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The efficacy of the rational being (first proposition: [Nr.] 1)In Jean-Christophe Merle (ed.), Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Grundlage des Naturrechts, De Gruyter. 2016.
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17The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary PerspectivesLexington Books. 2009.Edited by Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch & Christopher Zurn. This volume collects original, cutting-edge essays on the philosophy of recognition by international scholars eminent in the field. By considering the topic of recognition as addressed by both classical and contemporary authors, the volume explores the connections between historical and contemporary recognition research and makes substantive contributions to the further development of contemporary theories of recognition.
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33. The Efficacy of the Rational Being (First Proposition: § 1)In Jean-Christophe Merle (ed.), Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Grundlage des Naturrechts, De Gruyter. pp. 39-49. 2016.
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9The Idea of a Hegelian ‘Science’ of SocietyIn Stephen Houlgate & Michael Baur (eds.), A Companion to Hegel, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: The Aim of Hegel's Science of Society The Method of Hegel's Science of Society Comprehension versus Critique.
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5Rousseau und Hegel: Zwei Begriffe der AnerkennungIn Stefan Lang & Lars Thade Ulrichs (eds.), Subjektivität und Autonomie: Praktische Selbstverhältnisse in der klassischen deutschen Philosophie, De Gruyter. pp. 275-288. 2013.
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13Foundations of Hegel’s Social TheoryHarvard University Press. 2000.This study examines the philosophical foundations of Hegel's social theory by articulating the normative standards at work in his claim that the central social institutions of the modern era are rational or good.
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203Hegel’s Idea of a ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’Philosophical Review 109 (2): 296-299. 2000.Michael Forster’s latest book is a comprehensive and illuminating treatment of the basic tasks and strategies of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. As the title indicates, Forster is more concerned to elucidate the aims and structure of the Phenomenology as a whole than to reconstruct the claims of specific sections or to provide a chapter-by-chapter commentary. Forster is correct that a coherent and sympathetic account of the Phenomenology’s “official project” is badly needed, and he succeeds adm…Read more
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19Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory: De-Throning the SelfMind 110 (438): 439-442. 2001.
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The method of the Philosophy of rightIn David James (ed.), Hegel's `Elements of the Philosophy of Right': A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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36Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and DurkheimCambridge University Press. 2022.Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe societies as 'ill', or 'sick', and why we are so often drawn to conceiving of social problems as ailments or maladies. He shows how Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim – four key philosophers who are seldom taken to constitute a 'tradition' – deploy…Read more
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66Nietzsche on Spiritual Illness and Its PromiseJournal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (3): 293-314. 2014.ABSTRACT This article reconstructs Nietzsche's conception of spiritual illness, especially as exhibited in various forms of the bad conscience, and asks what positive, ennobling potential Nietzsche finds in it. The relevant concept of spirit is arrived at by reconstructing Nietzsche's conception of life and then considering what reflexive life—life turned back against itself—would look like. It distinguishes four independent features of spiritual illness: the measureless drive to make oneself su…Read more
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6Jean-Jacques RousseauIn Ludwig Siep, Heikki Ikäheimo & Michael Quante (eds.), Handbuch Anerkennung, Springer. pp. 241-244. 2018.
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14Anomie: On the Link Between Social Pathology and Social OntologyIn Nicola Marcucci (ed.), Durkheim & Critique, Springer Verlag. pp. 131-162. 2021.This chapter examines the philosophical underpinnings of Durkheim’s account of anomie as social pathology. It examines and evaluates Durkheim’s conception of social pathology and his claim that social problems must be understood as analogous to illnesses. Further, it explores the vision of social ontology—of the kind of being that human societies have—underlying Durkheim’s position, which involves articulating the ways in which human societies are both different from and similar to biological or…Read more
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19Hegel on “the Living Good”Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 33 (3-4): 310-331. 2021.ABSTRACT Hegel calls social life “the living good,” but what this means is unclear. The idea expresses an ontological claim about the kind of being that human societies possess, but it is also normatively significant, clarifying why the category of social pathology is an appropriate tool of social critique. Social life consists in processes of life infused with ethical content. Societies are normatively and functionally constituted living beings that realize the good similarly to how organisms a…Read more
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3Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism: The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought, 1790-1800 (review)Philosophical Review 103 (1): 192-194. 1994.
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13Geistige Gesundheit und kulturelle Pathologie bei NietzscheDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 68 (1): 1-27. 2020.This paper reconstructs Nietzsche’s conception of spiritual illness, especially as exhibited in various forms of the bad conscience, and asks what positive, ennobling potential Nietzsche finds in it. The relevant concept of spirit is arrived at by reconstructing Nietzsche’s conception of life and then considering what reflexive life – life turned back against itself – would look like. It distinguishes four independent features of spiritual illness: the measureless drive to make oneself suffer, s…Read more
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22Alienation by Rahel Jaeggi Translated by Frederick Neuhouser and Alan E. Smith (review)Review of Metaphysics 68 (3): 662-664. 2015.
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17Hegel über Sozialontologie und die Möglichkeit sozialer PathologienIn Christian Krijnen & Stephan Zimmermann (eds.), Sozialontologie in der Perspektive des Deutschen Idealismus: Ansätze, Rezeptionen, Probleme, De Gruyter. pp. 119-140. 2018.
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Fichte's Theory of Self Positing Subjectivity and the Unity of ReasonDissertation, Columbia University. 1988.The aim of the dissertation is to examine Fichte's attempt at demonstrating the unity of theoretical and practical reason. Chapter 1 discusses the young Fichte's dissatisfaction with Kant's two separate accounts of reason in the First and Second Critiques. It also analyzes the relationship between the issue of the unity of reason and what Fichte takes to be another crucial problem in Kant's moral philosophy, the lack of a positive proof that pure reason is practical. ;Chapter 2 traces Fichte's d…Read more
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26Rousseau und das menschliche Verlangen nach AnerkennungDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 56 (6): 899-922. 2008.Rousseau ist der erste Denker in der Geschichte der Philosophie, der das Streben nach Anerkennung durch Andere im Innersten der menschlichen Natur lokalisiert und es damit zu einem zentralen Thema der Moral-, Sozial- und politischen Philosophie macht. Der Aufsatz zeichnet Rousseaus Überlegungen zum menschlichen Streben nach Anerkennung der Leidenschaft, die er l′amour propre nennt in großen Linien nach und versucht dabei vorzuführen, wie sich die einzelnen Bestandteile des Rousseauschen Aner…Read more
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66Fichte’s Theory of SubjectivityCambridge University Press. 1990.This is the first book in English to elucidate the central issues in the work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a figure crucial to the movement of philosophy from Kant to German idealism. The book explains Fichte's notion of subjectivity and how his particular view developed out of Kant's accounts of theoretical and practical reason. Fichte argued that the subject has a self-positing structure which distinguishes it from a thing or an object. Thus, the subject must be understood as an activity rather …Read more
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35Die kritische Funktion der Genealogie im Denken Jean-Jacques RousseausDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 54 (4): 495-509. 2006.Der Beitrag rekonstruiert sowohl Rousseaus Erklärung der Entstehung der Ungleichheit als auch die Maßstäbe, die er anwendet, um die Legitimität von Ungleichheiten zu beurteilen. Nachdem gezeigt wird, dass die Eigenliebe die Hauptquelle der Ungleichheit ist, wird das Verhältnis zwischen Rousseaus Genealogie und seiner normativen Kritik an der Gesellschaft untersucht
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30The General Will (review)Philosophical Review 104 (4): 597-600. 1995.The principal aim of Andrew Levine’s most recent book is to defend the ideal of communism. Its strategy is to demonstrate the coherence and desirability of that ideal by invoking Rousseau’s concept of the general will. More specifically, the general will is supposed to provide a model for the kind of cooperation that will take place among members of a communistic society. Since the notion of a general will is itself highly obscure, this book can also be read as an attempt to clarify and flesh ou…Read more
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113Review of Rahel Jaeggi, Entfremdung: Zur Aktualität Eines Sozialphilosophischen Problems (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (7). 2007.
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156Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Origins of AutonomyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 54 (5). 2011.Abstract Modern reflection on the ideal of personal autonomy has its Western origin in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, where autonomy, or self-legislation, involves citizens joining together to make laws for themselves that reflect their collective understanding of the common good. Four features of this conception of autonomy continue to be relevant today. First, autonomy, a type of freedom, is introduced into modern philosophy in order to make up for a perceived deficiency, or incomple…Read more
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479Freedom, dependence, and the general willPhilosophical Review 102 (3): 363-395. 1993.n his Lectures on the Histmy 0f Philosophy Hegel credits Rousseau with an cpoch-making innovation in the realm 0f practical philosophy, an innovation said to consist in thc fact that Rousseau is thc first thinker t0 recognize "the free will" as thc fundamental principle 0f political philosophy} Since Hcgcl’s 0wn practical philosophy is explicitly grounded in an account 0f thc will and its freedom, Hcgcl’s assertion is clearly intended as an acknowledgment 0f his deep indebtedness t0 R0usscau’s s…Read more