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Shifting Currents

Alberto Toscano on Pierre Dardot, Haud Guéguen, Christian Laval and Pierre Sauvêtre, Le choix de la guerre civile. Neoliberal rule as coercion, from Santiago to Paris.

A Structuralism of Feeling?

Frédéric Lordon’s work combines an elite business-school training with a radical Regulation Theory background, highly effective polemics against the hardening economic and neo-imperial orders in France and the Eurozone with an ambitious social-philosophical agenda. Alberto Toscano investigates.

The Spectre of Analogy

Alberto Toscano on Luciano Canfora, L’uso politico dei paradigmi storici. Dissection of the uses of historical analogy, from Thucydides to Furet.

Sovereign Impunity

Alberto Toscano on Danilo Zolo, La giustizia dei vincitori: Da Norimberga a Baghdad. A Florentine legal scholar traces the postwar development of a system of punitive international law, and its 1990s deployment by the West to impose ‘victors’ justice’.