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27The tragedy of slavery: Aristotle's rhetoric and the history of the concept of natural lawHistory of Political Thought 24 (1): 16-36. 2003.This article focuses on the history of the concept of natural law and the role which Aristotle, and especially his Rhetoric, has to play within it. It is sometimes suggested that the origins of the concept of law are to be located in the writings of Plato and Aristotle in the fourth century BCE. The article argues that there is evidence both in Aristotle's Politics and in his Rhetoric to support the view that this is not the case. In these texts Aristotle suggests that the origins of the concept…Read more
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17Political Theory, Science Fiction and Utopian Literature: Ursula K. Le Guin and The DispossessedRowman & Littlefield. 2008.This work challenges both the widely accepted view thatThe Dispossessed represents a new kind of literary utopia and the place of Ursula K. Le Guin's novel in the histories of utopian/dystopian literature and science fiction.
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69Aristotle and natural lawHistory of Political Thought 19 (2): 142-166. 1998.The paper presents an interpretation of Aristotle's views on natural justice in the Nicomachean Ethics. It focuses, in particular, on Aristotle's understanding of the relationship which exists between natural justice and political justice, or between natural law and positive law. It is suggested that Aristotle's views on this subject are often misunderstood. It is also suggested that, contrary to what some commentators might think, Aristotle's comments on natural justice are actually central for…Read more
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Hegel, Cosmopolitanism and Contemporary Recognition TheoryIn Tony Burns & Simon Thompson (eds.), Global Justice and the Politics of Recognition, Palgrave. pp. 64-87. 2013.
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The Theoretical Underpinnings of Chicago Sociology in the 1920s and 30sSociological Review 44 (3). 1996.
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AristotleIn David Boucher & Paul Kelly (eds.), Political Thinkers from Socrates to the Present, 1st ed., Oxford University Press. pp. 73-91. 2003.
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1Science, Politics and Utopia in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-FourIn Keith M. Booker (ed.), Critical Insights: Dystopia, Salem Press. pp. 91-108. 2013.
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Review of Paul Blackledge, Reflections on the Marxist Theory of HistoryCapital and Class (98): 149-55. 2009.
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13The Hegel-Marx connection (edited book)St. Martin's Press. 2000.A major and timely re-examination of key areas in the social and political thought of Hegel and Marx. The editors' extensive introduction surveys the development of the connection from the Young Hegelians through the main Marxist thinkers to contemporary debates. Leading scholars including Terrell Carver, Chris Arthur, and Gary Browning debate themes such as: the nature of the connection itself scientific method political economy the Hegelian basis to Marxs' "Doctoral Dissertation" human needs h…Read more
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41Materialism in Ancient Greek Philosophy and in the Writings of the Young MarxHistorical Materialism 7 (1): 3-39. 2000.What is the young Marx's attitude towards questions of psychology? More precisely, what is his attitude towards the human mind and its relationship to the body? To deal adequately with this issue requires a consideration of the relationship between Marx and Feuerbach. It also requires some discussion of the thought of Aristotle. For the views of Feuerbach and the young Marx are not at all original. Rather, they represent a continuation of a long tradition which derives ultimately from ancient Gr…Read more
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Introduction: An Historical Survey of the Hegel-Marx ConnectionIn Tony Burns & Ian Fraser (eds.), The Hegel-Marx Connection, Macmillan. pp. 1-33. 2000.
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6“The Right to Have Rights”: Slavery, Freedom and Citizenship in the Thought of Aristotle, Hegel and ArendtCulture and Civilization 5. 2013.
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Review of John Hoffman and Paul Graham, Introduction to Political TheoryBritish Politics 1 (2): 428-29. 2006.
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15Aristotle and Natural LawContinuum. 2011.Aristotle and Natural Law lays out a new theoretical approach which distinguishes between the notions of 'interpretation,' 'appropriation,' 'negotiation' and 'reconstruction' of the meaning of texts and their component concepts. These categories are then deployed in an examination of the role which the concept of natural law is used by Aristotle in a number of key texts. The book argues that Aristotle appropriated the concept of natural law, first formulated by the defenders of naturalism in the…Read more
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1Karl Kautsky: Ethics and MarxismIn Lawrence Wilde (ed.), Marxism's Ethical Thinkers, Palgrave. pp. 15-50. 2001.
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2Whose Aristotle? Which Marx? Ethics, Law and Justice in Aristotle and MarxImprints: Egalitarian Theory and Practice 8 (2). 2005.
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Alan Brudner and the Contemporary Significance of Hegel’s Philosophy of LawJurisprudence 3 (1). 2012.
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The Ideological Location of Hegel’s Political ThoughtIn Joni Lovenduski & Jeffrey Stanyer (eds.), Contemporary Political Studies: 1995, Psa. pp. 1301-1308. 1995.
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1Review of S. C. Bosworth, Hegel’s Political Philosophy: The Test Case For Constitutional MonarchyBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 30 64-71. 1994.
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59The purloined Hegel: semiology in the thought of Saussure and DerridaHistory of the Human Sciences 13 (4): 1-24. 2000.This paper explores the thought of Hegel, Saussure and Derrida regarding the nature of the linguistic sign. It argues that Derrida is right to maintain that Hegel is an influence on Saussure. However, Derrida misrepresents both Hegel and Saussure by interpreting them as falling within the Platonic rather than the Aristotelian philosophical tradition
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Nussbaum, Cosmopolitanism and Contemporary Political IssuesInternational Journal of Social Economics 40 (7). 2013.
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Introduction: Global Justice and the Politics of RecognitionIn Tony Burns & Simon Thompson (eds.), Global Justice and the Politics of Recognition, Palgrave. pp. 1-22. 2013.
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The Source of the Encyclopédie Article ‘Loi naturelle (morale)'British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies 7 (4): 39-48. 1984.