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Telos
DisciplinePolitics, philosophy, critical theory, culture
LanguageEnglish
Edited byDavid Pan
Publication details
History1968–present
Publisher
Telos Press Publishing
FrequencyQuarterly
0.065 (2013)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Telos
Indexing
ISSN0090-6514
LCCN73641746
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

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]

Telos became increasingly critical of the Left in general, with a reevaluation of 20th century intellectual history, focusing on authors and ideas including the Nazi legal philosopher Carl Schmitt[11][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[12][13]). 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.[14][15][16]

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.[11][undue weight? – discuss] In 1994, the paleoconservative Sam Francis was a keynote speaker at a Telos conference in New York about populism.[11][17][18] The conference announced that the gathering would explore its appeal across the political spectrum.[19][third-party source needed] The audience "shifted uncomfortably in their seats and chuckled in embarrassment" when Francis said the 1947 anti-austerity riots targeting Jews in England were an authentic form of populism to embrace, as recalled by Joseph Lowndes.[6][17] Telos had ties with figures of the paleoconservative Chronicles magazine, and was sympathetic to the Lega Nord in Italy, though Telos' support for NATO military intervention against Serbia in 1999 to prevent ethnic cleansing was a tension with paleoconservatives.[5][6]

Telos became "the major translator" to English of European New Right figures such as Alain de Benoist, whose ethnonationalist ideas influenced the alt-right, according to Lowndes.[6] Braune in 2019 described Telos as far-right, citing Paul Gottfried's work for the publication, the de Benoist translations, and two recent articles "friendly to the ideas of Russian fascist Aleksandr Dugin".[11][undue weight? – discuss]

In response to criticisms, the journal has been described by Telos editor 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".[20] Telos author John K. Bingley has written that "the clash of divergent opinions" is "at the core of [the journal's] identity."[21] The journal has long provoked controversy for its willingness to include voices from across the political spectrum alongside each other. In a 1971 pamphlet, members of the Chicago Surrealist Group, declared that " ... the organizers of the [1971] TELOS Conference clearly are capable only of promoting the peaceful coexistence of various modes of confusion."[22]

The journal is published by Telos Press Publishing and the editor-in-chief is David Pan.[23] It is affiliated with the Telos Institute, which hosts annual conferences, select papers from which are published in Telos.

Abstracting and indexing

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.[24] 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".[25]

Telos Press Publishing

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. Piccone died of cancer in 2004 at age 64.[26]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c d e Chaves, Elisabeth K. (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.
  3. ^ Stephen Eric Bronner, Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017): 87, 90.
  4. ^ "About Telos". Telos Press. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b c d Lowndes, Joseph (August 7, 2017). "From New Class Critique to White Nationalism: Telos, the Alt Right, and the Origins of Trumpism". Konturen. 9: 8–12. doi:10.5399/uo/konturen.9.0.3977. ISSN 1947-3796.
  7. ^ Telos Press, "Masthead," https://www.telospress.com/masthead
  8. ^ Genosko, Gary (2004). "The Arrival of Jean Baudrillard in English Translation: Mark Poster and Telos Press". International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. 1 (2).
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Kenneth Anderson, "Telos, the critical theory journal and its blog," November 18, 2007.
  11. ^ a b c d 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ "Timothy W. Luke". liberalarts.vt.edu. Retrieved December 5, 2024.
  14. ^ Danny Postel, "The metamorphosis of Telos," In These Times, April 21-30, 1991.
  15. ^ Russell Jacoby, The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (New York: Basic Books, 1987): 151-52.
  16. ^ Jennifer M. Lehmann, Social Theory as Politics in Knowledge (New York: Emerald Group Publishing, 2005): 81-82.
  17. ^ a b 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.
  18. ^ "Populism and the New Politics" (conference announcement), back matter, New German Critique 61 (Winter 1994), back matter (behind paywall), https://www.jstor.org/stable/488627
  19. ^ "Populism and the New Politics" (conference announcement), back matter, New German Critique 61 (Winter 1994), back matter (behind paywall), https://www.jstor.org/stable/488627
  20. ^ "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
  21. ^ Bingley, John K. (September 21, 2023). "Diversity and the End of Deference". Telos. 2023 (204): 155–162. doi:10.3817/0923204155. ISSN 0090-6514.
  22. ^ Surrealist Intervention: Papers Presented by the Surrealist Group at the Second International TELOS Conference (Buffalo, NY), November 1971, 2; see also Abigail Susik, "Chicago Surrealism, Herbert Marcuse, and the Affirmation of the 'Present and Future Viability of Surrealism," Journal of Surrealism and the Americas 11:1 (2020), 42-62, available at https://jsa-asu.org/index.php/JSA/article/download/23/20/115
  23. ^ "About the Editor". Telos Press. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
  24. ^ "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  25. ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Sociology". 2013 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2012.
  26. ^ Jacoby, Russell (June 13, 2008). "Consider This: Paul Piccone: Outside Academe". Chronicle of Higher Education. 54, n. 40 (1): B6–B7.
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