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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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446Bringing 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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217The Normative Claims of Three Types of Feminist Struggles for RecognitionPhilosophy Today 41 (Supplement): 73-78. 1997.
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73Review 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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781Misrecognition, Marriage and DerecognitionIn Shane O'Neill Nicholas H. Smith (ed.), Recognition Theory as Social Research: Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict, Palgrave-macmillan. 2012.Contemporary recognition theory has developed powerful tools for understanding a variety of social problems through the lens of misrecognition. It has, however, paid somewhat less attention to how to conceive of appropriate responses to misrecognition, usually making the tacit assumption that the proper societal response is adequate or proper affirmative recognition. In this paper I argue that, although affirmative recognition is one potential response to misrecognition, it is not the only such …Read more
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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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27Anerkennung, Umverteilung und Demokratie Dilemmata in Honneths Kritischer Theorie der GesellschaftDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 53 (3). 2005.
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50Review of "Scales of Justice" by Nancy Fraser (review)Social Theory and Practice 38 (1): 165-172. 2012.
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9Perspectives 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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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 |