Articles by Jacob Collins

• An Anthropological Turn?
  • Jacob Collins

  in NLR 78, November-December 2012, pp. 31-60
  Subjects: Anthropology , France
  

  Alongside the familiar pathways of French post-structuralist thought, Jacob Collins detects an alternative trajectory in the work of four thinkers whose allegiances span the political spectrum. The return to ethnographical concepts of social belonging—fraternity, family, faith—amid the multiple crises of the 1970s.

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• A Metaphysics of Democracy
  • Jacob Collins

  in NLR 74, March-April 2012, pp. 145-154
  Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , France , Political Theory and Strategy
  

  Jacob Collins on Marcel Gauchet, L’avènement de la démocratie, t. III. Europe’s age of catastrophe as struggle between religious and secular political logics, in the vision of a sotto voce liberal.

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• Link Arms!
  • Jacob Collins

  in NLR 64, July-August 2010, pp. 131-138
  Subjects: France
  

  Jacob Collins on Régis Debray, Le moment fraternité. Reimagining the third figure of the republican trinity in the age of the videosphere.

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  Also available in Spanish