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28Marco Sgarbi, Kant on Spontaneity London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012 Pp. 160 ISBN 9781441133199 £63.00 (review)Kantian Review 20 (3): 479-483. 2015.
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28Anja Jauernig, The World According to Kant: Appearances and Things in Themselves in Critical Idealism (review)The Philosophical Review 131 (4): 511-514. 2022.
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25Kants Begründung von Freiheit und Moral. Neue Interpretationen. Ed. by Dieter Schönecker [Book Review]In Sally Sedgwick & Dina Emundts (eds.), Begehren / Desire, De Gruyter. pp. 259-263. 2018.
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24Robert Greenberg, The Bounds of Freedom: Kant’s Causal Theory of Action Berlin: De Gruyter , 2016 Pp. 122 ISBN 9783110494662 €79.95 (review)Kantian Review 23 (1): 158-163. 2018.
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19Karl Ameriks, Kantian Subjects: Critical Philosophy and Late Modernity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, Pp. xi + 272, ISBN 9780198841852 (hbk) £70.00 (review)Kantian Review 26 (2): 335-340. 2021.
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8Struggle and Victory in Kafka's "Das Schloß"The Modern Language Review 101 (4): 1035-1043. 2006.This essay is an attempt to interpret the behaviour of K. in Kafka's novel "Das Schloß". The focus is on three episodes that stand, respectively, at the beginning, the middle, and the end of the novel. In all of these episodes, the concepts of 'struggle' and 'victory' play a crucial role. By paying attention to the usage of these concepts, the passages under investigation can be shown to be interrelated in a significant way. Making these connections explicit allows one to draw some far-reaching …Read more
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3Post-Punk and the Struggle for AuthenticityIn Joshua Heter & Richard Greene (eds.), Punk Rock and Philosophy: Research and Destroy, Carus Books. pp. 87-96. 2022.The aim to develop authentic forms of artistic lifestyle and self-expression played a formative role in the foundational period of post-punk in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The struggle for authenticity during that period was complicated by the artists’ growing awareness of the capitalist economy’s ability to coopt and assimilate the ideal of an authentic counter-culture, that is, to utilize this ideal for exclusively profit-oriented signing, marketing, and production strategies. In this essa…Read more
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1A New Dawn Fades: Post-Punk Under the Shadow of NihilismIn Joshua Heter & Richard Greene (eds.), Post-Punk and Philosophy: Rip it Up and Think Again, Carus Books. forthcoming.Some major figures of early (1977-1984) Post-Punk, such as Joy Divison’s Ian Curtis or The Fall’s Mark E. Smith, were strongly influenced by existentialist themes they encountered in the writings of philosophers such as Camus or Nietzsche. Central among these themes is the modern struggle with nihilism. Nietzsche (at times) felt hopeful that some of us still possess the strength to see our modern disorientation as a creative opportunity and to (eventually) overcome the threat of nihilism: in thi…Read more