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Aesthetic alienationIn John Fekete (ed.), Life after postmodernism: essays on value and culture, Macmillan Education. 1987.
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36Jurgen Habermas' construction of a critical social theory of society grounded in communicative reason is one of the very few real philosophical inventions of recent times that demands and repays extended engagement. In this elaborate and sympathetic study which places Habermas' project in the context of critical theory as a whole past and future, J. M. Bernstein argues that despite its undoubted achievements, it contributes to the very problems of ethical dislocation and meaninglessness it aims …Read more
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45Hegel’s HermeneuticsPhilosophical Review 107 (1): 158. 1998.Arguably, the most promising and compelling route to demonstrating the significance of Hegel’s thought to contemporary philosophy has been the series of recent readings that construe Hegel as continuing and completing Kant’s Copernican turn. Paul Redding explicitly locates his interpretation within this program, seeing the hermeneutic dimension of Hegel’s thought as providing for the possibility of continuing the Kantian project. Kant’s Copernican turn can be loosely stated as the procedure of r…Read more
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3Hegel's Transcendental InductionPeter Simpson Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998, xiv + 158 pp (review)Dialogue 39 (4): 845-847. 2000.
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19Conscience and Transgression: The Persistence of MisrecognitionHegel Bulletin 15 (1): 55-70. 1994.
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11Piotr Hoffman, The Anatomy of Idealism: Passivity and Activity in Kant, Hegel and Marx. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1982, pp. 124, hardback, n.p (review)Hegel Bulletin 5 (2): 54-56. 1984.
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2Melville, Herman concept of ultimate reality and meaning in'moby-dick'Ultimate Reality and Meaning 5 (2): 104-117. 1982.
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26The Frankfurt School: Critical AssessmentsRoutledge. 1994.This set of six volumes provide a full picture of the School by examining the important developments that have occured since the deaths of the original core of Frankfurt scholars. In particular the work of Jurgen Habermas is fully assessed.
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2Negative dialectic as fate: Adorno and HegelIn Tom Huhn (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Adorno, Cambridge University Press. pp. 19--50. 2004.
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Grand narrativesIn David Wood (ed.), On Paul Ricoeur: Narrative and Interpretation, Routledge. pp. 102--123. 1991.
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27Love and Law: Hegel's Critique of MoralitySocial Research: An International Quarterly 70 (2): 393-431. 2003.
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213Animal rights v animal research: a modest proposalJournal of Medical Ethics 22 (5): 300-303. 1996.The practical problem of assuaging the opponents of animal research may be solved without formally addressing (or resolving) the underlying ethical questions of the debate. Specifically, a peaceful boycott of the "fruits" of animal research may lead to a wider cessation of such research, than, say, vocal or even violent protest. To assist those who might wish to participate in such a boycott- and, moreover, to critically inform them of the implications of their actions-1 offer a modest proposal:…Read more
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M Westphal's Method And Speculation In Hegel's Phenomenology (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 6 33-36. 1982.
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P Hoffman's The Anatomy Of Idealism (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 10 54-56. 1984.
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L Waters & W Godzich Eds's Reading De Man Reading P De Man, Critical Writings (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 18 58-63. 1988.
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D P Verene's Hegel's Recollection (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 13 48-52. 1986.
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1Aesthetic alienationIn John Fekete (ed.), Life after postmodernism: essays on value and culture, Macmillan Education. 1987.
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55Hegel's Transcendental Induction (review)Dialogue 39 (4): 845-846. 2000.In the "Introduction" to the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel provides a method of investigation wherein our comprehension of the nature of knowledge is to emerge through a process in which various forms or shapes of consciousness test their own conception of knowledge. For Hegel, this method is legitimated by the thought that each way or manner of cognizing what is must presuppose an idea of what is to count as a successful cognition; hence, each form of consciousness involves both a conception o…Read more
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HabermasIn Z. A. Pelczynski & John Gray (eds.), Conceptions of Liberty in Political Philosophy, St. Martin's Press. pp. 397--425. 1984.
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3The death of sensuous particulars - Adorno and abstract expressionismRadical Philosophy 76 7-18. 1996.
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78Adorno on Disenchantment: The Scepticism of Enlightened ReasonRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 44 305-328. 1999.T. W. Adorno's and Max Horkheimer'sDialectic of Enlightenmentis fifty years old. Its disconcerting darkness now seems so bound to the time of its writing, one may well wonder if we have anything to learn from it. Are its main lines of argument relevant to our social and philosophical world? Are the losses it records losses we can still recognise as our own?
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26Demokratische Körper: Die Abschaffung der Folter und der Aufstand des RechtsstaatsDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 61 (5-6): 665-680. 2013.Moral modernity, including political modernity, is founded on the series of acts whereby, throughout Europe, torture was banned. Torture became the paradigm of moral injury, of what must never be done to an individual because it is intrinsically degrading and devaluing. The body of the torture victim is the meeting place of state and citizen: either the rule of law recognizes bodily autonomy as its own moral basis - broken laws standing for broken bodies - or the law becomes a vehicle of soverei…Read more
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