Bernard E. Harcourt

@bernardharcourt.bsky.social

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Professor of law and political theory at Columbia University and the EHESS in Paris. Death penalty defense counsel and author of *Critique & Praxis* (2020), *Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory* (2023), and *The Counterrevolution* (2018). .. more

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Bernard E. Harcourt is an American critical theorist with a specialization in the area of punishment, surveillance, legal and political theory, and political economy. He also does pro-bono legal work on human rights issues. .. more

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Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · 2d

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"Mamdani's election is a model for the Democratic Party": Delighted to join The Debate @France24.com to discuss the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of NYC with ‪@f24debate.france24.com‬ and Jenn Schradie. Clip here: youtu.be/teJC16kh6Ds?... Full segment here: www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...

Mamdani election: "A clear, positive message and model for the Democratic Party" (Bernard Harcourt)

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Hakan Topal @hakantopal.info · 3d

In this lecture, @bernardharcourt.bsky.social argues that instead of state-run grocery stores, NYC facilitates and establishes city-wide food cooperatives, decentralizing power. Solidarity economy is the way to go.

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A New Philosophy for the Left: Power to the People, Mamdani, the DSA, and Philosophical Foundations

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The Debate - France 24 @f24debate.france24.com · 5d

🇺🇸 Is #Mamdani trying to avoid a violent confrontation — or set the stage for one?

@bernardharcourt.bsky.social and James Kirchick clash over how New York’s new mayor will handle a possible Trump crackdown.

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Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · 6d

"On Zohran Mamdani, the DSA, Power to the People, and the Need for New Philosophical Foundations on the Left": I just posted a new essay calling for rethinking the philosophical foundations on the Left. It is on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/bernardh... Also on YouTube: youtu.be/PbI12lIqwi8?...

A New Philosophy for the Left: Power to the People, Mamdani, the DSA, and Philosophical Foundations

YouTube video by Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought

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Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · 11d

Steve Bannon is calling for a Christian nation in Jerusalem, a three-state solution. He also calls himself a Christian Nationalist. Does Christianity lean far Right? If so, how come it also nourishes Leftist projects? Is it meaningless? New essay free on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...

Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · 28d

How is it that the far Right today has become radical Leninists and the Left has become Burkean conservatives? Just posted a new essay in which I explore the far Right’s embrace of Lenin and radical politics--and how the Left should respond: open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...

What Is To Be Done about the Radical Far-Right?

Hegel, Lenin, Bannon, and the Trump Revolution: On the Dialectics of Smashing the State

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Jacob Henry Leveton @jacobhleveton.bsky.social · 28d

Brilliant piece by @bernardharcourt.bsky.social this morning on Critique & Praxis.

Throws down a gauntlet for an American progressive left that must reclaim revolutionary radicalism against the far right’s bourgeois counter-revolution.

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What Is To Be Done about the Radical Far-Right?

Hegel, Lenin, Bannon, and the Trump Revolution: On the Dialectics of Smashing the State

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Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · Oct 7

Beccaria was way ahead of us, back in 1764, when he worried about the brutalizing effects of state violence: How it could transform our ways of thinking and feeling. He was only 25 years old at the time—a Gen Z by our standards today. I just posted an essay here: open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · Oct 7

Tuesday, October 7th join author Daniel Louis Wyche in conversation with Bernard Harcourt about THE CARE OF THE SELF AND THE CARE OF THE OTHER at Book Culture starting at 7pm. @bernardharcourt.bsky.social @bookculture.com