Telos (journal)

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History

Founded in May 1968 at SUNY-Buffalo, [1] 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. [7] [8] [9] [10]

With the disintegration of the New Left and the gradual integration of what remained of the American Left within the Democratic Party, Telos became increasingly critical of the Left in general. It subsequently undertook a reevaluation of 20th century intellectual history, focusing on authors and ideas including the Nazi legal philosopher Carl Schmitt [5] 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. 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. [11] [12] [13]

The academic Joan Braune writes that Telos turned to right-wing politics in the 1980s, when editor Paul Piccone supported United States intervention in Nicaragua. [5] In 1994, the paleoconservative Sam Francis was the keynote speaker at a Telos conference about populism. [5] [14] Telos had ties to the paleoconservative Chronicles magazine, and was sympathetic to the Lega Nord in Italy, but Telos differed from paleoconservatives by supporting military intervention by NATO against Serbia in 1999 to prevent ethnic cleansing. [6] Braune in 2019 described Telos as far-right, writing that the journal had translated the French New Right figure Alain de Benoist and had written favorably about the "Russian fascist" Aleksandr Dugin. [5]

The journal is published by Telos Press Publishing and the editor-in-chief is David Pan. [15] 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. [16] 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". [17]

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.

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