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The Impossible Machine
Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission back to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of the TRC's legal, political, and cultural importance. The TRC's genius, Sitze contends, is not the substitution of \"forgiving\" restorative justice for \"strict\" legal justice but rather the innovative adaptation of colonial law, sovereignty, and government. However, this approach also contains a potential liability: if the TRC's origins are forgotten, the very enterprise intended to overturn the jurisprudence of colonial rule may perpetuate it. In sum, Sitze proposes a provocative new means by which South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be understood and evaluated.
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Thou shalt not kill
In this fascinating and rare little book, a leading Italian feminist philosopher and the Archbishop of Milan face off over the contemporary meaning of the biblical commandment not to kill. The result is a series of erudite and wide-ranging arguments that move from murder and suicide to just war and drone strikes, from bioethics and biopolitics to hermeneutics and philology, from Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer to Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, from Torah and Scripture to art and literature, from the essence of human dignity and the paradoxes of fratricide to engagements with Levinasian ethics. Less a direct debate than a disputation in the classical sense, Thou Shalt Not Kill proves to be a searching meditation on one of the unstated moral premises shared by otherwise bitterly opposed political factions. It will stimulate the mind of the novice while also reminding more advanced readers of the necessity and desirability of thinking in the present.
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Academic Unfreedom, Unacademic Freedom
Sitze discusses the affair in which the American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray was unwelcomed by Middlebury College students and faculty. At a moment of US history characterized by high levels of political polarization, intellectuals from both the left and the right combined in a chorus of denunciation, harmonizing around two interrelated arguments. The first, juridical in character, was that protesting Middlebury students neither understood nor respected the basic principles of free speech as set forth in the First Amendment. The second, drawn from political theory, was that they neither understood nor respected the basic concept of public debate as set forth in J. S. Mill's 1859 essay \"On Liberty.\"
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Academic Unfreedom, Unacademic Freedom
On Mar 6, at a moment when commentaries on the Middlebury affair had reached fever pitch, around a third of the Middlebury faculty signed and endorsed a document called \"Free Inquiry on Campus: A Statement of Principles by over One Hundred Middlebury College Professors,\" which was published the next day in the Wall Street Journal. As a defense of academic freedom, it is a peculiar document, to say the least. It's best described as a highly condensed version of the dominant doctrine of academic freedom (comprised of a partial interpretation of the First Amendment and summaries of Millian libertarianism), which its signatories present as \"unassailable.\" Here, Sitze presents the second part of his article about the Middlebury affair.
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The Paralysis in Criticism
This essay outlines the concept of life that operates as the problematic of Herbert Marcuse’s critical theory. After raising a series of questions about Marcuse’s 1964 One-Dimensional Man, it responds to those questions by turning to Marcuse’s 1932 book Hegel’s Ontology and the Theory of Historicity, which it reads as part of Marcuse’s dispute with Martin Heidegger. The essay concludes by showing that Marcuse’s work revolves around an antithesis to life that is neither death nor unlivability, but paralysis.1
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