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307La comparution /the compearance: From the existence of "communism" to the community of "existence"Political Theory 20 (3): 371-398. 1992.
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215I. Text and Pretexts: Reflections on Perspectivism in NietzschePolitical Theory 13 (2): 164-182. 1985.
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85Review of Anthony Giddens: Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (review)Ethics 103 (4): 836-837. 1993.
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76'What have we to do with morals?' Nietzsche and Weber on history and ethicsHistory of the Human Sciences 5 (3): 9-18. 1992.
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73Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of SovereigntyUniversity of Chicago Press. 1985.Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial ...
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64Language and nihilism Nietzsche's critique of epistemologyTheory and Society 3 (2): 239-263. 1976.
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53Nietzsche’s Corps/e. Aesthetics, Politics, Prophecy, or, the Spectacular Technoculture of Everyday Life (review)New Nietzsche Studies 2 (3-4): 120-124. 1998.
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52Review of William E. Connolly: Identity, difference: democratic negotiations of political paradox (review)Ethics 102 (4): 863-865. 1992.
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45In Defense of Rhetoric: Or How Hard It Is to Take a Writer SeriouslyPolitical Theory 41 (4): 507-532. 2013.Interpretations of Nietzsche, particularly about politics, cover an exceptionally wide range. Additionally, Nietzsche is often said to commit “rhetorical excesses.” I argue and show that Nietzsche consciously crafted his published works to allow this range of interpretations, that he did this for critical purposes, and that his so-called rhetoric is there to serve this purpose.
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40Nietzsche and the Political: Tyranny, Tragedy, Cultural Revolution, and DemocracyJournal of Nietzsche Studies 35 (1): 48-66. 2008.
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38Psychoanalysis as a VocationPolitical Theory 12 (1): 51-79. 1984.The new development for our time cannot be political, for politics is the relationship between the community and the representative individual. But in out time, the individual is becoming far too reflective to be satisfied with being merely represented. Søren Kierkegaard, Journals, 1847
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37Meanings and contexts: Mr Skinner's Hobbes and the English mode of political theoryInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 40 (3). 1997.No abstract
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36Fiction Knows No Noumenon: Fictive Theories: Towards a Deconstructive and Utopian Political Imagination, by Susan McManus. New York and Houndsmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. 234 pp. $65.00 . Lyrical and Ethical Subjects: Essays on the Periphery of the Word, Freedom and History, by Dennis J. Schmidt. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2005. 215 pp. $29.95Political Theory 35 (2): 223-230. 2007.
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36Nietzche: The Ethics of an ImmoralistPhilosophical Review 106 (2): 296. 1997.Peter Berkowitz’s book is about the “moral intention that gives birth to and governs Nietzsche’s thought”. Bracing his book by an introduction and conclusion, he divides it into two parts. The first comprises individual chapters on what Berkowitz calls Nietzsche’s “histories.” These are on the ethics of history, the ethics of art, the ethics of morality and the ethics of religion.
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34Review of Stefan elbe, Europe: A Nietzschean Perspective (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (3). 2004.
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33Philosophy of the Morning: Nietzsche and the Politics of TransfigurationJournal of Nietzsche Studies 39 (1): 51-65. 2010.Nietzsche's life project remains constant throughout his life: it is the project of transformation or transfiguration. He formulates this as the necessity of dealing with the way that one's past shapes one's present. The paradigm for this transformation is first to be found in The Birth of Tragedy, but it reappears in various guises in all of his work. I argue that Nietzsche's writing is itself designed so as to make possible such a transformation in his readers
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32Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration (Expanded Ed.)University of Illinois Press. 1975.This book examines both the personal and the political sides of Nietzsche's writings to show how his writings can expand notions of democratic politics and democratic understanding.
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31Glory and the Law in HobbesEuropean Journal of Political Theory 16 (1): 61-76. 2017.A central argument of the _Leviathan_ has to do with the political importance of education. Hobbes wants his book to be taught in universities and expounded much in the manner that Scripture was. Only thus will citizens realize what is in their hearts as to the nature of good political order. Glory affects this process in two ways. The pursuit of glory _by a citizen_ leads to political chaos and disorder. On the other hand, _God’s_ glory is such that one can do nothing but acquiesce to it. The H…Read more
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30Nietzsche (review)Philosophical Review 106 (2): 296-298. 1996.Peter Berkowitz’s book is about the “moral intention that gives birth to and governs Nietzsche’s thought”. Bracing his book by an introduction and conclusion, he divides it into two parts. The first comprises individual chapters on what Berkowitz calls Nietzsche’s “histories.” These are on the ethics of history, the ethics of art, the ethics of morality and the ethics of religion.
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30The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2009.The war on terrorism, say America's leaders, is a war of Good versus Evil. But in the minds of the perpetrators, the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington were presumably justified as ethically good acts against American evil. Is such polarization leading to a violent "clash of civilizations" or can differences between ethical systems be reconciled through rational dialogue? This book provides an extraordinary resource for thinking clearly about the diverse ways in which humans see goo…Read more
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28Exile and the Demos: Leo Strauss in AmericaThe European Legacy 18 (6): 715-726. 2013.This article explores the political, as opposed to the philosophical, impact of Leo Strauss’s exile in America on his thought. After a consideration of anti-Semitism and the importance Strauss attached to being a Jew, I argue that the fact that in America he no longer wrote in his Muttersprache but in English was central to his becoming a political theorist rather than a philosopher. Whereas as a philosopher he was unable to speak to the demos, as a political theorist what he needed was a group …Read more
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