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26Art and Aesthetics After Adorno (edited book)Fordham University Press. 2022.Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory offers one of the most powerful and comprehensive critiques of art and of the discipline of aesthetics ever written. The work offers a deeply critical engagement with the history and philosophy of aesthetics and with the traditions of European art through the middle of the 20th century. It is coupled with ambitious claims about what aesthetic theory ought to be. But the cultural horizon of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory was the world of high modernism, and much has h…Read more
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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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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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19Anthropocene Self-Consciousness: Response to “Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto”Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 43 (1): 139-142. 2023.The prior issue of Krisis (42:1) published Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto, with the aim to instigate a debate of the issues raised in this manifesto – the necessary re-thinking of the role (and the concept) of nature in critical theory in relation to questions of ecology, health, and inequality. Since Krisis considers itself a place for philosophical debates that take contemporary struggles as starting point, it issued an open call and solicited responses to the manifesto. This is one of the s…Read more
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19Conscience and Transgression: The Persistence of MisrecognitionHegel Bulletin 15 (1): 55-70. 1994.
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17The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary PerspectivesLexington Books. 2009.Edited by Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch & Christopher Zurn. This volume collects original, cutting-edge essays on the philosophy of recognition by international scholars eminent in the field. By considering the topic of recognition as addressed by both classical and contemporary authors, the volume explores the connections between historical and contemporary recognition research and makes substantive contributions to the further development of contemporary theories of recognition.
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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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16Adorno and Ethics (edited book)Duke University Press. 2006.Because of his preoccupation with the formal aspects of music and literature, Theodor W. Adorno is often regarded as the most aesthetically oriented thinker of the Frankfurt School theorists. It is Adorno’s perceived commitment to aestheticism—the study of art for art’s sake and the study of art as a source of sensuous pleasure, rather than as a vehicle for culturally constructed morality or meaning—that many scholars have criticized as hostile to genuine, concrete, substantive political, social…Read more
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16After the Demise of the Tradition: Rorty, Critical Theory, and the Fate of PhilosophyPhilosophical Books 33 (3): 150-152. 1992.
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14Lindsay 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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13Concept and ObjectIn Peter Eli Gordon (ed.), A companion to Adorno, Wiley. 2019.In the Preface to Negative Dialectics, Adorno states that the primary ambition of the book is to find a substitute for the “supra‐ordinated” concept and to “break through the deception of constitutive subjectivity.” For a book whose ambition is to renew the Marxist idea of critique, these are puzzling claims. The notions to be criticized are Kant's in The Critique of Pure Reason ; Adorno, from his earliest studies with Siegfried Kracauer, had taken Kant's theoretical philosophy as expressing the…Read more
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13Promising 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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12To Be Is to Live, To Be Is to Be RecognizedGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 30 (2): 357-390. 2009.
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12On the Dependency Structure of Self-Consciousness and the Ethical Constitution of ReasonGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 42 (2): 283-314. 2021.
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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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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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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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8Promising and Civil Disobedience (Arendt’s Political Modernism)Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 28 (1): 47-60. 2007.
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7Without Sovereignty or Miracles: Reply to BirminghamJournal of Speculative Philosophy 24 (1): 21-31. 2010.
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7Re-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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66 Das NaturschöneIn Anne Eusterschulte & Sebastian Tränkle (eds.), Theodor W. Adorno: Ästhetische Theorie, De Gruyter. pp. 73-88. 2021.
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6Theories of Existence, by T. L. S. SpriggeJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 18 (2): 209-211. 1987.
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6RightsIn 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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6The Meaning of Ugliness, The Authority of BeautyIn Jonathan Gilmore & Lydia Goehr (eds.), A Companion to Arthur C. Danto, Wiley. 2022.In “The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art,” Arthur Danto argues that there were two stages to the platonic critique of the arts: ephemeralization and takeover. Danto's philosophy of art sought a rescue by detaching art from the philosophy of art in a manner that would give back to the arts the very dangerousness that so alarmed Plato in the first instance. This chapter draws Danto's theory into conversation with Stanley Cavell's and T.W. Adorno's philosophies of modernism. Ugliness or terr…Read more
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