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20Special section: Lorenzo Simpson's The Unfinished Project: `Y'all don't hear me now': On Lorenzo Simpson's The Unfinished ProjectPhilosophy and Social Criticism 33 (3): 289-299. 2007.
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1Steven Vogel's against nature: An environmental ethic for ecological socialists?Capitalism Nature Socialism 9 (3): 24-27. 1998.
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21Hermeneutics as critique: science, politics, race and cultureColumbia University Press. 2021.This book aims to develop the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics, the theoretical account of interpretive (as opposed to explanatory) understanding--the account of meanings and contexts rather than causes and predictions--usually restricted to the domain of literary and textual analysis, in new directions by exploiting its potential as an instrument of critique. It refutes commonly held claims that hermeneutic analyses are necessarily relativistic, Eurocentric, or critically impotent and de…Read more
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18Critical Remarks Concerning Marcuse's Notion of SciencePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (4): 451-463. 1983.
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8Chapter Thirteen. Critical Interventions: Towards a Hermeneutical RejoinderIn Ming Xie (ed.), The Agon of Interpretations: Towards a Critical Intercultural Hermeneutics, University of Toronto Press. pp. 252-274. 2014.
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150Special section: Lorenzo Simpson's The Unfinished Project: Cosmopolitanism, humanism and meaningPhilosophy and Social Criticism 33 (3): 319-341. 2007.
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Technology and Temporality: A Critique of Instrumental RationalityDissertation, Yale University. 1978.
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22The unfinished project: towards a postmetaphysical humanismRoutledge. 2001.As humanity becomes increasingly interconnected through globalization, the question of whether community is possible within culturally diverse societies has returned as a principal concern for contemporary thought. Lorenzo Simpson charges that the current discussion is stuck at an impasse-between postmodernism's fragmented notions of cultural difference and humanism's homogeneous versions of community. Simpson proposes an alternative-one that bridges cultural differences without erasing them. He…Read more
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Critical Fusions: Towards A Genuine 'Hermeneutics of Suspicion'In Georgia Warnke (ed.), Inheriting Gadamer: New Directions in Philosophical Hermeneutics, . 2016.
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41Technology, Time, and the Conversations of ModernityRoutledge. 1994.____Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity__ takes as its impetus the idea that technology is an embodiment of our uneasiness with finitude. Lorenzo Simpson argues that technology has succeeded in granting our wish to domesticate time. He shows how this attitude affects our understanding of the meaning of action and our ability to discern meaning in our lives
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Marcuse, Time, and Technique: Concerning the Rational Foundations of Critical TheoryPhilosophical Forum 17 (4): 245-270. 1986.
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47Twin earth and its horizons: On hermeneutics, reference, and scientific theory choicePhilosophical Forum 43 (1): 1-25. 2012.
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28Book Reviews : Science and the Revenge of Nature: Marcuse and Habermas. By C. Fred Alford. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1985. Pp. 226. $24.50 (hardcover (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 18 (4): 572-577. 1988.
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The Unfinished Project: Toward a Postmetaphysical HumanismRoutledge. 2001.As humanity becomes increasingly interconnected through globalization, the question of whether community is possible within culturally diverse societies has returned as a principal concern for contemporary thought. Lorenzo Simpson charges that the current discussion is stuck at an impasse-between postmodernism's fragmented notions of cultural difference and humanism's homogeneous versions of community. Simpson proposes an alternative-one that bridges cultural differences without erasing them. He…Read more
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4Book Reviews : Science and the Revenge of Nature: Marcuse and Habermas. By C. Fred Alford. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1985. Pp. 226. $24.50 (hardcover (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 18 (4): 572-577. 1988.
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24The Hermeneutics of Life History (review)Review of Metaphysics 46 (2): 426-428. 1992.In this thoughtful essay Wallulis argues that a rethinking of Gadamer's seminal claims about our historical situatedness is necessary if we are to have an adequate account of personal achievement. He argues that in stressing that we are the effect of tradition, Gadamer does not allow personal initiative its due. Wallulis wants to oppose a consciousness of "having been enabled" to what he sees as Gadamer's exclusive emphasis on a consciousness of being affected by history, as well as to Habermas'…Read more
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67Communication and the Politics of Difference: Reading Iris YoungConstellations 7 (3): 430-442. 2000.
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18Science, language, and experience: Reflections on the nature of self-understandingMan and World 16 (1): 25-41. 1983.
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On Habermas and Difference: Critical Theory and the "Politics of Recognition'In Lewis Edwin Hahn (ed.), Perspectives on Habermas, Open Court Publishing. pp. 323-338. 2000.
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6Technological RationalityIn Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: References and Further Reading.
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Critical theory, aesthetics, and Black modernityIn Tommy Lee Lott & John P. Pittman (eds.), A Companion to African-American Philosophy, Blackwell. 2003.
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