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Dialectical thinking

From Ctheory, Simon Glezos (Victoria): Creative Destruction versus Restrictive Practices: Deleuze, Schumpeter and Capitalism's Uneasy Relationship with Technical Innovation; and a sonic economy: Life in its truest form is a "kind of music," made up of immanent and material relationships between dispersed phenomena. Francis Fukuyama reviews Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Julian Young. A review of books on Heidegger. Chalk and the abyss: The secret transcripts of Heidegger's notorious seminar "On the Essence and Concepts of Nature, History and the State" have been published for the first time. A review of Who Was Jacques Derrida? An Intellectual Biography by David Mikics. A review of Derrida, An Egyptian: On the problem of the Jewish Pyramid by Peter Sloterdijk. A review of Foucault and the Government of Disability. A review of Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation by Peter Sloterdijk. A review of The Charmed Circle of Ideology by Geoff Boucher. A review of Christ in Postmodern Philosophy: Gianni Vattimo, Rene Girard and Slavoj Zizek by Frederiek Depoortere. From Red Pepper, a review of Violence by Slavoj Zizek; a review of Commonwealth by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri; and a review of The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee. A terrorist theory of the state: Alan Johnson on Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek and the new authoritarian Marxism (and part 2). A review of From Marxism to Post-Marxism? by Goran Therborn. Must anti-capitalism necessarily involve dialectical thinking? Mark Fisher engages with Fredric Jameson's monumental effort to resurrect discredited dialectics, Valences of the Dialectic. A review of The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques Ranciere. A review of Adorno’s Concept of Life by Alastair Morgan.