Bernard E. Harcourt
@bernardharcourt.bsky.social
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).
In his victory speech, Zohran Mamdani invoked two great figures from history, Eugene V. Debs and Jawaharlal Nehru, to ring in a new epoch in American politics. Mamdani is the model of what could be called “a new philosophical practice.” Read here on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...
Zohran Mamdani, Eugene Debs, and Jawaharlal Nehru
On Louis Althusser's Idea of A New Philosophical Practice
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
In his victory speech, Zohran Mamdani invoked two great figures from history, Eugene V. Debs and Jawaharlal Nehru, to ring in a new epoch in American politics. Mamdani is the model of what could be called “a new philosophical practice.” Read here on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...
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Includes five essays on Foucault and Nietzsche, reassessing this relation in the light of the volume edited by @bernardharcourt.bsky.social last year - www.seuil.com/ouvrage/niet... (2/3)
Sciences humaines
Nietzsche, Michel Foucault : « Nietzsche et Heidegger, ça a été le choc philosophique ! Mais je n’ai jamais rien écrit sur Heidegger et je n’ai écr...
www.seuil.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Includes five essays on Foucault and Nietzsche, reassessing this relation in the light of the volume edited by @bernardharcourt.bsky.social last year - www.seuil.com/ouvrage/niet... (2/3)
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Foucault Studies 38 published, including a theme section on Foucault and Nietzsche, and a 'Buffalo dossier' (all open access)
muse.jhu.edu/journal/891 (1/3)
muse.jhu.edu/journal/891 (1/3)
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Foucault Studies 38 published, including a theme section on Foucault and Nietzsche, and a 'Buffalo dossier' (all open access)
muse.jhu.edu/journal/891 (1/3)
muse.jhu.edu/journal/891 (1/3)
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“In the face of a hostile takeover of 🇺🇸 it’s urgent for us to rethink the philosophical basis of our progressive politics…power needs to be distributed to the people…the model cannot be top-down, it has to be bottom-up, grounded in cooperation & solidarity among people.”
#Coöperism
#Coöperism
"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
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“In the face of a hostile takeover of 🇺🇸 it’s urgent for us to rethink the philosophical basis of our progressive politics…power needs to be distributed to the people…the model cannot be top-down, it has to be bottom-up, grounded in cooperation & solidarity among people.”
#Coöperism
#Coöperism
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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.
youtu.be/PbI12lIqwi8?...
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
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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.
youtu.be/PbI12lIqwi8?...
youtu.be/PbI12lIqwi8?...
"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)
YouTube video by Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"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/...
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🇺🇸 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.
More in #F24Debate ➡️ f24.my/6GOp
@bernardharcourt.bsky.social and James Kirchick clash over how New York’s new mayor will handle a possible Trump crackdown.
More in #F24Debate ➡️ f24.my/6GOp
November 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
🇺🇸 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.
More in #F24Debate ➡️ f24.my/6GOp
@bernardharcourt.bsky.social and James Kirchick clash over how New York’s new mayor will handle a possible Trump crackdown.
More in #F24Debate ➡️ f24.my/6GOp
"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
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"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?...
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...
October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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...
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“…massive counter-movement showering solidarity &cooperation throughout every facet of life…universal healthcare...Job training programs4 every1...Mental healthcare 4all…worker coops,food coops,&housing coops…prioritize all stakeholders, communities, &the environment,rather than simply investors...”
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
open.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“…massive counter-movement showering solidarity &cooperation throughout every facet of life…universal healthcare...Job training programs4 every1...Mental healthcare 4all…worker coops,food coops,&housing coops…prioritize all stakeholders, communities, &the environment,rather than simply investors...”
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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.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Throws down a gauntlet for an American progressive left that must reclaim revolutionary radicalism against the far right’s bourgeois counter-revolution.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
What Is To Be Done about the Radical Far-Right?
Hegel, Lenin, Bannon, and the Trump Revolution: On the Dialectics of Smashing the State
substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Throws down a gauntlet for an American progressive left that must reclaim revolutionary radicalism against the far right’s bourgeois counter-revolution.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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
open.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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...
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...
October 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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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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
112th: Daniel Louis Wyche with Bernard Harcourt | Book Culture
536 West 112th StNew York, NY
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October 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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
I had amazing views of Manhattan on my flight back from Alabama this afternoon…
October 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I had amazing views of Manhattan on my flight back from Alabama this afternoon…
Some thoughts on the brutality of our punishment practices, from the American death penalty to summary executions in international Waters…
October 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Some thoughts on the brutality of our punishment practices, from the American death penalty to summary executions in international Waters…
Back in Alabama, driving through the cotton fields, on the way to Holman Prison in Atmore. The clouds are getting ominous. The dementors are swooping in....
October 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Back in Alabama, driving through the cotton fields, on the way to Holman Prison in Atmore. The clouds are getting ominous. The dementors are swooping in....
Trump just ordered and the U.S. Navy just carried out another summary execution of 4 persons suspected of drug running in international waters. I am at a loss of words, so I am re-upping my piece on this just posted yesterday…
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
President Trump’s Summary Execution of “Foreign Designated Terrorists” in International Waters and the Coming War on Anti-Fascism in America
Stopping A Lethal Category Error Before It Goes Any Further
substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Trump just ordered and the U.S. Navy just carried out another summary execution of 4 persons suspected of drug running in international waters. I am at a loss of words, so I am re-upping my piece on this just posted yesterday…
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Was writing about this earlier today, here is a good primer on the presidential memorandum: time.com/7322106/trum...
White House Anti-Terror Order Targets ‘Anti-American’ Views
The order, experts warn, could target protestors' constitutional right to protest and free speech.
time.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Was writing about this earlier today, here is a good primer on the presidential memorandum: time.com/7322106/trum...
President Trump is deliberately eliding and fabricating lethal categories at the same time as he is creating a new war on anti-fascism in America. I just posted an essay about it on my Substack here, where I try to disentangle the categories:
open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...
open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...
October 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
President Trump is deliberately eliding and fabricating lethal categories at the same time as he is creating a new war on anti-fascism in America. I just posted an essay about it on my Substack here, where I try to disentangle the categories:
open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...
open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...
Join us tonight (10/1) for the launch of Michel Foucault's 1953-54 book, newly published in English by @columbiaup.bsky.social, *Binswanger and Existential Analysis* at 7pm at @bookculture.com on 112th bet. Broadway and Amsterdam. We will discuss the early Foucault: cup.columbia.edu/book/binswan...
Binswanger and Existential Analysis | Columbia University Press
In the early 1950s, the young Michel Foucault took a keen interest in the method of existential analysis—Daseinsanalyse—developed by the Swiss psychiatri... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
October 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Join us tonight (10/1) for the launch of Michel Foucault's 1953-54 book, newly published in English by @columbiaup.bsky.social, *Binswanger and Existential Analysis* at 7pm at @bookculture.com on 112th bet. Broadway and Amsterdam. We will discuss the early Foucault: cup.columbia.edu/book/binswan...
Cooperation and artist cooperatives, a perfect synergy, especially in these heightened times of exclusion and political repression. I just posted a review of the "Press & Pull" print exhibit at the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate School in NYC. Open access here:
open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...
open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...
The Art of Cooperation
A Review of the “Press & Pull” Art Exhibit at the James Gallery in New York City
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Cooperation and artist cooperatives, a perfect synergy, especially in these heightened times of exclusion and political repression. I just posted a review of the "Press & Pull" print exhibit at the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate School in NYC. Open access here:
open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...
open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...
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“… elements of patrimonialism & sultanism…Trump runs the government as if it were his household, gives out favors to his family & friends, grants pardons…& operates as a private entrepreneur.
There are mobster elements as well, with Trump directing his DOJ to prosecute … @newyorkstateag.bsky.social”
There are mobster elements as well, with Trump directing his DOJ to prosecute … @newyorkstateag.bsky.social”
I just posted a third essay on my Substack: "Twilight of American Democracy: Mapping A Democratic Breakdown in the United States." Back from an intense gathering on the current crisis of American democracy, and as we debated, I created a mental map... bernardharcourt.substack.com/p/twilight-o...
September 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“… elements of patrimonialism & sultanism…Trump runs the government as if it were his household, gives out favors to his family & friends, grants pardons…& operates as a private entrepreneur.
There are mobster elements as well, with Trump directing his DOJ to prosecute … @newyorkstateag.bsky.social”
There are mobster elements as well, with Trump directing his DOJ to prosecute … @newyorkstateag.bsky.social”
I just posted a third essay on my Substack: "Twilight of American Democracy: Mapping A Democratic Breakdown in the United States." Back from an intense gathering on the current crisis of American democracy, and as we debated, I created a mental map... bernardharcourt.substack.com/p/twilight-o...
September 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I just posted a third essay on my Substack: "Twilight of American Democracy: Mapping A Democratic Breakdown in the United States." Back from an intense gathering on the current crisis of American democracy, and as we debated, I created a mental map... bernardharcourt.substack.com/p/twilight-o...
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yes this is a post to let you know event season starts tonight
bookculture.com/upcoming-eve...
Mark Mazower TONIGHT!
@alexandrahorowitz.bsky.social & @christinewebb.bsky.social in convo Monday
Stephanie Cowell on her Brontë novel Tuesday
@bernardharcourt.bsky.social on Foucault Wednesday
& more!
bookculture.com/upcoming-eve...
Mark Mazower TONIGHT!
@alexandrahorowitz.bsky.social & @christinewebb.bsky.social in convo Monday
Stephanie Cowell on her Brontë novel Tuesday
@bernardharcourt.bsky.social on Foucault Wednesday
& more!
bookculture.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
yes this is a post to let you know event season starts tonight
bookculture.com/upcoming-eve...
Mark Mazower TONIGHT!
@alexandrahorowitz.bsky.social & @christinewebb.bsky.social in convo Monday
Stephanie Cowell on her Brontë novel Tuesday
@bernardharcourt.bsky.social on Foucault Wednesday
& more!
bookculture.com/upcoming-eve...
Mark Mazower TONIGHT!
@alexandrahorowitz.bsky.social & @christinewebb.bsky.social in convo Monday
Stephanie Cowell on her Brontë novel Tuesday
@bernardharcourt.bsky.social on Foucault Wednesday
& more!