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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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11The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno BauerCambridge University Press. 2002.This is a comprehensive study in English of Bruno Bauer, a leading Hegelian philosopher of the 1840s. Inspired by the philosophy of Hegel, Bauer led an intellectual revolution that influenced Marx and shaped modern secular humanism. In the process he offered a republican alternative to liberalism and socialism, criticized religious and political conservatism and set out the terms for the development of modern mass and industrial society. Based on in-depth archival research this book traces the e…Read more
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Republican rigorism and emancipation in Bruno BauerIn The New Hegelians: Politics and Philosophy in the Hegelian School, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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40Monadic marxism: A critique of Elster's methodological individualismPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 21 (1): 38-63. 1991.Elster's work unstably combines Leibnizian and utilitarian conceptions of action and offers various deconstructions of rationality and individuality. His method ological individualism gives an inadequate account of its privileged object, individual teleologies, and a distorted account of the relational framework of social reproduction and transformation. Elster has not properly conceptualized the relation of the teleological act to patterns of material and social causality, and his rational choi…Read more
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50The 1995 Congress of the Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung in PisaThe Owl of Minerva 27 (2): 233-238. 1996.The biennial meeting of the Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung took place at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, September 21–24, 1995. The congress, organized by Claudio Cesa, Dean of the Classe di Lettere at the Scuola Normale, addressed the theme of skepticism and speculative thought in Hegel’s philosophy.
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6Politics, Religion, and Art: Hegelian Debates (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2011.The period from 1780 to 1850 witnessed an unprecedented explosion of philosophical creativity in the German territories. In the thinking of Kant, Schiller, Fichte, Hegel, and the Hegelian school, new theories of freedom and emancipation, new conceptions of culture, society, and politics, arose in rapid succession. The members of the Hegelian school, forming around Hegel in Berlin and most active in the 1830’s and 1840’s, are often depicted as mere epigones, whose writings are at best of historic…Read more
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Introduction: Hegelianism, republicanism, and modernityIn The New Hegelians: Politics and Philosophy in the Hegelian School, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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Bruno Bauer: Forme di giudizio e critica politica. Una lettura della logica hegeliana nel VormärzGiornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 22 (3): 389-404. 2002.
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29The Subject as SubstanceThe Owl of Minerva 41 (1-2): 61-83. 2009.Bruno Bauer’s response to Max Stirner’s Der Einzige und sein Eigentum (1845) is here examined closely, for the first time. In working out their concepts of freedom and self-determination, the Hegelian Left stressed different elements in the synthesis which Hegel himself had effected. Options appear that can be described as generally Fichtean or Spinozistic; each has distinct political and ethical implications. Bauer’s claim is that Stirner “Unique One” is to be understood as a version of Spinozi…Read more
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27Republican Rigorism: Hegelian Views of Emancipation in 1848The European Legacy 8 (4): 441-457. 2003.This paper examines whether Bruno Bauer's critical assessment of Jewish emancipation in Prussia is consistent with his other republican writings in the 1840s. It argues that Bauer's political position is a form of republican rigorism, according to which human emancipation requires identification with universal interests, and not the defence of particular identities. Rigorism involves the elimination of internal as well as external heteronomous influences, and implies shifting the boundaries betw…Read more
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Nation et nationalismes. Carrefour. Revue de la société de philosophie de l'Outaouais, vol. XIII, n° 2Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 185 (4): 556-557. 1995.