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0000-0003-2384-8920
Current Organisation
Deakin University Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
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Publisher: Fordham University Press
Date: 03-01-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-04-2017
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Date: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 18-07-2019
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Date: 05-04-2014
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-06-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-10-2012
DOI: 10.1057/CPT.2011.25
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2002
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-10-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-06-2019
Abstract: Since Locke, the concept of person has been closely linked to the idea of a subjective natural right and, later, to the concept of human rights. In this article we attempt to trouble this connection between humanity and personhood. For personhood is also an apparatus or dispositive of power. In the first half of the article, we identify a fundamental problem in the usual way human rights are connected to legal personhood by making use of insights drawn from Roberto Esposito’s discourse on biopolitics and critical race theory. While human rights are intended to offer protection to the “precarious” reality of human embodied life, we hypothesize that the fiction of legal personality generates a dis-embodiment whereby this human life is left exposed and defenseless. In the second half, we propose reconstructing the idea of legal personhood so that it may be more adequate to the required conception of human rights with insights drawn from Helmuth Plessner’s political anthropology of embodied life and from the analysis of disembodiment recently articulated by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.5840/PHILTODAY2018614225
Abstract: This article discusses the question of how Arendt’s mature “neo-Roman” republican political theory relates to her early . It argues that her early reflections on the problem of Jewish politics in modernity already adopt one of the main pillars of her later republican political theory, i.e., the substitution of federalism for sovereignty. The article puts forth the hypothesis that Arendt’s republicanism takes up the idea that Romans and Jews, during their republican periods, both held a “civil” conception of religion. Arendt’s conception of civil religion is analyzed in light of her readings of Virgil. The article concludes that Arendt’s mature political thought is neither “non-religious” nor contains a “political theology” but that it does put forward a civil-religious interpretation of natality and plurality.
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Date: 12-2011
DOI: 10.5325/PHILRHET.44.4.0309
Abstract: This article examines the motif of eternal life in Walter Benjamin’s work. Whereas myth understands natality and sexuality as characterized by guilt and deserving of death, this article argues that Benjamin seeks to develop an alternative conception of life that is no longer caught up in guilt and thus no longer fated to die—this is the idea of eternal life. By offering a reading of Benjamin’s essay on Goethe’s Elective Affinities, the article maintains that for Benjamin the possibility of eternal life was always linked to a sexual politics that turns around the problematization of heterosexual, patriarchal conceptions of married life. The outlines of this sexual politics are then further traced in his later work on Baudelaire and compared with Foucault’s reading of Baudelaire in the context of working out an idea of life as a work of art.
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-08-2016
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-04-2021
Publisher: Universidad de los Andes
Date: 08-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-05-2019
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2003
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2008
Abstract: Rawls and Schmitt are often discussed in the literature as if their conceptions of the political had nothing in common, or even referred to entirely different phenomena. In this essay, I show how these conceptions share a common space of reasons, traceable back to the idea of public reason and its development since the Middle Ages. By analysing the idea of public reason in Rawls and in Schmitt, as well as its relation to their theories of political representation, I show in what way Schmitt's concept of the political cannot be orced from an idea of justice, while, conversely, Rawls' conception of justice cannot be orced from a theory of the political. In that way this paper thematizes the internal relation that each theory establishes between justice and power, deliberation and decision, and consensus and disagreement.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-10-2011
Abstract: This essay offers an interpretation of Kant’s republicanism in light of the problem of political judgment. Kant is sometimes thought to base his conception of law on an idea of sovereignty drawn from Hobbes and Rousseau, which would leave little room for popular contestation of the state. In this essay, I reconstruct Kant’s account of the rule of law by bringing out the importance of his theory of judgment. I argue that for Kant the civil condition is ultimately characterized by a contest between the judgment of the sovereign and the judgment of the people, which corresponds to the determinative and reflective employments of political judgment, respectively. On this view, popular sovereignty is ultimately located in the people’s power to judge politically and contest publicly the state.
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2004
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1353/DIA.0.0064
Publisher: SciELO Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID)
Date: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 13-09-2020
DOI: 10.1017/S1755048319000336
Abstract: The aim of this article is to give a new reconstruction of the conception of human dignity as a pre-associative yet legal status. Such a legal conception of human dignity carries a universal legal obligation to respect the “innate” right to independence and enables us to move beyond the impasse between moral and political views of human rights. The argument has a normative and a genealogical component. The normative component shows why a legal conception of human rights is grounded on the Kantian idea of an innate legal right to independence, as well as showing that Kant adopted a legal status concept of human dignity. The genealogical component shows that the conception of human dignity as legal status undergoes a transvaluation from its ancient aristocratic to its modern democratic meaning in Dante's political thought, which is itself rooted in the western reception of Arabic philosophy, in particular political Averroism. By contrast to the Christian elaboration of dignity, the Averroist genealogy of dignity better describes the modern pursuit of an ideal of worldly happiness essentially linked with the collective attainment of public happiness through the unrestricted public use of reason facilitated by republican constitutions crowned by human rights.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1017/S0034670513000612
Abstract: Machiavelli often seems to advocate a conception of religion as an instrument of political rule. But in the concluding chapter of The Prince Machiavelli adopts a messianic rhetoric in which politics becomes an instrument of ine providence. Since the political project at stake in The Prince , especially in this last chapter runs against both the interests and the ideology of the Catholic Church in Italy, some commentators have argued that Machiavelli appeals to providence merely in order to fool the Church and the Medici. This article argues that it is not necessary to appeal to such exoteric readings of the 26 th chapter of The Prince if one envisages the possibility that Machiavelli may have drawn upon an alternative, non-Christian conception of ine providence coming from medieval Arabic and Jewish sources that is more compatible with his desire to return to Roman republican principles than is the Christian conception of ine providence.
Publisher: SciELO Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID)
Date: 2007
Location: Australia
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