialism #politicalphilosophy @Metaxenia

Laws alone don’t hold societies together.

What we’re losing isn’t just legal coherence — it’s moral coherence.

This essay explores:
• Why relativism destabilizes systems
• The role of religion in shaping ethics
• Whether universal values are still possible

A framework for thinking beyond law 👇
https://faithandbelievers.substack.com/p/the-moral-foundation-modern-society

#MoralFramework #Ethics #SocialStability #Relativism #Pluralism #PoliticalPhilosophy #Society #Governance #ReligionAndSociety #CulturalAnalysis

#Ethics #Philosophy #Society

Pluralism is not a moral system.

It’s a condition.

And without shared ethical foundations, it doesn’t lead to coexistence — it leads to fragmentation.

Secularism can protect freedom of belief.
But it cannot replace the moral frameworks that give societies coherence.

We don’t need uniformity.

But we do need agreement on enough.

A deep analysis:

https://faithandbelievers.substack.com/p/ethics-beyond-the-state

#Ethics #Pluralism #PoliticalPhilosophy #Secularism #MoralPhilosophy #PublicPolicy #Philosophy #Governance #Society

From Achille Mbembe’s book Necropolitics:

#necropolitics #politicalphilosophy #politics #fascism #westernNations #whiteness

“I’m inclined to side with those who hold that Habermas at first revivified critical theory but ultimately ended it.” Nancy Fraser on Jürgen Habermas and her relation to his work in the LRB.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/after-habermas

#habermas #Obituaries #londonreviewofbooks #academia #philosophy #politicalphilosophy #foucault

On day 100, a leader's actions are directly linked to the deaths of a handful of residents.

On day 1000, the number is up to 10,000.

On day 10,000, the number is at 1M.

At what threshold, if any, is the leader a tyrant and it is morally justifiable to take the leader out, vis-a-vis Ali Khamenei's assassination?

Approached from a different angle, do you believe that the longer Trump continues, the more people in America will die as a consequence of his actions?

#PoliticalPhilosophy

#callforpapers

International Symposium "Whose Freedom? Worksites of Freedom and the Aesthetics of Solidarity"

14-15 May 2026
Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice

Deadline: 27 March 2026

👉 Further information: https://www.performing-arts.eu/de/news/newsstream/call-for-papers-symposium-whose-freedom-worksites-of-freedom-and-the-aesthetics-of-solidarity/

#performancestudies #theatrestudies #theatreresearch #politicalphilosophy #symposium

As attention span drops to ATL, a nod to the unauthorized coercive power of advertising:

Advertising billboards had long fascinated Banksy. They are, he once argued, akin to how some critics view graffiti: a public statement foisted on people without permission. “Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours,” he wrote in 2004. “It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use.”

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-art-banksy/

#art #politicalphilosophy #philosophy

Hannah Arendt war eine deutsch-US-amerikanische politische Theoretikerin und Publizistin. Ihre jüdische Herkunft, die sie als zentrale Identität verstand, und die Erfahrung der Verfolgung durch das nationalsozialistische Regime prägten ihr Denken und ihr Engagement gegen Totalitarismus.

#HannahArendt
#Arendt
#Arendtian
#Philosophy
#PoliticalTheory
#PoliticalPhilosophy

I finished Stuart Hampshire"s "Justice is Conflict" and found his discussion of justice as a procedure for adversary conflict constrained by the maxim "audiatur et altera pars" rewarding. In addition, his view of politics as unending conflict struck me as both correct and reminded me of passages in Isaiah Berlin and Bernard Williams. At some point soon I should read his "Innocence and Experience".

This reading reflects an interest of mine in realism in political philosophy. In connection with this, I want to reread the relevant essays of Raymond Geuss and Bernard Williams, and engage more with the scholarship on Machiavelli.

#StuartHampshire #PoliticalPhilosophy #Realism