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15Cassirer’s Critique of Culture and the Several Tasks of the CriticIn Sebastian Luft & J. Tyler Friedman (eds.), The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer: A Novel Assessment, De Gruyter. pp. 361-380. 2015.
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15The Longing for Total Revolution as Critical But Ideational GenealogyCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 33 (2): 145-156. 2021.ABSTRACT Bernard Yack’s The Longing for Total Revolution is not just an important study of an extremely influential strain of post-Kantian philosophy, which according to Yack culminated in both Marx and Nietzsche. It also exemplifies an unusual approach to the history of thought: a form of critical genealogy that, unlike the Nietzschean and Foucauldian variants, seeks intellectual charity by ascribing mistaken ideas not to non-ideational psychological or social sources, but to a web of beliefs t…Read more
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14Liberalism and post‐liberalismCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 2 (2-3): 6-11. 1988.No abstract
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14Preferences or happiness? Tibor Scitovsky's psychology of human needsCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 10 (4): 471-480. 1996.
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11Introduction: Economic Approaches to PoliticsIn Louis Putterman (ed.), The Rational Choice Controversy, Yale University Press. pp. 1-24. 2010.
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11The Rational Choice Controversy: Economic Models of Politics Reconsidered (edited book)Yale University Press. 1996._Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory_, a book written by Donald Green and Ian Shapiro and published in 1994, excited much controversy among political scientists and promoted a dialogue among them that was printed in a double issue of the journal Critical Review in 1995. This new book reproduces thirteen essays from the journal written by senior scholars in the field, along with an introduction by the editor of the journal, Jeffrey Friedman, and a rejoinder to the essays by Green and Shapiro. T…Read more
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10Capitalism and the Jewish IntellectualsCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 23 (1): 169-194. 2011.In Capitalism and the Jews, Jerry Z. Muller attempts to resolve Milton Friedman's paradox: Why is it that Jewish intellectuals have been so hostile to capitalism even though capitalism has so greatly benefited the Jews? In one chapter Muller answers, in effect, that Jewish intellectuals have not been anticapitalist. Elsewhere, however, Muller implicitly explains the leftist tendencies of most intellectuals—Jewish and gentile—by unspooling the anticapitalist thread in the main lines of Western th…Read more
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8Introduction: What can social science do?Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 16 (2-3): 143-145. 2004.No abstract
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6Truth and liberation: Rejoinder to brooks, Sassower and Agassi, and HarrisCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 8 (1): 137-157. 1994.My critics assume that the objectivity of moral truth is contingent on the discovery of some transcendent, nonhuman sanction for human values, but I contend that objective morality is a necessary feature of the situation faced by beings with freedom of choice, just as objective truth is a necessary feature of the situation faced by beings with the freedom to differ in their perceptions of the world around them. Both liberals and postmodernists ignore these necessary aspects of the human conditio…Read more
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5Nature and cultureCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 11 (2): 165-167. 1997.No abstract
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Is social science hopelessCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 16 (2-3): 288-22. 2004.