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14Philosophy’s Gaudy DressEuropean Journal of Political Theory 4 (2): 146-163. 2005.John Locke famously sets the arts of rhetoric at odds with the pursuit of knowledge. Drawing on the work of Ernesto Grassi, this article shows that Locke’s epistemological and political arguments are parasitic on the very tropes and figures he would exclude in any serious discourse. Accordingly, Locke’s attack on the divine right of kings and his famous argument for the social contract is read as exhibiting a rhetorical structure. This structure is crucial to Locke’s critique of heteronomy and h…Read more
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11Critical historiography and the problem of judgmentEuropean Journal of Political Theory 22 (3): 490-495. 2023.Max Tomba aims to reconstruct how historical actors reconstructed the past to open the future in ways that diverged from the trajectory of the dominant modernity. Insurgent Universality would break open the dead logic of the juridical, political, and economic trajectory of modernity that limits what is given and constrains what is possible. This essay reflects on the practice and the role of the historian. Beyond merely adopting insurgents’ perspectives, the historian must engage in a practice o…Read more
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9Chapter one. Political theory as a signifying practiceIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. pp. 1-15. 2018.
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9ContentsIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. 2018.
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8Chapter three. The "furies of hell": Woman in Burke's "French revolution"In Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. pp. 60-94. 2018.
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8Chapter five. Resignifying the woman question in political theoryIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. pp. 138-154. 2018.
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8A democratic theory of judgmentUniversity of Chicago Press. 2016.Democracy and the problem of judgment -- Judging at the "end of reasons": rethinking the aesthetic turn -- Historicism, judgment, and the limits of liberalism: the case of Leo Strauss -- Objectivity, judgment, and freedom: rereading Arendt's "Truth and politics" -- Value pluralism and the "burdens of judgment": John Rawls's political liberalism -- Relativism and the new universalism: feminists claim the right to judge -- From willing to judging: Arendt, Habermas, and the question of '68 -- What …Read more
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7IndexIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. pp. 209-214. 2018.
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7Chapter four. The "innocent magdalen": Woman in mill's symbolic economyIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. pp. 95-137. 2018.
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7AcknowledgmentsIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. 2018.
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5NotesIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. pp. 155-208. 2018.
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4FrontmatterIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. 2018.
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2Feminists know not what they do : Judith Butler's gender trouble and the limits of epistemologyIn Terrell Carver & Samuel Allen Chambers (eds.), Judith Butler's Precarious Politics: Critical Encounters, Routledge. 2008.
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12. Critique As A Political Practice Of FreedomIn Didier Fassin (ed.), A time for critique, Columbia University Press. pp. 36-51. 2019.
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Toward a democratic theory of judgmentIn Vivasvan Soni & Thomas Pfau (eds.), Judgment and Action: Fragments toward a History, Northwestern University Press. 2017.
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