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43Hegel and Nietzsche on Spirit and its PathologiesIn Leonel R. dos Santos & Katia Dawn Hay (eds.), Nietzsche, German Idealism and its Critics, De Gruyter. pp. 11-34. 2015.
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51Desire, Recognition, and the Relation between Bondsman and LordIn Kenneth R. Westphal (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Further Reading.
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41The General Will: Rousseau, Marx, CommunismPhilosophical Review 104 (4): 597. 1995.The principal aim of Andrew Levine’s most recent book is to defend the ideal of communism. Its strategy is to demonstrate the coherence and desirability of that ideal by invoking Rousseau’s concept of the general will. More specifically, the general will is supposed to provide a model for the kind of cooperation that will take place among members of a communistic society. Since the notion of a general will is itself highly obscure, this book can also be read as an attempt to clarify and flesh ou…Read more
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150Rousseau's theodicy of self-love: evil, rationality, and the drive for recognitionOxford University Press. 2008.This book is the first comprehensive study of Rousseau's rich and complex theory of the type of self-love (amour proper) that, for him, marks the central difference between humans and the beasts. Amour proper is the passion that drives human individuals to seek the esteem, approval, admiration, or love--the recognition--of their fellow beings. Neuhouser reconstructs Rousseau's understanding of what the drive for recognition is, why it is so problematic, and how its presence opens up far-reaching…Read more
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9Jean-Jacques Rousseau und die Ursprünge der AutonomieIn Harald Bluhm & Konstanze Baron (eds.), Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Im Bann der Institutionen, De Gruyter. pp. 287-306. 2016.
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1Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory: Actualizing FreedomPhilosophical Quarterly 52 (209): 646-649. 2002.
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160Deducing Desire and Recognition in the Phenomenology of SpiritJournal of the History of Philosophy 24 (2): 243-262. 1986.
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16On Detaching Hegel’s Social Philosophy from His MetaphysicsThe Owl of Minerva 36 (1): 31-42. 2004.This paper rebuts four objections to my attempt, in Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory, to reconstruct Hegel's social philosophy in abstraction from his metaphysics and theodicy: 1) that social philosophy requires the Logic as its ground; 2) that only an independent metaphysics can justify the norms employed by social philosophy; 3) that empirical considerations can play no role in Hegel's arguments; and 4) that, robbed of his "ontology of the self," Hegel cannot respond to romantic critics. I…Read more
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23Rousseaus Kritik der ökonomischen UngleichheitDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 63 (2). 2015.This paper reconstructs Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s position on the limits of legitimate economic inequality as presented in his Second Discourse. It argues that, although Rousseau’s position is egalitarian in that it places severe limits on permissible inequalities, he values economic equality instrumentally, not for its own sake but only as a means for promoting freedom and for securing the social conditions that make recognition, a central component of human well-being, available to all. The pape…Read more
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Ethics Life And The Demands Of ConscienceBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 37 35-50. 1998.
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34Warren Breckman, Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory: De-throning the Self (Review) (review)Mind 110 (438). 2001.
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24Response to Robert PippinProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 1 999-1003. 1995.
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92On Detaching Hegel’s Social Philosophy from His MetaphysicsThe Owl of Minerva 36 (1): 31-42. 2004.This paper rebuts four objections to my attempt, in Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory, to reconstruct Hegel's social philosophy in abstraction from his metaphysics and theodicy: 1) that social philosophy requires the Logic as its ground; 2) that only an independent metaphysics can justify the norms employed by social philosophy; 3) that empirical considerations can play no role in Hegel's arguments; and 4) that, robbed of his "ontology of the self," Hegel cannot respond to romantic critics. I…Read more
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7Foundations of Natural Right (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2000.In the history of philosophy, Fichte's thought marks a crucial transitional stage between Kant and post-Kantian philosophy. Fichte radicalized Kant's thought by arguing that human freedom, not external reality, must be the starting point of all systematic philosophy, and in Foundations of Natural Right, thought by many to be his most important work of political philosophy, he applies his ideas to fundamental issues in political and legal philosophy, covering such topics as civic freedom, rights,…Read more
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53Die Idee einer Hegelianischen ‚Wissenschaft 'der Gesellschaft‘Analyse & Kritik 30 (2): 355-378. 2008.This paper sets out the kind of intellectual enterprise Hegel’s science of society is by explaining its aim (reconciliation) and the method it employs to achieve that aim. It argues that Hegel’s science of society, similar to Smith’s and Marx’s, offers an account of the good social order that is grounded in both an empirical understanding of existing institutions and a normative commitment to a certain vision of the good life. It spells out the criteria Hegel appeals to in his judgment that the …Read more
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173 The Efficacy of the Rational BeingIn Jean-Christophe Merle (ed.), Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Grundlage des Naturrechts, De Gruyter. pp. 35-44. 2016.
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29Hegel’s Idea of a ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’ (review)Philosophical Review 109 (2): 296-299. 2000.Michael Forster’s latest book is a comprehensive and illuminating treatment of the basic tasks and strategies of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. As the title indicates, Forster is more concerned to elucidate the aims and structure of the Phenomenology as a whole than to reconstruct the claims of specific sections or to provide a chapter-by-chapter commentary. Forster is correct that a coherent and sympathetic account of the Phenomenology’s “official project” is badly needed, and he succeeds adm…Read more
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6Fichte and the Relationship between Right and MoralityIn Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Fichte: historical contexts/contemporary controversies, Humanities Press. pp. 158--80. 1994.
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26Rousseau und das menschliche Verlangen nach AnerkennungDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 56 (6): 899-922. 2008.Rousseau ist der erste Denker in der Geschichte der Philosophie, der das Streben nach Anerkennung durch Andere im Innersten der menschlichen Natur lokalisiert und es damit zu einem zentralen Thema der Moral-, Sozial- und politischen Philosophie macht. Der Aufsatz zeichnet Rousseaus Überlegungen zum menschlichen Streben nach Anerkennung der Leidenschaft, die er l′amour propre nennt in großen Linien nach und versucht dabei vorzuführen, wie sich die einzelnen Bestandteile des Rousseauschen Aner…Read more
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66Fichte’s Theory of SubjectivityCambridge University Press. 1990.This is the first book in English to elucidate the central issues in the work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a figure crucial to the movement of philosophy from Kant to German idealism. The book explains Fichte's notion of subjectivity and how his particular view developed out of Kant's accounts of theoretical and practical reason. Fichte argued that the subject has a self-positing structure which distinguishes it from a thing or an object. Thus, the subject must be understood as an activity rather …Read more