Bernard E. Harcourt

New York

Author and professor @Columbia and @EHESS_fr. Now mostly at @bernardharcourt.bsky.social and @bernard.e.harcourt on Instagram. Join me over there!

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The US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyism | Thomas Anthony Durkin and Bernard Harcourt

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Bernard E. Harcourt

On Monday, the Department of Justice announced the launch of “Joint Task Force October 7 (JTF 10-7)”. In an accompanying press release, the DoJ said it would bring to justice Hamas leaders who murdered and kidnapped innocent civilians in the deadly attack on Israel of 7 October 2023. Few would quarrel with this ambition.
Bernard E. Harcourt | A Counterrevolution without a Revolution: Reading Marx and Engels Today

Feb 16, 2025 | the1313.law.columbia.edu | Bernard E. Harcourt

In Marx 13/13, we return to Marx’s key texts and read them through the lens of world-historical interpretations that pushed Marxian thought and praxis in new directions: toward operaismo or workerism, Black Marxism, feminist, queer and transgender theories, postcolonialism, cultural studies, Freudian or Foucauldian strands of Marxism, as well as Leninist, Maoist, and social democratic forms of Marxism.
Bernard E. Harcourt | The Communist Manifesto: An Introduction to Marx 6/13

Jan 21, 2025 | the1313.law.columbia.edu | Bernard E. Harcourt

The Manifesto of 1848 remains the most emblematic text of the revolutionary Marxist tradition: it declares and explains the intentions, and lays down the theoretical foundations in the form of a historical narrative and social analysis that concludes with a political program.
Bernard E. Harcourt | On Marx and Engels’ German Ideology, Monique Wittig, and Jules Joanne Gleeson: Introduction to Marx 5/13

Dec 5, 2024 | the1313.law.columbia.edu | Bernard E. Harcourt

A few months after completing the Paris manuscripts of 1844—which we just discussed with Renata Salecl at Marx 4/13—in February 1845, Marx is expelled from France by the minister of foreign affairs, François Guizot, and moves his family to Brussels. There, Marx connects with Frederick Engels, whom he had met in Paris in August 1844.
Bernard E. Harcourt | On Marx’s Paris Manuscripts of 1844, Jacques Lacan, and Renata Salecl: Introduction to Marx 4/13

Nov 24, 2024 | the1313.law.columbia.edu | Bernard E. Harcourt

In February 1844, Marx published two articles in the Deutsch-französische Jahrbücher: “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Introduction” and “On the Jewish Question.” Together, these two articles push Marx, beyond the legal remedies that he had proposed in his 1842 articles on the thefts of wood, to call for revolution in Germany and human emancipation.
Renata Salecl | Catastrophe, Apathy, and Sublimation: How People in the US Are Dreaming About the End of the World

Nov 22, 2024 | the1313.law.columbia.edu | Bernard E. Harcourt

For some time now, people worldwide have developed a particular fascination with the idea of the catastrophe which will bring an end to society as we know it. According to the Pew Foundation survey, at the end of last year, 39% of Americans believed that the world was ending. In 2019, US-Danish researchers led by Michael Bang Petersen interviewed 6000 people who were passionately spreading fake news and conspiracy theories on social media.
Jean L. Cohen | Marx and Lefort: “On the Jewish Question” and “Politics and Human Rights”

Nov 8, 2024 | the1313.law.columbia.edu | Bernard E. Harcourt

The critique of rights, of formal (or, in today’s parlance, liberal) democracy, and of civil society has reemerged today. Once again ‘the rights of man” or human rights are seen as unpolitical or and a distraction, while constitutional democracy and the state are under attack from the right and the left as being tools of the establishment, a cover for oligarchy and/or structures that serve particularistic interests rather than public purposes for the public good.
Bernard E. Harcourt | Introduction to Marx 3/13: Marx’s 1844 Articles on the Critique of Hegel and the Jewish Question, Claude Lefort on Human Rights and Politics, with Jean Louise Cohen - The 13/13 | Essays

Nov 7, 2024 | the1313.law.columbia.edu | Bernard E. Harcourt

In February 1844, Marx published two articles in the Deutsch-französische Jahrbücher (“German-French Annals”), which he and Arnold Ruge edited in Paris: “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Introduction” and “On the Jewish Question.”[1]The first article, Jean Hyppolite referred to as “a first communist manifesto.”[2] The working class—the proletariat, in Marx’s terms—bursts forth onto the scene for the first time.
Bernard E. Harcourt | Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach: Introduction to Marx 1/13

Oct 14, 2024 | the1313.law.columbia.edu | Bernard E. Harcourt

You know me by now. And knowing me, you understand well, I am sure, that my ambition for this inaugural seminar of Marx 13/13—and more broadly, for the entire series—is to actualize these texts and readings of Marx: to make them speak to our present, to help us think and act in the moment, to face our unique challenges today—those many crises of our own making, global warming, the Counterrevolution, Behemoth capitalism. Why start with Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach? you may ask.
Bernard E. Harcourt | Return to Marx: An Introduction to Marx 13/13

Aug 6, 2024 | the1313.law.columbia.edu | Bernard E. Harcourt

By Bernard E. HarcourtThe philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. — Marx, Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach (1845)Karl Marx’s writings contain many of the most impactful ideas that have transformed—and still today continue to transform—the course of human history. Marx’s ambition for philosophy, namely to change the world, has inspired critical thinkers and activists for over a century now and around the globe.

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12 Mar 25

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19 Feb 25

“In the following chapter, Karl Marx will be criticized.” — Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition. Join us at Marx 13/13 on Wed. Feb. 19 at 6:15pm for a keynote by Seyla Benhabib @columbiaccct.bsky.social on Arendt's reading of Marx. Info here https://t.co/CGanWgPbFx https://t.co/9v5oZ5qBsz

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11 Feb 25

RT @SSRN: The latest from the SSRN Blog: Meet the Author with Bernard E. Harcourt: https://t.co/4erksK7amR @BernardHarcourt

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The US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyism | Thomas Anthony Durkin and Bernard Harcourt