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5La théorie hégélienne de l'agentivité le problème de l'intérieur et de l'extérieurPhilosophie 99 (4): 96-120. 2008.
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The Erotic Nietzsche: Philosophers without PhilosophyIn Shadi Bartsch & Thomas Bartscherer (eds.), Erotikon: essays on Eros, ancient and modern, University of Chicago Press. pp. 172--91. 2005.
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40Nietzche and the Melancholy of ModernitySocial Research: An International Quarterly 66 (2). 1999.
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75What Is a Western? Politics and Self-Knowledge in John Ford's The SearchersCritical Inquiry 35 (2): 223-253. 2009.
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2710. Charles Bernstein Replies Charles Bernstein Replies (p. 362)Critical Inquiry 35 (2): 255-269. 2009.
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35Vernacular Metaphysics: On Terrence Malick's The Thin Red LineCritical Inquiry 39 (2): 247-275. 2013.
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18Discussione su "Il dolore dell'indeterminato" di Axel HonnethIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 16 (3): 609-624. 2003.
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17Hegel e la razionalità istituzionaleIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 14 (3): 549-574. 2001.
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13The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of IconoclasmCommon Knowledge 8 (2): 417-417. 2002.
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20Modern mythic meaning: Blumenberg contra NietzscheHistory of the Human Sciences 6 (4): 37-56. 1993.Nothing surprised the promoters of the Enlightenment more, and left them standing more incredulously before the failure of what they thought were their ultimate exertions, than the survival of the contemptible old stories - the continuation of work on myth. (Blumenberg, 1985: 274)1
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42Doer and Deed: Responses to Acampora and AndersonJournal of Nietzsche Studies 44 (2): 181-195. 2013.I am very grateful to both commentators for these thoughtful and stimulating questions and remarks and especially for the care and generous charity animating their summations of the position I defend in the book. That has not always been the case in discussions of the book.Both critics rightly note the importance of the French moralistes in my attempt to understand why Nietzsche should have said that “psychology” might now (that is, for him) become once again the “queen of the sciences” and so o…Read more
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106One of the most discussed and disputed claims in John McDowell’s Mind and World is the claim that we should not think that in experience, “conceptual capacities are exercised on non-conceptual deliverances of sensibility.” Rather, “Conceptual capacities are already operative in the deliverances of sensibility themselves.” Such capacities are said to be operative, but not in the same way they are operative when the faculty of assertoric judgment is explicitly exercised. This position preserves th…Read more
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75The question of freedom in the modern German tradition is not just a metaphysical question. It concerns the status of a free life as a value, indeed, as they took to saying, the “absolute” value. A free life is of unconditional and incomparable and inestimable value, and it is the basis of the unique, and again, absolute, unqualifiable respect owed to any human person just as such. This certainly increases the pressure on anyone who espouses such a view to tell us what a free life consists in. K…Read more
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27Review: Prauss, Erscheinung bei Kant. Ein Problem der Kritik der reinen Vernunft (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 12 (3): 403-405. 1974.
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75Negation and Not-Being in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Plato’s SophistKant Studien 70 (1-4): 179-196. 1979.
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73The belated genre classification, “film noir,” is a contested one, much more so than “Western” or “musical.”2 However, there is wide agreement that there were many stylistic conventions common to the new treatment of crime dramas prominent in the 1940s: grim urban settings, often very cramped interiors, predominantly night time scenes, and so-called “low key” lighting and unusual camera angles.3 But there were also important thematic elements in common.Two are especially interesting. First, noirs …Read more
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72Blumenberg and the Modernity ProblemReview of Metaphysics 40 (3). 1987.In the long aftermath of such modernist suspicions about the still dominant "official" Enlightenment culture, the very title of the recently translated book by Hans Blumenberg is a bluntly direct invitation to controversy--The Legitimacy of the Modern Age. For Blumenberg, when Giordano Bruno, condemned to burn at the stake in 1600, defiantly turned his face from a crucifix offered him as a last chance at redemption, the heroic gesture should be seen as just that, heroic and historically decisive…Read more
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102Hegel and Category TheoryReview of Metaphysics 43 (4). 1990.THE IDEA OF A "PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCE," something of a Fata Morgana in the West for several centuries, underwent a well-known revolutionary change when Kant argued that in all philosophical speculation about the nature of things, reason is really "occupied only with itself." Indeed, Kant argued convincingly that the possibility of any cognitive relation to objects presupposed an original and constitutive "relation to self." Thereafter, instead of an a priori science of substance, a science of "ho…Read more
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237Self-Interpreting Selves: Comments on Alexander Nehamas's Nietzsche: Life as LiteratureJournal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (2): 118-133. 2014.When Alexander Nehamas’s pathbreaking, elegantly conceived and executed book, Nietzsche: Life as Literature,1 first appeared in 1985, the reception of Nietzsche in the Anglo-American philosophical community was still in its initial, hesitant stages, even after the relative success of Walter Kaufmann’s much earlier, 1950 book, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Anti-Christ,2 and its postwar “decontamination” of Nietzsche after his appropriation by the Nazis.3 Arthur Danto’s 1964 book, Nietzsch…Read more
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76Medical Practice and Social AuthorityJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 21 (4): 417-437. 1996.Questions of medical ethics are often treated as especially difficult casuistical problems or as difficult cases illustrative of paradoxes or advantages in global moral theories. I argue here, in opposition to such approaches, for the inseparability of questions of social history and social theory from any normative assessment of medical practices. The focus of the discussion is the question of the legitimacy of the social authority exercised by physicians, and the insufficiency of traditional d…Read more
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39Response to CriticsInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 53 (5): 506-521. 2010.I offer responses to criticisms about and questions concerning my book, Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life, 1 first raised at a conference at Kalamazoo College and now published in this issue of Inquiry. There are responses to Richard Peterson, James Bohman, Hans-Herbert Kögler, David Ingram and Theodore R. Schatzki