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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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27James Bohman, Democracy Across Borders: From Dêmos to DêmoiCritical Horizons 10 (1): 141-147. 2009.
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43Durkheim and the reflexive condition of modernityCritical Horizons 7 (1): 179-206. 2006.In this essay, Durkheim's work is approached from a double vantage point. One vantage point looks at Durkheim's work with a post-classical attitude that intersects the ontological recasting of the social in the work of Castoriadis. It is in the context of social opening that I will concentrate on Durkheim's work as it presents a model of reflexivity that concentrates on the historical development of the modern period. Durkheim's model of reflexivity also opens onto the other vantage point of pol…Read more
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126Rethinking imagination: culture and creativity (edited book)Routledge. 1994.Discusses the different ways in which the concept of imagination has been construed, and provides fascinating glimpses of the role of imagination in the creation and management of Modernity.
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