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    Introduction: Philosophy of Work
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 278 (4): 429-433. 2017.
  • Between Philosophical Anthropology and Phenomenology: on Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy of Work
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 278 (4): 513-534. 2017.
    The paper is a critical analysis of Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy of work as it is formulated in a number of essays from the 1950s and 60s. It begins with a reconstruction of the central theses advanced in ‘Travail et parole’ (1953) and related texts, where Ricoeur sought to outline a philosophical anthropology in which work is given its due. To give work its due, from an anthropological standpoint, is to see it as limited by counter-concept of language, according to Ricoeur. The paper then argues t…Read more
  • Social Inequality Today (edited book)
    with Michael Fine and Paul Henman
    . 2003.
    Proceedings of the first annual conference of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University.
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    Perspectives on the philosophy of Charles Taylor (edited book)
    Acta Philosophical Fennica. 2002.
    The essays in this volume offer a range of new perspectives on Charles Taylor's philosophy. Part one addresses key metaphilosophical themes such as the role of transcendental arguments, the critique of representationalism, and the dialectics of Enlightenment. Part two critically examines Taylor's views on personhood, selfhood and interpersonal recognition. Part three discusses issues in Taylor's moral and political theory, including the nature of his moral realism, his theory of modernity, and h…Read more
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    Social power and the domination of nature
    History of the Human Sciences 6 (3): 101-110. 1993.
    Axel Honneth, The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory, translated by Kenneth Baynes. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1991. £24.75, xxxii + 340 pp., 0 262 08202 0
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    Being human (review)
    The Philosophers' Magazine 49 (49): 112-113. 2010.
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    Arendt’s anti-humanism of labour
    European Journal of Social Theory 22 (2): 175-190. 2019.
    The aim of this article is to situate Arendt’s account of labour as a critical response to humanisms of labour, or put otherwise, to situate it as an anti-humanism of labour. It compares Arendt’s account of labour with that of the most prominent humanist theorist of labour at the time of the composition of The Human Condition: Georges Friedmann. Arendt’s and Friedmann’s accounts of labour are compared specifically with respect to the range of capacities, social relations, and possibilities of fu…Read more
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    Review of Reason in Philosophy by Robert Brandom (review)
    The Philosophers' Magazine 49 112-113. 2010.
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    Social freedom as the purpose of the modern university
    with Shane O'Neill
    Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education 4 (1): 1-23. 2022.
    What is the fundamental purpose that justifies the existence of the modern university? The answer proposed in this essay is the promotion of social freedom. The essay begins by distinguishing social freedom from negative freedom and reflective freedom along the lines proposed by other theorists of social freedom, such as Frederick Neuhouser and Axel Honneth. After noting the need for a more developed account of the university than has so far been provided by these other theorists, the essay anal…Read more
  • Punk as Praxis
    In Joshua Heter & Richard Greene (eds.), Punk Rock and Philosophy: Research and Destroy, Carus Books. pp. 29-36. 2022.
    The chapter contrasts views of Punk as a playlist and an attitude with one based on a kind of action: praxis! Can be downloaded from my Website.
  • The ‘interpretive turn’ in twentieth-century hermeneutics rests on the general ontological claim that human reality is the reality of self-interpreting animals. But under the circumstances of advanced modernity, there are aspects of human life, or spheres of human thought and action, that appear to contradict this general thesis, in that they do not present themselves as the doings of self-interpreting animals at all. Of these, the predominant one is the sphere of work or 'productive' action. In…Read more
  • Work in a Free Society
    The Philosopher 107 (3): 31-35. 2019.
  • Review of The Language Animal by Charles Taylor (review)
    The Review of Politics 79 1-2. 2017.
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    A Philosopher Looks at Work by Raymond Geuss (review)
    Australian Book Review 437 55. 2021.
  • Recognition and Multiculturalism
    In and M. Quante H. Ikaheimo L. Siep (ed.), Handbuch Anerkennung. pp. 483-490. 2021.
  • Speranza e democrazia
    In Charles Taylor: Modernità al bivio. L'eredità della ragione romantica. pp. 239-244. 2021.
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    This chapter takes a critical look at universities from the perspective of the neopragmatist philosophy of education outlined by Richard Rorty. The chapter begins with a discussion of Rorty’s view of the ends that educational institutions properly serve in a liberal democracy. It then considers the kind of culture that Rorty takes to be conducive to those ends and the kind that is antithetical to them. Rorty sometimes characterizes the latter as a culture of ‘egotism’. After describing the main …Read more
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    Die Armut unserer Freiheit. Axel Honneth Suhrkamp Verlag, 2020 (review)
    Constellations (Online first): 507-509. 2022.
    Constellations, EarlyView.
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    Interpretation for Emancipation: Taylor as a Critical Theorist
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29 (5): 673-688. 2021.
    The paper argues that we should read Taylor’s philosophy as a philosophy of liberation and that it is as a philosopher of liberation that Taylor distinguishes himself as a critical theorist. It beg...
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    Schwerpunkt: Arbeit nach dem Liberalismus
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 60 (4): 509-512. 2012.
    Introduction to themed papers on 'Work after Liberalism'
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    Alasdair MacIntyre, universities, and the common good
    European Journal of Philosophy 30 (3): 1173-1186. 2021.
    Best known as a political philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre is also a critic of the modern university. The paper examines the grounds of MacIntyre's criticism of modern universities; it offers an assessment of the philosophical debate occasioned by MacIntyre's writings on the topic; and it proposes a way of taking this debate forward. The debate is shown to be centred around three objections to MacIntyre's normative idea of the university: that it is overly intellectualist, parochial, and moralizi…Read more
  • Critical Theory in Question (review)
    Radical Philosophy 73 42-44. 1995.
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    Multiculturalism and Recognition
    In Ludwig Siep, Heikki Ikäheimo & Michael Quante (eds.), Handbuch Anerkennung, Springer Vs. 2018.
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    Hermeneutics and Critical Theory
    In Jeff Malpas Hans-Helmuth Gander (ed.), Routledge Companion to Philosophical Hermeneutics, Routledge. pp. 600-611. 2015.
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    Review of The Idea of Evil (review)
    Critical Horizons 9 (1): 99-101. 2008.
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    Recognition Theory as Social Research: Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict (edited book)
    with Shane O'Neill
    Palgrave MacMillan. 2012.
    This edited collection presents the case for a research program (in Lakatos's sense) in the social sciences based on the theory of recognition developed by Axel Honneth and others in recent years. The cumulative argument of the book is that recognition theory provides both a plausible framework for explaining social conflict and a normative compass for reaching just resolutions.