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Donate to the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Support our mission by making a tax-deductible contribution to the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute. Visit our website at www.telosinstitute.net/donate/ for complete details. Visit us online at www.telosinstitute.net for more information about upcoming events and calls for papers. Sacrifice: Biological and Theological Investigations for Economic and Military/Political Praxis—Conceptualizations, Categories, Applications, and Abuses The Third Biennial Telos in Europe Conference Humboldt University-Berlin, Theologische Fakultät, Berlin, Germany June 16–17, 2016 The concept of sacrifice has played a foundational, organizing role in nearly all human cultures. Central to theology, the political/military imaginary, economic systems, and personal identity/responsibility, it has inspired, disturbed, and abused. Indeed, current research envisions sacrifice as, at one end of the spectrum, the benighted bane of civilization that tricks people into abusive situations and which modern democracies should shed and at the other, as civilization’s linchpin, necessary for the flourishing of the common good, which we need foster in our educational and societal institutions. This “working” conference, bringing together a small interdisciplinary, international group of scholars, aims at prodding new turns in research in the evolutionary, theological, politico-military, economic, and social facets of sacrifice. Visit us at www.telosinstitute.net/berlin2016/ for more details about the conference. Critical Theory for Practical Problems Asymmetrical Warfare: The Centrality of the Political to the Strategic The 2017 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Conference January 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. Visit us at www.telosinstitute.net/conference2017/ for more details about the conference.
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Donate to the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute
Support our mission by making a tax-deductible contribution to the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute. Visit our website at www.telosinstitute.net/donate/ for complete details.
Visit us online at www.telosinstitute.net for more information about upcoming events and calls for papers.
Sacrifice: Biological and Theological Investigations for Economic and Military/Political Praxis—Conceptualizations, Categories,
Applications, and AbusesThe Third Biennial Telos in Europe Conference
Humboldt University-Berlin, Theologische Fakultät, Berlin, GermanyJune 16–17, 2016
The concept of sacrifice has played a foundational, organizing role in nearly all human cultures. Central to theology, the political/military imaginary, economic systems, and personal identity/responsibility, it has inspired, disturbed, and abused. Indeed, current research envisions sacrifice as, at one end of the spectrum, the benighted bane of civilization that tricks people into abusive situations and which modern democracies should shed and at the other, as civilization’s linchpin, necessary for the flourishing of the common good, which we need foster in our educational and societal institutions. This “working” conference, bringing together a small interdisciplinary, international group of scholars, aims at prodding new turns in research in the evolutionary, theological, politico-military, economic, and social facets of sacrifice.
Visit us at www.telosinstitute.net/berlin2016/ for more details about the conference.
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.
Visit us at www.telosinstitute.net/conference2017/ for more details about the conference.
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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.
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