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    Joseph Brodsky and the Aesthetic Origins of Ethics
    The European Legacy 28 (8): 837-851. 2023.
    In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1987, the Russian-born American poet Joseph Brodsky argued that aesthetics is the mother of ethics. However, there is an ambiguity in his use of the term aesthetics. In the first part of this article, I distinguish between Brodsky’s narrow use of aesthetics, which refers to problems of beauty, and the broader sense, which refers to the cognitive function of sensibility and feeling. I then suggest that good sense can be made of the claim about the origins o…Read more
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    Thinking and Talking (review)
    The European Legacy 28 (1): 114-115. 2022.
    Thinking and Talking is the fifth volume of the collected papers of Giorgio Baruchello. The volume gathers together nineteen pieces of various styles and lengths—some rewritten formal academic arti...
  •  2
    Our Fatal Flaw: “Indifference to the Woes of Other Human Beings” (review)
    The European Legacy 26 (6): 651-658. 2021.
    Purportedly liberal countries insist that they are the standard-bearers of all that is good and humane in the world. At the same time, they leave African migrants to drown in the Mediterranean; the...
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    Mettius Fufetius in Livy
    Classical Antiquity 25 (2): 327-349. 2006.
    This essay makes the case that Livy's version of the tale of Mettius Fufetius transmits certain facts that relate to inherited ritual practices along with formulas used in early law and diplomacy. Although the author may not be fully aware of the original meaning of all he is handing down because he has simply taken materials from his sources without much critical investigation, the traditional elements are important to him because they seem to authenticate this legend about the reign of Tullus …Read more
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    Historical materialism as mediation between the physical and the meaningful
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 47 (9): 1043-1059. 2020.
    The article argues that historical materialism is not only a theory of historical change but more generally a mediation between the natural foundations of human life and its meaningful symbolic expressions. The article begins with an interpretation of the general philosophical significance of the basic premises of historical materialism as they are sketched in the German Ideology. I argue that these premises point us in two different directions: down, towards a scientific understanding of the na…Read more
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    Volume 25, Issue 7-8, November - December 2020, Page 880-881.
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    Art and Posthistory: Conversations on the End of Aesthetics (review)
    The European Legacy 28 (5): 547-548. 2023.
    This short collection of conversations between the renowned American philosopher of art Arthur C. Danto and Italian art critic Demetrio Paparoni will serve as an effective introduction to Danto’s w...
  •  1
    Book Reviews (review)
    with Giorgio Baruchello, Victor Castellani, Camelia Cmeciu, Liviu Drugus, David N. Coury, Hans Derks, Nicole Hochner, Peter Isackson, Matthew King, Anna M. Klobucka, Karen Kurczynski, Cyana Leahy-Dios, Douglas Moggach, Stephen Morris, Karis Muller, Marianna Papastephanou, Brayton Polka, Francis D. RAška, Duncan Richter, Stanley Shostak, Armand E. Singer, Max J. Skidmore, Russell Smith, Ilia Stambler, Gillian Sutherland, Richard M. Swain, Paola S. Timiras, Barnard Turner, John E. Weakland, and StephanieZubcic Stacey
    The European Legacy 13 (2): 235-267. 2008.
  • Book reviews (review)
    with Greg Andonian, Jared Babin, Nataša Bakić-Mirić, Charlotte A. Berkowitz, Michael Burgess, Victor Castellani, Camelia Mihaela Cmeciu, Doina Cmeciu, John Danvers, Eberhard Eichenhofer, Hall Gardner, Stefan Höjelid, Jeff Horn, Irving Louis Horowitz, Daniel D. Hutto, Javier Kalhat, Tommi Lehtonen, David W. Lovell, John Milfull, Neil Morpeth, Jean Pedersen, Joyce Senders Pedersen, Mia Roth, Richard Schaefer, Arthur Shostak, Stanley Shostak, Gary Steiner, Paola S. Timiras, Barnard Turner, Christine Vitrano, Alison Webster, and Fredric S. Zuckerman
    The European Legacy 14 (2): 209-248. 2009.
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    Null
    with Doohwan Ahn, Sanda Badescu, Giorgio Baruchello, Raj Nath Bhat, Laura Boileau, Rosalind Carey, Camelia-Mihaela Cmeciu, Alan Goldstone, James Grieve, John Grumley, Grant Havers, Stefan Höjelid, Peter Isackson, Marguerite Johnson, Adrienne Kertzer, J.-Guy Lalande, Clinton R. Long, Joseph Mali, Ben Marsden, Peter Monteath, Michael Edward Moore, Lynda Payne, Joyce Senders Pedersen, Brayton Polka, Lily Polliack, John Preston, Anthony Pym, Marina Ritzarev, Joseph Rouse, Peter N. Saeta, Arthur B. Shostak, Stanley Shostak, Marcia Landy, Kenneth R. Stunkel, III Wheeler, and Phillip H. Wiebe
    The European Legacy 14 (6): 731-771. 2009.
    No abstract
  • Book Reviews (review)
    with Doohwan Ahn, Sanda Badescu, Giorgio Baruchello, Raj Nath Bhat, Laura Boileau, Rosalind Carey, Camelia-Mihaela Cmeciu, Alan Goldstone, James Grieve, John Grumley, Grant Havers, Stefan Höjelid, Peter Isackson, Marguerite Johnson, Adrienne Kertzer, J. -Guy Lalande, Clinton R. Long, Joseph Mali, Ben Marsden, Peter Monteath, Michael Edward Moore, Lynda Payne, Joyce Senders Pedersen, Brayton Polka, Lily Polliack, John Preston, Anthony Pym, Marina Ritzarev, Joseph Rouse, Peter N. Saeta, Arthur B. Shostak, Stanley Shostak, Marcia Landy, Kenneth R. Stunkel, Samuel C. Wheeler, and Phillip H. Wiebe
    The European Legacy 14 (6): 731-771. 2009.
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    Jeff Noonan traces the development of humanist values from the ancient philosophies of India, China, and Greece, to contemporary struggles against oppression. Embodied Humanism argues that humanism is a critical social philosophy in which need-satisfaction and life-enjoyment have always been paramount.
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    At different times Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse argued that immortality is a condition of overcoming misery and achieving complete human freedom. Their arguments were made before “practical immortality” had become a concrete scientific project. The difference between what was then and what is now scientifically possible alters the ethical and political value of the idea of immortality. Had the first generation of critical theorists occupied the present historical moment, they would have reali…Read more
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    Dedication: Iris Marion Young, 1949-2006
    with Tanya Basok and Suzan Ilcan
    Studies in Social Justice 1 (1). 2007.
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    The paper argues that the future of socialism depends upon the category of use value being grounded in a wider and deeper conception of life value. Only as such can it serve as the regulating principle of a future democratic socialist society. Life value is anchored in an understanding of the human life's space-time continuum understood as a continuum of life requirements. The multiple life crises regularly generated by capitalism are crises of its incapacity to adequately satisfy these life req…Read more
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    Life Value and Social Justice
    Studies in Social Justice 5 (1): 1-10. 2011.
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    Marx’s Creative Legacies
    The European Legacy 25 (2): 217-224. 2019.
    Volume 25, Issue 2, February - March 2020, Page 217-224.
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    The Troubles With Democracy
    Rowman Littlefield International. 2019.
    Providing a new philosophical foundation for thinking about old problems such as class inequality, this concise and accessible book explores the concept of and problems associated with democracy. Ideal for students in politics and philosophy, the book informs new structural and institutional responses to these problems.
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    Capitalism, Colonialism, and the War on Human Life
    Historical Materialism 27 (1): 253-268. 2019.
    Dussel’s complex work calls into question the standard history of philosophy, reveals a counter-history at work beneath the official history that gives voice to the victims of capitalism and colonialism, and systematically develops a novel ‘material ethics’ grounded in an unqualified, universal affirmation of life as the foundation of liberatory values. The Ethics of Liberation brings together the major problems explored in Dussel’s prolific body of earlier work: the relationship between Western…Read more
  •  10
    The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice (review)
    Journal of Critical Realism 12 (3): 410-412. 2013.
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    Life-Value vs Money-Value: Capitalism’s Fatal Category Mistake
    The European Legacy 24 (3-4): 437-445. 2019.
    Volume 24, Issue 3-4, May - June 2019, Page 437-445.
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    On Marxist Ethics
    Journal of Critical Realism 15 (2): 187-200. 2016.
    A new collection of essays edited by Michael J. Thompson aims to explicate and defend the humanist values which, according to the authors, were the core of Marx's critique of capitalist society. The text does not aim to provide a political roadmap to building an alternative society in which those values could be realized but rather philosophical analysis of the meaning and implications of those values. While there are sometimes tensions between the philosophical arguments developed in the variou…Read more
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    Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life
    Journal of Critical Realism 15 (3): 305-309. 2016.
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    The Human and the Inhuman
    International Studies in Philosophy 28 (1): 61-72. 1996.