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    Etica individuale e giustizia (edited book)
    with Vanna Gessa-Kurotschka and Sebastiano Maffettone
    Liguori. 2000.
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    Engaging the later Rawls on legitimacy
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 50 (7): 1076-1084. 2024.
    Frank Michelman’s recent book Constitutional Essentials. On the Constitutional Theory of Political Liberalism is discussed from a specific angle, related to how Rawls’s ‘deflection procedure’ – called by Michelman ‘justification by constitution’ – is affected by two recent innovations in the paradigm of political liberalism: first, the extension of reasonable pluralism to a family of liberal political conceptions of justice that coexist in a liberal-democratic society; second, the idea of legiti…Read more
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    Annotations
    with David Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 49 (5): 521-521. 2023.
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    3. Narcissism and Critique: On Kohut’s Self Psychology
    In Amy Allen & Brian O'Connor (eds.), Transitional Subjects: Critical Theory and Object Relations, Columbia University Press. pp. 75-106. 2019.
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    In 2020, with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, academics and scientists began to question the triage criteria for allocating insufficient healthcare resources, trying to ethically justify the answer to the question, Who should receive medical care first? In this article, I will argue that even if we apply triage criteria, we won't be able to avoid the violation of human dignity or of the right to life and to health care. I will then suggest that, maybe, the real ethical triage dilemma lies…Read more
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    Annotations
    with David Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Sage Publications Ltd: Philosophy and Social Criticism 48 (4): 459-459. 2022.
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    What the controversy over ‘the reasonable’ reveals: On Habermas’s Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie
    Sage Publications Ltd: Philosophy and Social Criticism 48 (3): 313-332. 2021.
    Philosophy & Social Criticism, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 313-332, March 2022. This article discusses Jürgen Habermas’s latest book Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie from the specific angle of what the section on Rawls indicates about the overall philosophical project pursued by Habermas. This tiny element within the imposing architecture reveals a structural problem that affects Habermas’s program for a detranscendentalization of reason. After a general premise, Habermas’s appraisal of Rawls’s…Read more
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    The right to politics and republican non-domination
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 465-475. 2016.
    Against pronouncements of the recent demise of both democracy and the political, I maintain that there is, rather, something amiss with the process of politicization in which social grievances are translated into matters of political concern and become objects of policy-making. I therefore propose to seek an antidote to the de-politicizing tendencies of our age by reanimating the mechanism that transmits social conflicts and grievances into politics. To that purpose, I formulate the notion of a …Read more
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    The long crisis of the nation-state and the rise of religions to the public stage
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 351-356. 2016.
    The aim of this article is to identify the main factors of the current crisis of the nation-state and to demonstrate how many of the voids left by this crisis are filled by religions. The main characteristic of the nation-state is the principle of sovereignty. The apogee of the nation-state is the political form of industrialization. National identity is possible only when the state proves to its citizens that the fact of being a member of it carries benefits and privileges and will always bring…Read more
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    This article problematizes the republican reliance on contemporary ‘states as they are’ as protectors and guarantors of the republican notion of freedom as non-domination. While the principle of freedom as non-domination constitutes an advance over the liberal principle of freedom as non-interference, its reliance on the national, territorial, legal-technical and extra-economic contemporary state prevents the theoretical uncovering of its full potential. The article argues that to make the most …Read more
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    Violent Islamism beyond borders: Can human rights prevail?
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 363-374. 2016.
    The argument that sectarian conflicts in the Arab Middle East have been persistent since time immemorial is erroneous. While these views may seem compelling with the rise of ISIL, they are in fact very dangerous: they downgrade Islamic societies to primordial, selective and static features. I will argue for a different set of propositions. First, violence is not unique to Islamic societies. Extreme illiberal ideologies prevailed in Christian Europe both during the Thirty Years War and during the…Read more
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    The Kurdish struggle and the crisis of the Turkishness Contract
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 397-405. 2016.
    In this article, inspired by Whiteness Studies, I propose two concepts that allow us to see the question of ethnicity as well as the history of the Turkish Republic through the lens of privilege: Turkishness and the Turkishness Contract. By Turkishness, I mean a patterned but mostly unrecognized relationship between Turkish individuals’ ethnic position and their ways of seeing, hearing, feeling and knowing – as well as not seeing, not hearing, not feeling and not knowing. These ways and states o…Read more
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    Two cheers for the impunity norm
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 487-499. 2016.
    International criminal law is dedicated to the battle against impunity. However, the concept of impunity lacks clarity. Providing that clarity also reveals challenges for the current state and future prospects of the project of ICL, which this article frames in cosmopolitan terms. The ‘impunity norm’ of ICL is generally presented in a deontic form. It holds that impunity for perpetrators of international crimes is a wrong so profound that states and international bodies have a pro tanto duty to …Read more
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    ‘République and laïcité’: What is at stake in contemporary France?
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 440-447. 2016.
    How should one define the republican democratic and ‘laïque’ spirit in both the most concise and effective manner, as well as that most suited to the French case? The republican spirit resides without doubt in refusing submission to any single individual whoever that individual may be. The democratic spirit does not consist of decreeing the sovereignty of the people, but in developing formal modalities of political life allowing the people not to be divested of it. The ‘laïque’ spirit rejects al…Read more
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    The crisis of the republican model and its religious outcomes: A case study of the Great Middle East
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 375-385. 2016.
    There is a necessity to build a new republican regime in the Great Middle East, based on a broad sense of citizenship, on a respect for pluralism, and on re-evaluating difference as a positive element rather than as a threat. However, this re-building will succeed only when it is accompanied by a restoration of the religious space. The reformist national model is the best and most appropriate model for real situations within the current historical period. It is a model that is able to develop ac…Read more
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    Republican conception of liberty in early republican Turkey and its contemporary implications
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 429-439. 2016.
    Established in 1923, Turkey has been a republic without a dominant republican conception of liberty. A chance to install such a conception was missed in the early republican period and never recaptured. The republic was unable to get rid of vestiges of the authoritarian tradition of the past. Centuries-old authoritarian tradition persisted well into the recent and the contemporary periods. Presenting ample evidence, the article underlines the weight of history and the legacy of authoritarian men…Read more
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    The crisis of Arab states, ethics and citizenship
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 357-362. 2016.
    The present article constitutes an attempt to analyse the historical causes of the present crisis affecting the Arab world and the failure to build modern states in this region. It has to be noticed that from the three main ethnic groups constituting the pillars of the Middle East, i.e. the Persians, the Arabs and the Turks, the Arab failure and the generalization of violence in Arab societies and between Arab states is to be adequately analysed in order to be able to contribute to peace, reform…Read more
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    States and communities competing for global power
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 386-396. 2016.
    The question of immigration and its corollary community and minority formation has always been analysed in relation to states. However, the increasing importance of solidarity beyond national borders on the grounds of one or several identities – national, religious, ethnic, regional – removes the claim of recognition of a collective identity from a national level to an international level and, in the European Union, to a supranational level. Such an evolution places territory at the core of the …Read more
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    From system integration to social integration: Kurdish challenge to Turkish republicanism
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 406-418. 2016.
    The modern republican history of Turkey and its relation with the question of ethnic diversity could be understood via the tension between the processes of system integration and social integration. This article, based on Jürgen Habermas’ conceptual framework, draws the sources of such tension with reference to the Kurdish identity in Turkey since the early republican era. For this purpose, from the 1920s to the 2000s, policies and discourses of system integration aiming at a certain degree of e…Read more
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    Cultural pluralism?
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 448-455. 2016.
    This article is an analysis of the ideological production of the idea of cultural pluralism. It points at the impossibility of inhabiting two or more civil societies at once. It points at the fact that culture alive cannot be accessed. It recommends attention to the ungeneralizable huge subaltern populations of the world that often also constitute an electorate. It recommends linguistic rather than cultural pluralism and a nurturing of the understanding of the right to intellectual labor in educ…Read more
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    Digital spaces, public places and communicative power: In defense of deliberative democracy
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 476-486. 2016.
    The deliberative model of politics has recently been criticized for not being very well equipped to conceptualize current developments such as the misinterpretation of political difference, the digital turn, and public protests. A first critique is that this model assumes a conception of public spheres that is too idealistic. A second objection is that it misconceives the relationship between empirical reality and normativity. Third, it is assumed that deliberative democracy offers an antiquated…Read more
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    Annotations
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 341-341. 2016.
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    Erratum
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 43 (4-5): 548-548. 2017.
    Vernon, Jim, ‘A passion for justice’: Martin Luther King, Jr. and G. W. F. Hegel on ‘world-historical individuals’, Philosophy & Social Criticism, 43 February 2017 pp. 187–207, DOI 10.1177/0191453716680126 SAGE regrets that an error in the title of this article was included in the original publication. Subsequent online versions of this article will be corrected.
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    Between transparency and surveillance: Politics of the secret
    with David M. Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 456-464. 2016.
    The recent wave of whistleblowers and cyber-dissidents, from Julian Assange to Edward Snowden, has declared war against surveillance. In this context, transparency is presented as an attainable political goal that can be delivered in flesh and bones by spectacular and quasi-messianic moments of disclosure. The thesis of this article is that, despite its progressive promise, the project of releasing classified documents is in line with the Orwellian cold war trope of Big Brother rather than with …Read more
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    Annotations
    with David Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 47 (4): 391-391. 2021.
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    Annotations
    with David Rasmussen and Volker Kaul
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 41 (4-5): 337-337. 2015.