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14Marx and the Concept of a Social FormationHistorical Materialism. forthcoming.This paper discusses the significance of the concept of a social formation for historical materialism. It argues that the concept is wrongly thought to be associated uniquely with the writings of Louis Althusser and with structuralist Marxism. It can be found in the writings of Marx himself, as well as those of Lenin, and is central to an adequate understanding of classical Marxism. To illustrate its importance the paper shows how the concept may be used to shed new light on the debate around th…Read more
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Outsiders looking in or insiders looking out? Widening participation in a post-1992 universityIn Jerome Satterthwaite, Elizabeth Atkinson & Wendy Martin (eds.), The Disciplining of Education: New Languages of Power and Resistance, Trentham Books. 2004.
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6Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition: From the Reformation to the French RevolutionRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2020.This second volume continues the story told in the first by focusing on the writings of a selection of seminal thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in England, the German speaking world and in France, ending with the debate around the French Revolution of 1789.
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10Stephen C Bosworth, Hegel's Political Philosophy: The Test Case of Constitutional Monarchy, New York and London: Garland, 1991, Hb $72.00 (review)Hegel Bulletin 15 (2): 64-71. 1994.
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15Hegel Panel: Political Studies Association Annual Conference 10-12 April 1996Hegel Bulletin 17 (2): 83-87. 1996.
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15Augustine on Administration: The Politics of Social Institutions in The City of GodThe European Legacy 26 (1): 22-38. 2021.This article considers what St. Augustine has to say about administration in The City of God, as well as in The Rule of St. Augustine and in Of the Work of Monks. Rather than focusin...
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22Alan Brudner and the Contemporary Significance of Hegel's Philosophy of Law (review)Jurisprudence 3 (1): 211-251. 2012.
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48 chapters are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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2Revolutionary Aristotelianism? The Political Thought of Aristotle, Marx and MacIntyreIn Kelvin Knight & Paul Blackledge (eds.), Virtue and Politics: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Aristotelianism, Notre Dame University Press. pp. 35-53. 2011.
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6Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition: From the Reformation to the French RevolutionRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2020.This second volume continues the story told in the first by focusing on the writings of a selection of seminal thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in England, the German speaking world and in France, ending with the debate around the French Revolution of 1789.
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23Conceptual History and the Philosophy of the Later Wittgenstein: A Critique of Quentin Skinner’s Contextualist MethodJournal of the Philosophy of History 5 (1): 54-83. 2011.Although first published in 1969, the methodological views advanced in Quentin Skinner's “Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas” remain relevant today. In his article Skinner suggests that it would be inappropriate to even attempt to write the history of any idea or concept. In support of this view, Skinner advances two arguments, one derived from the philosophy of the later Wittgenstein and the other from that of J. L. Austin.In this paper I focus on the first of these arguments. I …Read more
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1The Legacy of Leo Strauss (edited book)Imprint Academic. 2010.Leo Strauss was a political philosopher who died in 1973 but came to prominent attention around the beginning of the war in Iraq. Charges began emerging that architects of the war had studied with, or been influenced by, Strauss' works. This volume explores these works.
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2Marxism Versus Postmodernism: The Case of The MatrixIn Ewa Mazierska & Alfredo Suppia (eds.), Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema, Wayne State University Press. pp. 104-31. 2016.
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Hegel (1770-1831)In T. Carver & J. Martin (eds.), Palgrave Advances in Continental Political Thought, Palgrave. pp. 45-58. 2005.
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Marx and Scientific Method: a Non-Metaphysical ViewIn Tony Burns & Ian Fraser (eds.), The Hegel-Marx Connection, St. Martin's Press. pp. 79-104. 2000.
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4This book has two themes. The first is Hegel's attitude towards natural law. The second is Hegel's relationship to the different political ideologies.
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Marx, The Labour Theory of Value and the Transformation ProblemCapital and Class 41 (1): 1-18. 2017.
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41Interpreting and appropriating texts in the history of political thought: Quentin Skinner and poststructuralismContemporary Political Theory 10 (3): 313-331. 2011.
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S C Bosworth's Hegel's Political Philosophy: The Test Case Of Constitutional Monarchy (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 30 64-71. 1994.
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The Idea of “The Struggle for Recognition” in the Ethical Thought of the Young Marx and its Relevance TodayIn Michael Thompson (ed.), Constructing Marxist Ethics: Critique, Normativity, Praxis, Brill. pp. 33-58. 2015.
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The Source of the Encyclopédie Article ‘Loi naturelle (morale)In Knud Haakonssen (ed.), Grotius, Pufendorf and Modern Natural Law, Ashgate. 1999.
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Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four as a Critical DystopiaIn Tom Horan (ed.), Critical Insights: Nineteen Eighty Four, Salem Press. pp. 42-54. 2016.
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Introduction: Straussian VoicesIn Tony Burns & James Connelly (eds.), The Legacy of Leo Strauss, Imprint Academic. pp. 1-26. 2010.