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40Critique hope, power: Challenges of contemporary critical theoryCritical Horizons 6 (1): 1-21. 2005.In the first part of the paper I consider the relative neglect of hope in the tradition of critical theory. I attribute this neglect to a low estimation of the cognitive, aesthetic, and moral value of hope, and to the strong—but, argue, contingent—association that holds between hope and religion. I then distinguish three strategies for thinking about the justification of social hope; one which appeals to a notion of unfulfilled or frustrated natural human capacities, another which invokes a prov…Read more
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38Jacques Rancière’s Contribution to The Ethics of RecognitionPolitical Theory 31 (1): 136-156. 2003.21 page
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38The work of art in the age of its digital distributionAngelaki 24 (5): 104-123. 2019.This paper argues that Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility” provides a rich analytic framework for understanding how the many dimensions of aesthe...
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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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34Philosophie de l'histoire et théorie du parti chez Sartre et MerleauPontyActuel Marx 46 (2): 52-66. 2009.
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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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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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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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27Whither Work? The Politics and Ethics of Contemporary Work (edited book)Routledge. 2021.Bringing together leading international scholars within the fields of social and political theory and philosophy, this book explores how we should understand work and its role(s) in our lives and wider society. What challenges are posed by work in our changing economy and the new economic forms that are beginning to emerge, and how can we best address these challenges? In what ways do patterns of working, as well as work technologies, shape people’s lives within and outside work, in particular t…Read more
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25Exploited: Exploitation As A Subjective CategorySouthern Journal of Philosophy 54 (S1): 31-43. 2016.I focus on exploitation from the point of view of those who suffer from it, and so I take exploitation as a category of subjective experience. Adopting a subjective perspective on exploitation highlights important conceptual aspects about it and suggests important methodological rules on how to critically discuss social forms of exploitation. I start by introducing some key conceptual distinctions in the first two sections. These distinctions lead me to formulate a first, general definition of e…Read more
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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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24György Markus: On the Path of Culture – Editorial IntroductionCritical Horizons 14 (2): 125-126. 2013.
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24The cruel poetics of MorrisseyThesis Eleven 120 (1): 90-103. 2014.Drawing on existential phenomenology, particularly Heidegger’s analytic of Dasein, and combining it with a developmental perspective, the paper focuses on those moments of crisis, in which a self faces the question of its own truth, and in the process posits the conditions for disclosing key aspects about the world and society. Late adolescence and early adulthood are the ‘ages of life’ in which such possibility of disclosure occurs most eminently, and this is relayed expressively and reflective…Read more
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23The Body of Spirit: Hegel's Concept of Flesh and its Normative ImplicationsHegel Bulletin 42 (1): 39-56. 2021.This paper attempts to show that an expansive normative vision can be drawn from Hegel's texts, one whose scope significantly exceeds the anthropocentric model presented in the ‘objective spirit’ parts of his system. This expansion of normativity is linked to an expansive vision of relationality underpinning Hegel's model of ‘concrete freedom’. In order to put into sharper relief the links between expansive relationality and normativity, the late thinking of Maurice Merleau-Ponty is mobilized as…Read more
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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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19This 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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19Expression 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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19Desubstantializing the critique of forms of life: relationality, subjectivity, moralityInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.Rahel Jaeggi’s Critique of Forms of Life represents a welcome new development in critical social thought. It aims to overcome the ‘liberal abstinence’, which forbids criticizing the ethical fabric of social life, and proposes to connect normative evaluation with a serious social-ontological model of ‘forms of life’. In this article we argue, however, that Jaeggi’s ontological characterization of the concept of form of life is problematic in ways that introduce a number of adverse consequences fo…Read more
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16Hegel’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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15Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory (edited book)Brill. 2007.Recognition, Work, Politics includes a range of essays in contemporary French critical theory around politics, recognition, and work, and their philosophical articulations. These issues are addressed from directions that include post-structuralism, the paradigm of the gift, recognition theory, and post-marxism
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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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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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14With or without God? A critical reading of Bubbio's God and the Self in HegelPhilosophy Today 63 (2): 549-554. 2019.Bubbio’s new book is a synthesis of his earlier interventions in Hegel studies, nourished by his research on the notion of sacrifice. It offers an unabashed defence of the theological moment in Hegel’s idealism that is bound to attract much interest and critical attention. The book situates itself expertly in the current landscape. Aside from the original proposal it presents, it is a lucid introduction to the state of discussions in current Hegel scholarship. Many sections have great informativ…Read more
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