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63Power and the Politics of Difference: Oppression, Empowerment, and Transnational JusticeHypatia 23 (3): 156-172. 2008.In this paper, I examine Iris Marion Young's conception of power, arguing that it is incomplete in at least two ways. First, Young tends to equate the term power with the narrower notions of ‘oppression’ and ‘domination.’ Thus, Young lacks a satisfactory analysis of individual and collective empowerment. Second, as Young herself admits, it is not obvious that her analysis of power can be useful in the context of thinking about transnational justice. I conclude by considering one way in which You…Read more
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59Race, Empire and the Idea of Human Development by Thomas McCarthyConstellations 18 (3): 487-492. 2011.
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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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57Book ReviewsSandra Bartky,. “Sympathy and Solidarity” and Other Essays.Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. Pp. 173. $69.00 ; $23.95 (review)Ethics 115 (3): 599-601. 2005.
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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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49SPEP Co-director's Address: Progress, Philosophical and OtherwiseJournal of Speculative Philosophy 29 (3): 265-282. 2015.The topic of my remarks is progress, but I should note at the outset that I have structured this article as something like a theme with variations, rather than a tightly interconnected, progressive argument. I am interested in problematizing how the concept of progress is deployed across a range of discussions. I start with the role of progress in my own field of critical social theory, and then move on to consider the idea of philosophical progress, and finally connect this idea to different vi…Read more
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44IntroductionJournal of Speculative Philosophy 29 (3): 261-264. 2015.This is an introduction to a volume of articles containing highlights from the fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) hosted by Loyola University–New Orleans with Tulane University from October 23–25, 2014. Many of the articles included here mine the rich and productive vein of post-Kantian critical philosophy that inspires so much work in Continental philosophy; hence the title of our volume is “Legacies of Critique.” The volume opens with …Read more
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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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42The power of disclosure: Comments on Nikolas Kompridis' Critique and DisclosurePhilosophy and Social Criticism 37 (9): 1025-1031. 2011.This article discusses the relationship between power and reflective disclosure in Nikolas Kompridis' book "Critique and Disclosure." Although the concept of power is not explicitly theorized in great detail in this book, I argue that power is highly relevant for Kompridis' account of reflective disclosure. I offer a few ways in which a thematization of power relations might complicate and enrich Kompridis' understanding of disclosure.
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41Critique on the couch: why critical theory needs psychoanalysisColumbia University Press. 2020.Does critical theory still need psychoanalysis? In Critique on the Couch, Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance. Countering the overly rationalist and progressivist interpretations of psychoanalysis put forward by contemporary critical theorists such as Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth, Allen argues that the work of Melanie Klein offers an underutilized resource. She draws on Freud, Klein, and Lacan to develop a more realistic strand of psychoanalytic thinkin…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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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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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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36Reconstruction or deconstruction?: A reply to Johanna MeehanPhilosophy and Social Criticism 26 (3): 53-60. 2000.I argue that Johanna Meehan's call to examine the extra-linguistic psychic, affective and biological dimensions of gender identity is extremely important both for feminist theory in particular and for contemporary Continental philosophy in general. However, I suspect that such an examination might necessitate more than a mere expansion or reconstruction of Habermas' views; on the contrary, I suggest that Meehan's line of argument might lead instead toward a radical deconstruction of Habermasian …Read more
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30IntroductionJournal of Speculative Philosophy 28 (3): 213-218. 2014.This is an introduction to a volume of articles containing highlights from the fifty-second annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) at the University of Oregon from October 24–26, 2013. All three of the plenary sessions for this conference constituted reflections on limits of various kinds: the limits of conceptual thinking, the limits of continental philosophy understood as a kind of post-Kantian quasi-transcendental enterprise, and the idea that SPEP’…Read more
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28Power, neoliberalism, and the reinvention of politics: the critical theory of Wendy Brown (edited book)The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2022.A collection of essays introducing and assessing the work of political theorist Wendy Brown. Includes an original essay by Brown and a reply to her critics.
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25The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2018.Over a career spanning nearly seven decades, Jürgen Habermas - one of the most important European philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries - has produced a prodigious and influential body of work. In this Lexicon, authored by an international team of scholars, over 200 entries define and explain the key concepts, categories, philosophemes, themes, debates, and names associated with the entire constellation of Habermas's thought. The entries explore the historical, philosophical a…Read more
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24Review of Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch, Christopher F. Zurn (eds.), The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (9). 2010.
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22Feminism as critique: comments on Johanna Oksala’s feminist experiencesContinental Philosophy Review 52 (1): 115-123. 2018.
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22Working through Critical Theory’s Colonial UnconsciousGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 41 (1): 185-205. 2020.
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20Herrschaft begreifen: Anerkennung und Macht in Axel Honneths kritischer TheorieDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 62 (2): 260-278. 2014.Axel Honneth frames his contribution to the tradition of critical theory as an attempt to do justice to both the structures of social domination in contemporary Western societies and the practical resources for their overcoming. This paper assesses how well Honneth’s critical theory, which centers on the notion of the struggle for recognition, accomplishes the first of these two tasks. I argue that Honneth has yet to offer a fully satisfactory analysis of domination because his recognition model…Read more
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18Transitional Subjects: Critical Theory and Object Relations (edited book)Columbia University Press. 2019.Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is the first book-length collection devoted to the engagement of critical theory with the work of Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and other members of this school. Featuring contributions from some of t…Read more
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15Decolonizing ethics: the critical theory of Enrique Dussel (edited book)The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2021.A collection of essays on the work of Latin American philosopher Enrique Dussel, focusing on his ethics of liberation.
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10IntroductionInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 10 (2). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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921. PoststructuralismIn Hauke Brunkhorst, Regina Kreide & Cristina Lafont (eds.), The Habermas handbook, Columbia University Press. pp. 177-182. 2018.
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