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).
The Supreme Court has long forbidden punishments involving torture or a lingering death. “Burning someone to death, drowning them or suffocating them are forms of lingering death that the founders, and Blackstone before them, considered off limits.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...
Choosing How to Kill Death Row Inmates
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Nitrogen update: Judge Marks' permanent injunction against nitrogen asphyxiation as a method of execution stands for now. SCOTUS denies a stay of injunction. Mr. Jeffery Lee is alive and will not be executed tonight. The case may proceed to appeal at the Eleventh Circuit, if the state pursues this.
Call for Abstracts: International Workshop “Counterrevolution and Democratic Transformation” with @bernardharcourt.bsky.social at @unisg.ch! The workshop will take place on 22 October 2026. Deadline for abstract submissions: 31 July. See the full call here: www.theorieblog.de/wp-content/u... 2
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Nitrogen gas update: the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta has affirmed that nitrogen gas asphyxiation is an unconstitutional method of execution, by a vote of two to one, and denied any stay of the permanent injunction. So nitrogen gas is unconstitutional as per the Eleventh Circuit panel.
Nitrogen update: Judge Marks in Montgomery denies the State of Alabama’s application to stay her permanent injunction against nitrogen gas while the state appeals. The equities are clearly against the state.
Ongoing updates on the nitrogen gas execution method litigation: apnews.com/article/alab...
Judge bars Alabama nitrogen gas execution, says method is unconstitutionally cruel
A federal judge has permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas, declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. U.S.
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Nitrogen gas asphyxiation as a method of execution was just held UNCONSTITUTIONAL by the federal court in Montgomery, Alabama, relying on the Eleventh Circuit. This is unprecedented and remarkable and right!!
Brilliant lecture by Étienne Balibar on Marx and Hegel and the inversions that they operated at Hegel 13/13 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social and @ehess.fr and @lab-iris.bsky.social. Video here: youtu.be/BaTqV04SR0I?... | More information here: hegel1313.law.columbia.edu/9-13/
Étienne Balibar on Marx and Hegel @columbia's Hegel 13/13 with Prof. Bernard E. Harcourt [HD]
YouTube video by Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
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Preparing to present at the Collège de France with Fadi Bardawil, Linda Zerilli, Ann Stoler, Didier Fassin, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Michał Kozłowski, and Martin Saar (left to right). Program ranging from the prison to decolonialism and the revolution in Iran www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
Critique in times of crisis: Dipesh Chakrabarty, David Owen, Dawn Herrera Helphand, and more on the pressing task of critique today, open access essays here at Foucault Studies Issue 39, Spring 2026: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56718
Project MUSE - Foucault Studies-Issue 39, Spring 2026
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Political Concepts at the Sorbonne: Join us on May 29 and May 30 for discussions with Emily APTER, Etienne BALIBAR, Barbara CASSIN, Eric FASSIN, Michel FEHER, Judith REVEL & Ann L. STOLER, among others. Info and SRVP here: isjps.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/p... | @lab-iris.bsky.social @ehess.fr
If you are in Paris this week, join us on Tuesday May 26 at 4:30PM at the EHESS for a seminar on *Lacan and Hegel* with Professor Björn Quiring of the University of Dublin. We will be in salle 3.07, Centre de colloques, Campus Condorcet, 93300 Aubervilliers | @lab-iris.bsky.social @ehess.fr
Étienne Balibar, "Inverting sentences from Hegel": Join us on June 2, 2026, at the Columbia Paris Global Center for Hegel 13/13 with Balibar, info here: hegel1313.law.columbia.edu/9-13/. ESSAY by BALIBAR here: the1313.law.columbia.edu/2026/05/11/e... | @lab-iris.bsky.social @ehess.fr
"One stratégie qui se contenterait de multiplier les révolutions à la place de la révolution ?" Book review in the classic French newspaper L'Humanité (@humanite.fr) of *Coopérisme* published at the MSH (@editionsmsh.bsky.social) : www.humanite.fr/en-debat/coo... | @lab-iris.bsky.social @ehess.fr
« Un nouveau monde de démocratie coopérative est à notre portée » : la stratégie réformatrice de Bernard E. Harcourt - L'Humanité
Dans son dernier essai publié aux éditions Maison des sciences de l’Homme, le professeur de droit à Columbia, Bernard E. Harcourt, développe le concept de « coopérisme » et déf...
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"Neither capitalism nor communism, long live coöperism": New book review over at Telerama in France of "Coopérisme," new book just published at @editionsmsh.bsky.social : www.telerama.fr/livre/ni-com... | @fondationmsh.bsky.social @lab-iris.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
Ni communisme ni capitalisme, vive le “coopérisme” ? L’ambitieux essai de Bernard E. Harcourt pour une troisième voie
Dans son stimulant nouveau livre, le professeur de philosophie politique franco-américain forge un nouveau modèle politique et social, fondé sur la coopération humaine. Et, à le lire, plus facilement ...
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New video: Kevin A. Anderson discusses Lenin's reading of Hegel, Lenin's *Hegel Notebooks of 1914-15*, and the impact on Lenin's political praxis. Just put it up on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvnh...
Lenin and Hegel: A Conversation with Kevin A. Anderson and Bernard E. Harcourt @ Columbia University
YouTube video by Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
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🏛️ Enfin, une très belle soirée à la @fondationmsh.bsky.social où @bernardharcourt.bsky.social dialoguait avec Laure Adler — un échange riche, engagé, et porté par un public au rendez-vous.
🎙️ Samedi 28 mars, @bernardharcourt.bsky.social était l’invité du « Grand Face-à-Face » de Thomas Snegaroff sur @franceinter.fr, avec Natacha Polony ! Une émission à (ré)écouter absolument : www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/... 📚 Le livre : www.editions-msh.fr/livre/le-coo...
“A New Humanism”: join us tomorrow April 8 for a public seminar with the philosopher Susan Buck-Morss at Hegel 13/13 at Columbia University. More information here: hegel1313.law.columbia.edu/8-13/ New essay for seminar here: substack.com/home/post/p-... Or on YouTube here: youtu.be/TV54naJsQrw?...
Susan Buck-Morss on Hegel, Phenomenology, and Universal History
"A New Humanism": An Introduction for Hegel 13/13
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📰 Mais aussi dans la presse : "Et si le coopérisme était la solution politique à nos crises ?" titrent Les Inrockuptibles dans un article consacré à l'ouvrage, qui met en lumière toute la force et l'actualité de sa réflexion. @bernardharcourt.bsky.social
Ces derniers jours, @bernardharcourt.bsky.social a fait résonner le concept de coopérisme bien au-delà des pages 📚 🎙️ Sur @franceculture.fr pour une discussion stimulante dans "Les Enjeux internationaux" de @guillaumeerner.bsky.social sur l'interventionnisme américain et la théorie du coopérisme
Nous sommes particulièrement heureux·ses et fier·es de voir ce livre trouver un tel écho pour faire vivre les idées et ouvrir le débat ✨ 📚 "Le coopérisme", @bernardharcourt.bsky.social : www.editions-msh.fr/livre/le-coo...
Présentation du nouveau livre, *Le Coopérisme : Une théorie politique, économique, et sociale* qui vient de paraitre au éditions MSH : www.canal-u.tv/chaines/fmsh... | @lab-iris.bsky.social @ehess.fr @editionsmsh.bsky.social
If you are in Paris, please join tomorrow Thursday March 26 at 7PM at the MSH 54 bd Raspail for a dialogue with Laure Adler about "Cooperism". Invitation to event here: www.fmsh.fr/agenda/le-co... Review of the new book here: www.lesinrocks.com/societe/et-s...
Et si le coopérisme était la solution politique à nos crises ? | Les Inrocks
Le juriste et philosophe américain Bernard E. Harcourt défend le coopérisme comme la seule théorie sociale, politique et économique capable de nous sauver des périls actuels.
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Is the “rule of law” truly neutral or has it become the secular religion of our democracies? Join our next public talk by @bernardharcourt.bsky.social and explore what the future of the rule of law might hold. 👉 register now t.uzh.ch/1WH
"The last thing you need is another market strategy in the name of justice." www.youtube.com/live/6ZyUGkL... via @bernardharcourt.bsky.social & @columbiaccct.bsky.social
Cornel West on Hegel, Nietzsche, and Foucault in discussion with Bernard E. Harcourt @Columbia Univ.
YouTube video by Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
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Nietzsche too had to be recuperated from the fascists and reappropriated by post-structuralists to become "useful for life." Just posted epilogue to seminar with Cornel West on Hegel, Nietzsche, and Foucault: open.substack.com/pub/bernardh... | Video with Cornel West here: youtu.be/YZ6Mr5eTW3A?...
Recuperating Nietzsche
An Epilogue to Cornel West on Hegel, Nietzsche, and Foucault
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Herbert Marcuse opened his 1941 book, Reason and Revolution, with this stunning phrase: “In our time, the rise of Fascism calls for a reinterpretation of Hegel’s philosophy.” The parallels with today keep haunting me... these times call for a rereading of Marcuse: open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...
"In our time, the rise of Fascism calls for a reinterpretation of Marcuse's philosophy"
What we can learn from Herbert Marcuse today
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