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216Cosmopolitanism and human rights: Radicalism in a global ageMetaphilosophy 40 (1): 8-23. 2009.Abstract: The cosmopolitan imagination constructs a world order in which the idea of human rights is an operative principle of justice. Does it also construct an idealisation of human rights? The radicality of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, as developed by Kant, lay in its analysis of the roots of organised violence in the modern world and its visionary programme for changing the world. Today, the temptation that faces the cosmopolitan imagination is to turn itself into an endorsement of the exi…Read more
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Debating human rights, law and subjectivity : Arendt, Adorno and critical theoryIn Lars Rensmann & Samir Gandesha (eds.), Arendt and Adorno: political and philosophical investigations, Stanford University Press. 2012.
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4Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights: Radicalism in a Global AgeIn Ronald Tinnevelt & Helder De Schutter (eds.), Global Democracy and Exclusion, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Cosmopolitanism and the Rights of Man: The Radicalisation of Natural Law Cosmopolitanism and Social Theory: The Preservation and Transcendence of Natural Law Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights: The Dialectics of Progress Cosmopolitanism and the Crisis of Human Rights: The Turn to Judgment Acknowledgments References.
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8Ethical Considerations in Supporting Donation after Circulatory Death: The Role of the Dead-Donor RuleJournal of Clinical Ethics 33 (3): 220-224. 2022.There is a conflict between the wishes of terminally ill patients to allow withdrawal of treatment and become donors after cardiac death (DCD) and the limit on interventions required by the dead-donor rule (DDR). Once a breathing tube is removed, hours can pass before the patient expires. This interim time complies with the DDR, but often makes donation impossible. The consequences are the nullification of donors’ wishes and the waste of organs for transplantation. Since the DDR was developed, a…Read more
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Zur Rechtskritik der Dialektik der AufklärungIn Gunzelin Schmid Noerr & Eva-Maria Ziege (eds.), Zur Kritik der Regressiven Vernunft: Beiträge Zur "Dialektik der Aufklärung", Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 113-121. 2018.Mir scheint hinter dem Konzept der Dialektik der Aufklärung die Hypothese zu stehen, dass eine kategorische Ablehnung der Naturrechtsidee uns im Kampf gegen das totalitäre Potenzial der Moderne schwächt. Die Betonung der Historizität, Vergänglichkeit und Relativität des Rechts ist nicht falsch. Verabsolutiert man sie aber, ebnet man dem Rechtsnihilismus den Weg. Die Überzeugung, alle Gesetze würden lediglich positives Recht darstellen, allein von Menschenhand geschaffen, droht jegliche Beschränk…Read more
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58Rationing or Stewardship in Pursuit of Just Medical ReformAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (7). 2011.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 7, Page 22-23, July 2011
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53Jurgen Habermas's Theory of CosmopolitanismConstellations 10 (4): 469-487. 2003.In this paper we explore the sustained and multifaceted attempt of Jürgen Habermas to reconstruct Kant's theory of cosmopolitan right for our own times. In a series of articles written in the post‐1989 period, Habermas has argued that the challenge posed both by the catastrophes of the twentieth century, and by social forces of globalization, has given new impetus to the idea of cosmopolitan justice that Kant first expressed. He recognizes that today we cannot simply repeat Kant's eighteenth‐cen…Read more
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13Jürgen Habermas's Theory of CosmopolitanismConstellations 10 (4): 469-487. 2003.In this paper we explore the sustained and multifaceted attempt of Jürgen Habermas to reconstruct Kant's theory of cosmopolitan right for our own times. In a series of articles written in the post‐1989 period, Habermas has argued that the challenge posed both by the catastrophes of the twentieth century, and by social forces of globalization, has given new impetus to the idea of cosmopolitan justice that Kant first expressed. He recognizes that today we cannot simply repeat Kant's eighteenth‐cen…Read more
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16Introduction: Cosmopolitanism: Between Past and FutureEuropean Journal of Social Theory 10 (1): 5-16. 2007.
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14Futility, the Multiorganization Policy Statement, and the Schneiderman ResponsePerspectives in Biology and Medicine 60 (3): 358-366. 2018.“Futility of futilities,” said Kohelet, “futility of futilities, all is futile!” Once again we are exploring futility, a concept understood by humanity at least from the beginning of the written word. Our oldest written story, the Epic of Gilgamesh, reminds us of the futility of chasing immortality. At least a millennium later, yet still in ancient times, the Book of Kohelet teaches that all human pursuits, not only the pursuit of immortality, are futile or vain—terms once used synonymously. The…Read more
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39Cosmopolitanism and the Modern Revolutionary Tradition: Reflections on Arendt's PoliticsCritical Horizons 17 (1): 8-23. 2016.This paper reviews the contribution of Hannah Arendt's 1963 monograph, On Revolution, to the theme of this collection: “contestatory cosmopolitanism.” I am critical of normative interpretations of the text that treat it as a wholesale rejection of the French revolutionary tradition and as a tribute either to American constitutionalism, in more liberal readings, or to the council system of direct democracy, in more radical readings. I read it against this doctrinal grain as a dialectical analysis…Read more
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14Cosmopolitanism and Natural Law: Rethinking KantIn Maria Rovisco & Magdalena Nowicka (eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism, Ashgate. pp. 147. 2011.
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2Social Theory After the HolocaustLiverpool University Press. 2000.In what has become a famous quotation, the philosopher Theodor Adorno commented that to write poetry "after Auschwitz" is barbaric. If the holocaust is an "event" that may legitimately be described as unspeakable, it is hard to see why poetry deserves more opprobrium than other ways of framing it, including what may broadly be called social theory. After all, if social theory were once guilty of ignoring the holocaust, it has also exhibited the barbarism of reason involved in transforming this "…Read more
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Ian Fraser's Hegel And Marx: The Concept Of Need (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 51 126-130. 2005.
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76The texas advance directives act of 1999: Politics and reality (review)HEC Forum 13 (1): 59-81. 2001.
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252Kant’s theory of cosmopolitanism and hegel’s critiquePhilosophy and Social Criticism 29 (6): 609-630. 2003.s theory of cosmopolitan right is widely viewed as the philosophical origin of modern cosmopolitan thought. Hegels critique of Kants theory of cosmopolitan right, by contrast, is usually viewed as regressive and nationalistic in relation to both Kant and the cosmopolitan tradition. This paper reassesses the political and philosophical character of Hegels critique of Kant, Hegels own relation to cosmopolitan thinking, and more fleetingly some of the implications of his critique for contempora…Read more
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7Political Investigations: Hegel, Marx, ArendtPsychology Press. 2001.In this highly innovative book Robert Fine compares three great studies of modern political life: Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Marx's Capital and Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, and argues that they are all profoundly radical texts, which jointly contribute to our understanding of the modern world. Fine maintains that these works are far more revealing when read together than in opposition, and draws a direct parallel between Hegel's critique of social forms of right …Read more
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24Judgment and the reification of the faculties: A reconstructive reading of Arendt's Life of the MindPhilosophy and Social Criticism 34 (1-2): 157-176. 2008.The core argument in this paper is that, to reconstruct the last unwritten section on Judging in Hannah Arendt's Life of the Mind , it is necessary to address what Arendt was doing with the book as a whole and how the different parts relate internally to one another. This is no easy matter, especially as the existing sections on Thinking and Willing are quite different in tone from one another. My proposition is that the work should be read as a critique of the life of the `modern' mind, and esp…Read more
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