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23To the things themselves again: observations on what things are and why they matterIn Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison & Angela Piccini (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World, Oxford University Press. 2013.What is a thing? It is an apparently simple question to which few philosophers or social scientists have devoted any serious attention. This chapter attempts to explain this neglect, and then to develop a way of thinking about the question by distinguishing things, and the concept ‘thing’, from objects and entities with which they are often conflated. This more refined and adequate conception of the thing is then deployed in order to help answer two related questions: ‘Why do things matter? What…Read more
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7Political, moral, and critical theory : on the practical philosophy of the Frankfurt SchoolIn Brian Leiter & Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of continental philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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81Hegel, Adorno and the Origins of Immanent CriticismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (6): 1142-1166. 2014.‘Immanent criticism' has been discussed by philosophers of quite different persuasions, working in separate areas and in different traditions of philosophy. Almost all of them agree on roughly the same story about its origins: It is that Hegel invented immanent criticism, that Marx later developed it, and that the various members of the Frankfurt School, particularly Adorno, refined it in various ways, and that they are all paradigmatic practitioners of immanent criticism. I call this the Contin…Read more
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25Introduction : the Habermas Rawls dispute : analysis and re-evaluationIn James Gordon Finlayson & Fabian Freyenhagen (eds.), Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political, Rouledge. 2010.
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63Adorno on the ethical and the ineffableEuropean Journal of Philosophy 10 (1). 2002.The thesis is that Adorno has a normative ethics, albeit a minimal and negative ethics of resistance. However Adorno’s ethical theory faces two problems: the problem of the availability of the good and the problem of whether a normative ethics is consistent with philosophical negativism. The author argues that a correct of understanding the role of the ineffable in Adorno’s Negative Dialectics solves both problems: it provides an account of the availability of the good that is consistent with hi…Read more
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