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  • Critical legal theory and international law
    In Emilios A. Christodoulidis, Ruth Dukes & Marco Goldoni (eds.), Research handbook on critical legal theory, Edward Elgar Publishing. 2019.
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    Spinoza, Marx, and Ilyenkov (who did not know Marx’s transcription of Spinoza)
    Studies in East European Thought 74 (3): 297-317. 2022.
    In this article I start with Marx's transcriptions of Spinoza, and the deep significance of what he transcribed, from the Theologico-Political Treatise and the Correspondence, and in what order. I contend that this demonstrates what was of particular interest and importance to him at that time. Second, I examine the presence, even if not explicit, of Spinoza in Marx's works, and turn to the question whether Marx was a Spinozist. I think he was. Third, I turn to Ilyenkov and his engagement with S…Read more
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    Misunderstanding MacIntyre on Human Rights
    Analyse & Kritik 30 (1): 205-214. 2008.
    This short article starts with Alasdair MacIntyre’s famous critical remarks on human rights in After Virtue, and proceeds to ask whether in fact MacIntyre can be read against himself, taking a range of his own texts. This provides the basis for a sketch of a substantive account of human rights, more historicised and political than those for which MacIntyre has so little time. The article engages with some leading English Aristotelians—James Griffin and John Tasioulas in particular. MacIntyre has…Read more
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    Marx, Lenin and Pashukanis on Self-Determination: Response to Robert Knox
    Historical Materialism 19 (2): 113-127. 2011.
    This response to Robert Knox’s very kind and constructive review1 of my 2008 book The Degradation of the International Legal Order: The Rehabilitation of Law and the Possibility of Politics gives me the opportunity not only to answer some of his criticisms, but also, on the basis of my own reflections since 2008, to fill in some gaps. Indeed, to revise a number of my arguments. First, I restate my attempt at a materialist account of human rights. Next I explain why, for me, the right of peoples …Read more