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2Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial ReviewCambridge University Press. 2007.In this book, Christopher F. Zurn shows why a normative theory of deliberative democratic constitutionalism yields the best understanding of the legitimacy of constitutional review. He further argues that this function should be institutionalized in a complex, multi-location structure including not only independent constitutional courts but also legislative and executive self-review that would enable interbranch constitutional dialogue and constitutional amendment through deliberative civic cons…Read more
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22The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (edited book)Lexington Books. 2009.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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274Social pathologies as second-order disordersIn Danielle Petherbridge (ed.), Axel Honneth: Critical Essays: With a Reply by Axel Honneth, Brill Academic. pp. 345-370. 2011.Aside from the systematic theory of recognition, Honneth’s work in the last decade has also centered around a less commented-upon theme: the critical social theoretic diagnosis of social pathologies. This paper claims first that his diverse diagnoses of specific social pathologies can be productively united through the conceptual structure evinced by second-order disorders, where there are substantial disconnects, of various kinds, between first-order contents and second-order reflexive understa…Read more
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35Recognition and freedom: Axel Honneth’s political thought (review)Critical Horizons 18 (2): 186-190. 2017.
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53Axel HonnethPolity. 2015.With his insightful and wide-ranging theory of recognition, Axel Honneth has decisively reshaped the Frankfurt School tradition of critical social theory. Combining insights from philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, political economy, and cultural critique, Honneth’s work proposes nothing less than an account of the moral infrastructure of human sociality and its relation to the perils and promise of contemporary social life. This book provides an accessible overview of Honneth’s main con…Read more
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25Perspectives on Habermas (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (2): 274-275. 2002.Christopher F. Zurn - Perspectives on Habermas - Journal of the History of Philosophy 40:2 Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.2 274-275 Book Review Perspectives on Habermas Lewis Edwin Hahn, editor. Perspectives on Habermas. New York: Open Court, 2000. Pp. xiv + 586. Paper, $29.95. This collection of essays on the wide-ranging body of thought produced by Jürgen Habermas over the course of close to fifty years represents a significant lost opportunity. Although originally planned as a volume…Read more
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129Group Balkanization or Societal Homogenization: Is There a Dilemma between Recognition and Distribution Struggles?Public Affairs Quarterly 18 (2): 159-186. 2004.
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444Bringing discursive ideals to legal facts: On Baxter on Habermas (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 40 (2): 195-203. 2014.In Between Facts and Norms (1992) Habermas set out a theory of law and politics that is linked both to our high normative expectations and to the realities consequent upon the practices and institutions meant to put them into effect. The article discusses Hugh Baxter’s Habermas: The Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy and the drawbacks he finds in Habermas’ theory. It focuses on raising questions about and objections to some of the author’s leading claims
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215The Normative Claims of Three Types of Feminist Struggles for RecognitionPhilosophy Today 41 (Supplement): 73-78. 1997.
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72Review of Recognition and power: Axel Honneth and the tradition of critical social theory edited by Bert Van den Brink and David Owen (review)Constellations 15 (2): 271-274. 2008.No Abstract
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1Stephen K. White, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Habermas (review)Philosophy in Review 16 (2): 151-153. 1996.
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2James Risser, Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-reading Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 18 (1): 57-59. 1998.
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78Anerkennung (edited book)Akademie Verlag. 2009.Theorien der "Anerkennung" zeichnen sich durch eine außergewöhnliche Leistungsstärke aus. In den letzten Jahren haben sie die Forschung auf den Gebieten der Moralphilosophie, der Politischen Philosophie und der Sozialphilosophie, aber auch auf denen der Psychologie und der Sozialwissenschaften sowohl thematisch als auch methodisch sehr stark bereichert. Viele dieser Theorien versuchen zudem, Überlegungen, die von klassischen Autoren wie Fichte oder Hegel entwickelt wurden, für die aktuelle Disku…Read more
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University of Massachusetts, BostonDepartment of Philosophy
Public Policy and Public AffairsProfessor
APA Eastern Division
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Law |
European Philosophy |
Critical Theory |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |
European Philosophy |
Critical Theory |