Why has the international community failed to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capability? Why is Germany, even today, the mullahs' biggest trading partner in the West? What underpins the strange friendship between Germany and Iran that goes back to the beginning of the last century and has survived every war, catastrophe, and revolution?Matthias Küntzel's Germany and Iran: From the Aryan Axis to the Nuclear Threshold helps us to answer these questions. By unearthing new evidence from the National Archives in Washington, DC, and the German Foreign Office Archives in Berlin, Küntzel reveals that there has always been a hidden dispute between the White House and the German government over how to tackle Iran, and this dispute has deep historical roots.In this fascinating study, Küntzel shows how, during the First World War, Kaiser Wilhelm was acclaimed Hajj Wilhelm Muhammad by Shiite clerics, and later how Adolf Hitler was celebrated as the Twelfth Imam. As Küntzel carefully documents, the now 35-year-old special relationship between Germany and the Islamic Republic of Iran is critical to understanding the ongoing controversy over Iran's nuclear program.

Germany and Iran: From the Aryan Axis to the Nuclear Threshold

Matthias Küntzel

Telos Press Publishing

Having been sought in the sphere of economic production for too long, according to Jean Baudrillard, the mainspring of modern society must be located in the sphere of consumption and of the cultural system in general. As with artistic, intellectual, and scientific production, culture is immediately produced as sign and as exchange value. Hence, in modern society consumption defines the stages where the commodity is immediately produced as sign, and signs as commodities. This collection of essays attempts an analysis of the sign form in the same way that Marx's critique of political economy sought an analysis of the commodity form: as the commodity is at the same time both exchange value and use value, the sign is both signifier and signified. Thus, it necessitates an analysis on two levels, with the author confronting all of the conceptual obstacles of semiology in order to provide the same radical critique that Marx developed of classical political economy.

For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign

Jean Baudrillard

Business & Money

In ways not seen since the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century, America is becoming a nation of increasingly sharply divided classes. Joel Kotkin's The New Class Conflict breaks down these new divisions for the first time, focusing on the ascendency of two classes: the tech Oligarchy, based in Silicon Valley; and the Clerisy, which includes much of the nation's policy, media, and academic elites. The New Class Conflict is written largely from the point of view of those who are, to date, the losers in this class conflict: the middle class. This group, which Kotkin calls the Yeomanry, has been the traditional bulwark of American society, politics, and economy. Yet under pressure from the ascendant Oligarchs and ever more powerful Clerisy, their prospects have diminished the American dream of class mobility that has animated its history and sustained its global appeal. This book is both a call to arms and a unique piece of analysis about the possible evolution of our society into an increasingly quasi-feudal order. Looking beyond the conventional views of both left and right, conservative and liberal, Kotkin provides a tough but evenhanded analysis of our evolving class system, and suggests some approaches that might restore the middle class to its proper role as the dominant group in the American future.

The New Class Conflict

Joel Kotkin

The Nomos of the Earth is Carl Schmitt s most historical and geopolitical book. It describes the origin of the Eurocentric global order, which Schmitt dates from the discovery of the New World, discusses its specific character and its contribution to civilization, analyzes the reasons for its decline at the end of the 19th century, and concludes with prospects for a new world order. It is a reasoned, yet passionate argument in defense of the European achievement, not only in creating the first truly global order of international law, but also in limiting war to conflicts among sovereign states, which in effect civilized war. In Schmitt s view, the European sovereign state was the greatest achievement of Occidental rationalism; in becoming the principal agency of secularization, the European state created the modern age. Since the problematic of a new nomos of the earth has become even more critical with the onset of the postmodern age and postmodern war, Schmitt s text is even more timely and challenging. Remarkable in Schmitt s discussion of the European epoch of world history is the role played by the New World, whose discovery initiated the rise of the first truly global world order and ultimately replaced the Old World as the center of the earth. Thus, this book has as much to do with the rise of the United States to world power as with the decline of Europe: the two phenomena paralleled each other. In the 16th century, it was England that dared to take the leap from a terrestrial to a maritime existence, and then launched the industrial revolution, in the course of which the earth was newly conceived and measured. But ultimately, the United States (the greater island, as Schmitt calls it) assumed the role of arbiter in European and world politics. According to Schmitt, America s internal conflicts between economic presence and political absence, between isolationism and interventionism, became global problems, which today continue to hamper the creation of a new world order. But however critical Schmitt is of American actions at the turn of the 19th century and after World War I, he clearly was in awe of the United States and considered it to be the only political entity capable of resolving the crisis of global order.

Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of Jus Publicum Europaeum

Carl Schmitt

Foreign & International Law

The Nomos of the Earth is Schmitt's most historical and geopolitical book. It describes the origin of the Eurocentric global order, which Schmitt dates from the discovery of the New World, discusses its specific character and its contribution to civilization, analyzes the reasons for its decline at the end of the 19th century, and concludes with prospects for a new world order. It is a reasoned, yet passionate argument in defense of the European achievement - not only in creating the first truly global order of international law, but also in limiting war to conflicts among sovereign states, which, in effect, civilized war. In Schmitt's view, the European sovereign state was the greatest achievement of Occidental rationalism; in becoming the principal agency of secularization, the European state created the modern age. Since the problematic of a new nomos of the earth has become still more critical with the onset of the post-modern age and post-modern war, Schmitt's text is even more timely and challenging. Remarkable in Schmitt's discussion of the European epoch of world history is the role played by the New World, which ultimately replaced the Old World as the center of the earth and became the arbiter in European and world politics. According to Schmitt, the United States' internal conflicts between economic presence and political absence, between isolationism and interventionism, are global problems, which today continue to hamper the creation of a new world order. But however critical Schmitt is of American actions at the turn of the 20th century and after World War I, he considered the United States to be the only political entity capable of resolving the crisis of global order.

The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of Jus Publicum Europaeum

The war against terrorism allows power to be reorganized at the world level. The procedures of exception set up in its name become the basis of a new legal order that gives judicial powers to administrative authorities. In this globalized process, the United States occupies an exceptional place. It rules an imperial political structure in which the American administration has the privilege of determining the exception and inscribing it into law.   The government of the United States can designate as an enemy any American or any citizen of a state with which the USA is not at war. It can seize or, because of extradition agreements, force any other government to hand over any individual that it designates as a terrorist. It can keep that individual in unlimited detention or, at its discretion, put that individual on trial before exceptional courts of law. Thus the war against terrorism is constitutive. It alters the exercise of internal and external sovereignty. It leads to an organic solidarity among various governments in the surveillance and repression of their populations. The boundary between the maintenance of order and war is blurred. Real wars are presented as police operations and control over citizens is carried out by procedures that belong to counter-espionage.

Global War on Liberty

Politics & Social Sciences

Jean-Claude Paye

Politics & Government

Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), one of the great legal and political thinkers of the 20th century, thought long and hard about the role and significance of war. He saw how the international law of the Eurocentric era of world history began to falter at the end of World War I and foundered at the end of World War II. Following World War II, belligerent acts around the world began to assume a distinctly partisan character, and the belligerents were increasingly non-state actors. His Theory of the Partisan originated in two lectures that Schmitt delivered in 1962, which addressed the transformation of war in the post-European age. Schmitt concludes Theory of the Partisan with the statement: "The theory of the partisan flows into the question of the concept of the political, into the question of the real enemy and of a new nomos of the earth." Theory of the Partisan analyzes a specific and significant phenomenon that ushered in a new theory of war and enmity. It contains an implicit theory of the terrorist, which in the 21st century has ushered in yet another new theory of war and enmity. Consequently, this work is not only of historical interest, but is relevant to contemporary political and military developments and concerns.

Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 traces the impact of European fascism and Nazism on Arab and Islamic activists. As Kuentzel investigates the shift of global antisemitism from Nazi Germany to parts of the Arab world during and after World War II, he argues that antisemitism is not merely a supplementary feature of modern jihadism, but lies instead at its ideological core. This fascinating study lays bare the antecedents of the antisemitism that runs rampant in our world today. For anyone interested in exploring the mindset of hatred that led to the crimes in New York and Washington on September 11th, 2001, this book is a must-read. For readers interested in the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, this book is a challenge to think outside of a narrowly European context. For everyone, this book provides crucial insight into the roots of terror that continue to threaten all of us. 2007 London Book Festival - Grand Prize Winner. Independent Publisher Book Awards - Gold Medal.

Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11

Religion & Spirituality

Confronting the Crisis gathers together for the first time the full range of Paul Piccone's best writings from Telos. This anthology traces a compelling intellectual journey, while providing important commentary on the major contemporary issues. It covers the progress of both Piccone's thinking and the journal's project, beginning with early investigations into phenomenology and Marxism, as well as pioneering studies of Critical Theory and "artificial negativity." It includes far-sighted analyses of new developments, such as the rise of the New Class and the decline of traditional divisions between Left and Right, and it leads eventually to a consideration of the political possibilities of federalism and a reinvigorated populism. The title of this collection refers to Edmund Husserl's last major work, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, from which the title of the journal, Telos, also originated. The loss of the subject of history, i.e., the philosophical-historical idea or teleological sense of European humanity, was the "crisis" that concerned Husserl, and that Piccone examined in all its ramifications. He confronted it with a unique passion and a rare intellect. The results make for absorbing reading. Praise for Confronting the Crisis "This collection of essays by Paul Piccone documents a seismic shift in understanding philosophy and sociology after 1968. Often polemical, humorous, and hard-edged, these writings are a testament to a passionate intellect." --Robert D'Amico, Professor of Philosophy, University of Florida "During the transition from modernism to postmodernism, from industrial capitalism to information societies and globalization, Piccone brought his vigorous intelligence to bear on the new social formations with insight and compassion. His contributions were a breath of fresh air in an intellectual world too often dominated by orthodoxies of correctness and academies of caution." --Russell A. Berman, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University "Whether it is the limits of Western Marxism, the advent of a new geopolitics, the collapse of state socialism, the fragmentation of nation-states, the revitalization of traditional faith, the failure of research universities, or the trap of contrived multiculturalism, Piccone's writings rarely fail to be engaging, often prove enraging, and continue to be rewarding." --Tim Luke, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University "Paul Piccone emerged as one of America's most brilliant social critics during the upheavals of 1968 and the genesis of the New Left. At a time when young radicals made a fetish of oppositional action, he called for serious theoretical reflection. When engagement and activism later gave way to conformist politics and support for bureaucratically steered social programs, Piccone posed populist and federalist alternatives in order to reignite radical opposition based on self-directed communities." --Franklin Hugh Adler, De Witt Wallace Professor of Political Science, Macalester College "Paul Piccone was a force of nature. He was a man whose considerable intellect was matched by the warmth and ebullience of his engaging personality. Together they made him an important influence in American intellectual life." --Fred Siegel, Professor of History, Cooper Union

Confronting the Crisis: Writings of Paul Piccone

Paul Piccone

Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 traces the impact of European fascism and Nazism on Arab and Islamic activists. As Kuentzel investigates the shift of global antisemitism from Nazi Germany to parts of the Arab world during and after World War II, he argues that antisemitism is not merely a supplementary feature of modern jihadism, but lies instead at its ideological core. This fascinating study lays bare the antecedents of the antisemitism that runs rampant in our world today. For anyone interested in exploring the mindset of hatred that led to the crimes in New York and Washington on September 11th, 2001, this book is a must-read. For readers interested in the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, this book is a challenge to think outside of a narrowly European context. For everyone, this book provides crucial insight into the roots of terror that continue to threaten all of us. 2007 London Book Festival - Grand Prize Winner.

History

Middle East

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Germany and Iran: From the Aryan Axis to the Nuclear Threshold

For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign

The New Class Conflict

Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of Jus Publicum Europaeum

The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of Jus Publicum Europaeum

Global War on Liberty

Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political

Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11

Confronting the Crisis: Writings of Paul Piccone

Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11