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55Democracy and "Globalization"The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 2 137-144. 2006.One of the major political problems the world faces at the moment of its so-called globalization concerns the possibilities of maintaining, transforming, and expanding democracy. Globalization, as the extension of neo-liberal markets, the formation of multi-national, non-democratic economic powers, and the ubiquitous use of teletechnologies, threatens the modus vivendi of older democracies in ways that call for the reinvention of an old idea. Inasmuch as teletechnical globalization transforms sp…Read more
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103Taking Turns: Democracy to Come and Intergenerational JusticeDerrida Today 4 (2): 148-172. 2011.In the face of the ever-growing effect the actions of the present may have upon future people, most conspicuously around climate change, democracy has been accused, with good justification, of a presentist bias: of systemically favouring the presently living. By contrast, this paper will argue that the intimate relation, both quasi-ontological and normative, that Derrida's work establishes between temporality and justice insists upon another, more future-regarding aspect of democracy. We can get…Read more
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22Equality and Singularity in Justification and Application DiscoursesEuropean Journal of Political Theory 9 (3): 328-346. 2010.To respond to the charge of context-insensitivity, discourse ethics distinguishes justification discourses, which only require that we consider what is equally good for all, and subsequent application discourses, in which the perspective of concrete others must be adopted. This article argues that, despite its pragmatic attractiveness, the separation of justification and application neglects the co-constitutive role that applicability plays for the meaning of normativity. Norms that do not, in a…Read more
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130Antagonism and democratic citizenship (Schmitt, Mouffe, Derrida)Research in Phenomenology 38 (2): 174-197. 2008.In the context of the recent proliferation of nationalisms and enemy figures, this paper agrees with the desirability of retaining some of the explanatory and motivational potential of an agonistic account of politics, but gives reasons not to accept too much of Carl Schmitt's account of citizenship. The claim as to the necessarily antagonistic exclusion of concrete others can be supported neither on its own terms nor on Derridian grounds, as Chantal Mouffe, in particular, attempts to do. I then…Read more
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30The enlightenment promise and its remains: Derrida and Benjamin on the classless societyHuman Studies 25 (3): 289-296. 2002.
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12Democracy and "Globalization"The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 2 137-144. 2006.One of the major political problems the world faces at the moment of its so-called globalization concerns the possibilities of maintaining, transforming, and expanding democracy. Globalization, as the extension of neo-liberal markets, the formation of multi-national, non-democratic economic powers, and the ubiquitous use of teletechnologies, threatens the modus vivendi of older democracies in ways that call for the reinvention of an old idea. Inasmuch as teletechnical globalization transforms sp…Read more
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15Reason & emancipation: essays on the philosophy of Kai Nielsen (edited book)Humanity Books. 2007.Religion -- Metaphilosophy -- Marxism -- Global justice -- Nationalism.
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52Equal consideration of all – an aporetic project?Philosophy and Social Criticism 32 (3): 299-323. 2006.The article considers the relationships among three arguments that purport to establish the intrinsically contradictory or paradoxical nature of the modern project aiming at the equal consideration of all. The claim that the inevitable historical insertion of universal-egalitarian norms leads to always particular and untransparent interpretations of grammatically universal norms may be combined with the claim that the logic of determination of political communities tends to generate exclusions. …Read more
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14The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and DerridaState University of New York Press. 2005.Argues for a closer connection between memories of injustice and promises of justice as a means to overcome violence
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