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Chinese Conceptions of the West: Theses on a Central Concept of the Present
As part of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s five-year China Initiative, Telos Insights will be publishing a series of essays in Chinese, with English summaries attached.
Detail of Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (1602), a world map by Matteo Ricci a...
No Path Back to Normalcy: Žižek, Schmitt, and the Path to Popular Sovereignty in Iran
Photo: Ali Yaghoubi via Unsplash
On March 9, 2026, ten days into the military campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Slavoj Žižek denounced the warring parties with these words: “The US, itself a de facto colony of Israel, serially...
Call for Papers: Deus et Machina: Technology, Politics, and Theology in the Age of AI
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstract submissions due October 30, 2026
The 2027 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Annual Conference
March 19–20, 2027
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY
New York, NY
Deus et...
Between China and the West: The Sinicization of Sociology and the Approaches of Early Chinese Social Science Research
As part of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s five-year China Initiative, Telos Insights is publishing a series of essays in Chinese, with brief topical summaries in English at the start of each text.
Wu Wenzao (c. late 1920s)
Summar...
The Populist Left: Against the Nation, Soft on Antisemitism
Image: Vilkasss via Pixabay
“In my view, the leading tendency of our time is the conflict between two principles, that of monarchy and that of popular sovereignty,” said the German historian Leopold von Ranke in 1854.1
Today, 172 years la...
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