Summer 2024 readings: The Right for the Left

( • required / + recommended readings)

Week 1 | June 8, 2024

• Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence (1908/19)
+ Sorel, "The decomposition of Marxism" (1908)

• Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (1932) including "The age of neutralizations and depoliticizations" (1929)
+ Schmitt, "Political theology" Chapter 3 of Political Theology (1922/34)
+ Schmitt, Chapters 3-6 of Dictatorship (1921)
+ Schmitt, "Dictatorship in Marxist thought" Chapter 3 of The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (1923/26)

• James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution (1941)

• Burnham, The Machiavellians (1943)

• Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (1963)

• Arendt, On Violence (1969)
+ Arendt, selections from Origins of Totalitarianism (1951/58)

• Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985)