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Unity in multiplicity : agency and aesthetics in German republicanismIn Geoffrey C. Kellow & Neven Leddy (eds.), On Civic Republicanism: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics, University of Toronto Press. 2016.
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The limits of state action : Humboldt, Dalberg, and perfectionism after KantIn James A. Clarke & Gabriel Gottlieb (eds.), Practical Philosophy From Kant to Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Revolution, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
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6Bruno BauerIn Ludwig Siep, Heikki Ikaheimo & Michael Quante (eds.), Handbuch Anerkennung, Springer. pp. 143-146. 2018.
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17Left-Kantian PerfectionismCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 33 (2): 184-205. 2021.ABSTRACT The historical context of early post-Kantian debates on politics reveals the emergence of a new type of perfectionist ethics no longer based on the state-sponsored promotion of happiness, as the dominant German tendency in the eighteenth century had been, but on individual freedom. Post-Kantian perfectionism focused on maintaining and enhancing the conditions for rightful interaction among self-defining individuals. Rather than isolating and alienating, Kantian negative freedom enabled …Read more
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8Perfektionismus der Autonomie (edited book)Brill Fink. 2018.Der Band versammelt philosophische Beiträge, die den Theorietyp des Autonomieperfektionismus in historischer und systematischer Perspektive beleuchten. Im Zuge von Kants Kritik an früheren perfektionistischen Ethikentwürfen entsteht ein neuer Theorietyp, der nicht wie die früheren Konzeptionen auf die Beförderung von Glück abzielt, sondern auf die Beförderung von Freiheit, die Bedingungen ihrer Ausübung sowie eine Bestimmung der Grenzen staatlicher Interventionen. Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich …Read more
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11The Construction of Juridical SpaceThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 44 161-166. 1998.This paper examines the relation between Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals and his Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, in order to explain the analogy in the doctrine of right between juridical interactions and the movement of bodies according to mechanical laws. Kant’s various formulations of the idea of reciprocal action, and his concept of limit, are central to the examination. A comparison with Fichte is suggested, and implications for the theory of property are indicated.
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3Über die Prinzipien des Schönen / De pulchrii principiis: Eine PreisschriftWalter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. 2018.Die Philosophische Fakultat der Berliner Universitat stellte im Jahr 1828 eine Preisaufgabe, an deren Losung alle Studenten der Universitat teilnehmen konnten. Einem Vorschlag Hegels folgend ging es um eine Auseinandersetzung mit den "Prinzipien des Schonen" bei Kant. Nach anonymer Bewertung der eingegangenen Arbeiten wurde die von Bruno Bauer mit dem Preis geehrt. Wahrend die im Laufe der Jahre gestellten Aufgaben und erteilten Gutachten fast vollstandig erhalten sind, ist das Vorhandensein der…Read more
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35Contextualising FichteFichte-Studien 45 133-153. 2018.An examination of the intellectual context in which Fichte develops his ethical program in the Jena period and its immediate aftermath reveals the determining presence of Leibniz, and the complex heritage of Leibnizian perfectionist thought from which Kantian, and post-Kantian, ethics seek to extricate themselves. While Kant blocks any reversion to the older, Leibnizian perfectionism, his criticisms leave open a space for a new kind of perfectionist ethic, one whose object is the promotion not o…Read more
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12Art, Objectivity, and Idea: Bruno Bauer's Critique of Kant and the Theory of Infinite Self-consciousnessHegel Bulletin 22 (1-2): 52-71. 2001.Students of the Hegelian school must acknowledge an abiding debt to Ernst Barnikol. Upon his death in 1968, he left uncompleted a voluminous manuscript on Bruno Bauer, representing over forty years of research. Of this manuscript, conserved at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, only a fraction has been published, but even this fraction, in its almost six hundred pages, continues to set standards in the field for meticulous scholarship, rigorous analysis, and balanced crit…Read more
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30Between Leibniz and Kant: The Political Thought of Wilhelm von HumboldtThe European Legacy 23 (5): 538-553. 2018.In his early text, The Limits of State Action, Wilhelm von Humboldt raises the Kantian question of the permissibility and legitimate extent of political and juridical coercion, as his contribution to a debate amongst Kantians launched by the publication in 1785 of Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. In arguing for a minimal state, concerned exclusively with internal and external security of its members but not at all with their felicity, Humboldt inflects Kantian political thought in…Read more
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8Reciprocity, Elicitation, RecognitionDialogue 38 (2): 271-296. 1999.RÉSUMÉ: Cet article explore les liens entre la Wissenschaftslehre de Fichte, en 1794-1795, et ses Fondements du droit naturel de 1796-1797. Nous examinons la façon dont le concept de réciprocité dans WL aide à expliquer la pensée développée par Fichte dans GNR au sujet de l’action intersubjective et de la sphère du droit, et montrons que certaines difficultés conceptuelles dans le premier texte expliquent des tensions irrésolues dans le second. Hans-Jürgen Verweyen a identifié une conception lar…Read more
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56The Construction of Juridical SpaceThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 7 201-209. 2000.This paper examines the relation between Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals and his Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science in order to explain the analogy in the doctrine of right between juridical interactions and the movement of bodies according to mechanical laws. Kant’s various formulations of the idea of reciprocal action and his concept of limit are central to the examination. A comparison with Fichte is suggested, and implications for the theory of property are indicated.
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Art, Objectivity And Idea: Bruno Bauer's Critique Of Kant And The Theory Of The Infinite Self-ConsciousnessBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 43 52-71. 2001.
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27Reciprocity, Elicitation, Recognition: The Thematics of Intersubjectivity in the Early FichteDialogue 38 (2): 271-. 1999.RÉSUMÉ: Cet article explore les liens entre la Wissenschaftslehre de Fichte, en 1794-1795, et ses Fondements du droit naturel de 1796-1797. Nous examinons la façon dont le concept de réciprocité dans WL aide à expliquer la pensée développée par Fichte dans GNR au sujet de l’action intersubjective et de la sphère du droit, et montrons que certaines difficultés conceptuelles dans le premier texte expliquent des tensions irrésolues dans le second. Hans-Jürgen Verweyen a identifié une conception lar…Read more
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11Kevin Aho, Philosophy Department, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA Laurie Bagby-Johnson, Department of Political Science, Kansas State University, USA JJ Barry, Department of Politics, Queen's University, UK Robert Belton, Department of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, CanadaThe European Legacy 15 (7): 955-956. 2010.
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63Free Means EthicalThe Owl of Minerva 33 (1): 1-24. 2001.Bruno Bauer has been the subject of intense controversies since the 1830s, yet his work remains inaccessible and his meaning elusive. He is most familiar as the object of Marx’s sharp polemical attacks in the Holy Family and the German Ideology, though Albert Schweitzer, in his widely-noted Quest of the Historical Jesus, gives him a receptive and sensitive reading. Bauer is a far more complex figure than the caricature that Marx’s denunciations make of him. In the decisive political circumstance…Read more
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Bruno Bauer: Forms of judgment and political criticism. An interpretation of Hegelian logic in his' Vormarz'Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 22 (3): 389-404. 2002.
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19Schiller's aesthetic republicanismHistory of Political Thought 28 (3): 520-541. 2007.The paper examines the political implications of Schiller's On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795). Schiller's thought has frequently been depicted as a flight from contemporary conditions of revolution and war, but his aesthetic ideas are closely connected to his assessment of political emancipation and they contribute to a new kind of republican thought. While earlier eighteenth-century republicanisms had presupposed, or attempted to enforce, homogeneity of interest among the citizen body, S…Read more
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17Nation, volk, masse: Left-Hegelian perspectives on the rise of nationalismHistory of European Ideas 15 (1-3): 339-345. 1992.
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Dieter Henrich, Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 26 (3): 188-191. 2006.
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22The New Hegelians: Politics and Philosophy in the Hegelian School (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2006.The period leading up to the Revolutions of 1848 was a seminal moment in the history of political thought, demarcating the ideological currents and defining the problems of freedom and social cohesion which are among the key issues of modern politics. This 2006 anthology offers research on Hegel's followers in the 1830s and 1840s. With essays by philosophers, political scientists, and historians from Europe and North America, it pays special attention to questions of state power, the economy, po…Read more
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26Absolute Spirit and Universal Self-Consciousness: Bruno Bauer's Revolutionary SubjectivismDialogue 28 (2): 235-. 1989.Recent literature on the Young Hegelians attests to a renewed appreciation of their philosophical and political significance. Important new studies have linked them to the literary and political currents of their time, traced the changing patterns of their relationships with early French socialism, and demonstrated the affinity of their thought with Hellenistic theories of self-consciousness. The conventional interpretative context, which focuses on the left-Hegelian critique of religion and the…Read more
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15Review of Colin Tyler, Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and Conflict in the Absolute Idealist Tradition (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (5). 2007.