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21st-Century Marxisms
Curator
Recent efforts in Marxist theory attempt to understand the origins of today’s debt- and finance-based economy, without neglecting its social and cultural aspects.
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Interview
Interview with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
By
Marisa Galvez

On "the inspiring resistance that the [Middle Ages] imposes on us, and the hermeneutic difficulty—maybe even the impossibility—of accessing medieval culture."

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Intervention
Elena Ferrante's Run-ons
By
Christopher Warley

Her run-on sentences are the mechanism for producing a distinctive reality effect. They deny, at the micro-level, any logical cohesion or narrative arc or life story, even as they are part of a retrospective narration whose end is never really in doubt.

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Journal Article
Towards a Grammar of Emergency
By
Hal Foster

The Swiss-born artist Thomas Hirschhorn builds from the bad new days, not the good old ones, as Bertolt Brecht urged us all to do. This is so because Hirschhorn aims to confront the present, which, in his idiom, is also to ‘agree’ with it.

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Allegorical Figure of Faith by Giovanni Battista Gaulli
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Image "Allegorical Figure of Faith" by Giovanni Battista Gaulli; Graphic Design by Sheena Lai
Intervention
Ratzinger on Epistemology and History
By
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Was Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, more of a “Franciscan” than the Jesuit Bergolio, Pope Francisco?

One key to Ratzinger's world is his study of St Bonaventure, the 7th Franciscan General at a time when radical Joachimite spirituals had taken over the Franciscan order in the 1200s. Ratzinger offered a study of this age and Bonaventure in Die Geschichtstheologie des heiligen Bonaventura (The Historical Theology of Saint Bonaventure) (Munich 1959). In it, Ratzinger argued, like Bonaventure, against "Modernity."

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