Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory最新文献

{"title":"Subaltern Silence: A Postcolonial Genealogy","authors":"Ege Selin Islekel","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.70013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 4","pages":"695-697"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance","authors":"Kevin Olson","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.70010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 4","pages":"692-694"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145694983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Oligarchy, Democracy, and Plebeianism: For a Political Conceptualization","authors":"José Maurício Domingues","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Oligarchy is back. That is, it has recently essayed to make a conceptual comeback because it has never disappeared from the way societies are ruled and, particularly and specifically in modernity, political life. What is it, though? Mostly it has remained untheorized or undertheorized in modernity, despite some critical approaches having mentioned it in connection to liberalism, such as Castoriadis’ (<span>1999</span>, 153ff), whereas others, within democratic liberalism, pointed to it as a stage in the development of liberalism that would have been already superseded, such as Santos (<span>2013</span>). This article precisely aims to engage with it in modernity and critically assess its relation to democracy, including its relation to plebeianism.</p><p>Since apparently the Persians, but more consistently with the Greeks and above all Aristotle, oligarchy entered the vocabulary of power and rule (or “government”), having a sort of half-life in Medieval times, when monarchical power and the papacy held center stage in the discussions about power. Oligarchy re-emerged in the Renaissance, for instance, in Machiavelli, and early modern thinking, including Montesquieu, but was eventually sidelined by a different sort of vocabulary in which the ancient tradition of “forms of rule” (or “government”) played no role. Yet the theories of “elites,” especially Mosca and Pareto, as well as liberal approaches, provided new names for this old phenomenon, which could not be entirely overlooked, actually hypostatizing it as a universal and inexorable phenomenon (Urbinati <span>2010</span>). Only here and there, with limited consequences, were such ideas resumed by modern thinkers. The state, representation, and other concepts took the place of the forms of rule within a new caesura regarding the discourse about power and the emergence of a specific dimension in modernity, the political one.</p><p>Despite the analysis of the oligarchization of the inner life of political parties as a distinctive phenomenon, particularly in Michels’ (<span>1911/2009</span>) classic work about the German Social Democratic Party (which refrains from discussing oligarchy as a form of government or rule), that is, as strictly political, oligarchy has primarily been understood according to Aristotle's (<span>1996</span>) definition, that is, as the self-oriented rule of the few. These are, in fact and at the same time, the rich—thus configuring a “plutocracy.” This is also McCormick's (<span>2011</span>) and Winters’ (<span>2011</span>) perspective, the main references for contemporary discussions, as well as that of other recent authors such as Arlen (<span>2019, 2023</span>), Vergara (<span>2020</span>), and Bagg (<span>2022</span>), as well as Kalyvas (<span>2019</span>), with an opposition between the oligarchy and the “poor.”1</p><p>Winters stresses that oligarchs are concerned with and dedicate themselves to the “defence of property,” which is based, differently from Rome, on ","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 2","pages":"245-254"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8675.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them","authors":"Mark Tushnet","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.70006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 4","pages":"703-705"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Oligarchy and Political Modernity: Conceptual Transformation and the Politics of Wealth","authors":"Andreas Kalyvas","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.70003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 2","pages":"201-211"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perception and Body: Walter Benjamin's Anthropological Materialist Theory of Myth","authors":"Michael Mango","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.70002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 2","pages":"298-309"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy. Lisa HerzogOxford University Press, 2024","authors":"Mark Theunissen","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12821","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 4","pages":"701-703"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity","authors":"Robyn Marasco","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12817","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 2","pages":"378-380"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Democratic Respect: Populism, Resentment and the Struggle for Recognition","authors":"Gabriela Rodrigues da Guia Rosa","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12814","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 4","pages":"698-700"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thinking Poetically and Thinking Politically—Arendt, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Arendt's Benjamin","authors":"Jacob Abolafia","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12820","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Hannah Arendt's 1968 remembrance “Walter Benjamin: 1892–1940” is a famous artifact of a famous friendship. Not only was Arendt Benjamin's friend, a witness to his final weeks, and a conduit for the survival of some of his most famous writings, but scholars of Arendt now frequently position her as a leading epigone of Benjamin's. Seyla Benhabib hails what she calls the “Benjaminian Arendt” and identifies Walter Benjamin as the “prime example” for Arendt's political methodology (Benhabib &lt;span&gt;2003&lt;/span&gt;, x–xi). Dana Villa writes that “it is the spirit of Benjamin … that informs [Arendt's] search for hidden treasures,” and that what she writes of Benjamin's “‘poetic’ thinking … applies equally well to her own thought” (Villa &lt;span&gt;1996&lt;/span&gt;, 9). The literature is rife with similar examples.1&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rather than a general introduction to Benjamin's life and thought, or evidence for Arendt's own Benjaminian tendencies, however, Arendt's essay is a polemical intervention in debates over Benjamin's political and intellectual orientation. The central thesis of the Benjamin essay is that Walter Benjamin “thought poetically.” Poetic thinking refers not only to Benjamin's literary style or use of metaphor, but to what Arendt argues is his fundamentally anti-political orientation to his role as an intellectual—an orientation Arendt thought he shared with another German philosopher, Martin Heidegger. According to Arendt, both Benjamin and Heidegger privilege withdrawal into poetic writing and philosophical thinking about the essence of being over the error-prone world of human action. But Arendt's depiction of Benjamin as a “poetic thinker,” while influential, does not do justice to his self-perception as a &lt;i&gt;political&lt;/i&gt; thinker. This essay hopes to enable a recovery of the political Benjamin. Benjamin, in contrast to Heidegger, never retreated from his early belief that the task of the scholar is to redeem the world of things (phenomena). His commitment to “thinking politically” is a useful contrast to the Arendtian category of political judgement as a practical rather than a theoretical matter. For Benjamin, the task of the thinker is a political task.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The paper begins by reconstructing Arendt's assertion that Benjamin, like Heidegger, “thought poetically.” The paper argues that Arendt's comparison of Benjamin and Heidegger is part of a broader late-career attempt to redefine and rehabilitate Heidegger as a poetic rather than political thinker. If Arendt's presentation of Benjamin reflects her ideas about Heidegger, then we must reconsider the prevalent dual genealogy of a Benjaminian and a Heideggerian influence on Arendt.2 The final section of the paper makes the argument for the significance of this repositioning of Arendt and Benjamin in relation to one another. Stripped of Arendt's influential “Heideggerian” interpretation, the insistently political nature of Benjamin's philosophical method emerges.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The idea that Hannah Arendt's wid","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 4","pages":"577-587"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8675.12820","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}