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9Politicizing Honneth’s Ethics of RecognitionThesis Eleven 88 (1): 92-111. 2007.This article argues that Axel Honneth’s ethics of recognition offers a robust model for a renewed critical theory of society, provided that it does not shy away from its political dimensions. First, the ethics of recognition needs to clarify its political moment at the conceptual level to remain conceptually sustainable. This requires a clarification of the notion of identity in relation to the three spheres of recognition, and a clarification of its exact place in a politics of recognition. We …Read more
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24Social Suffering: Sociology, Psychology, PoliticsRowman & Littlefield International. 2017.This is the first English-language translation of an important book that contributes to contemporary debates about social suffering in sociology, social psychology, political theory and philosophy. Renault provides a systematic account of the ways in which social suffering could be conceptualised.
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4Hegel à Iéna (edited book)Ens éditions. 2015.La période d’Iéna est décisive pour la formation de la pensée hégélienne de la maturité ; elle est marquée par une prise de distance progressive avec Schelling et par les premières tentatives d’élaboration d’un nouveau système philosophique. Pourtant, les textes hégéliens d’Iéna n’ont fait l’objet en fançais que d’études ponctuelles. L’ouvrage, qui tente de prendre en compte l’ensemble de la pensée hégélienne de cette période, s’intéresse aux transformations qui affectent celle-ci, tant dans le …Read more
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12The Return of Work in Critical Theory: Self, Society, PoliticsColumbia University Press. 2018.From John Maynard Keynes’s prediction of a fifteen-hour workweek to present-day speculation about automation, we have not stopped forecasting the end of work. Critical theory and political philosophy have turned their attention away from the workplace to focus on other realms of domination and emancipation. But far from coming to an end, work continues to occupy a central place in our lives. This is not only because of the amount of time people spend on the job. Many of our deepest hopes and fea…Read more
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Democratic agon: Striving for distinction or struggle against domination and injustice?In Andrew Schaap (ed.), Law and Agonistic Politics, Ashgate Pub. Company. 2008.
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L'homme Total. Sociologie, Anthropologie Et Philosophie Chez Marcel Mauss (review)Actuel Marx 24. 1998.
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18Fin de la politique et émancipation du travail : quand le réalisme rejoint l'utopieCités 59 (3): 33-44. 2014.
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64Radical democracy and an abolitionist concept of justice. A critique of Habermas' theory of justiceCritical Horizons 6 (1): 137-152. 2005.This paper asks whether or not normative political philosophy can face the challenge of the critique of the political. This question is addressed to theories of justice in general, but this paper considers Habermas' position in particular. It advances the thesis that the main theoretical and political problem of theories of justice is that they have not really taken the abolitionist dimension of the concept of justice into account. As a consequence, they run the risk of reproducing in themselves…Read more
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51Biopolitics and social pathologiesCritical Horizons 7 (1): 159-177. 2006.The question of social medicine provides the opportunity to engage in a critical reading of Foucault's theory of biopower. The analyses dedicated by Foucault to `the birth of social medicine' represent one of the few examples of a thorough application of that theory. They allow Foucault to show the heuristic value of the biopolitical hypothesis at the level of the most concrete historical materiality, and not just at that of the general history of the forms of governmentality. These analyses, ho…Read more
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15Marx et sa conception déflationniste de la philosophieActuel Marx 46 (2): 137-149. 2009.Marx and his Deflationist Conception of Philosophy What is the status of philosophy in the Marxian project ? To answer this question, we must examinethe place of philosophy in the Marxian opus and we must qualify the nature of the philosophicalposition which can be attributed to Marx. The thesis put forward in the article is that the specificnature of the Marxian enterprise is less the result of its being a defence of a new philosophical principle , and more a case of its having formulated a new…Read more
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5Qu'est-ce que la critique de l'idéologie?Actuel Marx 43 (1): 96-108. 2008.Two paradoxes seem to characterise the method of the critique of ideology. The first has to do with the fact that ideologies are “both true and false” (Adorno). The second has to do with the fact that the critique of ideology seems to carry both a normative and a descriptive dimension. The article argues that these two paradoxes disappear when the critique of ideology is addressed by way of a Hegelian mode of immanent critique. Such an approach highlights both the specific normative claim of the…Read more
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16La modalité critique chez MarxRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 189 (2). 1999.Marx, avec Kant et Bayle, est l'un des rares auteurs dont la pensée est associée dans son ensemble à la notion de critique. Il fit subir des modifications décisives à la fonction critique et il est sans doute l'un de ceux qui eurent le plus d'influence sur les consonances actuelles du thème de la critique en philosophie et en politique. La notion de critique est centrale chez le jeune Marx comme chez le Marx de la maturité, mais elle est prise en de nombreuses acceptions, tributaires de différen…Read more
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20The political philosophy of social sufferingIn Boudewijn de Bruin & Christopher F. Zurn (eds.), New waves in political philosophy, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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29Du fordisme au post-fordisme : Dépassement ou retour de l'aliénation?Actuel Marx 39 (1): 89-105. 2006.In contemporary political philosophy, the disqualification of the problematic of alienation has to a large extent rested on the conviction that the norms of democracy, justice, and the good life provide a sufficient framework within which to outline a social critique that is politically pertinent. The paradox is that, at the very moment when such a conviction was becoming widespread, its validity was being refuted by the historical reality. It would appear that the casting-off of the Fordist sys…Read more
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63Reconnaissance, critique sociale et politique: Entretien de Gonçalo Marcelo avec Emmanuel RenaultÉtudes Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 2 (1): 134-149. 2011.Au cours de cet entretien, Emmanuel Renault nous offre un aperçu de la manière dont la thématique de la reconnaissance est traitée en France aujourd’hui, notamment à travers le renouveau des études sur Hegel et Marx. Il explique la façon dont la reconnaissance a pu s’ériger en paradigme (en dépit de ses usages multiples et variés en France comme ailleurs), au cours de la dernière décennie et le rôle joué par Axel Honneth dans ce procès. Finalement, il explicite sa manière d’envisager la pratique…Read more
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83From fordism to post-fordism: Beyond or back to alienation?Critical Horizons 8 (2): 205-220. 2007.The evidence today is practically uncontested: about thirty years ago we left Fordism behind and entered a new phase of capitalism. That the structures of the post-Fordist social order call for new modes of social critique is also a prevalent idea. The category of alienation continues, however, to be discredited. Nevertheless it is not clear that the categories of democracy (as apparatuses of non-domination), justice and the good life are capable of bringing about the political effects that may …Read more
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65Three Marxian Approaches to RecognitionEthical Theory and Moral Practice 16 (4): 699-711. 2013.If it seems fully legitimate to introduce Marx in the contemporary discussion about recognition, it is more disputable to attribute to Marx an unified conception of recognition. There is no doubt that Marx hasn’t provided any systematic account of recognition, but he has tackled the issue of recognition from various points of view. Could these various points of view be unified in a general conception of recognition? This article claims that this is not the case since three accounts of recognitio…Read more
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26Biopolitique, médecine sociale et critique du libéralismeMultitudes 34 (3): 195. 2008.Current debates on neo-liberal governmentality and the medicalization-psychologization of the social constantly refer to Foucault’s theory of biopolitics. I critically examine Foucault’s notions of biopolitics and liberalism as conveyed in his articles on the emergence of social medicine in the 19th century. My thesis is that the movement of sanitary reform is irreducible to the mere development of liberal governmentality and that the idea of social medicine was associated in the period with a c…Read more
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17Marxism, Politics, and Social ExperienceIn Daniel Loick & Rahel Jaeggi (eds.), Karl Marx - Perspektiven der Gesellschaftskritik, De Gruyter. pp. 285-296. 2013.
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15L'état de victime : quelques corps dans la scène thé'trale contemporaineActuel Marx 41 (1): 99-108. 2007.The 2005 Avignon Theatre Festival sparked a vast controversy about the insistent presence of bodies (whether wounded, broken, or humiliated) on stage. Without subscribing to the reactionary critical response to the Festival, it is legitimate to return to the debate in order to question the ubiquity of the “victim body” in contemporary theatre. Such representations, far from being heterodox, are in fact part of the massive ideology of “the ethical”, as diagnosed by Alain Badiou. The oppressed bod…Read more
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19L'invisibilità politica del lavoro e le sue eco filosoficheIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 22 (1): 71-86. 2009.