Gabriel Rockhill
Biographic Data
| ID | 962318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel Rockhill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Rockhill |
| SIGNATURE | ROCKHILL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imperialism and Emancipation: An Introduction to Losurdo
In addition to providing an overview of this special issue, this article by its editors argues that Domenico Losurdo’s work offers an indispensable framework for analyzing modern imperialism and the struggle for socialism, including the overt colonial aggression and ethnonationalism that characterizes contemporary US-led imperialism in its decline, as well as the concurrent rise of the global South and a multipolar world order led by China. Build…
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? offers a crash course in the history of imperialist propaganda, as well as in the Marxist method for analyzing culture and ideology. Author Gabriel Rockhill demonstrates the explanatory and transformative superiority of a dialectical and historical materialist approach, while elucidating how the world of ideas is a crucial site of class struggle. He then engages in a meticulous counter-history of the Frankf…
Western Marxism and Imperialism: A Dialogue
John Bellamy Foster and Gabriel Rockhill assess the history and influence of Western Marxism, defined not geographically, but by a rejection of the Marxism developed in the Soviet Union, in the Global South, and even in classical Marxism. This strain of Marxist thought, birthed in the imperial core, represents a concession to the dominance of U.S. ideology, rather than to correct the pressing issues confronting society today
Philosophy as Class Struggle in Theory: Ideology, Dialectics, Culturalism & Socialism
A propaganda imperialista e a ideologia da intelligentsia da esquerda ocidental: Do anticomunismo e a política identitária às ilusões democráticas e o fascismo
O texto que segue é a tradução de uma entrevista originalmente veiculada em chinês no v. 11 de World Socialism Studies e publicada em inglês na revista nova-iorquina Monthly Review, v. 75, no 7, de dezembro de 2023. Nela, Gabriel Rockhill, professor de Filosofia da Universidade de Villanova (Pensilvânia), conversa com Zhao Dingqi, pesquisador do Instituto de Marxismo da Academia Chinesa de Ciências Sociais e editor da revista World Socialism Stud…
Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn
Through Pluripolarity to Socialism: A Manifesto” One Year On
The International Manifesto Group launched its manifesto, “Through Pluripolarity to Socialism” on 5 September 2021. Then, the world’s attention was riveted to the US’s ignominious exit from Afghanistan. The following speeches, delivered at the webinar to mark the first anniversary of the event, reflect on the tumultuous events of the year since, dominated by the US-led war on Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy, its wider international reverberation…
Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism
It is no mistake that XYZ. In this interview with Zhao Dingqi of World Socialism Studies, Gabriel Rockhill dives deep into the CIA's campaign to propagate thinly veiled imperialist and capitalist ideology through the institutions of the Western left intelligentsia—and how this state of affairs continues among intellectuals to this day
The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback
In popular thought, the youth and student movements of France May 1968 have been linked with the thinkers of what is known as French theory. Gabriel Rockhill considers the actual, less-than-revolutionary actions of these popular philosophers in the student revolts, then turns our attention to a deeper question: Who benefits from drawing these tenuous connections
Le Droit de la philosophie et les faits de l’histoire: Foucault, Derrida, Descartes
La critique formulée par Jacques Derrida de la lecture proposée par Michel Foucault de quelques lignes de Descartes est souvent prise comme un tournant décisif dans l’histoire de la pensée française de l’après-guerre. Elle aurait ouvert la brèche, creusée également par d’autres, entre le structuralisme des maîtres à penser des années 1950 et le « néo- » ou « post-structuralisme » de la nouvelle génération philosophique. Or une telle interprétatio…
Towards a Compositional Model of Ideology: Materialism, Aesthetics, and Cultural Revolution
This article sets forth a compositional model of ideology by drawing on the tradition of historical materialism and further developing its insights into the aesthetic composition of reality. It demonstrates how ideology is not simply a set of false beliefs but is rather the process by which social agents are composed over time in every dimension of their existence, including their thoughts, practices, perceptions, representations, values, affects…
Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy
In Counter-History of the Present Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized and globalized era intimately connected by a single, overarching economic and technological network. Noting how such a narrative fails to account for the experiences of the billions of people who lack economic security, digital access, and real politica…
Foucault, Genealogy, Counter-History
This article examines the force and limitations of genealogy in order to develop a practice of counter-history that is capable of both overcoming its inherent problems and providing a more trenchant mode of critico-historical engagement. Using Foucault's well-known essay on Nietzsche as its methodological centerpiece, it begins by elucidating the latter's powerful contribution to the historical analysis of values, while also foregrounding the qua…
Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics
Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics
With the aim of rethinking the state and stakes of contemporary theory, Gabriel Rockhill critically works through some of the most important recent philosophical writings on the intertwined topics of history, politics and art. He offers guidance to some of the complex debates in these areas, as well as a commanding overview of the key issues and some of the central figures, including Foucault, Derrida, Castoriadis, Badiou and Rancière. By resitua…
Comment penser le temps présent ? De l'ontologie de l'actualité à l'ontologie sans l'être
Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique: Dialogues
International audience
Modernism as a Misnomer: Godard's Archeology of the Image
The standard historical image of Jean-Luc Godard is that of a resolute iconoclast breaking with the representational norms and codes of classical cinema in the name of liberating film from the deadening weight of its past. His numerous formal innovations—syncopated montage, unconventional framing, unique experiments with dialogue, etc.—along with his abandonment of traditional narrative and character development, his playful pastiche of genres, h…
Vers une critique historique de l'imaginaire politique contemporain en France
L’article tente de mettre en lumière les limites de la démocratisation par l’imposition de normes globales et plus particulièrement en Roumanie. Sont avancés, en premier lieu, quelques traits saillants de la notion de transparence telle qu’elle est prescrite au niveau international pour les pays postcommunistes. Ensuite, le propos se concentre sur l’analyse des résultats d’une opération de monitoring d’une loi de transparence par une ONG que nous…
L'écriture de l'histoire philosophique: L'éternel retour du même et de l'autre chez Levinas
Cet article examine les changements idéologiques qui touchent le statut social des femmes, en particulier la maternité et la sexualité. Il analyse la pluralisation des féminismes en articulation avec les mobilisations actuelles contre les violences sexuelles et montre les injonctions paradoxales qui s’exercent sur les femmes. Dans une perspective épistémologique il relie ces évolutions à des mutations conceptuelles significatives qui s’observent …
The Silent Revolution
Jacques Rancière's circuitous response to the question "what is literature?" in the introduction to La Parole muette is in many ways indicative of the historical methodology operative in his most recent work on art and politics. The concept of literature, he claims, is at once absolutely self evident and radically undetermined. Rather than invoking this paradox as a Heideggerian justification for investigating the essential question of our age, R…
L'image ventriloque
The Silent Revolution
Jacques Rancière's circuitous response to the question "what is literature?" in the introduction to La Parole muette is in many ways indicative of the historical methodology operative in his most recent work on art and politics. The concept of literature, he claims, is at once absolutely self evident and radically undetermined. Rather than invoking this paradox as a Heideggerian justification for investigating the essential question of our age, R…
Modernism as a Misnomer: Godard's Archeology of the Image
The standard historical image of Jean-Luc Godard is that of a resolute iconoclast breaking with the representational norms and codes of classical cinema in the name of liberating film from the deadening weight of its past. His numerous formal innovations—syncopated montage, unconventional framing, unique experiments with dialogue, etc.—along with his abandonment of traditional narrative and character development, his playful pastiche of genres, h…
The Silent Revolution
Jacques Rancière's circuitous response to the question "what is literature?" in the introduction to La Parole muette is in many ways indicative of the historical methodology operative in his most recent work on art and politics. The concept of literature, he claims, is at once absolutely self evident and radically undetermined. Rather than invoking this paradox as a Heideggerian justification for investigating the essential question of our age, R…
L'image ventriloque
L'écriture de l'histoire philosophique: L'éternel retour du même et de l'autre chez Levinas
Cet article examine les changements idéologiques qui touchent le statut social des femmes, en particulier la maternité et la sexualité. Il analyse la pluralisation des féminismes en articulation avec les mobilisations actuelles contre les violences sexuelles et montre les injonctions paradoxales qui s’exercent sur les femmes. Dans une perspective épistémologique il relie ces évolutions à des mutations conceptuelles significatives qui s’observent …
Vers une critique historique de l'imaginaire politique contemporain en France
L’article tente de mettre en lumière les limites de la démocratisation par l’imposition de normes globales et plus particulièrement en Roumanie. Sont avancés, en premier lieu, quelques traits saillants de la notion de transparence telle qu’elle est prescrite au niveau international pour les pays postcommunistes. Ensuite, le propos se concentre sur l’analyse des résultats d’une opération de monitoring d’une loi de transparence par une ONG que nous…
Modernism as a Misnomer: Godard's Archeology of the Image
The standard historical image of Jean-Luc Godard is that of a resolute iconoclast breaking with the representational norms and codes of classical cinema in the name of liberating film from the deadening weight of its past. His numerous formal innovations—syncopated montage, unconventional framing, unique experiments with dialogue, etc.—along with his abandonment of traditional narrative and character development, his playful pastiche of genres, h…
Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique: Dialogues
International audience
Comment penser le temps présent ? De l'ontologie de l'actualité à l'ontologie sans l'être
Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics
Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics
With the aim of rethinking the state and stakes of contemporary theory, Gabriel Rockhill critically works through some of the most important recent philosophical writings on the intertwined topics of history, politics and art. He offers guidance to some of the complex debates in these areas, as well as a commanding overview of the key issues and some of the central figures, including Foucault, Derrida, Castoriadis, Badiou and Rancière. By resitua…
Towards a Compositional Model of Ideology: Materialism, Aesthetics, and Cultural Revolution
This article sets forth a compositional model of ideology by drawing on the tradition of historical materialism and further developing its insights into the aesthetic composition of reality. It demonstrates how ideology is not simply a set of false beliefs but is rather the process by which social agents are composed over time in every dimension of their existence, including their thoughts, practices, perceptions, representations, values, affects…
Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy
In Counter-History of the Present Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized and globalized era intimately connected by a single, overarching economic and technological network. Noting how such a narrative fails to account for the experiences of the billions of people who lack economic security, digital access, and real politica…
Foucault, Genealogy, Counter-History
This article examines the force and limitations of genealogy in order to develop a practice of counter-history that is capable of both overcoming its inherent problems and providing a more trenchant mode of critico-historical engagement. Using Foucault's well-known essay on Nietzsche as its methodological centerpiece, it begins by elucidating the latter's powerful contribution to the historical analysis of values, while also foregrounding the qua…
Le Droit de la philosophie et les faits de l’histoire: Foucault, Derrida, Descartes
La critique formulée par Jacques Derrida de la lecture proposée par Michel Foucault de quelques lignes de Descartes est souvent prise comme un tournant décisif dans l’histoire de la pensée française de l’après-guerre. Elle aurait ouvert la brèche, creusée également par d’autres, entre le structuralisme des maîtres à penser des années 1950 et le « néo- » ou « post-structuralisme » de la nouvelle génération philosophique. Or une telle interprétatio…
Through Pluripolarity to Socialism: A Manifesto” One Year On
The International Manifesto Group launched its manifesto, “Through Pluripolarity to Socialism” on 5 September 2021. Then, the world’s attention was riveted to the US’s ignominious exit from Afghanistan. The following speeches, delivered at the webinar to mark the first anniversary of the event, reflect on the tumultuous events of the year since, dominated by the US-led war on Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy, its wider international reverberation…
Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism
It is no mistake that XYZ. In this interview with Zhao Dingqi of World Socialism Studies, Gabriel Rockhill dives deep into the CIA's campaign to propagate thinly veiled imperialist and capitalist ideology through the institutions of the Western left intelligentsia—and how this state of affairs continues among intellectuals to this day
The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback
In popular thought, the youth and student movements of France May 1968 have been linked with the thinkers of what is known as French theory. Gabriel Rockhill considers the actual, less-than-revolutionary actions of these popular philosophers in the student revolts, then turns our attention to a deeper question: Who benefits from drawing these tenuous connections
A propaganda imperialista e a ideologia da intelligentsia da esquerda ocidental: Do anticomunismo e a política identitária às ilusões democráticas e o fascismo
O texto que segue é a tradução de uma entrevista originalmente veiculada em chinês no v. 11 de World Socialism Studies e publicada em inglês na revista nova-iorquina Monthly Review, v. 75, no 7, de dezembro de 2023. Nela, Gabriel Rockhill, professor de Filosofia da Universidade de Villanova (Pensilvânia), conversa com Zhao Dingqi, pesquisador do Instituto de Marxismo da Academia Chinesa de Ciências Sociais e editor da revista World Socialism Stud…
Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? offers a crash course in the history of imperialist propaganda, as well as in the Marxist method for analyzing culture and ideology. Author Gabriel Rockhill demonstrates the explanatory and transformative superiority of a dialectical and historical materialist approach, while elucidating how the world of ideas is a crucial site of class struggle. He then engages in a meticulous counter-history of the Frankf…
Western Marxism and Imperialism: A Dialogue
John Bellamy Foster and Gabriel Rockhill assess the history and influence of Western Marxism, defined not geographically, but by a rejection of the Marxism developed in the Soviet Union, in the Global South, and even in classical Marxism. This strain of Marxist thought, birthed in the imperial core, represents a concession to the dominance of U.S. ideology, rather than to correct the pressing issues confronting society today
Philosophy as Class Struggle in Theory: Ideology, Dialectics, Culturalism & Socialism
Imperialism and Emancipation: An Introduction to Losurdo
In addition to providing an overview of this special issue, this article by its editors argues that Domenico Losurdo’s work offers an indispensable framework for analyzing modern imperialism and the struggle for socialism, including the overt colonial aggression and ethnonationalism that characterizes contemporary US-led imperialism in its decline, as well as the concurrent rise of the global South and a multipolar world order led by China. Build…
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