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82What if Habermas went native?peace studies journal 1 1-12. 2008.Using Habermas’s latest major work Between Facts and Norms (1996), this paper contrasts his explicit views on jurisprudence in the Occident with implied statements about the native Other. I wish to show that there’s an embedded agonistic (combative) — if not imperial — theme, not only in his theory of communicative competence, but also in his larger project of critical theory.
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74In Search of Abolition DemocracyRadical Philosophy Today 2007 229-235. 2007.This paper focuses on the meaning of Du Bois’s concept of “abolition democracy” and on the ideology of the abstract rights-bearing subject. In Abolition Democracy, Angela Y. Davis calls for the abolition of oppressive institutions, such as U.S. prisons, in order to engender abolition democracy. She also questions how subjects appear before the law, which justifies and normalizes inhumane practices, such as the death penalty. In conclusion, the paper explores ideas on how to conceptualize thinkin…Read more
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43Review: Schott, Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant (review)Hypatia 14 (3): 169-172. 1999.
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42Scholar’s Symposium: the Work of Angela Y. Davis: Bearing Witness to Injustice (review)Human Studies 30 (4): 281-290. 2007.
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32P.j. Huntingdon, ecstatic subjects, utopia, and recognition: Kristeva, Heidegger, IrigarayHuman Studies 25 (2): 251-256. 2002.
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26Masking the Abject: A Genealogy of PlayLexington Books. 2002.Masking the Abject traces the beginnings of the malediction of play in Western metaphysics to Aristotle. Mechthild Nagel's innovative study demonstrates how play has served as a 'castaway' in western philosophical thinking: It is considered to be repulsive and loathsome, yet also fascinating and desirable. The book illustrates how play 'succeeds' and proliferates after Hegel—despite its denunciation by classical philosophers—entering Marxist, phenomenological, postmodern, and feminist discourses…Read more
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23Critical Theory Meets the Ethic of Care (review)Social Theory and Practice 23 (2): 307-326. 1997.
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11Race, class, and community identity (edited book)Humanity Books. 2000.Despite the intransigent nature of many of the problems discussed, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the possibilities for developing a viable alternative politics.
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5Critical Theory Meets the Ethic of Care (review)Social Theory and Practice 23 (2): 307-326. 1997.A materialist feminist approach to the ethics of care
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1Deane Curtin and Robert Litke, eds., Institutional Violence Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 20 (6): 408-409. 2000.
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1Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, and Nancy Fraser, with an introduction by Linda Nicholson, Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 15 (3): 158-160. 1995.
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