Telos (journal)
Discipline | Politics, philosophy, critical theory, culture |
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Language | English |
Edited by | David Pan |
Publication details | |
History | 1968–present |
Publisher | Telos Press Publishing |
Frequency | Quarterly |
0.065 (2013) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Telos |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 0090-6514 |
LCCN | 73641746 |
OCLC no. | 1785433 |
Links | |
Telos is a quarterly, independent peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes articles on politics, philosophy, and critical theory, with a particular focus on contemporary political, social, and cultural issues.[1][2][3][4]
Established in May 1968 by Paul Piccone with the intention of providing the New Left with a coherent theoretical perspective, the journal, which has long considered itself heterodox, has been described as turning to the right politically beginning in the 1980s.[2][5][6]
The journal's masthead lists its editor as David Tse-Chien Pan and its editor emeritus as Russell A. Berman.[7]
History
[edit]Telos was founded by Paul Piccone in May 1968 at SUNY-Buffalo.[1][2] The journal sought to expand the Husserlian diagnosis of "the crisis of European sciences" to prefigure a particular program of social reconstruction relevant for the United States. In order to avoid the high level of abstraction typical of Husserlian phenomenology, the journal began introducing the ideas of Western Marxism and of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School.[8][9][10]
With the disintegration of the New Left and the gradual integration of what remained of the American Left within the Democratic Party,[citation needed] Telos became increasingly critical of the Left in general. It subsequently undertook a reevaluation of 20th century intellectual history, focusing on authors and ideas including the Nazi legal philosopher Carl Schmitt[6][2] and American populism. Eventually the journal rejected the traditional divisions between Left and Right as a legitimating mechanism for new class domination and an occlusion of new, post-Fordist political conflicts (part of its critique of the New Class or professional-managerial class, according to Timothy Luke, a Telos editor[11][12]). This led to a reevaluation of the primacy of culture and to efforts to understand the dynamics of cultural disintegration and reintegration as a precondition for the constitution of that autonomous individuality critical theory had always identified as the telos of Western civilization.[13][14][15]
During the journal's "conservative turn" in the 1980s, many editorial board members, including Jürgen Habermas, left Telos.[2] The academic Joan Braune writes that one cause was Piccone's support of United States intervention in Nicaragua.[6][undue weight? – discuss] In 1994, the paleoconservative Sam Francis was the keynote speaker at a Telos conference about populism.[6][16] Telos had ties with figures of the paleoconservative Chronicles magazine, and was sympathetic to the Lega Nord in Italy, but Telos differed from paleoconservatives on many[third-party source needed] lines, including by supporting military intervention by NATO against Serbia in 1999 to prevent ethnic cleansing.[5] Braune in 2019 described Telos as far-right, writing that the journal had translated the French New Right figure Alain de Benoist and had in two recent articles "been friendly to the ideas of Russian fascist Aleksandr Dugin".[6][undue weight? – discuss]
In response to criticisms, the journal has been described by Luke as "out beyond the margins of the established academy ... featuring the voices of alternative networks recruited from the contrary currents of many different intellectual traditions".[17]
The journal is published by Telos Press Publishing and the editor-in-chief is David Pan.[18] It is affiliated with the Telos Institute, which hosts annual conferences, select papers from which are published in Telos.
Abstracting and indexing
[edit]The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Current Contents/Arts & Humanities.[19] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 0.065, ranking it 133rd out of 138 journals in the category "Sociology".[20]
Telos Press Publishing
[edit]Telos Press Publishing was founded by Paul Piccone, the first editor-in-chief of Telos, and is the publisher of both the journal Telos as well as a separate book line. It is based in Candor, New York.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Gary Genosko with Kristina Marcellus, Back Issues: Periodicals and the Formation of Critical and Cultural Theory in Canada (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2019): 1-20.
- ^ a b c d e Chaves, Elisabeth K. (April 8, 2016). Reviewing Political Criticism: Journals, Intellectuals, and the State. Routledge. pp. 84–90. ISBN 978-1-315-60621-7.
Piccone suggested that the journal's "conservative turn" was a potential source of energy and creativity (Piccone 1994, p.206). While Telos took pride in its transgressions over the years and used its functionality to carve out an identity, the journal's style and affinity for the margin, and letting everyone know that it prefers the margin, may give the impression that heterodox is not just a manner of critique but a way of being.
{{cite book}}
: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Stephen Eric Bronner, Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017): 87, 90.
- ^ "About Telos". Telos Press. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
- ^ a b Ashbee, Edward (March 2000). "Politics of paleoconservatism". Society. 37 (3): 75–84. doi:10.1007/BF02686179. ISSN 0147-2011.
Some of the principal figures associated with Chronicles have established close ties with Telos, a formerly leftist journal of philosophy and politics that owed its origins and much of its later development to the Frankfurt School. The concepts associated with Critical Theory drew Telos towards ideas that form common ground with the paleoconservatives.
- ^ a b c d e Braune, Joan (2019). "Who's Afraid of the Frankfurt School? "Cultural Marxism" as an Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory" (PDF). Journal of Social Justice. 9 (2164–7100): 1–25.
- ^ Telos Press, "Masthead," https://www.telospress.com/masthead
- ^ Genosko, Gary (2004). "The Arrival of Jean Baudrillard in English Translation: Mark Poster and Telos Press". International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. 1 (2).
- ^ Luke, Timothy (2005). "The Trek with Telos: A Remembrance of Paul Piccone (January 17, 1940 — July 12, 2004)". Fast Capitalism. 1 (2): 137–141. doi:10.32855/fcapital.200502.015.
- ^ Kenneth Anderson, "Telos, the critical theory journal and its blog," November 18, 2007.
- ^ Timothy W. Luke, "The Trek with Telos: A Rememberance[sic] of Paul Piccone (January 19, 1940—July 12, 2004), Fast Capitalism 1 (2) (2005), https://fastcapitalism.uta.edu/1_2/luke.html; Telos Staff, "Populism vs. the New Class," Telos 88 (Summer 1991), 2-36, 6.
- ^ "Timothy W. Luke". liberalarts.vt.edu. Retrieved December 5, 2024.
- ^ Danny Postel, "The metamorphosis of Telos," In These Times, April 21-30, 1991.
- ^ Russell Jacoby, The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (New York: Basic Books, 1987): 151-52.
- ^ Jennifer M. Lehmann, Social Theory as Politics in Knowledge (New York: Emerald Group Publishing, 2005): 81-82.
- ^ Drolet, Jean-François; Williams, Michael C. (January 2, 2020). "America first: paleoconservatism and the ideological struggle for the American right". Journal of Political Ideologies. 25 (1): 28–50. doi:10.1080/13569317.2020.1699717. ISSN 1356-9317.
- ^ "Timothy W. Luke, "The Trek with Telos: A Rememberance[sic] of Paul Piccone (January 19, 1940—July 12, 2004), Fast Capitalism 1 (2) (2005), https://fastcapitalism.uta.edu/1_2/luke.html
- ^ "About the Editor". Telos Press. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
- ^ "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
- ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Sociology". 2013 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2012.
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