Europe is Dead…Long Live Europe?

Etienne Balibar announces the death of the European Project. Does anyone disagree?

Balibar’s pronouncement reminded me of a paragraph in Jean-Paul Sartre’s introduction to Frantz Fanon’s Les Damnés de la Terre (1961), Sarte writes:

“When a Frenchman, for example, says to another, Frenchman: “We’re finished” – which, to my knowledge, has [...]

ceci n’est pas une apologie

Working Conditions Have Grown Increasingly Difficult For Many Philosophers

Some posts ago – “Shaming and Naming” – I discussed the threat of cuts to the distinguished philosophy department at Kings College London. More recently I implored you to participate in whatever way possible in the campaign to save the philosophy department at Middlesex University. [...]

“If solidarity goes, Europe goes.”

Here is a link to Roger Cohen’s op-ed in Tuesday’s NY Times on European Solidarity or lack thereof.

Here are a few remarks:

I think that while reading the complaints about Greece’s overly generous welfare state that currently abound in the Anglophone and German media (though I am not saying that this is all there is to [...]

The War on Philosophy!

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

As some of you may have already been made aware, on April 26 Middlesex University in the United Kingdom abruptly announced that it would shut down all of its philosophy programmes effective immediately. Middlesex’s Philosophy programmes are very highly regarded both in the United Kingdom and internationally. Middlesex’s Centre for Research in Modern European [...]