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50The future of critical theory? Kompridis on world-disclosing critiquePhilosophy and Social Criticism 37 (9): 1053-1061. 2011.Nikolas Kompridis has recently argued that the future of critical theory depends upon a critical appropriation of Heidegger’s concept of ‘world disclosure’, and hence on a transformation of critical theory into a form of ‘world-disclosing critique’ oriented towards the future. This article engages in a critical dialogue with Kompridis' account of world-disclosing critique, arguing that critical theory should embrace it as an innovative way of retrieving the forgotten tradition of aesthetic criti…Read more
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63Critical Theory As Disclosing Critique: A Response to KompridisConstellations 19 (3): 369-381. 2012.What Kompridis admirably describes as the transformative power of disclosing critique should be incorporated into a renewed model of critical theory. At the same time, disclosing critique should be regarded as supplementing, rather than supplanting, those normative forms of analysis and reflection that remain rooted in experiences of social suffering, which are precisely what continue to give critical theory its normative ground and theoretical impetus. In this way, we could agree with Kompridis…Read more
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116Cinema and Its Shadow: Mario Perniola (2004) Art and Its ShadowFilm-Philosophy 10 (2): 31-38. 2006.Book review of Mario Perniola, 'Art and Its Shadow', translated by Massimo Verdicchio with a foreword by Hugh J. Silverman, London and New York: Continuum Press, ISBN: 082626243X
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106Recognitive freedom: Hegel and the problem of recognitionCritical Horizons 5 (1): 271-295. 2004.This paper examines the theme of recognition in Hegel's account of self-consciousness, suggesting that there are unresolved difficulties with the relationship between the normative sense of mutual recognition and phenomenological cases of unequal recognition. Recent readings of Hegel deal with this problem by positing an implicit distinction between an 'ontological' sense of recognition as a precondition for autonomous subjectivity, and a 'normative' sense of recognition as embodied in rational …Read more
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15Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory (edited book)Brill. 2007.Recognition, Work, Politics includes a range of essays in contemporary French critical theory around politics, recognition, and work, and their philosophical articulations. These issues are addressed from directions that include post-structuralism, the paradigm of the gift, recognition theory, and post-marxism
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19Neo-Anarchism or Neo-Liberalism? Yes, Please! A Response to Simon Critchley's Infinitely DemandingCritical Horizons 10 (2): 163-179. 2009.Simon Critchley's Infinitely Demanding makes a timely contribution to contemporary debates in ethics and political philosophy. For all its originality, however, one can raise critical questions concerning Critchley's account of the forms of resistance possible within liberal democratic polities. In this article I question the adequacy of Critchley's ethically based neo-anarchism as a response to neo-liberalism, critically analysing the role of ideology in his account of the motivational deficit …Read more
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