Critical Theory: The Podcast

The philosopher Étienne Balibar reads and discusses with Bernard E. Harcourt Marx’s last texts (The Critique of the Gotha Program (1875), Conspectus of Bakunin’s Statism and Anarchy (1874), and Letters to Vera Zasulich (1881)) at Marx 13/13 @Columbia in Paris. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/13-13/ The full-length introduction to Marx 13/13 is here: https://tinyurl.com/IntroMarx1...

Bernard E. Harcourt introduces the final session of the Marx 13/13 seminars on the Late Marx (Critique of the Gotha Program (1875), Conspectus of Bakunin’s Statism and Anarchy (1874), and Letters to Vera Zasulich (1881)) with the philosopher Étienne Balibar @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/13-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 11/13 is here: https://tinyurl....

Bernard E. Harcourt introduces the Marx 12/13 seminar on Marx’s The Civil War in France, in conversation with Voltairine de Cleyre’s “The Commune is Risen” and Plotino Rhodakanaty’s “The American Commune,” with Bruno Bosteels @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/12-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 11/13 is here: https://tinyurl.com/IntroMarx1213 The video reco...

Bernard E. Harcourt introduces the Marx 11/13 seminar on the Late Marx in conversation with Kohei Saito and his manifesto for degrowth communism, *Slow Down* (2020) @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/11-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 11/13 is here: https://tinyurl.com/IntroMarx1113 The video recording of the seminar Marx 11/13 with Kohei Saito is here: htt...

The philosopher Cornel West reads and discusses Marx's Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) and Capital (1867), in conversation with Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/10-13/ The full-length introduction to Marx 10/13 is here: https://tinyurl.com/IntroMarx1013 The video recording of the seminar Marx 10/13 with Cornel Wes...

The philosophers Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra read and discuss with Bernard E. Harcourt Marx’s Grundrisse and Toni Negri's Marx Beyond Marx at Marx 9/13 @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/9-13/ Wednesday March 5, 2025 at Columbia University. The full text of the introduction to Marx 9/13 is here: https://tinyurl.com/IntroMarx913 Information about Marx 13/13: https://...

Bernard E. Harcourt introduces Marx 10/13 on Marx's Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) and Capital (1867), in conversation with Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism, with the philosopher Cornel West @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/10-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 9/13 is here: https://tinyurl.com/IntroMarx1013 The video recording of th...

Bernard E. Harcourt introduces Marx 9/13 on Marx's Grundrisse and Toni Negri's Marx Beyond Marx, with the philosophers Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/9-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 9/13 is here: https://tinyurl.com/IntroMarx913 The video recording of the seminar Marx 9/13 with Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra is her...

Seyla Benhabib presents a keynote lecture for Marx 13/13 @columbia on Hannah Arendt's reading and critique of Marx. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/seyla-benhabib-on-hannah-arendts-reading-of-marx/ Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at Columbia University in the City of New York. Information about Marx 13/13: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/ Information on the 13/13 series: https://c...

Bernard E. Harcourt and guests, W.J.T. Mitchell, Kendall Thomas, Michaela Soyer, and others, read and discuss Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Engels' Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany 1848, in conversation with Herbert Marcuse's Counterrevolution and Revolt (1972) @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/8-13/ Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at Col...

Bernard E. Harcourt introduces Marx 7/13 on Marx's Class Struggles in France 1848-1850 and W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880, with the philosopher Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/7-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 7/13 is here: https://tinyurl.com/IntroMarx713 The video recording of the seminar Marx 7/13...

Bernard E. Harcourt introduces Marx 8/13 on Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Engels' Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany 1848, in conversation with Herbert Marcuse's Counterrevolution and Revolt (1972) @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/8-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 7/13 is here: https://tinyurl.com/IntroMarx813 The video r...

The philosophers Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser read and discuss with Bernard E. Harcourt Marx and Engels' The Communist Manifesto and Lenin's April Theses @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/6-13/ Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at Columbia University in the City of New York. For a full introduction to Marx 6/13: https://tinyurl.com/IntroMarx613 Informat...

Bernard E. Harcourt introduces Marx 6/13 on Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto and Lenin's April Theses, with the philosophers Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser, authors of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Verso, 20190) @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/6-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 6/13 is here: https://tinyurl.com/IntroMarx...

Bernard E. Harcourt introduces Marx 5/13 on Marx and Engels’ The German Ideology and Monique Wittig’s The Category of Sex, with the philosopher Jules Joanne Gleeson @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/5-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 5/13 is here: https://tinyurl.com/IntroMarx513 The video recording of the seminar Marx 5/13 with Jules Gleeson is here: TBD I...

Bernard E. Harcourt introduces Marx 4/13 on Marx’s 1844 Paris Manuscripts and Jacques Lacan's 1958 seminar on Formations of the Unconscious, with the philosopher Renata Salecl @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/4-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 4/13 is here: https://the1313.law.columbia.edu/2024/11/25/bernard-e-harcourt-on-marxs-paris-manuscripts-of-1844-ja...

Bernard E. Harcourt introduces Marx 3/13 on Marx’s 1844 articles on the Critique of Hegel and "On the Jewish Question" and Claude Lefort's commentary in "Human Rights and Politics," with the critical theorist Jean Louise Cohen @Columbia. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/3-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 3/13 is here: https://the1313.law.columbia.edu/2024/11/08/berna...

This is the Marx 2/13 seminar with philosopher Judith Revel and Bernard E. Harcourt on Marx’s 1842 articles on the Debates on the Law on the Thefts of Wood and Michel Foucault's 1973 lectures on The Punitive Society @CGCParis. Read more here: marx1313.law.columbia.edu/2-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 2/13 is here: the1313.law.columbia.edu/2024... The video recording of Marx 2/13 wi...

This is the seminar Marx 1/13 with the philosopher Etienne Balibar and Bernard E. Harcourt on Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach and Ernst Bloch’s Commentary from The Principle of Hope @CGCParis. Read more here: marx1313.law.columbia.edu/1-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 1/13 is here: the1313.law.columbia.edu/2024... The video recording of the seminar Marx 1/13 with Étienne Balibar can be w...

Bernard E. Harcourt introduces Marx 2/13 on Marx’s 1842 articles on the Debates on the Law on the Thefts of Wood and Michel Foucault's 1973 lectures on The Punitive Society, with the philosopher Judith Revel @CGCParis. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/2-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 2/13 is here: https://the1313.law.columbia.edu/2024... The video recording of Marx...

Bernard E. Harcourt introduces Marx 1/13 on Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach and Ernst Bloch’s Commentary from The Principle of Hope, with the philosopher Étienne Balibar @CGCParis. Read more here: https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu/1-13/ The full text of this introduction to Marx 1/13 is here: https://the1313.law.columbia.edu/2024... The video recording of the seminar Marx 1/13 with Étienne Balibar can...

Bernard E. Harcourt introduces the new seminar series Marx 13/13. This seminar series is part of the "13/13 Seminars" hosted by the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University. Information about Marx 13/13 is available at https://marx1313.law.columbia.edu.

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Courte présentation par Prof. Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia University/EHESS) pour le lancement de la nouvelle édition du livre, *Nietzsche. Cours, conférences et travaux* (Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, 2024) de Michel Foucault, paru aujourd'hui, le 31 mai 2024.

Lecture (in French) of Professor Bernard E. Harcourt at the Collège de France in Paris, France, on the topic of "Abolition and Cooperation," on May 21, 2024. The lecture develops chapter 6 of Harcourt's book *Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory* (Columbia University Press, 2023)