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56Imaginary turns in critical theory: Imagining subjects in tensionCritical Horizons 2 (1): 61-92. 2001.The aim of this paper is to examine two turns towards the idea of the creative imagination in contemporary critical theory in the works of Axel Honneth and Cornelius Castoriadis. Honneth's work subsumes the idea of the creative imagination under the paradigm of mutual recognition. Castoriadis constructs the idea of the creative imagination from an ontological perspective. However, Castoriadis' idea of the primary autism of the creative imagination can be thrown into relief by Hegel's Jena Lectur…Read more
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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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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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Imaginings, narratives, and otherness: on diacritical hermeneuticsIn Peter Gratton & John Panteleimon Manoussakis (eds.), Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge, Northwestern University Press. 2007.
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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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55Modernity, enlightenment, revolution and romanticism: Creating social theoryIn Barry Smart & George Ritzer (eds.), Handbook of social theory, Sage. pp. 13--29. 2001.
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50Democratic Revolutions, Power and the City: Weber and Political ModernityThesis Eleven 97 (1): 81-98. 2009.This article develops three interconnected arguments concerning the image of modernity as a revolutionary epoch and the way in which this image has been understood and theorized. These three lines of conceptualization, which can only be sketched in less rather than greater detail here, concern the constellation or figuration of modernity, its democratic dimension, and in reference to each, the work of Max Weber, especially The City. More specifically, the article argues that modern democracy is …Read more
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10Aesthetics and Modernity: Essays by Agnes Heller (edited book)Lexington Books. 2010.Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller's most recent essays on aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature and comedy, aesthetic reception and embodiment in the context of the continuing pitfalls of modernity. The essays also throw light on Heller's theories of values, emotions and feelings, embodiment, and modernity. Those with an interest in philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, and social theory will find this collection illuminating, and an essential addition to an…Read more
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187The Jacobin Critique of Modernity: The Case of Petr TkachevThesis Eleven 27 (1): 125-151. 1990.
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