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192Situations of the self: Reflections on Seyla Benhabib's version of critical theoryPhilosophy and Social Criticism 23 (5): 79-96. 1997.
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216Review essay : Hannah Arendt's political phenomenology: Maurizio passerin d'entrèves, the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt (london and new York: Routledge, 1994Philosophy and Social Criticism 23 (3): 115-124. 1997.
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170Towards a Critical Theory of Transnational JusticeMetaphilosophy 32 (1-2): 160-179. 2001.This paper argues for a conception of transnational justice that provides an alternative to globalist and statist views. In light of an analysis of the transnational context of justice, a critical theory is suggested that addresses the multiple relations of injustice and domination to be found in this context. Based on a universal, individual right to reciprocal and general justification, this theory argues for justifiable social and political relations both within and between states. In both of…Read more
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113The Rule of Reasons. Three Models of Deliberative DemocracyRatio Juris 14 (4): 345-378. 2001.In this paper, the author contrasts three models of deliberative democracy: a liberal one, a communitarian one, and an alternative to both. Rather than understanding deliberative democracy as the rule of principles of justice or of communal values, the third model conceives of it as the “rule of reasons.” On the basis of a discussion of seven components of an “ethos of democracy” (the cognitive capacities of citizens, political virtues, the cultural, institutional and material conditions of demo…Read more
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237Tolerance as a virtue of justicePhilosophical Explorations 4 (3). 2001.This article argues that the civic virtue of tolerance has to be understood as a virtue of justice. Based on an analysis of the concept of toleration and its paradoxes, it shows that toleration is a 'normatively dependent concept' that needs to take recourse to a conception of justice in order to solve these paradoxes. At the center of this conception of justice lies a principle of reciprocal and general justification with the help of which a distinction between moral norms and ethical values is…Read more
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27Die Würde des Menschen und das Recht auf RechtfertigungDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 53 (4). 2005.
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Utopia e ironia. Sulla normatività della filosofia politica del ‘nessun luogo’ [Utopia and irony. On the normativity of ‘nowhere’ political philosophy]la Società Degli Individui 26 35-48. 2006.L’autore muove dal ruolo dell’utopia nella filosofia politica moderna e ne individua due tratti centrali: l’anelito ad una felicità dalla quale siano estir¬pate radicalmente le cause dei conflitti, e l’immagine collettivistica della società che a quest’idea è correlata. Tramite un’analisi della Utopia di Tommaso Moro, tuttavia, evidenzia come il pensiero utopistico sia già una riflessione intorno ai rischi del proprio perfezionismo, e s’avvalga piut¬tosto di strumenti stilistici e riflessivi qua…Read more
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23'To Tolerate Means to Insult': Toleration, recognition, and EmancipationIn Bert van den Brink & David Owen (eds.), Recognition and Power: Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory, Cambridge University Press. pp. 215--237. 2007.
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1Zwei Bilder der GerechtigkeitIn Axel Honneth & Rainer Forst (eds.), Sozialphilosophie Und Kritik, Suhrkamp. pp. 205--28. 2009.
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38Kritik und Antwort. Zu: Peter Stemmer: Normativität. Die Reise nach PhantasiaDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58 (1): 157-161. 2010.
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98The ground of critique: On the concept of human dignity in social orders of justificationPhilosophy and Social Criticism 37 (9): 965-976. 2011.In the practice of social criticism, the concept of human dignity has played and still plays an important role. In philosophical debates, however, we find widely divergent accounts of that concept, ranging from views based on a conception of human needs to religious approaches trying to explain the ‘inviolability’ of the person. The view presented here reconstructs the basic claim of human dignity historically and normatively as resting on the moral status of the person as a reason-giving, reaso…Read more
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3Toleration in Conflict: Past and PresentCambridge University Press. 2012.The concept of toleration plays a central role in pluralistic societies. It designates a stance which permits conflicts over beliefs and practices to persist while at the same time defusing them, because it is based on reasons for coexistence in conflict - that is, in continuing dissension. A critical examination of the concept makes clear, however, that its content and evaluation are profoundly contested matters and thus that the concept itself stands in conflict. For some, toleration was and i…Read more
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36The Right to Justification: Towards a Critical Theory of Justice andIn Gary Browning (ed.), Dialogues with contemporary political theorists, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 105. 2012.
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19Die Pflicht zur GerechtigkeitIn Otfried Höffe (ed.), John Rawls: Eine Theorie der Gerechtigkeit, Akademie Verlag. pp. 171-190. 2006.
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177A Kantian Republican Conception of Justice as NondominationIn Andreas Niederberger & Philipp Schink (eds.), Republican democracy: liberty, law and politics, Edinburgh University Press. 2013.This chapter explores the relationship between republican democracy and justice by comparing Philip Pettit's notion of neo-republicanism with that of Immanuel Kant. It begins by describing a republican, political conception of justice as nondomination and explaining why the discourse of republicanism and that of theories of justice often remain at odds with one another. It then considers the basis of a republican conception of justice as nondomination and locates it within the principle of justi…Read more
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25El fundamento de la crítica: sobre el concepto de dignidad humana en los órdenes de justificación socialesDiálogo Filosófico 85 37-54. 2013.
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70Toleration and its Paradoxes: A Tribute to John HortonPhilosophia 45 (2): 415-424. 2017.This paper discusses John Horton’s influential theory of toleration. Starting from his analysis of the paradoxes of toleration, I argue that the avoidance of these paradoxes requires a moral justification of toleration based on practical reason. I cite the conception of toleration that Pierre Bayle developed to support this claim. But Horton is skeptical of such a moral justification, and this creates problems for his account of toleration.
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142The Right to Justification: Elements of a Constructivist Theory of JusticeColumbia University Press. 2011.Introduction: the foundation of justice -- Practical reason and justifying reasons: on the foundation of morality -- Moral autonomy and the autonomy of morality : toward a theory of normativity after Kant -- Ethics and morality -- The justification of justice: Rawls's political liberalism and Habermas's discourse theory in dialogue -- Political liberty: integrating five conceptions of autonomy -- A critical theory of multicultural toleration -- The rule of reasons: three models of deliberative d…Read more
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549The justification of human rights and the basic right to justification: A reflexive approachEthics 120 (4): 711-740. 2010.
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152The Basic Right to Justification: Towards a Constructivist Conception of Human RightsConstellations 6 (1): 35-60. 1999.
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The justification of justice : Rawls and Habermas in dialogueIn James Gordon Finlayson & Fabian Freyenhagen (eds.), Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political, Rouledge. 2010.
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