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6Charles TaylorIn John Shand (ed.), Central Works of Philosophy, Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century: Quine and After, Acumen Publishing. pp. 268-290. 2006.
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64Swanton and Nietzsche on Self-LoveJournal of Value Inquiry 49 (3): 387-403. 2015.Most of Christine Swanton’s quotations from and references to Nietzsche are drawn The Genealogy of Morals, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and Beyond Good and Evil. I suggest that Human, All too Human and Daybreak, two of Nietzsche’s most neglected works, provide rich resources for Swanton’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s view of self-love and its defining role in genuinely ethical action. Self-love assumes a central place in these writings, as do its cognate concepts of egoism and vanity. I outline some…Read more
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21Freedom – A silent but significant thread across Taylor’s oeuvrePhilosophy and Social Criticism 44 (7): 790-792. 2018.One important and consistent thread of Charles Taylor’s thought that has not yet received the attention it deserves is his philosophy of freedom. Taylor’s 1979 defense of positive liberty in response to Isaiah Berlin’s “Two Conceptions of Liberty” is, of course, well known. But there is a way of seeing reflection on freedom as a thread that runs, sometimes silently but always significantly, through his whole body of work. Taylor can be seen as asking what freedom means, how many varieties it has…Read more
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14Nietzsche's Human All Too Human: A Critical Introduction and GuideEdinburgh University Press. 2020.
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10Cosmopolitan Civility: Global-Local Reflections with Fred Dallmayr (edited book)SUNY Press. 2020.
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28Continuing Questions about Friendship as a Central Moral ValueDialogue and Universalism 28 (2): 65-80. 2018.This article engages Friendship: A Central Moral Value by Michael H. Mitias. It questions Mitias’ distinction between friendship as a moral and theoretical concern as opposed to a practical one. It distinguishes the narrow from the wide meanings of philia in Aristotle’s approach. It looks at the resonances of classical approaches in later theories of friendship, while also attending to the innovations of later thinkers. It suggests that the moral paradigms Mitias delineates might not be as hegem…Read more
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28Women’s Human Rights, Then and Now: Symposium on Eileen Hunt Botting’s Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human RightsPolitical Theory 46 (3): 426-454. 2018.
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263Women’s Human Rights, Then and Now: Symposium on Eileen Hunt Botting’s Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human Rights (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016) (review)Political Theory 46 (3): 426-454. 2018.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Julian Young (review)Interpretation 38 (2): 171-176. 2011.
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41Book Review: Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human Rights, by Eileen Hunt Botting, Symposium on Botting’s Eileen Hunt Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human Rights . 306 pp (review)Political Theory 46 (3): 426-454. 2018.
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23The Chief Inducement? The Idea of Marriage as FriendshipJournal of Applied Philosophy 18 (1): 37-52. 2002.A combination of social forces has thrown marriage into question in westernised societies at the end of the millennium. This uncertainty creates space for new ways of thinking about marriage. In this context, we examine the idea of marriage as friendship. We trace its genealogy in the work of Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor and then subject it to critical scrutiny using some of Michel de Montaigne’s ideas. We ask how applicable the ideal of higher friendship is to marria…Read more
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126Circles, Ladders and Stars: Nietzsche on friendshipCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 2 (4): 50-73. 1999.One of the major purposes of this article is to show that friendship was one of Nietzsche's central concerns and that he shared Aristotle's belief that it takes higher and lower forms. Yet Nietzsche's interest in friendship is overlooked in much of the secondary literature. An important reason for this is that this interest is most evident in the works of his middle period, and these tend to be neglected in commentaries on Nietzsche. In the works of the middle period, Nietzsche suggests that the…Read more
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50No country for older people? Age and the digital divideJournal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 7 (4): 225-242. 2009.PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on age and the digital divide by examining the uses of and attitudes toward information and communication technologies by 26 politically senior citizens.Design/methodology/approachThe approach taken involved in‐depth face‐to‐face interviews.FindingsThe majority of the respondents are informed and balanced cyber‐enthusiasts who have embraced the opportunities afforded by ICTs to enhance their lives in general, including their pol…Read more
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28Entry for Charles TaylorIn John R. Shook & Richard T. Hull (eds.), The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Thoemmes Continuum. pp. 1. 2005.
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1Comparativists and cosmopolitans on cross cultural conversationsRevista de Filosofía (México) 40 (121): 45-64. 2008.First published in 1990, Charles Taylor’s essay ‘Comparison, History Truth’ is an extended reflection on some of the problems involved in interpreting other cultures and eras. This essay’s explicit focus is the work of historians and anthropologists. Taylor mentions students of religion in the same breath, but I infer that by this he means students of comparative religions or the history of religions. I suggest that for all its emphasis on conversation, Taylor’s depiction of the comparativist…Read more
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Another philosopher-citizen : the political philosophy of Charles TaylorIn Catherine H. Zuckert (ed.), Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Authors and Arguments, Cambridge University Press. 2011.This chapter briefly reviews the link between Charles Taylor's life and work. It then discusses his position on the role of science in understanding human behavior. It concludes by considering the relationship between theory and practice in Taylor's thought.
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15The Articulated Life: An Interview with Charles TaylorPhilosophy of Management 1 (3): 3-9. 2001.Charles Taylor is one of the most prolific and wide-ranging philosophers in the English-speaking world today. He writes with authority in the fields of moral theory, political philosophy, theories of language, the history of western thought, epistemology and hermeneutics.1 Currently an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, he has enjoyed a distinguished academic career which includes being Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University. He has also been a…Read more
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36Review of Ian Fraser, Dialectics of the Self: Transcending Charles Taylor (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (7). 2007.
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24Monika M. Langer , Nietzsche's Gay Science: Dancing Coherence . Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 31 (1): 46-48. 2011.
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19The Return of Feminist LiberalismRoutledge. 2011.While it is uncontroversial to point to the liberal roots of feminism, a major issue in English-language feminist political thought over the last few decades has been whether feminism's association with liberalism should be relegated to the past. Can liberalism continue to serve feminist purposes? This book examines the positions of three contemporary feminists - Martha Nussbaum, Susan Moller Okin and Jean Hampton - who, notwithstanding decades of feminist critique, are unwilling to give up on l…Read more
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158Back toward a Comprehensive Liberalism?Political Theory 35 (1): 5-28. 2007.This article examines the attempts by John Rawls in the works published after Political Liberalism to engage with some of the feminist responses to his work. Rawls goes a long way toward addressing some of the major feministliberal concerns. Yet this has the unintended consequence of pushing justice as fairness in the direction of a more comprehensive, rather than a strictly political, form of liberalism. This does not seem to be a problem peculiar to Rawls: rather, any form of liberalism hospit…Read more
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65Susan Okin's Justice, Gender, and the Family: Twenty‐Five Years LaterHypatia 31 (3): 636-637. 2016.
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91Nietzsche's middle periodOxford University Press. 2000.Ruth Abbey presents a close study of Nietzsche's works, Human, All Too Human, Daybreak, and The Gay Science. Although these middle period works tend to be neglected in commentaries on Nietzsche, they repay careful attention. Abbey's commentary brings to light important differences across Nietzsche's oeuvre that have gone unnoticed, filling a serious gap in the literature.
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22Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 2013.In _Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls_, Ruth Abbey collects eight essays responding to the work of John Rawls from a feminist perspective. An impressive introduction by the editor provides a chronological overview of English-language feminist engagements with Rawls from his Theory of Justice onwards. She surveys the range of issues canvassed by feminist readers of Rawls, as well as critics’ wide disagreement about the value of Rawls’s corpus for feminist purposes. The eight essays that foll…Read more
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60Closer kinships: Rortyan resources for animal rightsContemporary Political Theory 16 (1): 1-18. 2017.This article considers the extent to which the debate about animal rights can be enriched by Richard Rorty’s theory of rights. Although Rorty’s work has enjoyed a lot of scholarly attention, commentators have not considered the implications of his arguments for animals. Nor have theorists of animal rights engaged his approach to rights. This paper argues that Rorty’s thinking holds a number of attractions for proponents of animal rights. It also considers some of its drawbacks. It is further arg…Read more
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Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
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Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |