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106On Revolution in Kant and MarxPolitical Theory 42 (3): 262-287. 2014.This essay compares the thoughts of Kant and Marx on revolution. It focuses in particular on two issues: the contribution of revolutionary enthusiasm to the cause of emancipatory political agents and its educative role in illustrating the possibility of progress for future generations. In both cases, it is argued, the defence of revolution is offered in the context of illustrating the possibility of moral progress for the species, even if not for individual human beings, and brings out the centr…Read more
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129Territorial Rights and ExclusionPhilosophy Compass 8 (3): 241-253. 2013.Is it possible to justify territorial rights? Provided a justification for territorial rights can be found, does it ground claims toparticularterritories? And provided a claim to particular territories can be justified, what kind of claim is it? Is it a claim to jurisdiction? A claim to control resources? A claim to control the movement of people across borders? In this paper I review some prominent accounts seeking to answer these questions. After outlining their main features, I focus on some …Read more
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44Public spaces and the end of artPhilosophy and Social Criticism 38 (8): 843-860. 2012.This article contributes to studies in democratic theory and civic engagement by critically reflecting on the role of contemporary art for the transformation of the public sphere. It begins with a short assessment of the role of art during the Enlightenment, when the communicative function and the public role of art were most clearly articulated. It refers in particular to the analogies between aesthetic and political judgement in order to understand the emancipatory role of artistic production …Read more
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256Justice in migration: A closed borders utopia?Journal of Political Philosophy 16 (4): 391-418. 2008.No Abstract
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315Associative Duties, Global Justice, and the ColoniesPhilosophy and Public Affairs 37 (2): 103-135. 2009.No Abstract
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22Kant and Colonialism: Historical and Critical Perspectives (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2014.This book presents the first full exploration of Kant's position on colonialism. Leading experts in both political thought and normative theory place Kant's thoughts on the subject in historical context, examine the tensions that colonialism produces in his work, and evaluate the relevance of these reflections for current debates on global justice.
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39The owl of Minerva only flies at dusk, but to where? A reply to criticsEthics and Global Politics 6 (2): 117-134. 2013.The quote that inspires a part of my title will be familiar to most readers. In the concluding paragraphs of the Preface to his Philosophy of Right, Hegel examines the role of philosophy in prescribing principles on how the world ought to be. ‘When philosophy paints its grey in grey’, Hegel writes, citing a part of Goethe’s Faust,'A shape of life has grown old, and it cannot be rejuvenated, but only recognized by the grey in grey of philosophy; the owl of Minerva begins its flight only when the …Read more
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152On the Confusion between Ideal and Non-ideal in Recent Debates on Global JusticePolitical Studies 58 (3). 2010.
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19Book review: freedom, loyalty and the state (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. forthcoming.
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127Sovereignty, Cosmopolitanism and the Ethics of European Foreign PolicyEuropean Journal of Political Theory 7 (3): 349-364. 2008.This article explores the tensions between cosmopolitanism and sovereignty as a means to conceptualize the ethics of European foreign policy. It starts by discussing the claim that, in order for the EU to play a meaningful role as an international actor, a definition of the common ethical values orienting its political conduct is required. The question of a European federation of states and its ethical conceptualization emerges clearly in some of the philosophical writings of the 17th and 18th c…Read more
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55Taking Workers as a Class: The Moral Dilemmas of Guestworker ProgrammesIn Sarah Fine & Lea Ypi (eds.), Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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58Review of Anna Stilz, Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation, and the State (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (2). 2010.
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184A Permissive Theory of Territorial RightsEuropean Journal of Philosophy 22 (2): 288-312. 2012.This article explores the justification of states' territorial rights. It starts by introducing three questions that all current theories of territorial rights attempt to answer: how to justify the right to settle, the right to exclude, and the right to settle and exclude with reference to a particular territory. It proposes a ‘permissive’ theory of territorial rights, arguing that the citizens of each state are entitled to the particular territory they collectively occupy, if and only if they a…Read more
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23Two pictures of NowherePhilosophy and Social Criticism 41 (3): 219-223. 2015.This article critically engages with Rainer Forst’s recent book Justification and Critique: Towards a Critical Theory of Politics, focusing in particular on his account of utopia in the last part of it
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Politically Constructed Solidarity: The Idea of a Cosmopolitan Avant-GardeContemporary Political Theory 9 (1): 120-30. 2010.
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167Finding its Way between Realism and Utopia: Global Justice in Theory and Practice: Brock, Gillian. 2009. Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 288 pp. Brock, Gillian, and Moellendorf, Darrel . 2005. Current Debates in Global Justice. Dordrecht: Springer, 305 ppRes Publica 17 (2): 193-202. 2011.
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14The Meaning of PartisanshipOxford University Press UK. 2016.For a century at least, parties have been central to the study of politics. Yet their typical conceptual reduction to a network of power-seeking elites has left many to wonder why parties were ever thought crucial to democracy. This book seeks to retrieve a richer conception of partisanship, drawing on modern political thought and extending it in the light of contemporary democratic theory and practice. Looking beyond the party as organization, the book develops an original account of what it is…Read more
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117Self-ownership and the state: A democratic critiqueRatio 24 (1): 91-106. 2011.Libertarians often invoke the principle of self-ownership to discredit distributive interventions authorized by the more-than-minimal state. But if one takes a democratic approach to the justification of ownership claims, including claims of ownership over oneself, the validity of the self-ownership principle is theoretically inseparable from the normative justification of the state. Since the idea of the state is essential to the very assertion (not just the positive enforcement) of the princip…Read more
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132Natura daedala rerum? On the Justification of Historical Progress in Kant’s ‘Guarantee of Perpetual Peace'Kantian Review 14 (2): 103-135. 2010.This article analyses the teleological argument justifying historical progress in Kant's Guarantee of Perpetual Peace. It starts by examining the controversies produced by Kant's claim that the teleology of nature supports the idea of a providential development of humanity towards moral progress and the possibility of achieving a cosmopolitan political constitution. It further illustrates how Kant's teleological argument in Perpetual Peace needs to be assessed with reference to two systematicall…Read more
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8Book review: der Tragiker beim frühen Hegel. Christliche Tragödie und Schicksal der Moderne (review)Hegel-Studien 42. 2007.
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94Justice and morality beyond naïve cosmopolitanismEthics and Global Politics 3 (3): 171-192. 2010.Many cosmopolitans link their moral defence of specific principles of justice to a critique of the normative standing of states. This article explores some conceptual distinctions between morality and justice by focusing on the nature of claims they entail, the obligations they generate and the distribution of agency that they require. It then draws out some implications of these distinctions so as to illustrate how states play a non-arbitrary role in the process of both rendering determinate th…Read more
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