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Jurgen Habermas' philosophical-political profile: A critical appraisal of the biographical argumentFilosoficky Casopis 52 (2): 207-229. 2004.
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9From 'Theoretical Cleansing' to Basic Philosophical Rights: A ManifestoProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 67 (6). 1994.
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24Singular Existence and Critical TheoryRadical Philosophy Review 8 (2): 211-223. 2005.Two questions were addressed to my existential biography of Habermas: Is my use of existential categories to discuss his theorycompatible with his recovery of the publicity of facts and norms? Can I concede a secular reading of anamnestic solidarity to Habermas and retain this conception to sustain a Benjaminian-Kierkegaardian openness of history? The best answer would be to reprint Habermas’s astonishing autobiography from Kyoto (his thank you speech on the occasion of the Koyto Award on 11 Nov…Read more
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26Between Hope and TerrorEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 9 (1): 1-18. 2004.His Paulskirche speech on October 14, 2001, marked Habermas’s turn to public criticism of the unilateral politics of global hegemony as he promoted a globaldomestic and human rights policy. Two years later he joined ranks with Jacques Derrida against the eight “new” Europeans who lent signatures to the second Gulf War. Lest we misjudge the joint letter by Habermas and Derrida as peculiarly Eurocentric and even oblivious to the worldwide nature of the antiwar protest on February 15, 2003, we must…Read more
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26International Kierkegaard Commentary: The Corsair Affair, Vol. 13International Philosophical Quarterly 32 (4): 524-526. 1992.
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317Existential Social Theory After the Poststructuralist and Communication TurnsHuman Studies 25 (2): 147-164. 2002.Thomas Flynn's work on Sartre and Foucault, the first of a two-volume project, offers a unique opportunity for examining an existential theory of history. It occasions rethinking existential-social categories from the vantage point of the poststructuralist turn. And it contributes to developing existential variants of critical theory. The following questions guide me in each of the three above areas. First, how is human history intelligible, given not only our finite sense of ourselves but also …Read more
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21Habermas' turn?Philosophy and Social Criticism 32 (1): 21-36. 2006.How a thinker comes to adopt or change a view may be regarded as either a strictly theoretical or biographical issue. First, looking backward at my completed philosophical-political profile of Habermas, I elucidate how biographical methodology can yield a coherent yet dynamically evolving profile rather than a static portrait. Second, examining Habermas’ thinking after 2000, the year my published biography of him ends, I venture a biographical-philosophical hypothesis that in what appears to be …Read more
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149Becoming human, becoming SoberContinental Philosophy Review 42 (2): 249-274. 2009.Two themes run through Kierkegaard’s authorship. The first defines existential requirements for “becoming human”—reflective honesty and earnest humor. The second demarcates the religious phenomena of sobriety when human becoming suffers insurmountable collisions. Living with existential pathos teaches the difference between the either/or logic of collisions and the both/and logic of development and transitions. There is a difference between self-transformation and a progressive individual and so…Read more
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8Existence and the communicatively competent selfPhilosophy and Social Criticism 25 (3). 1999.Most readers of Habermas would not classify him as an existential thinker. The view of Habermas as a philosopher in German Idealist and Critical traditions from Kant to Hegel and Marx to the Frankfurt School prevails among Continental as much as among analytic philosophers. And the mainstream Anglo-American reception of his work and politics is shaped by the approaches of formal analysis rather than those of existential and social phenomenology or even current American pragmatism. One may argue …Read more
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21Habermas’ turn?Philosophy and Social Criticism 32 (1): 21-36. 2006.How a thinker comes to adopt or change a view may be regarded as either a strictly theoretical or biographical issue. First, looking backward at my completed philosophical-political profile of Habermas, I elucidate how biographical methodology can yield a coherent yet dynamically evolving profile rather than a static portrait. Second, examining Habermas thinking after 2000, the year my published biography of him ends, I venture a biographical-philosophical hypothesis that in what appears to be …Read more
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149Contribution to a new critical theory of multiculturalism: A response to 'anti-racism, multiculturalism and the ethics of identification'Philosophy and Social Criticism 28 (4): 473-482. 2002.
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116Habermas's reading of Kierkegaard: Notes from a conversationPhilosophy and Social Criticism 17 (4): 313-323. 1991.
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Fragments from the future: Remembering the impossibleRadical Philosophy Review 2 (2): 170-182. 1999.
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25"More than all the others": Meditation on responsibilityCritical Horizons 8 (1): 47-60. 2007.This essay examines one aspect of the wide-ranging philosophical background of the intellectual and dissident movement for human rights in one-time communist Czechoslovakia. I shall meditate on Jan Patočka 's finite responsibility, Derrida's aporetic emphasis on the infinite dimension of responsibility, and Lévinasian-Dostoyevskyan ethico-existential variations on in/finite responsibility. Havel alludes to hyperbolic ethics in a parenthetical remark on the birth of "Charta 77", the Manifesto for…Read more
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14Merleau-Ponty on Taking the Attitude of the OtherJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 22 (1): 44-52. 1991.
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R.L. Perkins , "International Kierkegaard commentary: The Corsair affair" (review)Man and World 26 (1): 93. 1993.
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7Transcendental-Phenomenological Retrieval and Critical Theory (review)Method 8 (1): 94-105. 1990.
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