A new issue of the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy is out, including a review of The New French Philosophy by Ian James. Mirja Banninger (Arctic University of Norway): Liberal Imperialism or Where Good Conscience Slumbers: Juxtaposing the Liberal Peace with the Philosophical Approaches of Levinas and Derrida. From SPECS: A Journal of Arts and Culture, was Derrida a party-pooper? Christian Hite on party-crashing in Specters of Marx and The Great Gatsby — or some partial notes on the Hol(e)y (G)host. Ignaas Devisch and Christopher Parker (Ghent): Democraziness: Reading Claude Lefort in Baghdad. Libcom.org publishes a three volume selection of Cornelius Castoriadis' political writings from a combined period of 1946-1979. Alain Badiou in Southern California: Ronjaunee Chatterjee on a politics of the impossible. Rodrigo Cordero (Diego Portales): The Persistence of Crisis: Critical Theory and the Politics of Truth in Marx and Foucault. From Foucault Studies, a special issue on ethnographies of neoliberal governmentalities, including Jacob Segal (KBCC): Michel Foucault and Michael Oakeshott: The Virtuosity of Individuality. Foucault, put to the question: Jonathan Ree reviews Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice by Michel Foucault. Anna Shechtman, Peter Raccuglia and Susan Morrow on Foucault’s risks. Can we criticize Foucault? Late in life, Michel Foucault developed a curious sympathy for neoliberalism. The introduction to Camus, Philosophe? by Matthew Sharpe. You can download The Guattari Effect, ed. Eric Alliez and Andrew Goffey (2011).
