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Thinking the political

A new issue of the International Journal of Zizek Studies is out. C.G. Bateman (UBC): Sovereignty's Missing Moral Imperative. From the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, a special issue on the work of Eric Santner, author of The Royal Remains: The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty. A review of Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala. From the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, Joseph Spencer reviews Dialectics and Contemporary Politics: Critique and Transformation from Hegel through Post-Marxism by John Grant; Bryan Smyth reviews The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives; and Guy Lancaster reviews The Apprentice’s Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism by Ishay Landa. Georgia Warnke reviews Reason, Tradition and the Good: MacIntyre's Tradition-Constituted Reason and Frankfurt School Critical Theory by Jeffery L. Nicholas. The Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics is hosting a conference on “Thinking the political: The work of Ernesto Laclau” from April 10 to April 12, 2013.