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5Contemporary perspectives in critical and social philosophy (edited book)Brill. 2004.Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy brings together a range of essays concerning ways of conceptualising modernities, subjectivities, and recognition. It highlights recent developments in German critical and social philosophy and includes essays by Martin Seel, Christoph Menke, Max Pensky, Andrew Bowie, and Karl Ameriks, and critical discussions of the works of Manfred Frank, Theodor Adorno and Axel Honneth
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25Editorial introductionCritical Horizons 1 (2): 169-173. 2000.There has always been a tension between a critique of ‘real existing conditions’ and meta-theoretical paradigms through which the tasks of critique can both be anchored and images of humankind explored.
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58Strangers, Citizens and Outsiders: Otherness, Multiculturalism and the Cosmopolitan Imaginary in Mobile SocietiesThesis Eleven 78 (1): 85-101. 2004.This article deploys a double conceptual framework. One frame is positioned through the ideas of absolute strangers and outsiders. The other frame develops out of, though is distinct from, the first, and refers to the disaggregated forms of modern citizenship. The citizen-as-absolute-stranger in addition to accruing political rights may also accrue social, economic or identity rights, or traverse wider relations between him or herself and other absolute strangers in either national or internatio…Read more
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26Between Totalitarianism and Postmodernity: A Thesis Eleven Reader (edited book)MIT Press. 1992.These thirteen articles provide theoretical and historically informed analyses of thepowerful currents that are shaping the late twentieth-century political and culturallandscape.
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Gadamer and the Circles of HermeneuticsIn David Roberts (ed.), Reconstructing theory: Gadamer, Habermas, Luhmann, Melbourne University Press. pp. 10--38. 1995.
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35Citizens and Strangers: Cosmopolitanism as an Empty UniversalCritical Horizons 17 (1): 110-122. 2016.This paper approaches the issue of cosmopolitanism from the vantage point of hospitality. The notion of hospitality throws into relief some issues that are at the heart of political cosmopolitanism, but cannot be addressed by it. This is because these issues do not necessarily revolve around the category of the citizen, but around the categories of stranger and outsider. The paper critiques the tendency to conflate the categories of the stranger and the outsider and goes on to argue that the sta…Read more
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