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468. Pragmatic TurnIn Hauke Brunkhorst, Regina Kreide & Cristina Lafont (eds.), The Habermas handbook, Columbia University Press. pp. 602-604. 2018.
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24Islam in the West: Iraqi Shi'i Communities in Transition and Dialogue (Studies in Theology, Society and Culture). By KieranFlynn, Pp. x, 259, Oxford, Peter Lang, £50.94 (review)Heythrop Journal 60 (3): 531-532. 2019.
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9Reading Elden's Mapping the PresentCosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 1 (1): 177-184. 2005.A discussion of S. Elden, Mapping the Present: Heidegger Foucault and the Project of A Spatial History, London, Continuum, 2001.
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520Philosophical Foundations Of Habermas’ Critique Of Particularistic LiberalismMinerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy 14 12-35. 2010.Jürgen Habermas has emerged as a sharp, and occasionally harsh, critic of the Bush administration’s policies since the Iraq war. Habermas has developed this critique in several of his short pieces and interviews, some of which are available in fine collections in both English and other languages. However, the occasional and journalistic character of Habermas’ political interventions often hide the theoretical basis of his critique. In this paper, I argue that Habermas’ critique of the Bush admin…Read more
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16Rawlsian Political Analysis: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Social Science. By Paul Clements. Pp. 248, Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, £26.93 (review)Heythrop Journal 56 (3): 521-523. 2015.
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2084Biopower, governmentality, and capitalism through the lenses of freedom: A conceptual enquiryPakistan Business Review 14 (3): 490-517. 2012.In this paper I propose a framework to understand the transition in Foucault’s work from the disciplinary model to the governmentality model. Foucault’s work on power emerges within the general context of an expression of capitalist rationality and the nature of freedom and power within it. I argue that, thus understood, Foucault’s transition to the governmentality model can be seen simultaneously as a deepening recognition of what capitalism is and how it works, but also as a recognition of the…Read more
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1790FOUCAULT AND CAPITALIST RATIONALITY: A RECONSTRUCTIONMarket Forces 1 (4): 23-33. 2006.The relation between the regimes of the accumulation of men and the accumulation of capital is problematised in the works of Michel Foucault. The paper challenges the prevailing wisdom that the relation between these regimes is contingent. The fundamental question of the conditions of the possibility of relation between the two regimes is raised. It is argued that both regimes are primordially related. Focusing on the Foucauldian analysis of the regime of the accumulation of men and its constit…Read more
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1169Islamic Environmental Ethics and the Challenge of AnthropocentrismAmerican Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 27 (3): 53-78. 2010.Lynn White’s seminal article on the historical roots of the ecological crisis, which inspired radical environmentalism, has cast suspicion upon religion as the source of modern anthropocentrism. To pave the way for a viable Islamic environmental ethics, charges of anthropocentrism need to be faced and rebutted. Therefore, the bulk of this paper will seek to establish the non- anthropocentric credentials of Islamic thought. Islam rejects all forms of anthropocentrism by insisting upon a transcend…Read more
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16Habermas’ Critique of Ethnocentric LiberalismProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 50 687-710. 2008.Jürgen Habermas has emerged as a sharp, and occasionally harsh, critic of the Bush administration’s policies since the Iraq war. Habermas has developed this critique in several of his short pieces and interviews, some of which are available in fine collections in both English and other languages. However, the occasional and journalistic character of Habermas’ political interventions often hide the theoretical basis of his critique. In this paper, I argue that Habermas’ critique of the Bush admin…Read more
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631Rawls in his later philosophy claims that it is sufficient to accept political conception as true or right, depending on what one's worldview allows, on the basis of whatever reasons one can muster, given one's worldview (doctrine). What political liberalism is interested in is a practical agreement on the political conception and not in our reasons for accepting it. There are deep issues (regarding deep values, purpose of life, metaphysics etc.) which cannot be resolved through invoking common …Read more
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706READING ELDEN’S MAPPING THE PRESENT (review)Cosmos and History 1 (1): 177-184. 2005.A discussion of S. Elden, Mapping the Present: Heidegger Foucault and the Project of A Spatial History, London, Continuum, 2001
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715In this paper I make a case for a genuine and legitimate role for philosophy in modern Islamic culture. However, I argue that in order to make any progress towards reinstating such philosophical activity, we need to look deep into the nature and essence of modern philosophy. In this paper I aim to do this precisely by challenging modern philosophy’s self conception as an absolute critique (i.e. a critique of everything/anything). I argue that such a conception is not only misconceived, it is als…Read more
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869Testing the limits of liberalism: A reverse conjectureHeythrop Journal 53 (3): 382-404. 2012.In this paper, I propose to look closely at certain crucial aspects of the logic of Rawls' argument in Political Liberalism and related subsequent writings. Rawls' argument builds on the notion of comprehensiveness, whereby a doctrine encompasses the full spectrum of the life of its adherents. In order to show the mutual conflict and irreconcilability of comprehensive doctrines, Rawls needs to emphasise the comprehensiveness of doctrines, as their irreconcilability to a large extent emanates fro…Read more
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