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260Democratizing civil disobediencePhilosophy and Social Criticism 42 (10): 982-994. 2016.The goal of this article is to show that mainstream liberal accounts of civil disobedience fail to fully capture the latter’s specific characteristics as a genuinely political and democratic practice of contestation that is not reducible to an ethical or legal understanding either in terms of individual conscience or of fidelity to the rule of law. In developing this account in more detail, I first define civil disobedience with an aim of spelling out why the standard liberal model, while provid…Read more
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229Theorizing the Politics of Protest: Contemporary Debates on Civil DisobedienceContemporary Political Theory 19 (3): 513-546. 2020.
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210Rethinking Civil Disobedience as a Practice of Contestation—Beyond the Liberal ParadigmConstellations 23 (1): 37-45. 2016.
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97Towards a Conflict Theory of Recognition: On the Constitution of Relations of Recognition in ConflictEuropean Journal of Philosophy 23 (4): 838-861. 2013.In this paper, we develop an understanding of recognition in terms of individuals’ capacity for conflict. Our goal is to overcome various shortcomings that can be found in both the positive and negative conceptions of recognition. We start by analyzing paradigmatic instances of such conceptions—namely, those put forward by Axel Honneth and Judith Butler. We do so in order to show how both positions are inadequate in their elaborations of recognition in an analogous way: Both fail to make intelli…Read more
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92Recognition and Power: Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory, edited by Bert van den Brink and David Owen (review)European Journal of Philosophy 16 (3): 474-478. 2008.No Abstract
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82Democracy across borders: From dêmos to dêmoi by James BohmanConstellations 16 (1): 205-206. 2009.No Abstract
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78The Foundations of the Social: Between Critical Theory and Reflexive SociologyInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 20 (5): 782-787. 2012.No abstract
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72Public Philosophy in a New Key: Volume I: Democracy and Civic Freedom / Volume II: Imperialism and Civic Freedom by James TullyConstellations 18 (2): 264-266. 2011.
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71Peter Stemmer, Normativität. Eine ontologische Untersuchung Walter de Gruyter, 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020035-5, 19,95 € (paperback) (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 12 (3): 325-326. 2009.
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62Book Review: Unsichtbarkeit. Stationen einer Theorie der Intersubjektivität (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 1 (2): 231-234. 2004.
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60Constituent power beyond exceptionalism: Irregular migration, disobedience, and (re-)constitutionJournal of International Political Theory 15 (1): 67-81. 2018.This article argues that, far from being a merely defensive act of individual protest, civil disobedience is a much more radical political practice. It is transformative in that it aims at the politicization of questions that are excluded from the political domain and at reconfiguring public space and existing institutions, often in comprehensive ways. Focusing on the reconstitution of the political community also allows us to reconceptualize constituent power. Rather than portraying it as a qua…Read more
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60Expérience et réflexivité: perspectives au-delà de l’empirisme et de l’idéalisme (edited book)L'Harmattan. 2011.This book collects essays from the 2006 and 2007 International Philosophy Colloquia Evian, centred around a central problem in the philosophy of mind: the relationship between the human faculty of sensory experience and the faculty of conceptual reflection, that is self-consciousness. Containing articles by philosophers of eight nationalities, in three languages (English, French, German), and of "analytical" as well as "continental" provenance, it beautifully represents the spirit of the colloqu…Read more
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59Ziviler Ungehorsam – zwischen Gewaltfreiheit und GewaltIn Franziska Martinsen & Oliver Flügel-Martinsen (eds.), Gewaltbefragungen: Beiträge Zur Theorie von Politik Und Gewalt, Transcript Verlag. pp. 211-226. 2013.
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59José Medina, The epistemology of protest: silencing, epistemic activism, and the communicative life of resistance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)Contemporary Political Theory 23 (2): 284-310. 2024.
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57Beyond the Echo-chamber: An Interview with Hartmut Rosa on Resonance and AlienationKrisis 39 (1): 64-78. 2019.*
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52Critique and resistance: Ethical, social‐theoretical, political? On Fabian Freyenhagen's Adorno's Practical PhilosophyEuropean Journal of Philosophy 25 (3): 846-853. 2017.Fabian Freyenhagen's impressive reconstruction of Adorno's ‘practical philosophy’ provides a convincing defence of the possibility of making normative claims about the social world we live in without justifying these claims in terms of the right, the good, or human nature. More specifically, and more controversially, Freyenhagen argues that the normative resources Adorno's critique relies on are provided by a negative Aristotelianism. In this paper, I argue that this approach underestimates the …Read more
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48Learning from the Streets? Civil Disobedience in Theory and PracticeIn Dimitrios Karmis & Jocelyn Maclure (eds.), Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity: The Public Philosophy of James Tully, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 103-122. 2023.
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44Pour une philosophie politique critique, by Miguel AbensourEuropean Journal of Philosophy 18 (4): 605-609. 2010.
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425 Digitalization: Another Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 2016 (1): 39-54. 2016.Is the Internet one of the causes of the crisis of the public sphere or does it rather provide a way to address this crisis? Do new forms of digital activism undermine the functioning of existing democratic institutions or open up new avenues for democratic participation? In this paper I address these questions by discussing the traditional Habermasian notion of the public sphere and the challenge that the digitalization of communication and collective action poses to it. After showing that digi…Read more
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42Critique as Social Practice: Critical Theory and Social Self-UnderstandingRowman & Littlefield International. 2018.This book provides an overview of recent debates about critical theory from Pierre Bourdieu via Luc Boltanski to the Frankfurt School. Robin Celikates investigates the relevance of the self-understanding of ordinary agents and of their practices of critique for the theoretical and emancipatory project of critical theory.
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40Republikanismus zwischen Politik und Recht Ein Literaturbericht (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 64 (1): 118-135. 2010.
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39Book Review: In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy, by Eric BeerbohmIn Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy, by BeerbohmEric. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012 (review)Political Theory 42 (1): 130-134. 2014.
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38Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy. By William Smith. Routledge, 2013, 166 pp (review)Constellations 21 (3): 434-436. 2014.
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38Three Types of Cosmopolitanism? Liberalism, Democracy, and Tian-xiaYearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 2019 (4): 208-220. 2019.
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37Kritische Theorie: ethisch, nicht sozialtheoretisch?Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 55 (5): 826-828. 2007.
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