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33Recognition and freedom: Axel Honneth’s political thought (review)Critical Horizons 18 (2): 186-190. 2017.
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25Anerkennung, Umverteilung und Demokratie Dilemmata in Honneths Kritischer Theorie der GesellschaftDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 53 (3). 2005.
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23Perspectives 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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21The 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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15James Gordon Finlayson, The Habermas–Rawls Debate (review)Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 1 (1): 101-105. 2022.
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13We're not special: Congratulations!Constellations 30 (4): 422-425. 2023.Constellations, EarlyView.
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12Review of Mitchell Aboulafia (ed.), Myra Bookman (ed.), Catherine Kemp (ed.), Habermas and Pragmatism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (3). 2004.
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8Perspectives on Habermas (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (2): 274-275. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.2 (2002) 274-275 [Access article in PDF] 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 vol…Read more
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5Splitsville USA argues that it’s time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of the current United States of America into several new nations. It begins by examining the United States’ democratic predicament, a road most likely headed for electoral authoritarianism, with distinct possibilities of ungovernability and violent civil strife. Unlike others who share this diagnosis, Zurn presents a realistic picture of how we can get …Read more
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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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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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1Stephen K. White, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Habermas (review)Philosophy in Review 16 (2): 151-153. 1996.
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1The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity by Amy Allen (review)Apa Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (1): 53-55. 1999.
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Competence and Context: Conceptions of the Self in the Critical Social Theories of Juergen Habermas and Charles TaylorDissertation, Northwestern University. 1999.In this dissertation, I argue that the development of individual identity should be understood in terms of the intersubjective acquisition of diverse forms of interactive competence, that such a conception can allay concerns about the historical, ethical, and institutional specificity of the structures of personal identity, and that such a conception plays an important role in critical social theory's project of a substantive diagnosis and assessment of social pathologies in complex, pluralistic…Read more
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Founding Acts: Constitutional Origins in a Democratic Age by Serdar Tekin (review)The Review of Politics 80 (1): 164-167. 2018.
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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 |