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27Hobbes and the Making of Modern Political ThoughtContinuum. 2009.Introduction: The politics of construction -- A genealogical context of modern political thought -- More geometrico -- Nominalism redux -- The state of nature -- Constructing politics -- Conclusion: From erasing nature to producing the multitude.
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38Building Better CitizensEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (1): 105-129. 2015.Hobbes rejects the Aristotelian political animal, a move that enables a malleable psychology in which we are driven by our passions and responses to external objects. Our psychology is accordingly overdetermined by our socio-cultural environment, and managing that environment becomes a central task of the state. A particular problem is what I call the “ontological illusion,” the constitutive human tendency to ontologize products of the imagination. I argue that Hobbes’s strategies for managing t…Read more
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54The jewish question revisited: Marx, Derrida and ethnic nationalismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 23 (2): 47-77. 1997.The question of nationalism as spoken about in contem porary circles is structurally the same as Marx's 'Jewish Question'. Through a reading of Marx's early writings, particularly the 'Jewish Question' essay, guided by Derrida's Specters of Marx and Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, it is possible to begin to rethink the nationalist question. In this light, nationalism emerges as the byproduct of the reduction of heterogeneous 'people' into a homo geneous 'state'; such 'excessive' voices…Read more
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Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Technology Ethics |
Thomas Hobbes |
Baruch Spinoza |
Poststructuralism |
Critical Theory |