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8This paper delineates the thrust of Augustine's theodicy against the broader background of his Christian Neoplatonic outlook. We examine Augustine's initial Manichean influences and see how these beliefs carry over to his mature thought, which is evident in the seventh book of the Confessions. After Augustine's time with the Manicheans, we look at how he was so influenced by the books of the Platonists (libri platonicorum). Although Augustine's position regarding the problem of evil shifts, his …Read more
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1Book Reviews (review)Sartre Studies International 12 (2): 114-137. 2006.Thomas Martin, Oppression and the Human Condition: An Introduction to Sartrean Existentialism Review by Constance Mui Ian H. Birchall, Sartre against Stalinism Review by Kevin Gray Ronald Aronson, Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It David A. Sprintzen and Adrian van den Hoven, editors and translators, Sartre and Camus: A Historic Confrontation Reviews by John Foran Nik Farrell Fox, The New Sartre: Explorations in Postmodernism Review by David Ross Fryer.
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6Saving 1968: Thinking with Habermas against HabermasPhaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 4 (2). 2010.Taking Habermas’s Die nachholende Revolution as a foil, I contend that in his discussions of 1989, Habermas has misunderstood the nature of the anti-Communist revolutions. Comparing them to his writings on the public sphere and the student protest movements in Germany, I argue that the revolutions do not represent the triumph of capitalism anymore than they represent the triumph of Western democracy. Calling the events catch-up revolutions is to frame the events as the expansion of modernity and…Read more
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5Editorial Introduction: Rethinking 1968Phaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 4 (2). 2010.
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47Book Review: Deeb, L. (2006). An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (2): 340-344. 2009.
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13Meysam Badamchi, Post-Islamist Political Theory: Iranian Intellectuals and Political Liberalism in Dialogue (review)Critical Research on Religion 8 (3): 327-331. 2020.
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5Camus & Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended ItRonald Aronson Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, x + 291 pp., $32.50 (review)Dialogue 44 (4): 800-802. 2005.
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25William Egginton and Mike Sandbothe, eds. The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy: Contemporary Engagements between Analytic and Continental Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. Pp. vi + 262. Cloth ISBN 0-7914-6069-X. Paper ISBN 0-7914-6070-3 (review)Contemporary Pragmatism 3 (2): 175-178. 2006.
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47Rawls and the Problem of HonourPhilosophia 40 (2): 213-222. 2012.In this paper, I consider the difficult relationship between Rawls, religion and the values that religious believers might consider important in order to lead the good life. Contrary to many of Rawls’ defenders, I argue that at least some of the values that religious citizens are likely to hold cannot be accounted for under Rawls’ theory or under his conception of the good life. I argue that the model of goods which Rawls takes to be part of a thin theory of the good is tied to his belief that u…Read more
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95Habermas/Habermas: A Very Short Introduction/Jürgen Habermas: zur Einführung (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 16 (1): 276-281. 2012.
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49Saving 1968: Thinking with Habermas against HabermasPhaenEx 4 (2): 26-44. 2009.Taking Habermas’s Die nachholende Revolution as a foil, I contend that in his discussions of 1989, Habermas has misunderstood the nature of the anti-Communist revolutions. Comparing them to his writings on the public sphere and the student protest movements in Germany, I argue that the revolutions do not represent the triumph of capitalism anymore than they represent the triumph of Western democracy. Calling the events catch-up revolutions is to frame the events as the expansion of modernity and…Read more
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39Introduction to Baxter’s Habermas: The Discourse Theory of Law and DemocracyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 40 (2): 191-193. 2014.
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19Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (review)Dialogue 45 (4): 779-782. 2006.Although the focus of "Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights" is practical, Gould does not shy away from hard theoretical questions, such as the relentless debate over cultural relativism, and the relationship between terrorism and democracy
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23Book Review: The Critique of Instrumental Reason from Weber to Habermas (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (1): 121-126. 2014.
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26Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights Carol Gould New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 276 pp., $24.99 paper (review)Dialogue 45 (4): 779. 2006.
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23Camus & Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended ItRonald Aronson Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, x + 291 pp., $32.50 (review)Dialogue 44 (4): 800-802. 2005.
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18Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (review)Symposium 11 (2): 474-476. 2007.
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32Overcoming Statism from Within: The International Criminal Court and the Westphalian SystemCritical Horizons 17 (1): 53-65. 2016.This paper argues that cosmopolitan law has been more successfully achieved not by appeal to a supra-state authority or community, but by the development of features of existing treaty law. Specifically, it shows how the International Criminal Court's jurisdiction over serious human rights violations has been extended to the citizens and territories of non-member states – and even to otherwise immune state officials – not by challenging the sovereignty of non-member states directly, but on the b…Read more
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