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New from Telos Press: Carl Schmitt’s State, Movement, People 01 Nov 2026
Now available! State, Movement, People: The Tripartite Structure of Political Unity , by Carl Schmitt. Order your copy today in our online store and save 20% by using the coupon code BOOKS20 . Also available in Kindle ebook format at Amazon.com . State, Movement, People The…
Telos 216 (Fall 2026): Dangers to Democracy 19 Oct 2026
Telos 216 (Fall 2026): Dangers to Democracy is now available for purchase in our store . Individual subscriptions to Telos are also available in both print and online formats. We are still living in the shadow of the eighteenth-century European Enlightenment, when the…
Call for Papers: Telos Special Issue on Wittfogel and Postliberal World Orders 04 Sep 2026
Karl Wittfogel’s 1957 magnum opus, Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power , came out at the peak of the Cold War. As a former Marxist, Wittfogel saw analysis of what he called “hydraulic despotism” in premodern Asian bureaucratic empires as of more than merely…
The Telos Press Podcast: Alvise Capria on Carl Schmitt in Contemporary Chinese Political Thought 25 Aug 2026
In today's episode of the Telos Press Podcast, Telos editor David Pan talks with Alvise Capria about his article " Sous l’œil des Chinois : The Reception of Carl Schmitt in Contemporary Chinese Political Thought," from Telos 215 (Summer 2026): China and Sovereignty . An excerpt…