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Punk as PraxisIn Joshua Heter & Richard Greene (eds.), Punk Rock and Philosophy: Research and Destroy, Carus Books. pp. 29-36. 2022.The chapter contrasts views of Punk as a playlist and an attitude with one based on a kind of action: praxis! Can be downloaded from my Website.
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Recognition and MulticulturalismIn and M. Quante H. Ikaheimo L. Siep (ed.), Handbuch Anerkennung. pp. 483-490. 2021.
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Between Philosophical Anthropology and Phenomenology: on Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy of WorkRevue Internationale de Philosophie 2 (278): 513-534. 2016.The paper is a critical analysis of Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy of work as it is formulated in a number of essays from the 1950s and 60s. It begins with a reconstruction of the central theses advanced in ‘Travail et parole’ (1953) and related texts, where Ricoeur sought to outline a philosophical anthropology in which work is given its due. To give work its due, from an anthropological standpoint, is to see it as limited by counter-concept of language, according to Ricoeur. The paper then argues t…Read more
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Jürgen Habermas: Critic in the Public Sphere; The Role of Ethics in Social Theory: Essays from a Habermasian Perspective (review)Radical Philosophy 63. 1993.
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The Force of Reason: An Introduction to Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action (review)Radical Philosophy 59. 1991.
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Hermeneutics as a Metaphilosophy and a Philosophy of WorkIn Michiel Meijer (ed.), Updating the interpretive turn: new arguments in hermeneutics, Routledge. 2023.The ‘interpretive turn’ in twentieth-century hermeneutics rests on the general ontological claim that human reality is the reality of self-interpreting animals. But under the circumstances of advanced modernity, there are aspects of human life, or spheres of human thought and action, that appear to contradict this general thesis, in that they do not present themselves as the doings of self-interpreting animals at all. Of these, the predominant one is the sphere of work or 'productive' action. In…Read more
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