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9Telling the dancer from the dance : On the relevance of the ordinary for political thoughtIn Andrew Norris (ed.), The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy, Stanford University Press. pp. 58-79. 2006.
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10How to Write Scripture: Words, Authority, and Politics in Thomas HobbesCritical Inquiry 20 (1): 128-159. 1993.
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215I. Text and Pretexts: Reflections on Perspectivism in NietzschePolitical Theory 13 (2): 164-182. 1985.
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33Philosophy of the Morning: Nietzsche and the Politics of TransfigurationJournal of Nietzsche Studies 39 (1): 51-65. 2010.Nietzsche's life project remains constant throughout his life: it is the project of transformation or transfiguration. He formulates this as the necessity of dealing with the way that one's past shapes one's present. The paradigm for this transformation is first to be found in The Birth of Tragedy, but it reappears in various guises in all of his work. I argue that Nietzsche's writing is itself designed so as to make possible such a transformation in his readers
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313La comparution /the compearance: From the existence of "communism" to the community of "existence"Political Theory 20 (3): 371-398. 1992.
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2412 Music, Politics, Theater, and Representation in RousseauIn Patrick Riley (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau, Cambridge University Press. pp. 329. 2001.
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Introduction: The Self and the Political OrderIn The Self and the political order, New York University Press. pp. 1--21. 1992.
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6The Self and the political order (edited book)New York University Press. 1992.From the immemorial humans have lived together in groups. What it means to be a human being has no other basis than the interactions that take place in these groups. Politics then is the shaping of the necessary fact of social interaction. This volume concerns itself with the role of the individual in this social and political order. Including selections from both classical writers such as Plato, and contemporary scholars such as George Kareb, Michael Sandel, and Donna Haraway, the work examines…Read more
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31The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2009.The war on terrorism, say America's leaders, is a war of Good versus Evil. But in the minds of the perpetrators, the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington were presumably justified as ethically good acts against American evil. Is such polarization leading to a violent "clash of civilizations" or can differences between ethical systems be reconciled through rational dialogue? This book provides an extraordinary resource for thinking clearly about the diverse ways in which humans see goo…Read more
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23Politics without vision: thinking without a banister in the twentieth centuryUniversity of Chicago Press. 2012.The world as we find it -- Kant and the death of God -- Nietzsche: the tragic ethos and the spirit of music -- Max Weber, magic, and the politics of social scientific objectivity -- "What have we to do with morals?": Nietzsche and Weber on the politics of morality -- Sigmund Freud and the heroism of knowledge -- Lenin and the calling of the party -- Carl Schmitt and the exceptional sovereign -- Martin Heidegger and the space of the political -- Without a banister: Hannah Arendt and roads not tak…Read more
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12How to Write Scripture: Words, Authority, and Politics in Thomas HobbesCritical Inquiry 20 (1): 128-159. 1993.
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10Philosophy of the Morning: Nietzsche and the Politics of TransfigurationJournal of Nietzsche Studies 39 (1): 51-65. 2010.ABSTRACT Nietzsche’s life project remains constant throughout his life: it is the project of transformation or transfiguration. He formulates this as the necessity of dealing with the way that one’s past shapes one’s present. The paradigm for this transformation is first to be found in The Birth of Tragedy, but it reappears in various guises in all of his work. I argue that Nietzsche’s writing is itself designed so as to make possible such a transformation in his readers.
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74Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of SovereigntyUniversity of Chicago Press. 1985.Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial ...
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40Nietzsche and the Political: Tyranny, Tragedy, Cultural Revolution, and DemocracyJournal of Nietzsche Studies 35 (1): 48-66. 2008.
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