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557The justification of human rights and the basic right to justification: A reflexive approachEthics 120 (4): 711-740. 2010.
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273Radical Justice: On Iris Marion Young's Critique of the “Distributive Paradigm”Constellations 14 (2): 260-265. 2007.
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249TolerationStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2012.The term “toleration”—from the Latin tolerare: to put up with, countenance or suffer—generally refers to the conditional acceptance of or non-interference with beliefs, actions or practices that one considers to be wrong but still “tolerable,” such that they should not be prohibited or constrained. There are many contexts in which we speak of a person or an institution as being tolerant: parents tolerate certain behavior of their children, a friend tolerates the weaknesses of another, a monarch …Read more
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239Tolerance as a virtue of justicePhilosophical Explorations 4 (3). 2001.This article argues that the civic virtue of tolerance has to be understood as a virtue of justice. Based on an analysis of the concept of toleration and its paradoxes, it shows that toleration is a 'normatively dependent concept' that needs to take recourse to a conception of justice in order to solve these paradoxes. At the center of this conception of justice lies a principle of reciprocal and general justification with the help of which a distinction between moral norms and ethical values is…Read more
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217Review essay : Hannah Arendt's political phenomenology: Maurizio passerin d'entrèves, the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt (london and new York: Routledge, 1994Philosophy and Social Criticism 23 (3): 115-124. 1997.
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192Situations of the self: Reflections on Seyla Benhabib's version of critical theoryPhilosophy and Social Criticism 23 (5): 79-96. 1997.
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185A Kantian Republican Conception of Justice as NondominationIn Andreas Niederberger & Philipp Schink (eds.), Republican democracy: liberty, law and politics, Edinburgh University Press. 2013.This chapter explores the relationship between republican democracy and justice by comparing Philip Pettit's notion of neo-republicanism with that of Immanuel Kant. It begins by describing a republican, political conception of justice as nondomination and explaining why the discourse of republicanism and that of theories of justice often remain at odds with one another. It then considers the basis of a republican conception of justice as nondomination and locates it within the principle of justi…Read more
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171Towards a Critical Theory of Transnational JusticeMetaphilosophy 32 (1-2): 160-179. 2001.This paper argues for a conception of transnational justice that provides an alternative to globalist and statist views. In light of an analysis of the transnational context of justice, a critical theory is suggested that addresses the multiple relations of injustice and domination to be found in this context. Based on a universal, individual right to reciprocal and general justification, this theory argues for justifiable social and political relations both within and between states. In both of…Read more
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162How (not) to speak about identity: The concept of the person in a theory of justicePhilosophy and Social Criticism 18 (3-4): 293-312. 1992.
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155The Basic Right to Justification: Towards a Constructivist Conception of Human RightsConstellations 6 (1): 35-60. 1999.
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143The Right to Justification: Elements of a Constructivist Theory of JusticeColumbia University Press. 2011.Introduction: the foundation of justice -- Practical reason and justifying reasons: on the foundation of morality -- Moral autonomy and the autonomy of morality : toward a theory of normativity after Kant -- Ethics and morality -- The justification of justice: Rawls's political liberalism and Habermas's discourse theory in dialogue -- Political liberty: integrating five conceptions of autonomy -- A critical theory of multicultural toleration -- The rule of reasons: three models of deliberative d…Read more
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124Noumenal Alienation: Rousseau, Kant and Marx on the Dialectics of Self-DeterminationKantian Review 22 (4): 523-551. 2017.This article argues that alienation should be understood as a particular form of individual and social heteronomy that can only be overcome by a dialectical combination of individual and collective autonomy, recovering a deontological sense of normative authority. If we think about alienation in Kantian terms, the main source of alienation is a denial of standing or, in the extreme, losing a sense of oneself as a rational normative authority equal to all others. I call the former kind of alienat…Read more
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115The Rule of Reasons. Three Models of Deliberative DemocracyRatio Juris 14 (4): 345-378. 2001.In this paper, the author contrasts three models of deliberative democracy: a liberal one, a communitarian one, and an alternative to both. Rather than understanding deliberative democracy as the rule of principles of justice or of communal values, the third model conceives of it as the “rule of reasons.” On the basis of a discussion of seven components of an “ethos of democracy” (the cognitive capacities of citizens, political virtues, the cultural, institutional and material conditions of demo…Read more
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101The ground of critique: On the concept of human dignity in social orders of justificationPhilosophy and Social Criticism 37 (9): 965-976. 2011.In the practice of social criticism, the concept of human dignity has played and still plays an important role. In philosophical debates, however, we find widely divergent accounts of that concept, ranging from views based on a conception of human needs to religious approaches trying to explain the ‘inviolability’ of the person. The view presented here reconstructs the basic claim of human dignity historically and normatively as resting on the moral status of the person as a reason-giving, reaso…Read more
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88First Things First Redistribution, Recognition and JustificationEuropean Journal of Political Theory 6 (3): 291-304. 2007.This article analyses the debate between Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth in a dialectical fashion. Their controversy about how to construct a critical theory of justice is not just one about the proper balance between `redistribution' and `recognition', it also involves basic questions of social ontology. Differing both from Fraser's `twodimensional' view of `participatory parity' and from Honneth's `monistic' theory of recognition, the article argues for a third view of `justificatory monism and …Read more
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87Moral Autonomy and the Autonomy of MoralityGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 26 (1): 65-88. 2005.The original German version appeared as “Moralische Autonomie und Autonomie der Moral: Zu einer Theorie der Normativität nach Kant,” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 52:2, pp. 179-97. The editors gratefully acknowledge permission granted by Akademie Verlag to publish the present version.
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85What is important in theorizing tolerance today?Contemporary Political Theory 14 (2): 159-196. 2015.
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81A critical theory of politicsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 41 (3): 225-234. 2015.In this article, I address the various objections raised by Simone Chambers, Stephen White and Lea Ypi concerning my version of a critical theory of politics. I explain the basic assumptions that inform my account of a critique of relations of justification, its particular method and aims.
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78Noumenal PowerLas Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy 8 (14): 161-185. 2019.The same as with many other concepts, once one considers the concept of power more closely, fundamental questions arise, such as whether a power relation is necessarily a relation of subordination and domination, a view that makes it difficult to identify legitimate forms of the exercise of power. To contribute to conceptual as well as normative clarification, I suggest a novel way to conceive of power. I argue that we only understand what power is and how it is exercised once we understand its …Read more
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70Toleration and its Paradoxes: A Tribute to John HortonPhilosophia 45 (2): 415-424. 2017.This paper discusses John Horton’s influential theory of toleration. Starting from his analysis of the paradoxes of toleration, I argue that the avoidance of these paradoxes requires a moral justification of toleration based on practical reason. I cite the conception of toleration that Pierre Bayle developed to support this claim. But Horton is skeptical of such a moral justification, and this creates problems for his account of toleration.
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63Two bad halves don't make a whole: On the crisis of democracyConstellations 26 (3): 378-383. 2019.
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61Political Liberalism: A Kantian ViewEthics 128 (1): 123-144. 2017.This article suggests a Kantian reading of Rawls’s Political Liberalism. As much as Rawls distanced himself from a presentation of his theory in terms of a comprehensive Kantian moral doctrine, we ought to read it as a noncomprehensive Kantian moral-political theory. According to the latter approach, the liberal conception of justice is compatible with a plurality of comprehensive doctrines as long as they share the independently defined and grounded essentials of that conception of justice—that…Read more
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