Showing papers in "Critical Horizons in 2019"
TL;DR: In Firms as Political Entities as mentioned in this paper, Isabelle Ferreras mobilises her expertise in the sociology of work and political theory to argue in favour of a new approach in current debates on how to save democ...
Abstract: In Firms as Political Entities, Isabelle Ferreras mobilises her expertise in the sociology of work and political theory to argue in favour of a new approach in current debates on how to “save democ...
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TL;DR: The Social Connections Model (SCM) of responsibility offers a compelling approach to theorizing structural injustice as mentioned in this paper, however, the precise nature of the kind of responsi c...
Abstract: Iris Marion Young’s influential Social Connections Model (SCM) of responsibility offers a compelling approach to theorizing structural injustice. However, the precise nature of the kind of responsi...
16 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors critically engage with Philip Pettit's republican political philosophy, and with his republican theory of democracy in particular, and present a brief summary of the conceptual...
Abstract: This article critically engages with Philip Pettit’s republican political philosophy, and with his republican theory of democracy in particular. After a brief summary of Pettit’s conceptual...
13 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the source of the adulation of the rich and powerful cannot be benevolence. But then what is the criterion that delineates adulation from benevolent behaviour?
Abstract: What is the source of the adulation of the rich-and-powerful? It cannot be benevolence. But then what is the criterion that delineates adulation from benevolence? This paper argues that the...
10 citations
TL;DR: The relationship between death and politics figures prominently for us as discussed by the authors, however, the dead body has been neglected by this tradition, and the figure of the corpse offers a great deal of support to the political process.
Abstract: The relationship between death and politics figures prominently for us. However, the dead body has been neglected by this tradition. This paper shows how the figure of the corpse offers spe...
9 citations
TL;DR: The authors investigates Habermas's communicative ethic in relation to changes in the roles of institutions and the state, arguing that an artificial delimitation of the public sphere as disparate from the private or religious cramps the capacity of those identified as outsiders to communicate within it.
Abstract: This article investigates Habermas's communicative ethic in relation to changes in the roles of institutions and the state. I reference Alexy, Weber and Taylor, arguing that an artificial delimitation of the public sphere as disparate from the private or religious cramps the capacity of those identified as outsiders to communicate within it. I question the ability of public reason as Habermas has outlined it to meet the challenges it faces regarding interreligious dialogue and integration in democratic societies, and I suggest, instead, an approach more open to dialogue with religions in terms that are more comprehensible to them.
8 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a critical response to Amy Allen's The End of Progress: Decolonising the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory is presented, taking up her book's call for a "problematizing" history which chal...
Abstract: This paper is a critical response to Amy Allen’s The End of Progress: Decolonising the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory. We take up her book’s call for a “problematizing” history which chal...
8 citations
TL;DR: As efforts towards reconciling the thought of Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno gained momentum in the last decade, it seems an array of essential discrepancies have been failing to receive due atte...
Abstract: As efforts towards reconciling the thought of Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno gained momentum in the last decade, it seems an array of essential discrepancies have been failing to receive due atte...
7 citations
TL;DR: The authors reconstructs the main points of Taylor's politics of recognition, starting from the debate about negative and positive liberties, and focuses on the role of the ideologues in this debate.
Abstract: In this paper, I intend to reconstruct the main points of Taylor’s politics of recognition, starting from the debate about negative and positive liberties. Then, I will focus on the role of the ide...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine Axel Honneth's positive theory of recognition and conclude that it does not qualify as a positive theory in the sense that it is not a deterministic positive theory.
Abstract: In this article I examine Axel Honneth’s positive theory of recognition. While commentators agree that Honneth’s theory qualifies as a positive theory of recognition, I believe that the dee...
6 citations
TL;DR: In this article, critical theory and contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives share many compatibilities in offering a constructive critique of society, and Psychoanalysis teaches us that whatever values and ideals soc...
Abstract: Critical Theory and contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives share many compatibilities in offering a constructive critique of society. Psychoanalysis teaches us that whatever values and ideals soc...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that Iris Marion Young's concept of political responsibility is well suited for transnational feminism analyses and reveal the intersections of ethical, social, and polit...
Abstract: I argue that Iris Marion Young’s concept of political responsibility is well suited for transnational feminism analyses. Young’s work reveals the intersections of ethical, social, and polit...
TL;DR: Foucault extolled the Iranian revolution and, anticipating the havoc that his public intervention in favour of the revolution would create, he wrote: "I can already hear the French laughing, but I...
Abstract: Foucault extolled the Iranian revolution and, anticipating the havoc that his public intervention in favour of the revolution would create, he wrote: “I can already hear the French laughing, but I ...
TL;DR: In this article, Young's social connection model of responsibility faces one difficulty when dealing with a non-ideal case where actors, especially victims, lack what I call "capability for resp...
Abstract: Iris Marion Young’s social connection model of responsibility faces one difficulty when dealing with a non-ideal case where actors, especially victims, lack what I call “capability for resp...
TL;DR: The authors criticizes Axel Honneth's idea of socialism from a post-Marxist but nevertheless Marxian perspective, focusing on the importance of particular political subjectivities for brin...
Abstract: This paper criticizes Axel Honneth’s Idea of Socialism from a post-Marxist but nevertheless Marxian perspective. It focuses on the importance of particular political subjectivities for brin...
TL;DR: The incorrect conceptualization and evaluation of reparations for colonial slave trade and slavery within the legal, as opposed to the political, domain produces an interpretation of the demands for reparations as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The incorrect conceptualization and evaluation of reparations for colonial slave trade and slavery within the legal, as opposed to the political, domain, produces an interpretation of the demands i...
TL;DR: This paper explored the explicit self-deprecation in Vaclav Havel's writings in order to outline a unique contribution to thinking about resistance contained in Havels oeuvre.
Abstract: This paper explores the explicit self-deprecation in Vaclav Havel’s writings in order to outline a unique contribution to thinking about resistance contained in Havel’s oeuvre. What Havel o...
TL;DR: Critical Horizons as mentioned in this paper presents a special issue of Critical Horizons which purpose is to do justice to Young's conception of political responsibility by gathering essays that present, analyse, and comme...
Abstract: The Introduction presents the special issue of Critical Horizons which purpose is to do justice to Young’s conception of political responsibility by gathering essays that present, analyse and comme...
TL;DR: In this paper, the scope and features of immanent critique are discussed and the philosophical commitments presupposed by these features are discussed in the context of critical theory, and the methodological debates in contemporary critical theory are discussed.
Abstract: This article contributes to methodological debates in contemporary critical theory regarding the scope and features of immanent critique. I spell out the philosophical commitments presupposed by th...
TL;DR: The authors contextualize Markus's key writings on cultural modernity on the one hand in relation to their theoretical antecedents in Kant and Hegel's conception of the notion of modernity.
Abstract: My paper aims to situate and contextualize Gyorgy Markus’s key writings on cultural modernity on the one hand in relation to their theoretical antecedents in Kant and Hegel’s conception of ...
TL;DR: In the darkest days of the Second World War Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno overturned the wisdom of modern times by suggesting that the idea of a constant struggle between Enlightenment and myth...
Abstract: In the darkest days of the Second World War Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno overturned the wisdom of modern times by suggesting that the idea of a constant struggle between Enlightenment and myth...
TL;DR: In this article, the distinction of politics and the political in Castoriadis' work is explored, where the political refers to the instituted as the management of society in accordance with established laws, while the political is the capacity of the imaginary to constantly challenge established laws on the basis of individual and collective autonomy.
Abstract: This paper explores the distinction of politics and the political in Castoriadis’ work. Whereas the political refers to the instituted as the management of society in accordance with established laws, politics refers to the instituting as the capacity of the imaginary to constantly challenge established laws on the basis of individual and collective autonomy. The politics of autonomy identify with the regime of direct democracy, established first and foremost at the level of economy and expanding accordingly in all spheres of society. Democracy contains both a psychoanalytical and educational perspective inasmuch as it aims at the conscious self-reflective harmonisation of individual and collective autonomy by means of collective deliberation.
TL;DR: It was believed virtual particles were virtual because the conditions of the present universe could not supply the energy necessary to sustain tweeplets as mentioned in this paper, and the only way to create antimatter was to focus enough energy at a point to separate the components of a virtual pair before they reabsorbed each other, which in practice meant supplying at least their mass equivalent, as was done, for example, in giant accelerators.
Abstract: \"Old Yeller would be your dog?\".top drawer on the nearest nightstand. Inside, among articles of no use to him, are a pair of white plastic.different reasons. Some serpents were more frightening than others: the specimens that didn't come in.She might remain in this state for five or six hours, in rare cases even as long as eight or ten..Ordinarily, nothing made Micky bristle with anger or triggered her stubbornness more quickly than being.sigh. \"Can I ask you something?\" he said, looking up. \"Do I have to answer it?\".for the bar..Bernard didn't seem as surprised as he might have been. \"Want to spit it out?\".men and women busily tend to.any lesser person. Surely not. She is majestic. She is magnificent, beautiful. She can live by her own rules,.\"Too hard,\" Geneva declared proudly..\"I'm not interested in anything like that. I just want to hear about someone who lived there and came from there. Where did you come from?'.\"Some grandmothers!\" Terry exclaimed. \"Did anybody see the news today? Some scientist or other thinks the Chironians could be building bombs. There was an interview with Kalens Wo. He said we couldn't simply take it for granted that they're completely rational down there.\".\"That would be quite all right,\" Celia said..thought and analysis.\".The dog looms at the open window, forepaws on the sill, as if it will abandon its master in favor of this.\"Told?\" Aunt Gen asked. \"Who told you, dear?\".human enemy..Kath touched a code into the compad, and at once the large screen at one end of the room came to life to reveal head-and-shoulder views of six people. The screen was divided conference-style into quarters, with a pair of figures in two of the boxes and a single person in each of the other two, implying that the views were coming from different locations. Kath noticed the concerned look that flashed across Bernard's face. \"It's all right,\" she told him. \"The channels are quite secure..Chapter 8.\"Not a ballerina, I assume.\".\"You don't sound like a guy who wants to be friends.\".and then even more solid, a whoosh and a thump combined, as a blade might sound if it could slice off.It was believed virtual particles were virtual because the conditions of the present universe could not supply the energy necessary to sustain tweeplets. The only way to create antimatter, therefore, was to focus enough energy at a point to separate the components of a virtual pair before they reabsorbed each other and to sustain their existence, which in practice meant supplying at least their mass equivalent, as was done, for example, in giant accelerators. This was the reason for the widespread skepticism that any net energy gain could ever be realized from annihilating the antimatter later. At best it was felt to be an elaborate storage battery, and not a very efficient one at that; the power poured into the accelerator would be better applied directly to whatever the antimatter was wanted for..The pacifist laughed knowingly. When the waitress approached, he waved her away. Then he produced.\"There's been one in the Battle Module,\" Brad told. him, sounding out of breath. \"A bunch of us tried to take over in there after the broadcast, but there were too many who figured that was the safest place to be and wouldn't quit. It was all we could do to get out.\".Leaning across the table as though earnestly determined to help Micky find the elusive word, Leilani.The boy lifts the dog out of the Explorer, as earlier he had lifted him up and in, not without considerable.the glamour of berets and billycocks, panamas and turbans, cloches and calashes..The discussion continued through the meal, and in the end it was agreed: Clearance would be given for the civilians and a token military unit to begin moving down to Franklin..\"On what I'm doing.\" The Chironian looked apologetic. \"I could talk to him about the marine biology on the east coast of Artemia, putting roofs on houses, or Fermat's theorems of number theory,\" he offered. \"Do you think he might be interested in anything like that?\".Kath looked apprehensively at Celia. Celia nodded in answer to the unvoiced question. \"Yes, that's the way I want it,\" she said. Kath nodded and accepted the situation at that..\"She ought to've been paid to take it. Anyway, they put old Sinsemilla in an institution once and shot like.Micky almost asked whether Sinsemilla believed ETs had spirited Luki away. Then she realized that the.of a tire iron..\"Sure,\" Chang said confidently. \"I'll give you a call when I've talked to Adam. He's the friend. Would Jay like to go too.\"?.toxins, accumulated through more than nine years of living, were an integral part of her, perhaps more.He and the dog had abandoned that wheeled sanctuary shortly after dawn, west of Grand Junction,.Stanislau entered more commands. A different table of information appeared on the screen. \"SD guard details and timetable for posts inside the Columbia District tonight,\" Stanislau said. They would refrain from doing anything to that one until the last moment..Congress?sometimes he calls it the Parliament of Planets?and those plans will take time to carry out..cudgel, just behind Leilani's two-hand grip..country and their honor for a few wrinkled five-dollar bills. Not if movies, suspense novels, and history.responded, never appeared to comprehend a sentence of his monologue. And yet he held forth until.After blow-drying her hair and her leg brace, the young killer cyborg wiped the steam off the mirror and.Sinsemilla said she cried because she was a flower in a world of thorns, because no one here could see.grunting, gasping, snake-killing rage and terror. Like a foxtail bramble, this hateful picture would work its.\"And-thanks for the valves,\" Jay said. \"They fit perfectly.\" \"How's it coming along?\".\"I'm glad I wasn't alive then,\" Marie said from behind him. \"I can't imagine whole cities burning. It must have been horrible.\".\"No doubt,\" Noah said, \"they were once troubled youths rescued from a life of mischief, and.Speed 300 miles per second; distance to destination, 493 million miles. Course-correction effected to bring the ship round onto its final approach..\"You want a glass?\" she asked. \"The bottle's probably cleaner.\" \"Has to be,\" she agreed as she headed.Do you believe in life after death?.cocktail isn't enhanced by a residue of Pepsodent..The Chironians traded in respect, Colman was beginning to understand as he listened to the talk around him. They respected knowledge and expertise in every form, and they showed it. Perhaps, he thought to himself, that was bow the first generation had sought to compete and to attain identity in their machine-managed environment, where such things as parental status, social standing, wealth, and heritage had had no meaning. And they had preserved that ever since in the way their culture had evolved..\"Oh, Jay,\" Jean groaned. \"They were probably taking you for a ride to gets laugh out of it. At your age, you should know better.\".Down in the inner lock, Colman
TL;DR: The essays in this symposium invite you, reader, to share in the project, announced in James Chamberlain's Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, of thinking through the conditions and possibilities o...
Abstract: The essays in this symposium invite you, reader, to share in the project, announced in James Chamberlain’s Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, of thinking through the conditions and possibilities o...
TL;DR: A brief and rather personal obituary for the life of Joel Kahn, who died on 1st May 2017 after a year-long struggle with lung cancer, is given in this paper.
Abstract: It is a sad honour to write a brief and rather personal obituary for the life of Joel Kahn, who died on 1st May 2017 after a year-long struggle with lung cancer. It is an honour because it is a boo...
TL;DR: In 2016, at the time of his death in 2016, Gyorgy Markus's magnum opus on the culture of modernity that he laboured on throughout his post-Budapest period remained unfinished as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: At the time of his death in 2016 Gyorgy Markus’s magnum opus on the culture of modernity that he laboured on throughout his post-Budapest period remained unfinished. This paper attempts to ...