PHILOSOPHY P H NATIONS I L O Éric Alliez This second volume in a new EDITED BY AriellA AzoulAy series of books from the S AUSTIN GROSS archive of the British journal Étienne BAliBAr MATT HARE O Radical Philosophy reflects upon Boris Buden MARIE LOUISE KROGH the seemingly inextricable HowArd cAygill P connection of philosophy – simon critcHley in Europe and beyond – to H PHiliP derBysHire discourses of the nation: its AnnA-sABine ernst shifting historical meanings Y and functions, implications Peter HAllwArd and consequences, political Axel HonnetH significance and limits. gerwin Klinger The editors, Austin Gross, N lyndA neAd MAtt HAre & MArie Louise KroGH, are PhD candidates omedi ocHieng A in the Centre for Research in Peter osBorne Modern European Philosophy T Anson rABinBAcH (CRMEP), Kingston University I JonAtHAn rÉe London. O Bill scHwArz JoHn sellArs N corneliA sorABJi S essays from the isBn 978-1-9162292-2-8 radical philosophy archive 9 781916 229228 PHILOSOPHY & NATIONS PHILOSOPHY & NATIONS Essays from the Radical Philosophy Archive volume 2 edited by Austin Gross MAtt HAre MArie Louise KroGH Published in 2020 by Radical Philosophy Archive www.radicalphilosophyarchive.com isbn 978-1-9162292-2-8 (pbk) isbn 978-1-9162292-3-5 (ebook) The electronic version of this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC-BYNC-ND). For more information, please visit creativecommons.org. The right of the contributors to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 Designed and typeset in Calluna by illuminati, Grosmont Cover design by Lucy Morton at illuminati Printed by Short Run Press Ltd (Exeter) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Contents introduction Philosophy and nations Austin GRoss, mAtt HARe & mARie louise KRoGH 3 PhilosoPhy year Zero 1 The German as pariah: Karl Jaspers and the question of German guilt Anson RAbinbAcH 17 2 Socialist Socrates: Ernst Bloch in the GDR AnnA-sAbine eRnst & GeRwin KlinGeR 42 3 Ethnic war in Bosnia? coRneliA soRAbji 75 4 Actually existing postcolonialism bill scHwARz 85 5 Children of postcommunism boRis buden 106 deciPhering revolutions 6 Lenin and Gandhi: A missed encounter? Étienne bAlibAR 125 7 The will of the people: Notes towards a dialectical voluntarism PeteR HAllwARd 144 8 The absent philosopher-prince: Thinking political philosophy with Olympe de Gouges ARiellA AzoulAy 172 national historiograPhies 9 English philosophy in the fifties jonAtHAn RÉe 199 10 The erotics of deference PeteR osboRne 245 11 Philosophy in Germany simon cRitcHley & Axel HonnetH 254 12 What is – or what is not – contemporary French philosophy, today? ÉRic Alliez 280 13 The African intellectual: Hountondji and after omedi ocHienG 301 14 Andeanizing philosophy: Rodolfo Kusch and indigenous thought PHiliP deRbysHiRe 330 out of Place 15 Framing and freeing: Utopias of the female body lyndA neAd 353 16 From Abstraction to Wunsch: The Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies HowARd cAyGill 362 17 Deleuze’s Stoic cosmopolitanism joHn sellARs 372 souRces 389 imAGe cRedits 389 index 390 ESSAYS FROM THE RADICAL PHILOSOPHY ARCHIVE series editor Peter Osborne This new series of books from the archive of the first 200 issues of the British journal Radical Philosophy (1972–2016) offers thematic selections of articles on topics that continue to innervate theoretical and political debates on the Left. volume 1 Critique & Betrayal ed. Austin Gross, Matt Hare & Marie Louise Krogh volume 2 Philosophy & Nations ed. Austin Gross, Matt Hare & Marie Louise Krogh FortHcoMinG volume 3 Societies of Assessment ed. Austin Gross, Matt Hare & Marie Louise Krogh volume 4 Philosophies of War ed. Mark Neocleous www.radicalphilosophyarchive.com Previous anthologies from Radical Philosophy Spheres of Action: Art and Politics (2013) ed. Éric Alliez & Peter Osborne Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity (2002) ed. Peter Osborne & Stella Sandford A Critical Sense: Interviews with Intellectuals (1996) ed. Peter Osborne Socialism, Feminism and Philosophy: A Radical Philosophy Reader (1990) ed. Peter Osborne & Sean Sayers Radical Philosophy Reader (1985) ed. Roy Edgley & Richard Osborne