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20The Logic of Modernity and Ecological CrisisEnvironmental Values 30 (3): 277-296. 2021.This paper examines the theory of sustainable development presented by Jeffrey Sachs in The Age of Sustainable Development. While Sustainable Development ostensibly seeks to harmonise the conflict between ecological sustainability and human development, the paper argues this is impossible because of the conceptual frame it employs. Rather than allowing for a re-conceptualisation of the human-nature relation, Sustainable Development is simply the latest and possibly last attempt to advance the co…Read more
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16The role of Bildung in Hegel’s philosophy of historyIntellectual History Review 31 (3): 445-462. 2021.The notion of Bildung comes to prominence in the second half of the eighteenth century. It was originally conceived to capture the cultural conditions by which an individual becomes a moral agent. In Hegel’s thought, it develops a much more expansive role; it is at the heart of his socio-historical project. Bildung is Hegel’s theory of culture, but for Hegel, is not just the way in which individuals are cultivated, the process by which individuals internalise the norms of their society, or devel…Read more
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16Hegel : Self-Consciousness and Self-DeterminationIn Self-Consciousness and the Critique of the Subject: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Poststructuralists, Columbia University Press. 2014.This chapter presents the model of subjectivity that Hegel establishes in his _Phenomenology of Spirit_, which requires some examination of the key conceptual problems that he inherited from his predecessors. The development of Hegels subjectivity is set against the views expressed by Fichte and Kant. A particular concern for the Hegelian subjectivity established in the _Phenomenology_ is how Kant conceived the conditions for self-consciousness and his failure to resolve the concept/intuition di…Read more
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14Self-Consciousness and the Critique of the Subject: Hegel, Heidegger, and the PoststructuralistsColumbia University Press. 2014.Poststructuralists hold Hegel responsible for giving rise to many of modern philosophy's problematic concepts--the authority of reason, self-consciousness, the knowing subject. Yet, according to Simon Lumsden, this animosity is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of Hegel's thought, and resolving this tension can not only heal the rift between poststructuralism and German idealism but also point these traditions in exciting new directions. Revisiting the philosopher's key texts, Lumsden cal…Read more
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121. Poststructuralism and Modern European PhilosophyIn Benoît Dillet, Iain Mackenzie & Robert Porter (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 23-46. 2013.
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11Practice, Ethical Life and Normative Authority: The Problem of Alienation in Steven Vogel's Environmental PhilosophyEnvironmental Values 32 (6): 719-737. 2023.In Thinking like a Mall Steven Vogel argues that there is no authoritative nature independent of human standards to which one can appeal to correct damaging environmental practices. Human practices are the only basis for interpreting the environment and our ecologically destructive practices have made our environment into the degraded thing that it is. Revising these flawed practices requires becoming alienated from them; only then can we be responsible for them. Alienation is overcome by a demo…Read more
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9Robert Stern, Hegel and the ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’ , pp. xviii + 234. 0415217881 . £9.99Hegel Bulletin 24 (1-2): 101-105. 2003.
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8Hegel, Derrida and the SubjectCosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 3 (2-3): 32-50. 2007.There is a simple story to be told about Derridarsquo;s relation to Hegel. He develops his core concepts such as diffeacute;rance and trace through an essentially negative relation to the central notions of the idealist tradition. Derrida has been particularly concerned to undermine what he takes to be the heart of the idealist projectmdash;the self-present subject. This paper examines the influence of Heidegger on the deconstructive critique of idealist subjectivity and presents Derridarsquo;s …Read more
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2Deleuze and Hegel on the limits of self-determined subjectivityIn Karen Houle, Jim Vernon & Jean-Clet Martin (eds.), Hegel and Deleuze: Together Again for the First Time, Northwestern University Press. 2013.
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Robert Stern's Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 47 101-105. 2003.
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