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5Book reviews: : The Crisis Paradigm: Description and Prescription in Social and Political Theory (review)Thesis Eleven 165 (1): 193-197. 2021.
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3Book review: History of the Present: The Contemporary and its Culture (review)Thesis Eleven 173 (1): 140-149. 2022.
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16Social Ontology and the Past, Present and Future of Critical Theory: A Critical Reading of Georg Lukács and the Possibility of Critical Social OntologyCritical Horizons 24 (1): 76-87. 2023.In both continental and analytical philosophy, social ontology has emerged as a particularly lively and increasingly sophisticated area of debate. This essay explores the potential contribution that social-ontological thinking can make to the continued development of critical theory via a critical reading of Georg Lukács and the Possibility of Critical Social Ontology – a collection of essays edited by Michael J. Thompson and published by Brill as part of the Studies in Critical Social Sciences …Read more
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12Notes towards the critical theory of post-industrialism capitalismThesis Eleven 171 (1): 20-29. 2022.This essay aims to continue to develop the thesis that the welter of political-economic, social, technological, and subjective transformations that characterized the final decades of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st necessitate a re-thinking of the relationship between social criticism and the critique of political economy. Herein the focus is directed towards the critique of reification and industrial rationalization as developed in the works of Georg Lukács and Cornelius Cast…Read more
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14A subject-out-of-place: Reflections on the recent works on the life and legacies of Zygmunt BaumanThesis Eleven 170 (1): 136-145. 2022.
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2Book Review: Critical Theories and the Budapest School: Politics, Culture, and Modernity (review)Thesis Eleven 166 (1): 165-169. 2021.
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14Agnes Heller: A Philosopher for TodayCritical Horizons 21 (4): 303-317. 2020.ABSTRACT On 19 July 2019, Agnes Heller died whilst swimming in Lake Balaton outside Budapest. With her passing, the culture of humanity lost one of its most remarkable representatives. So too, contemporary critique lost a philosophical sensibility that is, today, within the neoliberal university, increasingly rare. It is this philosophical sensibility with which this essay is concerned. Through a critical reconstruction of Heller’s reading of three key figures from the philosophical tradition (M…Read more
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18Modernity, praxis and the work of art: Contemporary themes in Eastern European critical theoryThesis Eleven 159 (1): 3-8. 2020.Throughout the world, Eastern European critical theory is enjoying a moderate, yet exciting, resurgence. From its oppositional roots in praxis philosophy and critical sociology, this diffuse and dynamic tradition has expanded its field of concern to encompass, among other problems, the aporias of democracy, the Holocaust and legacies of totalitarianism, the vicissitudes of modern culture and the ethical imperatives of living after the grand narrative. In the process, Eastern European thought has…Read more
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15Habermas and the critique of political economyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 47 (6): 663-680. 2020.In recent years, a series of key social, political and economic events has placed the critique of capitalism very much on the theoretical agenda. Responding to these developments, many have begun to express the need for a rapprochement between social criticism and the critique of political economy. The present essay represents a contribution to the recovery of the project that was once synonymous with critical theory itself via a critical engagement with the early writings of Jürgen Habermas. No…Read more
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19The Budapest School: Beyond MarxismBrill. 2019._The Budapest School: Beyond Marxism_ develops a systematic reconstruction of the post-Marxist projects of the Budapest School. It charts the evolution of these thinkers from their beginnings in the ‘renaissance of Marxism’ through to their contemporary critical theories of modernity.
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29Alienation, reification and the antinomies of production: On the theoretical development of György MárkusThesis Eleven 148 (1): 21-38. 2018.In recent years, the works of György Márkus – a member of what has been dubbed the ‘Budapest School’ – have begun to generate an increasingly sophisticated and vibrant discussion. The present essay seeks to contribute to this burgeoning body of critical literature by offering a summary account and evaluation of the evolution of Márkus’s thought from the critique of alienation developed during the 1960s through to his post-Marxist philosophy of culture in the latter decades of the 20th century. I…Read more
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18The idea of creaturely life has, in recent years, emerged as an important and illuminating category of literary and philosophical critique. In this paper I seek to contribute to this contemporary discourse by examining the references to the creaturely found in the writings of T.W. Adorno. Whilst much attention has been paid to Walter Benjamin’s reflections on creatureliness, Adorno, a thinker with whom Benjamin is often associated, has received comparatively little in this regard. I begin to …Read more
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29The Breakdown of Reflexivity: Recognition, Reification and the Fragmentation of ExperienceCritical Horizons 16 (4): 371-392. 2015.In this essay I offer a qualified defence of Axel Honneth's recognition-theoretical critique of reification. This defence begins by engaging with a cross-section of the recent critical responses to Honneth's theory. In response to these criticisms I develop a reading of the recognition-theoretical critique of reification which illuminates both the intentional structure and pre-ethical nature of affective recognition whilst also reconstructing the existential contours of reification, understood a…Read more
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13From the body politic to the politics of the body: The biopolitical theory of Ferenc Fehér and Agnes HellerConstellations 25 (4): 657-668. 2018.
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