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219Hegel's Political Argument and the Problem of VerwirklichungPolitical Theory 9 (4): 509-532. 1981.
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406The Unavailability of the OrdinaryPolitical Theory 31 (3): 335-358. 2003.In Natural Right and History Leo Strauss argues for the continuing “relevance” of the classical understanding of natural right. Since this relevance is not a matter of a direct return, or a renewed appreciation that a neglected doctrine is simply true, the meaning of this claim is some- what elusive. But it is clear enough that the core of Strauss’s argument for that relevance is a claim about the relation between human experience and philosophy. Strauss argues that the classical understanding a…Read more
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3026. The Expressivist NietzscheIn João Constâncio (ed.), Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity, De Gruyter. pp. 654-667. 2015.
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32Psychology Degree Zero? The Representation of Action in the Films of the Dardenne BrothersCritical Inquiry 41 (4): 757-785. 2015.
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17Response to Fred Rush and Adrian DaubJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73 (3): 323-329. 2015.
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612. Hegel, Freedom, The Will: The Philosophy of Right: §§ 1–33In Ludwig Siep (ed.), G. W. F. Hegel: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. pp. 31-54. 2014.
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12Back to Hegel?Mediations 26 (1-2). 2012.Robert Pippin reviews Slavoj Žižek’s Less than Nothing, a serious attempt to re-actualize Hegel in the light of Lacanian metapsychology. But does Žižek’s attempt to think Hegel with Lacan produce, as Žižek hopes, a political figuration adequate to the present? Or does it land us rather in the Hegelian zoo, along with such well-known specimens as the Beautiful Soul, the Unhappy Consciousness, and The Knight of Virtue?
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1Modernism as a Philosophical Problem. On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture, 2e édRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 192 (1): 114-115. 2002.
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1Philosophie und geschichtlicher Wandel. Wie zeitgemaess ist Isaiahs Berlins Kulturphilosophie?Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 47 (5): 851-862. 1999.
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71Reconstructivism: On Honneth’s HegelianismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 40 (8): 725-741. 2014.In this paper I express enthusiastic solidarity with Axel Honneth's inheritance and transformation of several core Hegelian ideas, and express one major disagreement. The disagreement is not so much with anything he says, as it is with what he doesn't say. It concerns his rejection of Hegel's theoretical philosophy, and so his attempt to reconstruct Hegel's practical philosophy without reliance on that theoretical philosophy. This attitude towards Hegel's Science of Logic – that it involves a “m…Read more
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7Fichte's Contribution in Fichte and Contemporary PhilosophyPhilosophical Forum 19 (2-3): 74-96. 1988.
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52Being, Time, and Politics: The Strauss-Kojeve DebateHistory and Theory 32 (2): 138-161. 1993.The 1963 publication in English of Leo Strauss's study of Xenophon's dialogue, Hiero, or Tyrannicus, also contained a critical review of Strauss's interpretation by the French philosopher and civil servant, Alexandre Kojève, and a "Restatement" of his position by Strauss. This odd triptych, with a complex statement of the classical position on tyranny in the middle, Strauss's defense of classical philosophy on one side, and Kojève's defense of a radically historicist, revolutionary Hegel on the …Read more
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14Naturalität und Geistigkeit in Hegels KompatibilismusDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 49 (1): 45-64. 2001.
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16The unavailability of the ordinary. Strauss on the philosophical fate of modernityPolitical Theory 31 (3): 335-358. 2003.In Natural Right and History Leo Strauss argues for the continuing "relevance " of the classical understanding of natural right. Since this relevance is not a matter of a direct return, or a renewed appreciation that a neglected doctrine is simply true, the meaning of this claim is somewhat elusive. But it is clear enough that the core of Strauss's argument for that relevance is a claim about the relation between human experience and philosophy. Strauss argues that the classical understanding ar…Read more
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279Authenticity in Painting: Remarks on Michael Fried’s Art HistoryCritical Inquiry 31 (3): 575. 2005.My topic is authenticity in or perhaps as painting, not the authenticity of paintings; I know next to nothing about the problem of verifying claims of authorship. I am interested in another kind of genuineness and fraudulence, the kind at issue when we say of a person that he or she is false, not genuine, inauthentic, lacks integrity, and, especially when we say he or she is playing to the crowd, playing for effect, or is a poseur. These are not quite moral distinctions (no one has a duty to be a…Read more
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11You can't get there from here: transition problems in Hegel's Phenomenology of SpiritIn Frederick C. Beiser (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, Cambridge University Press. pp. 52--85. 1993.
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43Hegel's Practical Philosophy: The Realization of Freedom'In Karl Ameriks (ed.), The Cambridge companion to German idealism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 180--199. 2000.
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1010 Gadamer's HegelIn Robert J. Dostal (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer, Cambridge University Press. pp. 225. 2002.
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23Leaving Nature BehindIn Nicholas Hugh Smith (ed.), Reading McDowell: On Mind and World, Routledge. pp. 58--75. 2002.
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1Irony and Affirmation in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke ZarathustraIn Michael Allen Gillespie & Tracy B. Strong (eds.), Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics, University of Chicago Press. pp. 45--71. 1988.
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1412 Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the metaphysics of modernityIn Keith Ansell-Pearson (ed.), Nietzsche and Modern German Thought, Routledge. pp. 282. 1991.