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31James Marsh, process, praxis, and transcendenceContinental Philosophy Review 36 (2): 213-220. 2003.
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29Explorations of the lebenswelt : Reflections on Schutz and Habermas (review)Human Studies 7 (3-4). 1984.
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25Preserving the Eidetic Moment: A Contribution of Phenomenology to Critical TheoryTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2008 (145): 177-191. 2008.Phenomenology and Critical Theory sprang from the same historical root, namely, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thought. In my Handbook of Critical Theory,1 I traced the development of Critical Theory from its Hegelian and Marxist origins to its manifestation in the first and second generations of the so-called Frankfurt School. Although I won't do the same for phenomenology here, it is worth noting that the two traditions, phenomenology and Critical Theor…Read more
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23Conflicted ModernityJournal of Philosophical Research 37 (9999): 217-222. 2012.This paper will begin by clarifying the kind of context, which requires toleration. My point of departure is a characterization of modernity that both departs from the classical modern theory of secularization and draws from the current research on multiple modernities. Because of the more or less recent resurgence of religion we can no longer characterize toleration on the basis of a theory of secularization. This will lead to the definition of conflict and tolerance within the confines of a po…Read more
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23Legitimacy, sovereignty, solidarity and cosmopolitanism: On the recent work of Jürgen Habermas (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 40 (1): 13-18. 2014.
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23From system integration to social integration: Kurdish challenge to Turkish republicanismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 406-418. 2016.The modern republican history of Turkey and its relation with the question of ethnic diversity could be understood via the tension between the processes of system integration and social integration. This article, based on Jürgen Habermas’ conceptual framework, draws the sources of such tension with reference to the Kurdish identity in Turkey since the early republican era. For this purpose, from the 1920s to the 2000s, policies and discourses of system integration aiming at a certain degree of e…Read more
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21Rawls, Religion, and the Clash of CivilizationsTélos 2014 (167): 107-125. 2014.In this essay I deal with two conceptions of the political—one that entails a clash of civilizations associated with an Schmittian critique of liberalism, and a second that envisions the political as an emerging domain in relationship to the idea of overlapping consensus. The discovery of the emerging domain of the political in the later work of John Rawls separates the comprehensive from the political in a way that breaks the link between modernization and secularization. In so doing Rawls acco…Read more
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21From the moral to the political: The question of political legitimacy in non-western societiesPhilosophy and Social Criticism 43 (4-5): 430-441. 2017.This article focuses on the problem of political legitimacy: first, by finding it to be the driving force in the Rawlsian paradigm moving from a focus on the moral to one on the political; second, with the help of a consideration of multiple-modernities theory, by arguing for a version of political liberalism freed of its western framework; and third, by applying that framework to current debates over the meaning of democracy in a Confucian context.
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20The emerging domain of the politicalPhilosophy and Social Criticism 38 (4-5): 457-466. 2012.This essay deals with two conceptions of the political, one that entails a clash of civilizations associated with a Schmittian critique of liberalism and a second which envisions the political as an emerging domain. The latter idea can be associated with the later work of John Rawls which separates the comprehensive from the political. I argue that it is this idea, when reconstructed in relationship to a theory of multiple modernities, that can be appropriated for an emerging notion of global ju…Read more
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20The Handbook of Critical Theory (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1996._The Handbook of Critical Theory_ brings together for the first time a detailed examination of the state of critical theory today. The fifteen essays provide analyses of the various orientations which critical theory has taken both historically and systematically in recent years, expositions of the new perspectives which have begun to shape the field, and reflections upon the direction of critical theory
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20Symbol and interpretationMartinus Nijhoff. 1974.INTRODUCTION For the past four or five years much of my thinking has centered upon the relationship of symbolic forms to philosophic imagination and ...
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19Republican conception of liberty in early republican Turkey and its contemporary implicationsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 429-439. 2016.Established in 1923, Turkey has been a republic without a dominant republican conception of liberty. A chance to install such a conception was missed in the early republican period and never recaptured. The republic was unable to get rid of vestiges of the authoritarian tradition of the past. Centuries-old authoritarian tradition persisted well into the recent and the contemporary periods. Presenting ample evidence, the article underlines the weight of history and the legacy of authoritarian men…Read more
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18‘République and laïcité’: What is at stake in contemporary France?Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 440-447. 2016.How should one define the republican democratic and ‘laïque’ spirit in both the most concise and effective manner, as well as that most suited to the French case? The republican spirit resides without doubt in refusing submission to any single individual whoever that individual may be. The democratic spirit does not consist of decreeing the sovereignty of the people, but in developing formal modalities of political life allowing the people not to be divested of it. The ‘laïque’ spirit rejects al…Read more
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18Can socialism move beyond political liberalism without accommodating pluralism?Philosophy and Social Criticism 45 (6): 689-693. 2019.In the first part of my essay I argue that the real issue behind Axel Honneth’s interpretation of socialism is the relationship between Marx and Hegel with the fundamental claim that Marx misunders...
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18Reading HabermasPhilosophical Quarterly 42 (166): 129. 1992.In the past decade the work of Jurgen Habermas has sparked off a series of lively debates over modernity and post-modernity, the nature of language, the interplay of law and politics and the dilemmas of morality. Significantly, these debates unfold in the context of his particular reading of the modern philosophical tradition from the German enlightment to the present period. In this original interpretation, David Rasmussen provides both guide and critique to the later Habermas encountered in th…Read more
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17The right to politics and republican non-dominationPhilosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 465-475. 2016.Against pronouncements of the recent demise of both democracy and the political, I maintain that there is, rather, something amiss with the process of politicization in which social grievances are translated into matters of political concern and become objects of policy-making. I therefore propose to seek an antidote to the de-politicizing tendencies of our age by reanimating the mechanism that transmits social conflicts and grievances into politics. To that purpose, I formulate the notion of a …Read more
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17The long crisis of the nation-state and the rise of religions to the public stagePhilosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 351-356. 2016.The aim of this article is to identify the main factors of the current crisis of the nation-state and to demonstrate how many of the voids left by this crisis are filled by religions. The main characteristic of the nation-state is the principle of sovereignty. The apogee of the nation-state is the political form of industrialization. National identity is possible only when the state proves to its citizens that the fact of being a member of it carries benefits and privileges and will always bring…Read more
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17Cultural pluralism?Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 448-455. 2016.This article is an analysis of the ideological production of the idea of cultural pluralism. It points at the impossibility of inhabiting two or more civil societies at once. It points at the fact that culture alive cannot be accessed. It recommends attention to the ungeneralizable huge subaltern populations of the world that often also constitute an electorate. It recommends linguistic rather than cultural pluralism and a nurturing of the understanding of the right to intellectual labor in educ…Read more
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16Violent Islamism beyond borders: Can human rights prevail?Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 363-374. 2016.The argument that sectarian conflicts in the Arab Middle East have been persistent since time immemorial is erroneous. While these views may seem compelling with the rise of ISIL, they are in fact very dangerous: they downgrade Islamic societies to primordial, selective and static features. I will argue for a different set of propositions. First, violence is not unique to Islamic societies. Extreme illiberal ideologies prevailed in Christian Europe both during the Thirty Years War and during the…Read more
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15The Democratic HorizonPhilosophy and Social Criticism 42 (7): 635-639. 2016.The Democratic Horizon offers us the project for the renewal of political liberalism through a response to hyperpluralism in the context of an emerging democratic ethos worldwide. While the book reads as a ringing endorsement of Political Liberalism, authored by John Rawls, it goes beyond that project in significant ways. In my view The Democratic Horizon represents something of a tour de force; a truly original contribution for those who recognize the imperative significance of our worldwide co…Read more
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14The Narrative path: the later works of Paul Ricoeur (edited book)MIT Press. 1988.This book provides a perceptive analysis of the "narrative turn" that led Paul Ricoeur to his magisterial work Time and Narrative. Ricoeur has for many years explored the intersections of diverse strands of European philosophy, but it is his recent work that has attracted the most discussion and engendered the most debate in Europe and America. The Narrative Path explores the roots and meaning of that work. Two of the book's five essays reach back to Ricoeur's earlier work to clarify his themes:…Read more
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14States and communities competing for global powerPhilosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 386-396. 2016.The question of immigration and its corollary community and minority formation has always been analysed in relation to states. However, the increasing importance of solidarity beyond national borders on the grounds of one or several identities – national, religious, ethnic, regional – removes the claim of recognition of a collective identity from a national level to an international level and, in the European Union, to a supranational level. Such an evolution places territory at the core of the …Read more
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13The crisis of Arab states, ethics and citizenshipPhilosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 357-362. 2016.The present article constitutes an attempt to analyse the historical causes of the present crisis affecting the Arab world and the failure to build modern states in this region. It has to be noticed that from the three main ethnic groups constituting the pillars of the Middle East, i.e. the Persians, the Arabs and the Turks, the Arab failure and the generalization of violence in Arab societies and between Arab states is to be adequately analysed in order to be able to contribute to peace, reform…Read more