Dialectical thinking. The politics of theory? The theory of politics? The Political Philosophy and Theory group aims to interpret current and historical socio political events through existential, social psychological and philosophical lenses. Broader socio-philosophical critique and analysis is also welcomed provided its focus is theoretical rather than polemical. Discussion of current geo political issues (the M.E, the U.N, Eastern, Western political practice etc) is always welcome, but excessively polemical posters will be moderated.

So up for discussion: Plato and Aristotle, Machiavelli and Marx, Hegel and Heidegger, Weber and Wittgenstein, Sartre and de Sade, Nietzsche and nihilism, Fromm and Foucault, Heidegger and Habermas, feminism and Freud, Beauvoir and the Beauty Myth.

Key words: political, theory, critical theory, post-modernism, enlightenment, dialectical thinking.

Files, links, calls for papers and conference notification are welcome.