Welcome to Political Compositions, where political philosophers Gijs van Oenen & Jamie van der Klauw explore the last 250 years of political, social, and cultural philosophy.
Join us in confronting the foremost philosophers, movements and ideas, from past and present, which compose political philosophy today.
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#1 Romanticism
How do the imagination, Tristan and Isolde, and Jean Jacques Rousseau resonate? What is the relation between the Enlightenment and the Romantics of the 19th century? A...
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#7 Feminism
How do gender, the public-private distinction, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the aesthetics of the 1950s resonate? What are we speaking of when we say gender? Is the social...
#6 (Post) Structuralism
How do The masters of Suspicion, language, and Ferdinand de Saussure resonate? Why is being late a good philosophical idea? And is our thinking structured like a langu...
#5 The Culture Wars
How do Sex, Language and Madness resonate with philosophy? Is Derrida a Marxist? Or not? Or Both? And how can we understand the contemporary struggles over identity: T...
#4 Marxism
How do Karl Marx, Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, and the Frankfurter School Resonate? What are the spectres of Max? And can philosophy change the world for the better? The...
#3 Orientalism
How do Edward Said, the music of Johan Sebastian Bach, and Michel Foucault resonate? Who was Edward Said? How do our preconceptions of Orientalist representations dist...
