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46Review of Axel Honneth: The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory (review)Ethics 104 (2): 412-413. 1994.
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45Little Stones: Sovereignty in Plato's PoliteiaStudies in Practical Philosophy 5 (1): 66-89. 2005.
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17The Iroquois and the Athenians: A Political OntologyLexington Books. 2013.An original work of political theory, The Iroquois and the Athenians relocates the problem of political foundations and origins, removing it from the dead logic of the social contract and grafting it onto a juxtaposed representation of the historical practices of the pre-contact Iroquois and the pre-classical Greeks.
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7Paideia and UniversalismDialogue and Universalism 8 (10): 85-96. 1998.Jaeger's proposal in his 1933 work, Paideia, that classical Greece should be viewed as the origin and the sustaining source of Westem civilization is likely to be viewed today as, at best, quaint or, at worst, pemicious. But I argue that Jaeger's conception of paideia as acculturation or as the formation of character through culture is superior to current views of human development and education. At the same time, Jaeger accounts for the profundity of the classical Greek conception of education …Read more
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PolitologyDissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook. 1993.Derrida, deconstruction, and postmodern discourses generally have been repeatedly attacked as politically impotent, or even harmful. Yet the charges rarely rise above the level of polemic. This is because the political critique leveled against deconstruction takes for granted exactly what Derrida challenges. The Modern/postmodern debate will remain fruitless until the received model of political theory opens itself up to an examination of the notion of reason it presupposes. The fundamental noti…Read more
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Derrida and Habermas on the SubjectIn Charles Scott (ed.), Crises in Continental Philosophy, Suny Press. 1993.
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