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    Civil Society And Social Theory
    with Jean Cohen
    Thesis Eleven 21 (1): 40-64. 1988.
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    Lukacs' Theory of Reification
    Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1972 (11): 25-66. 1972.
    The article is an exposition of lukacs' famous 'verdinglichung' chapter of "history and class consciousness." after a brief discussion of the historical roots of the concept of 'thingification', i try to follow the dialectic of the concept from two starting points: first, from that of lukacs' rediscovery of the subject-object dialectic in german classical philosophy and in marx, and second, from that of lukacs' 'critique' of sociology, of the categories of max weber, of the immediately given wor…Read more
  •  138
    Learning from success, learning from failure: South Africa, Hungary, Turkey and Egypt
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 39 (4-5): 427-441. 2013.
    The article has several theses. First we propose that there is a new method of constitution-making today, the two-stage, post-sovereign one perfected in South Africa. Second, we admit the path-dependent nature, and difficult pre-conditions, of this method. Third, we maintain that even when the full method is unlikely in a given context, its legitimating principles nevertheless can play a role through international dissemination. We explore that possibility in the context of the projected compreh…Read more
  •  129
    Banishing the sovereign? Internal and external sovereignty in Arendt
    with Jean Cohen
    Constellations 16 (2): 307-330. 2009.
    No Abstract
  •  123
    Civil Society and Political Theory
    with Jean L. Cohen
    MIT Press. 1994.
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
  •  101
    Civil society, populism and religion
    with Jean L. Cohen
    Constellations 24 (3): 283-295. 2017.
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    Constitutional learning
    Theoria 44 (106): 1-36. 2005.
    Constitutional politics has returned in our time in a truly dramatic way. In the last 25 years, not only in the new or restored democracies of South and East Europe, Latin America and Africa, but also in the established liberal or not so liberal democracies of Germany, Italy, Japan, Israel, New Zealand, Canada and Great Britain, issues of constitution-making, constitutional revision and institutional design or redesign have been put on the political agenda. Even in the United States, given the n…Read more
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    The Essential Frankfurt School Reader (edited book)
    with Eike Gebhardt
    Continuum. 1977.
    Editors Arato and Gebhardt offer major introductions to the three sections that comprise the Reader, in which they seek to place to historical development of ...
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    The Politics of Fear after 9/11
    Social Research: An International Quarterly 71 (4): 1134-1136. 2004.
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    Political Theology and Populism
    Social Research: An International Quarterly 80 (1): 143-172. 2013.
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    El concepto de sociedad civil ha cobrado especial relevancia en el ámbito de la teoría política de la democracia por su potencialidad analítica para el estudio de las transiciones desde regímenes dictatoriales a otros democráticos, así como para identificar nuevas esferas susceptibles de profundización democrática en el seno de las democracias realmente existentes. Tomando como base empírica de referencia las experiencias democratizadoras acaecidas en Europa Central y del Este, en el artículo se…Read more
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    Interim Imposition
    Ethics and International Affairs 18 (3): 25-50. 2004.
    Can a disastrous policy of illegally invading and occupying a distant country without a legitimate casus belli nevertheless have some good as its unintended consequence? Yes, but one should not generally count on it.
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    The Budapest School and actually existing socialism
    Theory and Society 16 (4): 593-619. 1987.
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    Democratic constitution-making and unfreezing the Turkish process
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 36 (3-4): 473-487. 2010.
    This short article will seek to explore the causes, and possible solutions, of what seems to be the current freezing of the Turkish constitution-making process that has had some dramatic successes in the 1990s and early 2000s. I make the strong claim that democratic legitimacy or constituent authority should not be reduced either to any mode of power, even popular power, or to mere legality. It is these types of reduction that I find especially troubling in recent Turkish constitutional struggle…Read more
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    Dictatorship before and after totalitarianism
    Social Research: An International Quarterly 69 (2): 473-503. 2002.
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    Between Reductionism and Relativism: Soviet Society as a World System
    Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1985 (63): 178-187. 1985.
    Thirty or even fifty years ago, the apology on the Left for the Soviet Union was direct. Today no one can read what the Webbs wrote in the '30s or what Sartre wrote in the early ‘50s without laughing, though we should recall the seriousness of the crimes they managed to represent — and, for the relevant audience, successfully. We have come a long way from all that, or so it seems. Actually, left-wing writing these days on the whole is still apologetic — even if in indirect forms. Of the two majo…Read more
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    Lukacs' Path to Marxism
    Télos 1971 (7): 128-136. 1971.
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    Interpreting 1989
    Social Research: An International Quarterly 60 609. 1993.