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160Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral InjuryUniversity of Chicago Press. 2015.In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations—torture—J.M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructions that depend on our experience of suffering itself. Morals, Bernstein argues, not only guide our conduct but also express the depth of mutual dependence that we share as vulnerable and injurable individuals. Beginning with the attempts to abolish tort…Read more
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1Significant Stone: Medium and Sense in SchillerIn Jürgen Stolzenberg, Karl Ameriks & Fred Rush (eds.), Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus / International Yearbook of German Idealism : Romantik / Romanticism, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 162-182. 2009.
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4Richard Rorty's Philosophical PapersJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 23 (1): 76-83. 1992.
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8Re-enchanting natureJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology (3): 277-299. 2000.[This is a revised and expanded version of an article of the same name published in the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, October 2000: 31(3), 277–299.]
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18Promising and Civil Disobedience: Arendt’s Political ModernismIn Roger Berkowitz (ed.), Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics, Fordham University Press. pp. 115-128. 2010.
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8Promising and Civil Disobedience (Arendt’s Political Modernism)Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 28 (1): 47-60. 2007.
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7RightsIn Ann Laura Stoler, Stathis Gourgouris & Jacques Lezra (eds.), Thinking with Balibar: A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice, Fordham University Press. pp. 230-252. 2020.
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37Promising and Civil Disobedience (Arendt’s Political Modernism)Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 28 (1): 47-60. 2007.
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5Merold Westphal , Method and Speculation in Hegel's Phenomenology, , pp. 137, £20.00Hegel Bulletin 3 (2): 33-36. 1982.
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43Marx’s Attempt to Leave Philosophy (review)Philosophical Review 110 (2): 275-278. 2001.Arguably, there is no gesture more typical to philosophy than its repudiation, the sense that philosophical endeavor is a symptom of the pathologies or dislocations of everyday life it seeks to remedy. Throughout the nineteenth century—in the writings of the German Romantics, Young Hegelians, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche—the repudiation of philosophy is a constant. Sometimes this repudiation takes a reflective form in which traditional philosophical claims are translated into another vocabul…Read more
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75Marx’s Attempt to Leave PhilosophyPhilosophical Review 110 (2): 275-278. 2001.Arguably, there is no gesture more typical to philosophy than its repudiation, the sense that philosophical endeavor is a symptom of the pathologies or dislocations of everyday life it seeks to remedy. Throughout the nineteenth century—in the writings of the German Romantics, Young Hegelians, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche—the repudiation of philosophy is a constant. Sometimes this repudiation takes a reflective form in which traditional philosophical claims are translated into another vocabul…Read more
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62Movement! Action! Belief?: notes for a critique of deleuze's cinema philosophyAngelaki 17 (4): 77-93. 2012.Deleuze's philosophy of cinema departs from the standard conception of modernist aesthetics that sees art withdrawing from representation in order to reflect upon the specificity of its medium. While ambitious and influential, Deleuze's attempt fails. Overdetermined by its own metaphysics, it forsakes the real importance of the movies. It is unable to explain how they function and why they matter. This essay pursues three lines of criticism: Deleuze cannot account for the aesthetic specificity o…Read more
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15Lindsay Waters and Wlad Godzich , Reading De Man Reading. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1989, pp. 312, hardback $39.50, paperback $14.50.Paul de Man, Critical Writings, 1953-1978. Edited and introduced by Lindsay Waters. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1989, pp. lxxiv, 256, hardback $39.50, paperback $14.50 (review)Hegel Bulletin 9 (2): 58-63. 1988.
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52Idealism as Modernism (review)Dialogue 38 (3): 674-676. 1999.According to Robert Pippin, the standpoint of philosophical modernism claims that, with the coming of modernity—with the emergence of a disenchanted natural world as projected by modern science, a political language of rights and equality, a secular morality, a burgeoning sense of subjective consciousness, and autonomous art—the task of philosophy becomes that of providing a wholly critical and radically self-reflexive conception of reason and rationality that will demonstrate the immanent groun…Read more
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61Judging Life: From Beauty to Experience. From Kant to Chaim SoutineConstellations 7 (2): 157-177. 2000.
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119Hegel's LadderDialogue 39 (4): 803-818. 2000.The goal of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is to achieve absolute knowing. Minimally, knowing can be absolute only if it is unconditioned or unlimited; that is, only if it is not essentially contrasted with some other possible knowing—say, God's—or is not restricted such that it necessarily does not pertain to certain items—say, freedom of the will, the immortality of the soul, or God. Knowing can be absolute only if these items, appropriately interpreted, are within its scope. However, if it c…Read more
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10David Kolb, The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger and After. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp. xvii, 316 (review)Hegel Bulletin 7 (2): 41-47. 1986.
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49Constitutional Patriotism and the Problem of ViolenceSouthern Journal of Philosophy 39 (S1): 97-109. 2001.
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11Chapter 10. Remembering Isaac: On the Impossibility and Immorality of FaithIn Paul A. Kottman (ed.), The Insistence of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity, Fordham University Press. pp. 257-288. 2017.
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38Blind Intuitions: Modernism's Critique of IdealismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (6): 1069-1094. 2014.Adorno contends that something of what we think of knowing and rational agency operate in ways that obscure and deform unique, singular presentations by relegating them to survival-driven interests and needs; hence, in accordance with the presumptions of transcendental idealism, we have come to mistake what are, in effect, historically contingent, species-subjective ways of viewing the world for an objective understanding of the world. And further, this interested understanding of the world is d…Read more
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17Anerkennung und Verleiblichung. Überlegungen zu Fichtes MaterialismusIn Christopher F. Zurn & Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch (eds.), Anerkennung, Akademie Verlag. pp. 53-90. 2009.
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19After the Demise of the Tradition: Rorty, Critical Theory, and the Fate of PhilosophyPhilosophical Books 33 (3): 150-152. 1992.
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28Amery’s devastation and resentment an ethnographic transcendental deductionTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 76 (1): 5-30. 2014.What is the relation between philosophical categories and everyday experience? Can an effectively first-person account of an historical experience rise to the level of a philosophical argument? This essay argues that Jean Amery’s account of his sufferings under the Nazis intends to generate a justificatory argument, a transcendental deduction of sorts, for the category of ”resentment’ against its philosophical critics, most importantly, Nietzsche.
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