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42Allison Weir. Identities and Freedom: Feminist Theory between Power and Connection (review)philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 4 (2): 250-255. 2014.
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52The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical TheoryCambridge University Press. 2016.While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School--Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst--have persistently defended ideas of progress, development, and modernity and have even made such ideas central to their normative claims. Can the Frankfurt School's goal of radical social change survive this cri…Read more
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36Review of Thomas Flynn, Sartre, Foucault and Historical Reason, Volume 2: A Poststructuralist Mapping of History (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (2). 2006.
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58Psychoanalysis and the Methodology of CritiqueConstellations 23 (2): 244-254. 2016.In his account of critical theory as diagnosing social pathologies of reason, Axel Honneth has rehabilitated the analogy between critical theory and psychoanalysis – according to which the critical theorist stands in relation to the pathological social order as the analyst stands in relation to the analysand, and the aim of critical theory is to effect the diagnosis and, ultimately, the cure of social disorders or pathologies. In this article, I show that Honneth, like Habermas before him, has a…Read more
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39IntroductionJournal of Speculative Philosophy 27 (3): 217-219. 2013.This is an introduction to a volume of essays bringing together some of the highlights from the fifty-first annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Nazareth College from November 1-3, 2012. Our keynote speakers for the 2012 meeting were Adriana Cavarero and László Tengelyi, and we lead off this issue with their essays.
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195Foucault and Enlightenment: A Critical ReappraisalConstellations 10 (2): 180-198. 2003.In a late discussion of Kant’s essay, “Was ist Aufklärung?,” Foucault credits Kant with posing “the question of his own present” and positions himself as an inheritor of this Kantian legacy.1 Foucault has high praise for the critical tradition that emerges from Kant’s historical-political reflections on the Enlightenment and the French Revolution; Kant’s concern in these writings with “an ontology of the present, an ontology of ourselves” is, he says, characteristic of “a form of philosophy, fro…Read more
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552The power of feminist theory: domination, resistance, solidarityWestview Press. 1999.Power is clearly a crucial concept for feminist theory. Insofar as feminists are interested in analyzing power, it is because they have an interest in understanding, critiquing, and ultimately challenging the multiple array of unjust power relations affecting women in contemporary Western societies, including sexism, racism, heterosexism, and class oppression. In "The Power of Feminist Theory," Amy Allen diagnoses the inadequacies of previous feminist conceptions of power, and draws on the work …Read more
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167Systematically distorted subjectivity?: Habermas and the critique of powerPhilosophy and Social Criticism 33 (5): 641-650. 2007.
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59Race, Empire and the Idea of Human Development by Thomas McCarthyConstellations 18 (3): 487-492. 2011.
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348Pornography and powerJournal of Social Philosophy 32 (4). 2001.When it was at its height, the feminist pornography debate tended to generate more heat than light. Only now that there has been a cease fire in the sex war does it seem possible to reflect on the debate in a more productive way and to address some of the questions that were left unresolved by it. In this paper, I shall argue that one of the major unresolved questions is that of how feminists should conceptualize power. The antipornography feminists and the feminist sex radicals presuppose radic…Read more
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160Feminism, Foucault, and the Critique of Reason: Re-reading the History of MadnessFoucault Studies 16 15-31. 2013.This paper situates Lynne Huffer’s recent queer-feminist Foucaultian critique of reason within the context of earlier feminist debates about reason and critically assesses Huffer’s work from the point of view of its faithfulness to Foucault’s work and its implications for feminism. I argue that Huffer’s characterization of Enlightenment reason as despotic not only departs from Foucault’s account of the relationship between power and reason, it also leaves her stuck in the same double binds that …Read more
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565Discourse, power, and subjectivation: The foucault/habermas debate reconsideredPhilosophical Forum 40 (1): 1-28. 2009.In this article, I take up one strand – arguably the central one – of the Foucault/Habermas debate: their respective accounts of subjectivation. Against those who hold that Foucault and Habermas occupy such drastically different theoretical perspectives as to preclude the integration of their views into a common framework, I begin to lay the groundwork for an account of subjectivation that draws on the conceptual insights to be found on each side of the debate. While both Foucault and Habermas o…Read more
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39The entanglement of power and validity : Foucault and critical theoryIn Timothy O'Leary & Christopher Falzon (eds.), Foucault and Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 78--98. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Subjection and Autonomy: Foucault contra Habermas What Is Fallacious About the Genetic Fallacy? Conclusion References.
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