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20The postmodern ethical condition a conversation with Agnes HellerCritical Horizons 1 (1): 135-145. 2000.
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Iv. critical essaysIn Said Amir Arjomand & Edward A. Tiryakian (eds.), Rethinking Civilizational Analysis, Sage Publications. pp. 52--201. 2004.
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53Imaginary 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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55Strangers, 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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22Editorial 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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24Between 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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31Citizens 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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22James Bohman, Democracy Across Borders: From Dêmos to DêmoiCritical Horizons 10 (1): 141-147. 2009.
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38Durkheim 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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122Rethinking 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 & Richard Kearney (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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52Modernity, enlightenment, revolution and romanticism: Creating social theoryIn Barry Smart & George Ritzer (eds.), Handbook of Social Theory, Sage Publications. pp. 13--29. 2001.
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