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25Gender Struggles: Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.The sixteen essays in Gender Struggles address a wide range of issues in gender struggles, from the more familiar ones that, for the last thirty years, have been the mainstay of feminist scholarship, such as motherhood, beauty, and sexual violence, to new topics inspired by post-industrialization and multiculturalism, such as the welfare state, cyberspace, hate speech, and queer politics, and finally to topics that traditionally have not been seen as appropriate subjects for philosophizing, such…Read more
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12. Critique As A Political Practice Of FreedomIn Didier Fassin (ed.), A time for critique, Columbia University Press. pp. 36-51. 2019.
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46Judging Politically: Symposium on Linda M. G. Zerilli’s A Democratic Theory of Judgment, University of Chicago Press, 2016Political Theory 46 (4): 611-642. 2018.
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7A democratic theory of judgmentUniversity of Chicago Press. 2016.Democracy and the problem of judgment -- Judging at the "end of reasons": rethinking the aesthetic turn -- Historicism, judgment, and the limits of liberalism: the case of Leo Strauss -- Objectivity, judgment, and freedom: rereading Arendt's "Truth and politics" -- Value pluralism and the "burdens of judgment": John Rawls's political liberalism -- Relativism and the new universalism: feminists claim the right to judge -- From willing to judging: Arendt, Habermas, and the question of '68 -- What …Read more
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Toward a democratic theory of judgmentIn Vivasvan Soni & Thomas Pfau (eds.), Judgment and Action: Fragments toward a History, Northwestern University Press. 2017.
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11Critical historiography and the problem of judgmentEuropean Journal of Political Theory 22 (3): 490-495. 2023.Max Tomba aims to reconstruct how historical actors reconstructed the past to open the future in ways that diverged from the trajectory of the dominant modernity. Insurgent Universality would break open the dead logic of the juridical, political, and economic trajectory of modernity that limits what is given and constrains what is possible. This essay reflects on the practice and the role of the historian. Beyond merely adopting insurgents’ perspectives, the historian must engage in a practice o…Read more
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17Feminist Critique and the Realistic SpiritPhilosophy and Rhetoric 50 (4): 589-611. 2017.Anyone who goes beyond procedural questions of a discourse theory of morality and ethics and, in a normative attitude … embarks on a theory of the well-ordered, or even emancipated, society will very quickly run up against the limits of his own historical situation.For some time now, a certain strand of contemporary critical theory has understood its task not as providing a substantive critique of power relations, let alone an alternative normative conception of what social relations might be, b…Read more
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53Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom: Rejoinder to Ferree, Glaeser, and SteinmetzUniversity of Chicago Press. 2005.Offering both a discussion of feminism in its postmodern context and a critique of contemporary theory, the author here challenges feminists to move away from a theory-based approach, which focuses on securing or contesting "women" as an ...
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536Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom: Rejoinder to Ferree, Glaeser, and Steinmetz (review)Sociological Theory 27 (1). 2009.
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360Symposium on Linda Zerilli's Feminism and the Abyss of FreedomSociological Theory 27 (1): 74-74. 2009.
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7IndexIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. pp. 209-214. 2018.
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8Chapter five. Resignifying the woman question in political theoryIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. pp. 138-154. 2018.
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5NotesIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. pp. 155-208. 2018.
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4FrontmatterIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. 2018.
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259Chapter two. "Une maitresse imperieuse": Woman in Rousseau's semiotic republicIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. pp. 16-59. 2018.
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8Chapter three. The "furies of hell": Woman in Burke's "French revolution"In Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. pp. 60-94. 2018.
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7AcknowledgmentsIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. 2018.
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7Chapter four. The "innocent magdalen": Woman in mill's symbolic economyIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. pp. 95-137. 2018.
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9ContentsIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. 2018.
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9Chapter one. Political theory as a signifying practiceIn Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Cornell University Press. pp. 1-15. 2018.
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28Women’s Human Rights, Then and Now: Symposium on Eileen Hunt Botting’s Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human RightsPolitical Theory 46 (3): 426-454. 2018.
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260Women’s Human Rights, Then and Now: Symposium on Eileen Hunt Botting’s Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human Rights (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016) (review)Political Theory 46 (3): 426-454. 2018.
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23Philosophy’s Gaudy DressEuropean Journal of Political Theory 4 (2): 146-163. 2005.John Locke famously sets the arts of rhetoric at odds with the pursuit of knowledge. Drawing on the work of Ernesto Grassi, this article shows that Locke’s epistemological and political arguments are parasitic on the very tropes and figures he would exclude in any serious discourse. Accordingly, Locke’s attack on the divine right of kings and his famous argument for the social contract is read as exhibiting a rhetorical structure. This structure is crucial to Locke’s critique of heteronomy and h…Read more
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184No Thrust, No Swell, No Subject?: A Critical Response to Stephen K. WhitePolitical Theory 22 (2): 323-328. 1994.
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136Value Pluralism and the Problem of JudgmentPolitical Theory 40 (1): 6-31. 2012.This essay examines the significantly different approaches of John Rawls and Hannah Arendt to the problem of judgment in democratic theory and practice
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50Doing Without Knowing. Feminism's Politics of the OrdinaryPolitical Theory 26 (4): 435-458. 1998.A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. Wittgenstein
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