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144Politicizing 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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14Lavoro 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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70What 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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5Hegel’s Naturalism: Mind, Nature and the Final Ends of Life (review)Critical Horizons 13 (2): 275-287. 2012.
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62Democratic aesthetics: On Jacques rancière's latest workCritical Horizons 8 (2): 230-255. 2007.26 page
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97Repressed materiality: Retrieving the materialism in Axel Honneth's theory of recognitionCritical Horizons 7 (1): 113-140. 2006.The origins of Axel Honneth's theory of recognition lie in his earlier project to correct the conceptual confusions and empirical shortcomings of historical materialism for the purpose of an adequate post-Habermasian critical social theory. Honneth proposed to accomplish this project, most strikingly, by reconnecting critical social theory with one of its repressed philosophical sources, namely anthropological materialism. In its mature shape, however, recognition theory operates on a narrow con…Read more
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34Philosophie de l'histoire et théorie du parti chez Sartre et MerleauPontyActuel Marx 46 (2): 52-66. 2009.
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4Jacques Rancière, The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (6): 427-431. 2005.
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32Hegelian recognition, critical theory, and the social sciencesIn Nicholas Smith & Shane O'Neill (eds.), Recognition Theory as Social Research. Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict, Springer. 2012.22 page
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62Work as Transcendental Experience: Implications of Dejours' Psycho-dynamics for Contemporary Social Theory and PhilosophyCritical Horizons 11 (2): 181-220. 2010.This essay discusses four books recently published by Christophe Dejours with the aim of extracting their most significant social-theoretical and philosophical implications. The first two books are two contributions by Dejours in current debates and public policy initiatives in France through the application of his psychodynamic approach to work related issues (work and violence; work and suicide). Even though these texts are shaped by the specific contexts in which they were written, they also …Read more
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12Emmanuel Renault, Souffrances sociales: sociologie, psychologie et politiqueCritical Horizons 9 (2): 243-249. 2008.
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42Travail et expérience de la domination dans le néolibéralisme contemporainActuel Marx 49 (1): 73-89. 2011.Work and Experience of Domination in Contemporary Neoliberalism This paper seeks to study the contemporary forms of domination at and through work, by focusing on subjective experiences of work. Against the background of Marx’s analysis of the manyfold nexus between social and political domination in general and domination at work, I begin by drawing in broad strokes the general picture of current experiences of work emerging from the contemporary French sociology and psychology of work. Related…Read more
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Phenomenology of the Cinematographic Image: An Hegelian PerpectiveLiterature & Aesthetics 14 (2): 7-23. 2004.
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24Lectures politiques et spéculatives des Grundlinien der Philosophie des RechtsArchives de Philosophie 3 (3): 441-462. 2002.
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44The 'son of civil society': Tensions in Hegel's account of womanhoodPhilosophical Forum 31 (2). 2000.The paper examines briefly Kant's and Fichte's, and more thoroughly, Hegel's theses on womanhood and their social and political consequences. It shows, taking Hegel as a case study, that the idealists' conceptual frameworks should have led them to recognize the rights of women, and, importantly, in Kant's and Hegel's case, that they implicitly did so. However, they chose to repress these unwanted outcomes behind teachings that were more in line with the beliefs of their time. This tension, it is…Read more
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29Doing justice to the pastPhilosophy and Social Criticism 43 (8): 812-836. 2017.In this article, we argue that the usual restriction of critical theory to ‘modern’ norms is subject to problems of coherence, historical accuracy and moral obligation. First, we illustrate how critical theory opposes itself to societies designated as pre-modern, through a summary of Honneth’s recognition theory. We then show how an over-emphasis on modernity’s normative novelty obscures counter-currents in ethical life that threaten the unity of the modern era. Those two steps prepare the main …Read more
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33Philosophie et société: Le statut de la femme dans l'idéalisme allemandLes Etudes Philosophiques 75-104. 2000.
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Jacques Rancière, The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing (review)Philosophy in Review 25 427-431. 2005.
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56Hegel's social theory of valuePhilosophical Forum 36 (3). 2005.In the following, I want to examine the structure and the significance of the notion of value in Hegel’s philosophy of right. In the first part, I use the 1817 version to define the category itself. Hegel sees the concept of value as a formal conceptual scheme, which can be applied with full justification to the most diverse contexts. It is striking that he should use the same word, in the same structural sense, in fields as diverse as economic exchange, crime and its punishment, indi-vidual act…Read more
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15Work 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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54Feuerbach 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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53The 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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19Arbeit als Ort von Ungerechtigkeit und Herrschaft. Die Grenzen der zeitgenössischen politischen PhilosophieDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 60 (4): 573-592. 2012.
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