Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon

About Adi M. OphirAnn Laura Stoler

J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His writings include The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (1992) Recovering Ethical Life: Jürgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory (1995) Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (2002) and Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (2006). His most recent book is Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury (2015). He is working on a manuscript with the tentative title Human Rights: On the Foundations of Ecological Socialism from which the essay in this volume is drawn. Adi M. Ophir is a Visiting Professor at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University and Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University. Among his works are Goy: Israels Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile coauthored with Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Oxford University Press 2018); Divine Violence: Two Essays on God and Disaster (The Van Leer Institute 2013); The One-State Condition coauthored with Ariella Azoulay (Stanford University Press 2012); and The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals (Zone 2005). Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research Founding Director of its Institute for Critical Social Inquiry since 2014 and one of the founding editors of Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon. Her books include Race and the Education of Desire (1995) Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power (2002) Along the Archival Grain (2009) and Duress (2016). Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He is author of Dream Nation: Enlightenment Colonization and the Institution of Modern Greece; Does Literature Think?: Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era; Lessons in Secular Criticism; and (Contingent Disorders). His most recent book is The Perils of the One. Gil Anidjar teaches in the Department of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University. He is currently completing a manuscript titled Sparta and Gaza: The Tradition of Destruction; sections of it have been published here and there. Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research Founding Director of its Institute for Critical Social Inquiry since 2014 and one of the founding editors of Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon. Her books include Race and the Education of Desire (1995) Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power (2002) Along the Archival Grain (2009) and Duress (2016). Adi M. Ophir is a Visiting Professor at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University and Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University. Among his works are Goy: Israels Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile coauthored with Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Oxford University Press 2018); Divine Violence: Two Essays on God and Disaster (The Van Leer Institute 2013); The One-State Condition coauthored with Ariella Azoulay (Stanford University Press 2012); and The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals (Zone 2005). Étienne Balibar is Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy at the Université de Paris X Nanterre; Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of California Irvine; and Anniversary Chair in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University London. His research in the fields of political moral and Marxist philosophy focuses on emancipation citizenship and on what he terms equaliberty. The breadth of his thought can be gauged from his published works from Reading Capital released in 1965 and coauthored with his mentor Louis Althusser to the more recent We the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (2003) Equaliberty (2014) Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy (2015) Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology (2017) and Secularism and Cosmopolitanism (2018). J. M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His writings include The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (1992) Recovering Ethical Life: Jürgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory (1995) Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (2002) and Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (2006). His most recent book is Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury (2015). He is working on a manuscript with the tentative title Human Rights: On the Foundations of Ecological Socialism from which the essay in this volume is drawn. Jacques Lezra is Distinguished Professor in the Departments of English and Hispanic Studies at the University of California Riverside. His most recent publications are República salvaje (2019) On the Nature of Marxs Things (2018) Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought (2017) and Contra todos los fueros de la Muerte (2016).