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Critical Theory for Practical Problems

Asymmetrical Warfare: The Centrality of the Political to the Strategic

The 2017 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute ConferenceJanuary 14–15, 2017

New York, NY

Unconventional, nontraditional, or more precisely asymmetrical warfare has become the pervasive reality for the modern world. All realistic prognoses compellingly suggest it will remain so throughout the twenty-first century. The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernadino were no temporary aberration, or incidents of domestic political violence, but part of an increasingly normative pattern of asymmetrical warfare against the West. These events are inextricably related to the unconventional warfare and terrorism characterized by the conflicts extending from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria to Africa. The 2017 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute conference will examine the “centrality of the political” in the context of the nature, problems, and long-term implications of asymmetrical warfare.

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Democracy and Secular SectarianismThe 2016 Telos India Conference

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, IndiaNovember 17–18, 2016

Democracy has manifold meanings, depending on the context. At the 2016 Telos India Conference, the discussion will focus on new forms of sectarianism that have emerged as part of democratic and progressive politics in India, but also including coverage of related experiences in other countries. Topics will include: the wedge between Dalits and left politics; Dalits and a critique of identity politics; politics of secular sectarianism; left and sectarian classism; feminist and secular sectarianism; the limits of minority-ism; religious minorities and the ghettoization of politics; nationality struggles and chauvinism: the case of Kashmir; nationality struggles and chauvinism: the case of Nagaland; and affirmative action and misrecognition.

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Land and Sea: A World-Historical Meditationby Carl SchmittTranslated by Samuel Garrett Zeitlin. Edited and with Introductions by Russell A. Berman and Samuel Garrett Zeitlin

Originally published at the height of the Second World War, Land and Sea recounts Carl Schmitt’s view of world history “as a history of the battles of sea powers against land powers.” Schmitt leads us from the Peloponnesian War to European colonial expansion, while polemically setting Nazi Germany as a continental land power against Britain and the United States as its maritime enemies. In addition, Schmitt offers his interpretations of the rise of Venice, piracy, “corsair capitalism,” the spatial revolution of European colonial expansion, and the rise of the British Empire.

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Sturmby Ernst JüngerTranslated by Alexis P. Walker. Edited and with an Introduction by David Pan

Set in 1916 in the days before the Somme offensive, Ernst Jünger’s Sturm provides a vivid portrait of the front-line experiences of four German infantry officers and their company. This translation—the first to be published in English—brings to the English-speaking world a work of literature of interest not only to students of Jünger’s work and of World War I, but to any reader in search of a powerful story of war and its effects on the lives of the men who endure it.

Eumeswilby Ernst JüngerTranslated by Joachim Neugroschel. Edited and with an Introduction by Russell A. Berman

Ostensibly a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, Eumeswil is a comprehensive synthesis of Jünger’s mature thought, with a particular focus on new and achievable forms of individual freedom in a technologically monitored and managed postmodern world. Here Jünger first fully develops his figure of the anarch, the inwardly liberated and outwardly pragmatic individual, who lives peacefully in the heart of Leviathan while preserving his individuality and freedom.

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Ostensibly a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, Eumeswil is a comprehensive synthesis of Jünger’s mature thought, with a particular focus on new and achievable forms of individual freedom in a technologically monitored and managed post-modern world. At once a study of accommodation to tyranny and a libertarian vision of individual freedom, Eumeswil continues to speak to the contradictions and possibilities inherent in our twenty-first-century condition.

Sturmby Ernst JüngerTranslated by Alexis P. Walker Edited and with an Introduction by David Pan

Set in 1916 in the days before the Somme offensive, Ernst Jünger’s Sturm provides a vivid portrait of the front-line experiences of four German infantry officers and their company. This translation—the first to be published in English—brings to the English-speaking world a work of literature of interest not only to students of Jünger’s work and of World War I, but to any reader in search of a powerful story of war and its effects on the lives of the men who endure it.

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In Nature Unbound, authors Randy Simmons, Ryan Yonk, and Kenneth Sim offer a devastating critique of federal environmental policy by showing how ineffective or wasteful command-and-control regulation has burdened, not helped, the environment. Applying bold principles, they align incen-tives with goals, rethink environmental objectives, and show how human beings are an integral part of the natural order and merit no less consideration than Earth’s other treasures. In turn, Nature Unbound offers creative solutions for restoring natural resources and revitalizing our social and political ecosystem.

Randy T Simmons is Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor of Economics, Utah State University.Ryan M. Yonk is Research Fellow at the Independent Institute.Kenneth J. Sim is Director of the Reliable Energy Education Network.

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“Read Nature Unbound and learn the diverse ways in which organized interest groups, and prominent individuals, have sought to impose their idealizations of nature as ecological equilibrium on the rest of us. There is no such thing as nature undisturbed, and bureaucratic bad management is often the unintended consequence of our limited knowledge of ecosystem complexity. Improvement, if attainable, must be more marginal, more decentralized.” —Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences; Argyros Endowed Chair in Finance and Economics, Chapman University

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Nature UnboundBureaucracy vs. the EnvironmentRandy T Simmons, Ryan M. Yonk, and Kenneth J. Sim

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Land and SeaA World-Historical Meditationby Carl SchmittTranslated by Samuel Garrett ZeitlinEdited and with Introductions by Russell A. Berman and Samuel Garrett Zeitlin

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Now available at telospress.com

Originally published at the height of the Second World War, Land and Sea recounts Carl Schmitt’s view of world history “as a history of the battle of sea powers against land powers.” Schmitt leads us from the Peloponnesian War to European colonial expansion, while polemically setting Nazi Germany as a continental land power against Britain and the United States as its maritime enemies. In addition, Schmitt of-fers his interpretations of the rise of Venice, piracy, “corsair capitalism,” the spatial revolution of European colonial expansion, and the rise of the British Empire.

Praise for Carl Schmitt’s Land and Sea“With its fable-like quality, philosophical tone, and deep historical orientation, Land and Sea is one of Schmitt’s most powerful and evocative works. A profound meditation on the forces shaping twentieth-century history, it challenges us to think anew about the possibilities (and risks) of our global future.”—David Bates, Professor of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

“Berman and Zeitlin must be commended for making this astounding work available to English-speaking audiences in such an impeccably translated and annotated form for the first time.”—John P. McCormick, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago