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114Review of Rahel Jaeggi, Entfremdung: Zur Aktualität Eines Sozialphilosophischen Problems (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (7). 2007.
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161Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Origins of AutonomyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 54 (5). 2011.Abstract Modern reflection on the ideal of personal autonomy has its Western origin in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, where autonomy, or self-legislation, involves citizens joining together to make laws for themselves that reflect their collective understanding of the common good. Four features of this conception of autonomy continue to be relevant today. First, autonomy, a type of freedom, is introduced into modern philosophy in order to make up for a perceived deficiency, or incomple…Read more
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489Freedom, dependence, and the general willPhilosophical Review 102 (3): 363-395. 1993.n his Lectures on the Histmy 0f Philosophy Hegel credits Rousseau with an cpoch-making innovation in the realm 0f practical philosophy, an innovation said to consist in thc fact that Rousseau is thc first thinker t0 recognize "the free will" as thc fundamental principle 0f political philosophy} Since Hcgcl’s 0wn practical philosophy is explicitly grounded in an account 0f thc will and its freedom, Hcgcl’s assertion is clearly intended as an acknowledgment 0f his deep indebtedness t0 R0usscau’s s…Read more
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20Daniel Breazeale, ed. and trans., "Fichte: Early Philosophical Writings" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 28 (4): 624. 1990.
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71On 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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60Rousseau's Critique of Inequality: Reconstructing the Second DiscourseCambridge University Press. 2014.Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality among Mankind, published in 1755, is a vastly influential study of the foundations of human society, including the economic inequalities it tends to create. To date, however, there has been little philosophical analysis of the Discourse in the literature. In this book, Frederick Neuhouser offers a rich and incisive philosophical examination of the work. He clarifies Rousseau's arguments as to why social inequalities are so prevalent in human socie…Read more
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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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52Desire, 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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42The 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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153Rousseau'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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104Deducing 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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35On 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.