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27Human rights belong to individuals in virtue of their common humanity. Yet it is an important question whether human rights entail or comport with the possession of what I call group-specific rights, or rights that individuals possess only because they belong to a particular group. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says they do. Article 15 asserts the right to nationality, or citizenship. Unless one believes that the only citizenship compatible with a universal human rights regime is cos…Read more
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2Appendix B: Understanding ActionIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 331-334. 2010.
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29Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 72 (2). 1998.
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56Foucault and HabermasIn Gary Gutting (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, Cambridge University Press. 1994.The article is a comprehensive comparison of Foucault and Habermas which focuses on their distinctive styles of critical theory. The article maintains that Foucault's virtue ethical understanding of aesthetic self-realization as a form of resistance to normalizing practices provides counterpoint to Habermas's more juridical approach to institutional justice and the critique of ideology. The article contains an extensive discussion of their respective treatments of speech action, both strategic a…Read more
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34Review essay : James L. Marsh, critique, action, and liberation (albany, ny: Suny press, 1995Philosophy and Social Criticism 23 (5): 115-122. 1997.
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30Response to James Swindal and bill Martin on reason, history, and politics (review)Human Studies 23 (2): 203-210. 2000.
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610. Crisis and Pathology: The Future of Democracy in a Global AgeIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 267-306. 2010.
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92Review essay: Under consideration: Alessandro Ferrara's The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment, Columbia University Press, 2008, 235 pp (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 36 (8): 981-984. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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209The Copernican Revolution revisited: paradigm, metaphor and incommensurability in the history of science- Blumenberg's response to Kuhn and DavidsonHistory of the Human Sciences 6 (4): 11-35. 1993.
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Habermas, discourse ethics and doing justice to the exception : Immigrants and the lawIn Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi & G. Agostini Saavedra (eds.), Nostalgia for a Redeemed Future: Critical Theory, University of Delaware. 2009.
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16Hans Seigfried, 1933-2006Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 80 (5). 2007.
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5617World Crisis and Underdevelopment: A Critical Theory of Poverty, Agency, and CoercionCambridge University Press. 2017.World Crisis and Underdevelopment examines the impact of poverty and other global crises in generating forms of structural coercion that cause agential and societal underdevelopment. It draws from discourse ethics and recognition theory in criticizing injustices and pathologies associated with underdevelopment. Its scope is comprehensive, encompassing discussions about development science, philosophical anthropology, global migration, global capitalism and economic markets, human rights, interna…Read more
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23Habermas claims that an inclusive public sphere is the only deliberative forum for generating public opinion that satisfies the epistemic and normative conditions underlying legitimate decision-making. He adds that digital technologies and other mass media need not undermine – but can extend – rational deliberation when properly instituted. This paper draws from social epistemology and technology studies to demonstrate the epistemic and normative limitations of this extension. We argue that curr…Read more
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63The retreat of the political in the modern age: Jean-Luc Nancy on totalitarianism and communityResearch in Phenomenology 18 (1): 93-124. 1988.
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22The article situates Vico's hermeneutical science of history between a hermeneutics of suspicion and a redemptive hermeneutics. It discusses Vico's early writings and his ambivalent trajectory from Cartesian rationalism to counter-enlightenment historicist and critic of natural law reasoning. The complexity of Vico's thinking belies some of the popular treatments of his thought developed by Isaiah Berlin and others
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57Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self by Linda AlcoffConstellations 18 (1): 106-109. 2011.
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39The Political (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2002._The Political_ is a collection of readings by the most important political philosophers representing the six major schools of Continental philosophy: Phenomenology, Existentialism, Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, and Postcolonialism
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19The possibility of a communication ethic reconsidered: Habermas, Gadamer, and Bourdieu on discourse (review)Man and World 15 (2): 149-161. 1982.
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40The Postmodern Kantianism of Arendt and LyotardReview of Metaphysics 42 (1). 1988.THE PAST DECADE has witnessed an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Kant's writings on aesthetics, politics, and history. On the Continent much of this interest has centered on the debate between modernism and postmodernism. Both sides of the debate are in agreement that Kant's differentiation of cognitive, practical, and aesthetic domains of rationality anticipated the fragmentation of modern society into competing if not, as Weber assumed, opposed lifestyles, activities, and value spheres…Read more
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8Toward a Cleaner White(Ness): New Racial Identities1Philosophical Forum 36 (3): 243-277. 2005.The article re-examines racial and ethnic identity within the context of pedagogical attempts to instill a positive white identity in white students who are conscious of the history of white racism and white privilege. The paper draws heavily from whiteness studies and developmental cognitive science in arguing (against Henry Giroux and Stuart Hall) that a positive notion of white identity, however postmodern its construction, is an oxymoron, since whiteness designates less a cultural/ethnic eth…Read more
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17The Limits and Possibilities of Communicative Ethics for Democratic TheoryPolitical Theory 21 (2): 294-321. 1993.
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21Review of Theodor W. Adorno, History and Freedom: Lectures 1964-1965 (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (9). 2007.
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32Reason, History, and Politics: The Communitarian Grounds of Legitimation in the Modern AgeState University of New York Press. 1995.The author shows that conceptions of rationality in current theories of science and law can account for neither the legitimacy of paradigm shifts nor the communitarian integrity internal to paradigms generally. He proposes an alternative conception of rationality that does
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9Response to Andrew Cutrofello's comments on Reason, History, and Politics by David IngramSocial Epistemology 12 (2): 127-133. 1998.
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26Review of David Ingram: Reason, History, and Politics: The Communitarian Grounds of Legitimation in the Modern Age (review)Ethics 107 (2): 366-368. 1997.
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