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    Between Political Liberalism and Postnational Cosmopolitanism
    Political Theory 31 (3): 359-391. 2003.
    It is well known that Rawls and Habermas propose different strategies for justifying and classifying human rights. The author argues that neither approach satisfies what he regards as threshold conditions of determinacy, rank ordering, and completeness that any enforceable system of human rights must possess. A related concern is that neither develops an adequate account of group rights, which the author argues fulfills subsidiary conditions for realizing human rights under specific conditions. …Read more
  •  95
    Of sweatshops and subsistence: Habermas on human rights
    Ethics and Global Politics 2 (3). 2009.
    In this paper I argue that the discourse theoretic account of human rights defended by Jürgen Habermas contains a fruitful tension that is obscured by its dominant tendency to identify rights with legal claims. This weakness in Habermas’s account becomes manifest when we examine how sweatshops diminish the secure enjoyment of subsistence, which Habermas himself (in recognition of the UDHR) recognizes as a human right. Discourse theories of human rights are unique in tying the legitimacy of human…Read more
  •  4
    Reviews (review)
    with Oliva Blanchette, Kurt Marko, John W. Murphy, Irving H. Anellis, Vladimir Zeman, and Thomas Nemeth
    Studies in Soviet Thought 31 (2): 149-191. 1986.
  •  9
    Antidiscrimination, Welfare, and Democracy
    Social Theory and Practice 32 (2): 213-248. 2006.
  •  4
    Review of Jurgen Habermas's "Philosophical-Political Profiles"
  •  75
    Reviews (review)
    with S. M. Easton, F. Seddon, Robert B. Louden, Michael Howard, Philip Moran, N. G. O. Pereira, and Thomas A. Shipka
    Studies in East European Thought 28 (2): 219-229. 1984.
  •  3
    Reviews (review)
    with S. M. Easton, F. Seddon, Robert B. Louden, Michael Howard, Philip Moran, N. G. O. Pereira, and Thomas A. Shipka
    Studies in Soviet Thought 28 (2): 133-165. 1984.
  •  81
    Reviews (review)
    with Oliva Blanchette, Kurt Marko, John W. Murphy, Irving H. Anellis, Vladimir Zeman, and Thomas Nemeth
    Studies in East European Thought 31 (2): 135-137. 1986.