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15Bemerkungen zum Neo-Marxismus: Sartre und HabermasZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 36 (2). 1982.
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23Recent Discussion of Heidegger and PoliticsGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 21 (2): 47-67. 1999.There is an obvious distinction between the philosophical meditation on politics and relevance to politics, on the one hand, and the political engagement of philosophers and even philosophy, on the other. At this late date, there can be few people interested in philosophy, and even many uninterested in this ancient discipline, unaware that Martin Heidegger turned to Nazism in the 1930s. Heidegger, who all his life subscribed to the Platonic view of the priority of philosophy over politics, later…Read more
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27Fried, Gregory. Heidegger’s Polemos: From Being to Politics (review)Review of Metaphysics 56 (2): 419-421. 2002.
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53Fichte, German idealism, and early romanticism (edited book)Rodopi. 2010.This volume of 23 previously unpublished essays explores the relationship between the philosophy of J.G. Fichte and that of other leading thinkers associated ...
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120Theory and practice again: Habermas on historical materialismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 13 (3): 211-225. 1987.
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22Report on the Third International Philosophical‐Cultural Symposium on MetaphilosophyMetaphilosophy 29 (1&2): 3-5. 1998.
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49Idealist Hermeneutics and the Hermeneutics of IdealismIdealistic Studies 12 (2): 91-102. 1982.The recent concern with hermeneutics, which stems above all from Truth and Method, should not be allowed to obscure the fact, to which Gadamer certainly is sensitive, that this topic has a long philosophical lineage, extending back into the tradition at least to Aristotle. In particular, it seems rarely to have been noticed that although their thought is notoriously difficult, the major members of the German idealist tradition provided not only the positions themselves, but a theory of their int…Read more
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60Subjectivity and the Ontology of HistoryThe Monist 74 (2): 187-205. 1991.Since history concerns change over time, an ontology of history requires a notion of subjectivity. In the modern tradition, beginning with Kant, ontology has come to be understood as epistemology. But as a result of the failure of foundationalism and the turn to a relativistic theory of knowledge, it is necessary to rethink the idea of history in terms of a conception of the historical subject.
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22Marxian epistemology and two kinds of pragmatismStudies in Soviet Thought 28 (2): 117-125. 1984.
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86Aspects of French HegelianismThe Owl of Minerva 24 (2): 191-206. 1993.It is hardly surprising, since for Hegel philosophers are children of their times, that French Hegelianism differs from Hegelianism in other languages and literatures. At least the following aspects typify the French approach to Hegel's theory. To begin with, Hegel, like a few others, is a master thinker in the French discussion, one of the few intellectual figures around whom the discussion tends to take shape. Second, in the wake of the major impetus provided to French Hegel studies by Kojève'…Read more
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29Heidegger's uses of Plato and the history of philosophyIn Catalin Partenie & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Heidegger and Plato: Toward Dialogue, Northwestern University Press. pp. 192--212. 2005.
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Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Vol II Metaphysics (edited book)Philosophy Document Center. 1999.
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67Fichtean Circularity, Antifoundationalism, and Groundless SystemIdealistic Studies 25 (1): 107-124. 1995.For some time now I have been arguing that Fichte's theory can be read as circular, antifoundationalist, and systematic, and further arguing that it is the source of an epistemological revolution in philosophy. Fichte and most of his interpreters mainly see him as carrying forward the critical philosophy. But I see him as breaking with it in crucial ways in a profoundly innovative theory. The aim of this paper is to pull together aspects of this argument in a single place in order to describe Fi…Read more
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Leszek Kolakowski, "Die Hauptsstromungen des Marxismus: Entstehung, Entwicklung, Zerfall" (review)Man and World 12 (1): 89. 1979.
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51Recent philosophical perspectives on lukács in the westStudies in East European Thought 31 (1): 39-46. 1986.
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20Gadamer, Rorty and Epistemology as HermeneuticsLaval Théologique et Philosophique 53 (1): 119-130. 1997.
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8Ambiguity and orthodoxy: Bertram Wolfe's view of Marx and MarxismStudies in Soviet Thought 20 (4): 349-360. 1979.
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2On War, Politics and Capitalism After 9/11Theoria 53 74-96. 2006.9/11 represents less a tear in the fabric of history, or a break with the past, than an inflection in ongoing historical processes, such as the continued expansion of capitalism that at some recent time has supposedly attained a level of globalization. This paper considers the relation of war and politics with respect to three instances arising in the wake of 9/11, including the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and finally the global war on terror. I argue that these wars are superficially d…Read more
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62Epistemology As HermeneuticsThe Monist 73 (2): 115-133. 1990.Recent discussion has seen an increase in the interest in hermeneutics. The increased interest in hermeneutics goes back at least until the appearance of Being and Time in 1927, more than sixty years ago. Thisbookis characterized by the unresolved tension between two clearly incompatible theses: the Husserlian form of absolute truth, and a post-Husserlian view of truth arising from the hermeneutical circle. More recently, the interest in hermeneutics has been strengthened by the appearance of Tr…Read more
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41Knowledge as HistoricalThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 5 123-132. 2000.With few exceptions, philosophers typically have contended that knowledge worthy of the name is beyond time and place. This venerable idea was turned on its head in the emergence of a rival view of knowledge as historical in the wake of the French Revolution. A claim that knowledge is not ahistorical but historical resolves some of these difficulties while creating others. This paper will briefly consider several of these difficulties, including how to argue for this position, the differences be…Read more
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