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18Work and the Precarisation of ExistenceEuropean Journal of Social Theory 11 (4): 443-463. 2008.This article aims to present a new perspective on contemporary debates about the transformations of work and employment, and their impacts on individuals and communities, by focusing on the writings of Christophe Dejours. Basically, the article attempts to show that Dejours' writings make a significant contribution to contemporary social theory. This might seem like an odd claim to make, since Dejours' main training was in psychoanalysis and his main activity is the clinical, psychiatric study o…Read more
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57Feuerbach and the Philosophy of Critical TheoryBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (6): 1208-1233. 2014.It is a hallmark of the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory that it has consistently made philosophical reflection a central component of its overall project. Indeed, the core identity that this tradition has been able to maintain arguably stems from the fact that a number of key philosophical assumptions have been shared by the generations of thinkers involved in it. These assumptions form a basic ‘philosophical matrix’, whose main aim is to allow for a ‘critique of reason’, the heart…Read more
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59The ILO's Decent Work Initiative: Suggestions for an Extension of the Notion of “Decent Work”Journal of Social Philosophy 43 (4): 386-405. 2012.20 page
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20Arbeit als Ort von Ungerechtigkeit und Herrschaft. Die Grenzen der zeitgenössischen politischen PhilosophieDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 60 (4): 573-592. 2012.
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101Marx, Honneth and the Tasks of a Contemporary Critical TheoryEthical Theory and Moral Practice 16 (4): 745-758. 2013.In this paper, I consider succinctly the main Marxist objections to Honneth’s model of critical social theory, and Honneth’s key objections to Marx-inspired models. I then seek to outline a rapprochement between the two positions, by showing how Honneth’s normative concept of recognition is not antithetical to functionalist arguments, but in fact contains a social-theoretical dimension, the idea that social reproduction and social evolution revolve around struggles around the interpretation of c…Read more
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41Jacques Rancière’s Contribution to The Ethics of RecognitionPolitical Theory 31 (1): 136-156. 2003.21 page
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60The Tender Indifference of the World: Camus' Theory of the Flesh (review)Sophia 50 (4): 513-525. 2011.The Tender Indifference of the World: Camus’ Theory of the Flesh Content Type Journal Article Pages 513-525 DOI 10.1007/s11841-011-0273-1 Authors Jean-Philippe Deranty, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia Journal Sophia Online ISSN 1873-930X Print ISSN 0038-1527 Journal Volume Volume 50 Journal Issue Volume 50, Number 4
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14Souffrances sociales: Sociologie, psychologie et politiqueCritical Horizons 9 (2): 243-249. 2008.
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1Lectures politiques et spéculatives des Grundlinien der Philosophie des RechtsArchives de Philosophie 65 (3): 441-462. 2002.
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15Kritik der politischen Ökonomie und die gegenwärtige Kritische Theorie. Eine Verteidigung von Honneths AnerkennungstheorieIn Christopher F. Zurn & Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch (eds.), Anerkennung, Akademie Verlag. pp. 269-300. 2009.
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114Injustice, violence and social struggle. The critical potential of Axel Honneth's theory of recognitionCritical Horizons 5 (1): 297-322. 2004.Honneth's fundamental claim that the normativity of social orders can be found nowhere but in the very experience of those who suffer injustice leads, I argue, to a radical theory and critique of society, with the potential to provide an innovative theory of social movements and a valid alternative to political liberalism.
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9Feuerbach's philosophical psychology and its political and aesthetic implicationsIn Paolo Diego Bubbio & Paul Redding (eds.), Religion After Kant: God and Culture in the Idealist Era, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2012.
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67The loss of nature in Axel Honneth's social philosophy. Rereading Mead with Merleau-pontyCritical Horizons 6 (1): 153-181. 2005.This paper analyses the model of interaction at the heart of Axel Honneth's social philosophy. It argues that interaction in his mature ethics of recognition has been reduced to intercourse between human persons and that the role of nature is now missing from it. The ethics of recognition takes into account neither the material dimensions of individual and social action, nor the normative meaning of non-human persons and natural environments. The loss of nature in the mature ethics of recognitio…Read more
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62The book will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in contemporary philosophy and the social sciences.
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8Jacques Rancière, Politics of Aesthetics. The Distribution of the Sensible Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (6): 427-431. 2005.
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78Hegel’s ParliamentarianismThe Owl of Minerva 32 (2): 107-133. 2001.Of all the parts of the System, the Philosophy of Right has one unique feature. It is the only part for which, throughout his entire career, Hegel published one of his few books, while giving lectures on the very same topic. This peculiarity of the Philosophy of Right puts a special demand on those who try to interpret it. Although the version published by the author himself should constitute the ultimate reference of his social and political doctrine, because he has worked on the topic all thro…Read more
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1The theory of social action in Merleau-Ponty and HonnethIn Miriam Bankovsky & Alice Le Goff (eds.), Recognition theory and contemporary French moral and political philosophy: reopening the dialogue, Distributed Exclusively in the Usa By Palgrave Macmillan. 2012.
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127The Centrality of WorkCritical Horizons 11 (2): 167-180. 2010.This article briefly presents some of the main features of the notion of “centrality of work” within the framework of the “psychodynamic” approach to work developed by Christophe Dejours. The paper argues that we should distinguish between at least four separate but related ways in which work can be said to be central: psychologically, in terms of gender relations, social-politically and epistemically
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20Expression and cooperation as norms of contemporary workIn Jean-Philippe Deranty & Nicholas Smith (eds.), Work and the Social Bond, Brill. pp. 151-179. 2012.29 page
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146Politicizing Honneth’s Ethics of RecognitionThesis Eleven 88 (1): 92-111. 2007.This article argues that Axel Honneth’s ethics of recognition offers a robust model for a renewed critical theory of society, provided that it does not shy away from its political dimensions. First, the ethics of recognition needs to clarify its political moment at the conceptual level to remain conceptually sustainable. This requires a clarification of the notion of identity in relation to the three spheres of recognition, and a clarification of its exact place in a politics of recognition. We …Read more
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15Lavoro ed esperienza del dominio nel neoliberismo contemporaneoSociet〠Degli Individui 46 62-77. 2013.
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2Jacques Ranciere: Key Concepts (edited book)Routledge. 2010.Although relatively unknown a decade ago, the work of Jacques Ranciere is fast becoming a central reference in the humanities and social sciences. His thinking brings a fresh, innovative approach to many fields, notably the study of work, education, politics, literature, film, art, as well as philosophy. This is the first, full-length introduction to Ranciere's work and covers the full range of his contribution to contemporary thought, presenting in clear, succinct chapters the key concepts Ranc…Read more
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72What Is Work? Key Insights From the Psychodynamics of WorkThesis Eleven 98 (1): 69-87. 2009.This article aims to present some of the main results of contemporary French psychodynamics of work. The writings of Christophe Dejours constitute the central references in this area. His psychoanalytical approach, which is initially concerned with the impact of contemporary work practices on individual health, has implications that go well beyond the narrow psycho-pathological interest. The most significant theoretical development to have come out of Dejours's research is that of Yves Clot, who…Read more
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35Feuerbach's theory of object‐relations and its legacy in 20 th century post‐Hegelian philosophySouthern Journal of Philosophy 53 (3): 286-310. 2015.This paper focuses on the way in which Feuerbach's attempt to develop a naturalistic, realist remodeling of Hegel's relational ontology, which culminated in his own version of “sensualism”, led him to emphasize the vulnerability of the subject and the role of affectivity, thus making object‐dependence a constitutive feature of subjectivity. We find in Feuerbach the first lineaments of a philosophical theory of object‐relations, one that anticipates the well‐known psychological theory of the same…Read more
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