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209How is valid law possible?: A review of faktizität und geltung by Jürgen Habermas (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 20 (4): 21-44. 1994.
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200Universalism vs. communitarianism: contemporary debates in ethics (edited book)MIT Press. 1990.Universalism vs. Communitarianism focuses on the question, raised by recent work in normative philosophy, of whether ethical norms are best derived and justified on the basis of universal or communitarian standards. It is unique in representing both Continental and American points of view and both the older and a younger generation of scholars. The essays introduce the key issues involved in universalism vs. communitarianism and take up ethics in historical perspective, practical reason and ethi…Read more
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195Mutual recognition: No justification without legitimationPhilosophy and Social Criticism 38 (9): 893-899. 2012.
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144The symbolism of Marx: From alienation to fetishismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 3 (1): 41-55. 1975.
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114Advanced capitalism and social theory: Habermas on the problem of legitimationPhilosophy and Social Criticism 3 (4): 349-366. 1976.
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112Communicative action and philosophy: Reflections on Habermas theorie Des kommunikativen handelnsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 9 (1): 1-28. 1982.
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111Towards Critical Cultural Theory (Editorial Statement)Philosophy and Social Criticism 1 (1): 1-2. 1973.
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101The Final Foucault (edited book)MIT Press. 1987.His final set of lectures at the College de France, described here by Thomas Flynn, focused on the concept of truth-telling as a moral virtue in the ancient ...
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100Reviews : comments on twilight of subjectivityPhilosophy and Social Criticism 10 (2): 111-114. 1984.
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88Political liberalism and the good life: Fred Dallmayr, In Search of the Good Life: A Pedagogy for Troubled Times (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2007)Philosophy and Social Criticism 35 (9): 1119-1125. 2009.
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87Moral Consciousness and Communicative ActionPhilosophical Quarterly 43 (173): 571. 1993.This long-awaited book sets out the implications of Habermas's theory of communicative action for moral theory. "Discourse ethics" attempts to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged. The theory of justice it develops replaces Kant's categorical imperative with a procedure of justification based on reasoned agreement among participants in practical discourse.Habermas connects communicative ethics to the theory of social action via an examination of…Read more
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73Handbook of critical theory (edited book)Blackwell. 1996._The Handbook of Critical Theory_ brings together for the first time a detailed examination of the state of critical theory today. The fifteen essays provide analyses of the various orientations which critical theory has taken both historically and systematically in recent years, expositions of the new perspectives which have begun to shape the field, and reflections upon the direction of critical theory
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71Reflections on the "end of history" : Politics, identity and civil societyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 18 (3-4): 235-250. 1992.
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68Special section: Lorenzo Simpson's the unfinished project : Affirming modernityPhilosophy and Social Criticism 33 (3): 309-317. 2007.
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54Marx: On labor, praxis and instrumental reasonStudies in East European Thought 20 (3): 37-52. 1979.
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53Defending reasonability: The centrality of reasonability in the later RawlsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 30 (5-6): 525-540. 2004.Against arguments that suggest that Rawls’s notion of reasonability is ‘obscure’ and ‘unclear’ I argue in this essay that the idea of reasonability in the later Rawls can be defended in three ways. First, it can be shown that reasonability is fundamental to the architectonic of the later work. Reasonability, and the subordination of reason to reasonability, is fundamental to the later (post-1980) writings. Second, it can be shown that reasonability is not necessarily a vague term as many have cl…Read more
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49Conflicted modernity: Toleration as a principle of justicePhilosophy and Social Criticism 36 (3-4): 339-352. 2010.The recognition of conflict puts an end to the idea that cosmopolitanism may be legitimized by a comprehensive doctrine. The article argues that within the limits of a post-secular society, toleration must be conceived as a principle of justice, based on regard for the law, within a society in which not only others’ rights but also other cultures must be respected.
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47The republican ideal of freedom as non-domination and the Rojava experiment: ‘States as they are’ or a new socio-political imagination?Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5): 419-428. 2016.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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47Rethinking subjectivity: narrative identity and the selfPhilosophy and Social Criticism 21 (5-6): 159-172. 1995.
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47Volume IntroductionThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 11 13-21. 2001.
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47Reasonability, normativity, and the cosmopolitan imagination: Arendt, Korsgaard, and RawlsContinental Philosophy Review 36 (2): 97-112. 2003.In this essay I consider the normative implications of the notion of reasonability for the construction of an idea of public reason that is cosmopolitan in scope. First, I consider the argument for the distinction between reason and reasonability in the work of Sibley and Rawls. Second, I evaluate the normative implications of reasonability through a consideration of Korsgaard's recent work. Third, I argue for a notion of reasonability that moves us beyond a Kantian concept of autonomy through a…Read more
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47Preserving the eidetic moment:Reflections on the work of Paul RicoeurResearch in Phenomenology 37 (2): 195-202. 2007.The paper argues that Paul Ricoeur's The Philosophy of the Will retained a certain fidelity to phenomenology's early emphasis on subjectivity. When Ricoeur turned to the philosophy of language, he found a way to retain a certain emphasis on subjectivity and individuality that would make his work distinctive among other approaches to the philosophy of language. Hence, the title, Preserving the Eidetic Moment, intends to characterize Ricoeur's distinctive contribution to philosophy. The paper goes…Read more
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36Digital spaces, public places and communicative power: In defense of deliberative democracyPhilosophy 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