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    Deliberative democracy
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 27 (5): 117-124. 2001.
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    Towards a critical theory of whiteness
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 33 (2): 203-222. 2007.
    In this article I argue that a critical theory of whiteness is necessary, though not sufficient, to the formulation of an adequate explanatory account of the mechanisms of racial oppression in the modern world. In order to explain how whiteness underwrites systems of racial oppression and how it is reproduced, the central functional properties of whiteness are identified. I propose that understanding whiteness as a structuring property of racialized social systems best explains these functional …Read more
  •  76
    Nietzsche's Genealogy Revisited
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 35 (1): 141-154. 2008.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article: This essay begins by reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of the developmental strategy adopted in my Nietzsche’s “Genealogy of Morality” in relation to the contrasting approaches of Conway, Hatab, and Janaway in their studies of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. It then turns to take up a topic that, in the light of the readings of Conway, Hatab, Janaway, and myself, I now take to be much more central than any of us has adequatel…Read more
  •  31
    A Global Crisis of Liberal Democracy?: On Autocratic Democracy, Populism and Post-Truth Politics
    Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 1 (1): 30-46. 2022.
    This article proposes that autocratic democracy represents the natural political form of right-wing populism. It argues that while the emergence of autocratic democracy as a genuine political alternative to liberal democracy may be currently located primarily in states where liberal democratic norms were not well-consolidated, there are reasons to hold that structural features of contemporary politics in consolidated democracies relating to the decline of mass parties and the globalisation trile…Read more
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    Between Reason and History: Habermas and the Idea of Progress
    State University of New York Press. 2002.
    The first book-length treatment in English of Habermas’s theory of social evolution and progress
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    Solidarity and The Politics of Redress: Structural Injustice, History and Counter-Finalities
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 24 (5): 1213-1227. 2021.
    This paper examines Nuti’s accounts of structural injustice and historical injustice in the light of a political dilemma that confronted Young’s work on structure injustice. The dilemma emerges from a paradox that can be stated simply: justly addressing structural injustice would require that those subject to structural injustice enjoy the kind of privileged position of decision-making power that their being subject to structural injustice denies them. The dilemma thus concerns how to justly add…Read more
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    Critical Theory and Learning from History
    Radical Philosophy Review 8 (2): 187-195. 2005.
    In this paper I utilize Martin Beck Matuštík’s intellectual biography of Habermas as a means for reflecting on the meaning that criticaltheory has for us in the wake of September 11. I argue that the significant contribution of Matuštík’s book is that it fruitfully continues theconversation about the meaning of critical theory by underscoring the sociohistorical contexts that frame Habermas’s intellectual engagements. Matuštík’s figure of the critical theorist as witness refocuses attention on t…Read more
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    ABSTRACT This article explores the theorization of (in)visibility in Honneth, Ranciere, Cavell and Tully. It situates the work of Honneth and Ranciere against the background of Wittgenstein's account of continuous aspect perception and aspect change in order to draw out their accounts of invisibility and the aesthetic character of transitions to visibility. In order to develop a critical standpoint on these theoretical positions, it turns to Cavell's concept of soul-blindness and investigates th…Read more
  •  9
    Nietzsche, Re‐evaluation and the Turn to Genealogy
    European Journal of Philosophy 11 (3): 249-272. 2003.
  •  9
    Refugees, legitimacy and development
    Ethics and Global Politics 14 (2): 86-97. 2021.
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    Rhetorics of Degeneration: Nietzsche, Lombroso, and Napoleon
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 52 (1): 51-64. 2021.
    In this commentary on Ken Gemes's “The Biology of Evil,” I endorse the general reading of Nietzsche's philosophical project proposed by Gemes while contesting his account of Nietzsche's rhetorical engagement with degeneration theory. In particular, I show that Nietzsche is mobilizing a rhetoric of degeneration that invokes, and partially subverts, the picture of degeneration proposed by Caesare Lombroso in which genius and degeneration are linked in a way that enables a positive view of degenera…Read more
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    Vindication, Media, and Staging the Democratic Sublime
    Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 3 (1): 101-103. 2024.
  •  6
    Whose duty? Which reform?
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. forthcoming.
    Lucia Rafanelli’s book opens up an important space for reflection on the ethics of ‘reform intervention’. Her purpose is both to demonstrate that the field of foreign influence and its modes is considerably more diverse than often appreciated and to propose a set of ethical guidelines for addressing it. The principles she proposes are cogent and well-supported. My reflections focus on two issues concerning the duty of reform intervention. The first topic that I address concerns the scope of the …Read more
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    Both the pragmatic logic of social critique and the idea of a critical social theory presuppose the possibility of distinguishing progressive from regressive forms of social change. Thus, a condition of adequacy of social critique in general, and of critical social theory in particular, is the theoretical capacity to identify progressive social change. I begin this study by showing that, since it incorporates a theory of social evolution, Habermas's conception of critical social theory satisfies…Read more
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    Editorial Foreword
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 26 (1): 97-97. 2003.
  •  3
    Fathering for Social Justice
    In Fritz Allhoff, Lon S. Nease & Michael W. Austin (eds.), Fatherhood ‐ Philosophy for Everyone, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Learning Difference Against Ignoring Difference I Am Because We Are and We Are Because I Am Practicing Just Parenting Teaching Alienation? Notes.
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    Of Overgrown Children and Last Men: Nietzsche's Critique and Max Weber's Cultural Science
    In Mazzino Montinari, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Heinz Wenzel, Günter Abel & Werner Stegmaier (eds.), 2000, De Gruyter. pp. 252-266. 2000.
  • Nietzsche's Genealogy Revisited
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 36 (1): 141-154. 2008.
  • A Politics of Exemplarity
    Jura Gentium 14 (1): 12-17. 2017.