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34A Sufficiently Just Liberal Society is an IllusionRes Publica 25 (4): 463-474. 2019.Matteo Bonotti’s book on Partisanship and Public Reason in Diverse Societies is grounded on a theory of partisanship that sees the demands of public reason as internal to the very definition of a party. Bonotti suggests that partisanship is not only compatible with but essential to the stability and legitimacy of a well-ordered liberal society. My paper aims to raise some questions internal to the liberal account of partisanship so as to probe the methodological foundations and plausibility of t…Read more
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29Response to Critics: What is the Human Being? Kant’s Architectonic of Pure Reason and its LimitationsKantian Review 28 (3): 477-485. 2023.
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28The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay: Mandatory Citizenship for ImmigrantsBritish Journal of Political Science 45 (2). 2015.© © Cambridge University Press 2015. Long-term immigrants often have the option but not the obligation to acquire citizenship in their state of residence. Contrary to the received wisdom, this article defends the idea of mandatory citizenship for immigrants. It suggests that the current asymmetry in the distribution of political obligations between native-born citizens and immigrants is unfair. It also argues that mandatory citizenship is required by the principle that those who persistently aff…Read more
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28The Architectonic of Reason: Purposiveness and Systematic Unity in Kant's Critique of Pure ReasonOxford University Press. 2021.This book focuses on a question issued from The Architectonic of Pure Reason, one of the most important sections of Kant's first Critique: what is the human being? It suggests that the answer to this question is tied to a particular account of the unity of reason - one that stresses its purposive character.
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23The Politics of PeoplehoodPolitical Theory 45 (4): 439-465. 2017.Contemporary political theory has made the question of the “people” a topic of sustained analysis. This article identifies two broad approaches taken—norm-based and contestation-based—and, noting some problems left outstanding, goes on to advance a complementary account centred on partisan practice. It suggests the definition of “the people” is closely bound up in the analysis of political conflict, and that partisans engaged in such conflict play an essential role in constructing and contesting…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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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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19Book review: freedom, loyalty and the state (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. forthcoming.
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16The Problem of Systematic Unity in Kant’s Two Definitions of PhilosophyIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 773-786. 2013.
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15Ideas and Ends of Reason in the Critique of Pure ReasonIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 1693-1702. 2018.
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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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11The Problem of Systematic Unity in Kant’s Two Definitions of PhilosophyIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 773-786. 2013.
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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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2Qué está mal con el colonialismoSignos Filosóficos 18 (36). 2016.En este trabajo se pide suponer que algo está mal con el colonialismo, con lo cual se hace una revisión de las principales posturas que intentan justificarlo, para mostrar que no resuelven correctamente ciertos cuestionamientos.
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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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Commerce and colonialism in Kant's philosophy of historyIn Katrin Flikschuh & Lea Ypi (eds.), Kant and Colonialism: Historical and Critical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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Introduction : Kant on colonialism : apologist or critic?In Katrin Flikschuh & Lea Ypi (eds.), Kant and Colonialism: Historical and Critical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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