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34‘Expression of Contempt’: Hegel’s Critique of Legal FreedomLaw and Critique 26 (2): 189-206. 2015.In this paper, I argue for the existence of pathologies of juridicism. I attempt to show that the Western regime of right tends to colonize our intersubjective relations, resulting in the formation of affective and habitual dispositions that actually hinder participation in social life. Speaking of pathologies of juridicism is to claim that the legal form fundamentally contaminates the way in which we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world, resulting in an ethically deformed, distorted…Read more
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28Right and Subjectivity: From Freedom and Agency to Pathology and Madness—IntroductionLaw and Critique 26 (2): 101-103. 2015.
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18Race, Culture, and Black Self‐DeterminationIn Chad Kautzer & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire, Indiana University Press. 2009.
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48Rorty’s Country, Rorty’s EmpireRadical Philosophy Review 6 (2): 131-144. 2003.The normative politics of Rorty’s Achieving Our Country are inextricably related to the political-philosophical principles of Contingency,irony, and solidarity, yet the nature of this relation is not explicit, particularly regarding Rorty’s earlier public/private sphere distinctionand renunciation of metavocabularies. This paper argues that Rorty’s call for patriotism as a necessary condition for political practiceand a romantic historicism that replaces intersubjectively recognized history, lea…Read more
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65Self-defensive subjectivity: The diagnosis of a social pathologyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 40 (8): 743-756. 2014.In his book Das Recht der Freiheit, Axel Honneth develops a theory of social justice that incorporates negative, reflexive and social forms of freedom as well as the institutional conditions necessary for their reproduction. This account enables the identification of social pathologies or systemic normative deficits that frustrate individual efforts to relate their actions reflexively to a normative order and inhibits their ability to recognize the freedom of others as a condition of their own. …Read more
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27Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2009.Pragmatism has been called "the chief glory of our country's intellectual tradition" by its supporters and "a dog's dinner" by its detractors. While acknowledging pragmatism's direct ties to American imperialism and expansionism, Chad Kautzer, Eduardo Mendieta, and the contributors to this volume consider the role pragmatism plays, for better or worse, in current discussions of nationalism, war, race, and community. What can pragmatism contribute to understandings of a diverse nation? How can we…Read more
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21Rorty’s Country, Rorty’s EmpireRadical Philosophy Review 6 (2): 131-144. 2003.The normative politics of Rorty’s Achieving Our Country are inextricably related to the political-philosophical principles of Contingency,irony, and solidarity, yet the nature of this relation is not explicit, particularly regarding Rorty’s earlier public/private sphere distinctionand renunciation of metavocabularies. This paper argues that Rorty’s call for patriotism as a necessary condition for political practiceand a romantic historicism that replaces intersubjectively recognized history, lea…Read more
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82Symposium: Naomi Zack's The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of PhilosophyRadical Philosophy Review 15 (2): 345-345. 2012.Our symposium on Naomi Zack's newest book, The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011), had its origin in an Author Meets Critics panel of the Radical Philosophy Association at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division conference in 2012, organized by José Jorge Mendoza. The respondents--Kristie Dotson, Lewis Gordon, José Jorge Mendoza, and Lucius T. Outlaw Jr.--have revised and expanded their original papers and Naomi Zack ha…Read more
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30Freedom’s Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life.Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 61 (140): 102-106. 2014.
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52Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 25 (4): 425-428. 2011.
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27Pragmatic RightsLaw and Critique 26 (2): 155-171. 2015.In this essay I explore competing senses and tensions of the relation between the etymology of ta pragmata and praxis, with specific attention paid to Heidegger’s theorization of modernity. In so doing I question the relation between rights and persons, and whether there might not be a new way of thinking about rights that does not presuppose or privilege the agency of personhood. Pragmatic rights would not assume the liberal values of self-determination that underpin personhood, and would enabl…Read more
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55Good Guys with Guns: From Popular Sovereignty to Self-Defensive SubjectivityLaw and Critique 26 (2): 173-187. 2015.Beliefs once limited to the extremes of the North American gun culture have become mainstream, while the US Supreme Court’s ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller and a spate of right-to-carry laws have contributed to the proliferation of guns in public life. These changes in political discourses, legislative agendas, and social practices are indicative of an emergent and pernicious form of subjectivity, which is here defined as self-defensive. Such subjectivity is characterized by a pathologi…Read more
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27Geoff Pfeifer: The New Materialism: Althusser, Badiou, and Žižek: Routledge, New York, 2015, 140 pp + index, $145Human Studies 39 (2): 319-324. 2016.
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49Class, Crisis, and the CityRadical Philosophy Review 11 (2): 151-158. 2008.The following interview was conducted on July 13, 2009 at the JFK Institute for Graduate Studies, Freie Universität in Berlin, shortly after a conference, entitled “Class in Crisis: Das Prekariat zwischen Krise und Bewegung,” at which Harvey delivered a keynote address. The conference, organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, engaged the political, socio-economic, and conceptual dimensions of the so-called precariat class. The precariat (das Prekariat or la précarité) is typically defined by …Read more
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68The Judge’s Two Bodies: The Case of Daniel Paul SchreberLaw and Critique 26 (2): 117-133. 2015.The great work of the psychotic judge Daniel Paul Schreber, namely Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, has received predictable and rather unimaginative interpretations as the discourse of a lunatic. The work has not been studied as a theory of law. Schreber, it is argued here, was an extreme lawyer, a radical melancholegalist, a black letter theorist, a critic avant la lettre, and a radical theorist of an impure jurisprudence
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Lehigh UniversityAssociate Professor