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579Political Thought (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1999.This Oxford Reader contains 140 essential readings covering the most important debates in the Western political tradition and presents samples of the major political ideologies. Issues discussed include; the role of human nature in determining social arrangements; the political significance of gender differences; the justification for the powers of the state; democracy and the rights of minorities; the tension between liberty and equality; the way in which resources ought to be distributed; and …Read more
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112The Oxford handbook of continental philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2007.This Handbook will be an essential reference point for graduate students and professional academics working on continental philosophy, as well as those with an ...
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74Hegel’s Dialectic and its CriticismCambridge University Press. 1982.Hegel's philosophy has often been compared to a circle of circles: an ascending spiral to its admirers, but a vortex to its critics. The metaphor reflects Hegel's claim to offer a conception of philosophical reason so comprehensive as to include all others as partial forms of itself. It is a claim which faces the writer on Hegel with peculiar difficulties. Criticism, it would appear, can always be outflanked; criticism of the system can be turned back into criticism within the system. Michael Ro…Read more
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60Recent Work on HegelAn Interpretation of the Logic of Hegel.Hegel's Development: Night Thoughts .Hegel.Hegel's Concept of God.History and System: Hegel's Philosophy of History.Hegel: An Introduction.Hegel and the Human Spirit: A Translation of the Fena Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit with Commentary.Hegel's Dialectic and its Criticism (review)Philosophical Quarterly 35 (139): 199. 1985.
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60The history of Ideas as philosophy and historyHistory of Political Thought 32 (4): 691-720. 2011.This article argues for a conception of the history of ideas that treats philosophy historically while avoiding sociological reductionism. On the view presented here, philosophical problems characteristically arise from a conflict of commitments, at least some of which have roots in wider forms of life and ways of seeing the world. In bringing such 'doxa' to our attention, the history of ideas, it is argued, plays a role that is both genuinely historical and, at the same time, contributes to phi…Read more
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51Liberalism, Desert and Responsibility: A Response to Samuel Scheffler 1Philosophical Books 44 (2): 118-124. 2003.
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46The role of rulesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 9 (3). 2001.The question of rules is not an issue that separates the 'analytical' and 'Continental' traditions from one another; rather it is an issue that is a source of division within each tradition. Within Continental philosophy the problem of the rule-governed character of cognition goes back to Kant's dualism of sense and understanding. Many philosophers in the Continental tradition (notably, Nietzsche, Gadamer and Adorno) have retained a quasi-Kantian conception of judgement while rejecting the idea …Read more
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45Must we return to moral realism?Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 34 (2). 1991.In this paper I discuss Taylor's criticism of contemporary moral philosophy and the role which this plays in his wider account of the development of Western moral consciousness, an account which I compare with Hans Blumenberg's The Legitimacy of the ModernAge. While I endorse Taylor's rejection of ?naturalism?, I deny that this entails the rejection of non?realism and I maintain that, indeed, the non?realist conception of a social foundation for morality represents the most cogent response to th…Read more
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36On Voluntary Servitude: False Consciousness and the Theory of IdeologyPhilosophical Review 107 (2): 304. 1998.Human history is a history of the domination of some groups by others, sustained in part by the willing subordination of the members of dominated groups. How can this remarkable fact be explained? On Michael Rosen’s telling, some of the best political theorists of the early modern period, from Machiavelli through Rousseau and Hume, grappled with this question. But it was, of course, in Marx’s work that the problem of voluntary servitude received its most philosophically trenchant and historicall…Read more
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36Review of Michael Rosen: On Voluntary Servitude: False Consciousness and the Theory of Ideology (review)Ethics 108 (3): 617-619. 1998.This book addresses a central theme in social and political theory: what is the motivation behind the theory of ideology, and can such a theory be defended?
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33Benjamin, Adorno and the Decline of the AuraIn Fred Rush (ed.), The Cambridge companion to critical theory, Cambridge University Press. pp. 40--56. 2004.
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27Kant's Anti-DeterminismProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 89. 1989.Michael Rosen; IX*—Kant's Anti-Determinism, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 89, Issue 1, 1 June 1989, Pages 125–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/ari.
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22Hegel’s Dialectic and its Criticism (review)Philosophical Review 93 (3): 450. 1984.a book review of Hegel's Dialectic and its Criticism by Michael Rosen
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22IX*—Kant's Anti-DeterminismProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 89 (1): 125-142. 1989.Michael Rosen; IX*—Kant's Anti-Determinism, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 89, Issue 1, 1 June 1989, Pages 125–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/ari.
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18The history of philosophy as philosophyIn Brian Leiter & Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of continental philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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18Opus Postumum (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1995.This volume is the first ever English translation of Kant's last major work, the so-called Opus Postumum, a work Kant himself described as his 'chef d'oeuvre' and as the keystone of his entire philosophical system. It occupied him for more than the last decade of his life. Begun with the intention of providing a 'transition from the metaphysical foundations of natural science to physics,' Kant's reflections take him far beyond the problem he initially set out to solve. In fact, he reassesses a w…Read more
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18The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage From Heaven to HistoryHarvard University Press. 2022.Introduction: A Not So Secular Age? -- An Idealist Theory of History -- Kant's Anti-Determinism -- Freedom without Arbitrariness -- Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Kant -- From Heaven to History -- Autonomy and Alienation -- Philosophy in History -- After Immortality.
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14Rüdiger Bubner, Zur Sache der Dialektik. Stuttgart, Philipp Reclam jun., 1980, pp. 164, pbHegel Bulletin 1 (2): 39-43. 1980.
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14Dignity: Its History and MeaningHarvard University Press. 2012.Dignity plays a central role in current thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptual precision with a broad historical background, Michael Rosen puts these controversies in context and offers a novel, constructive proposal. “Penetrating and sprightly...Rosen rightly emphasizes the centrality of Catholicism in the modern history of human dignity. His command of the history is impressive...Rosen is a wonderful guide to the recent Germ…Read more
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13Ethos, Leninism and perspective: on Joshua Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth CenturyHistory of European Ideas 50 (3): 541-542. 2024.History, as we all know, is written by the victors. But in political theory the writing of history is a part of the struggle. Joshua Cherniss’s Liberalism in Dark Times makes a distinguished additi...
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12Philosophical Papers, 2 vols. by Charles Taylor (review)Journal of Philosophy 86 (5): 270-276. 1989.