Messengers of Hatred: The (Ir)resistible Rise of the Far Right In France and Europe

A discussion led by Eleni Varikas and Michael Lowy

Professor Eleni Varikas is Professeure des universities en science politique emerita, Paris VIII. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who works on issues of political and cultural exclusion. Via her 2007 book, Les Rebuts du monde, she has continued to work on “tou-te-s les exclu-e-s” de la Republique” –-“tsiganes, Juifs, femmes, esclaves, Noir-e-s”. She is the author of seven books and countless articles addressing the political, cultural, historical impacts of globalization and neo-liberal economic policies on European and Western ethical values and imagination, with a special focus on feminist theory--e.g, Les femmes, de Platon a Derrida, Plon, 2000, Penser le sexe et le genre, PUF, 2006, etc.

Professor Michael Lowy is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher, the Emeritus Research Director in Social Sciences at the CNRS and he lectures at EHESS, Paris. He is the author of some 20 books, some 200 articles, translated in 28 languages. He is perhaps best known in the United States via his newest work on ecosocialism—e.g. his Ecosocialist Manifesto --and also his books on Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin.

*Reception will follow*

Sponsors: The Bacon Fund | Department of Romance Languages and Literatures | The Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on France and the World | The Department of Comparative Literature | Studies on Women, Gender, and Sexuality