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Vicissitudes of the Dialectic: From Merleau-Ponty's Les Aventures de la dialectique to Sartre's Second CritiquePhilosophical Forum 18 (4): 358-391. 1987.
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2Review of William L. McBride: Social Theory at a Crossroads (review)Ethics 93 (4): 813-814. 1983.
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36Interpreting Husserl and Heidegger: The Root of Sartre's ThoughtTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1972 (13): 47-67. 1972.
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133Camus versus Sartre: The unresolved conflictSartre Studies International 11 (s 1-2): 302-310. 2005.By what incredible foresight did the most significant intellectual quarrel of the twentieth century anticipate the major issue of the twenty-first? When Camus and Sartre parted ways in 1952, the main question dividing them was political violence—specifically, that of communism. And as they continued to jibe at each other during the next decade, especially during the war in Algeria, one of the major issues between them became terrorism. The 1957 and 1964 Nobel Laureates were divided sharply over …Read more
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20Sartre on Stalin: A discussion of Critique de la Raison Dialectique, IIStudies in Soviet Thought 33 (2): 131-143. 1987.
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5Between heaven and earthThe Philosophers' Magazine 48 73-80. 2010.One of the paradoxes of the Culture War is that opposites conspire with each other against the rest of us. We are offered an impoverished, narrow conception of reason and knowledge, proposing a stark choice to the rest of us: approach life’s important questions through science, or turn to religion. This was a false choice two hundred years ago, and it remains so today.
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49Sartre, Camus, and the caliban articlesSartre Studies International 7 (2): 1-7. 2001.In October and November, 1948, an exchange on democracy between Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus appeared in Jean Daniel's monthly Caliban. At first glance these articles confirm the prevailing sense that the 1952 split was inevitable. But reading the break back into the relationship presents it with a kind of necessity, corresponding to the law of "analysis after the event" described by Doris Lessing. Inasmuch as it resulted in a break, we are tempted to focus from the start on "the laws of di…Read more
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21Hope Now: The 1980 InterviewsUniversity of Chicago Press. 2007.This absorbing volume at last contextualizes and elucidates the final thoughts of a brilliant and influential mind.
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27David Schweickart’s Left-Over Marxism (review)Radical Philosophy Review of Books 11 (9): 31-35. 1995.
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16La Morale de la VéritéBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 4 (2-3): 155-165. 1992.
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99Hope and actionThe Philosophers' Magazine 38 (38): 40-42. 2007.One of the paradoxes of the Culture War is that opposites conspire with each other against the rest of us. We are offered an impoverished, narrow conception of reason and knowledge, proposing a stark choice to the rest of us: approach life’s important questions through science, or turn to religion. This was a false choice two hundred years ago, and it remains so today
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21Surviving the Neoliberal Maelstrom: A Sartrean Phenomenology of Social HopeSartre Studies International 21 (1): 21-33. 2015.It might seem that Sartre's thought is no longer relevant in understanding and combating the maelstrom unleashed by triumphant neoliberalism. But we can still draw inspiration from Sartre's hatred of oppression and his project to understand how his most famous theme of individual self-determination and responsibility coexists with our social belonging and determination by historical forces larger than ourselves. Most important today is Sartre's understanding in _Critique of Dialectical Reason_ o…Read more
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26Celebrating the Critique’s Fiftieth AnniversarySartre Studies International 16 (2): 1-16. 2010.When published, Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason appeared to be a major intellectual and political event, no less than a Kantian effort to found Marxism, with far-reaching theoretical and political consequences. Claude Levi-Strauss devoted a course to studying it, and debated Sartre's main points in The Savage Mind ; Andre Gorz devoted a major article to explaining its importance and key concepts in New Left Review . Many analysts of the May, 1968 events in Paris claimed that they were an…Read more
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5After MarxismGuilford Press. 1994.After Marxism calls for a new radical coalition centered around morality and utopian sensibility. The book explores the kinds of commitments, values, and approaches to social realities that may still be described as radical today. These include the determination to end every form of oppression; a freedom to combine many different theories and kinds of analysis; an open and experimental attitude; an appreciation of modernity's great promise of being on our own; an understanding that radical socia…Read more
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Wayne State UniversityRegular Faculty
Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |