Publications
FORTHCOMING:
Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy (Yale University Press, spring 2010)
Nietzsche, Psychology, First Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, spring 2010)
The following publications are available for downloading from this site. For a complete list of publications, see the cv.
Kant's Theory of Form. An Essay on the Critique of Pure Reason. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982) (Out of Print) (Entire book as pdf)
"You Can't Get There From Here: Transition Problems in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit," in The Cambridge Companion to Hegel (Cambridge UP, 1993)
"Hegel on Historical Meaning: For Example, the Enlightenment," Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, no 35 (Spring/Summer 1997).
"Avoiding German Idealism: Kant and the Reflective Judgment Problem," in Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
"Heideggerean Postmodernism and Metaphysical Politics," The European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 4, no.1 (April 1966).
"On Being Anti-Cartesian: Heidegger, Hegel, Subjectivity and Sociality," in Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
"Gadamer's Hegel," in The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer, ed. Robert Dostal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
"Hegel's Ethical Rationalism," in Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997):417-50.
" The Realization of Freedom: Hegel's Practical Philosophy," in The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism, edited by Karl Ameriks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
"Necessary Conditions for the Possibility of What Isn't: Heidegger on Failed Meaning, in The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005).
"Naturalness and Mindedness: Hegel's Compatibilism,"European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 7. no. 2 (1999)
"What is the Question for which Hegel's Theory of Recognition is the Answer?" - 1297K (PDF)
The European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 8, no. 2 (August 2000).
"A Mandatory Reading of Kant's Ethics? (Critical Study of Paul Guyer's Kant on Freedom, Love and Happiness)" - 95K (PDF)
The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 51, no.204 (July 2001)
"What Was Abstract Art? (From the Point of View of Hegel)" - 138K (PDF)
Critical Inquiry, vol. 29, no.1 (Fall 2002)
"Kant’s Theory of Value: On Allen
Wood’s Kant’s Ethical Thought" - 240K (PDF)
Inquiry, Vol. 43 (Summer 2000)
"The Unavailability of the Ordinary: Strauss on the Philosophical Fate of Modernity" - 111K (PDF)
Political Theory, vol. 31 No 3 (June 2003): 335-358
Authenticity in Painting: Remarks on Michael Fried’s Art History - 131K (PDF) Critical Inquiry, vol. 31, no. 3 (2005)
“Concept and Intuition: On Distinguishability and Separability,” in Hegel-Studien (40) 2005.
"Fichte's Alleged, One-Sided, Subjective Idealism," in The Reception of Kant's Critical Philosophy," ed. S. Sedgwick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
"Brandom’s Hegel" - 543K (PDF)
European Journal of Philosophy, 13:3 (2006)
“Mine and Thine? The Kantian State,” Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy, ed. Paul Guyer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
"Introduction" to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006): viii-xxxv.
Exchange with McDowell:
"Postcript" in The Persistence of Subjectivity (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
John McDowell, "On Pippin's Postscript," The European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 15, no. 3.
“McDowell’s Germans: Response to ‘On Pippin’s Postscript’,” The European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 15, no. 3.
"Can There be Unprincipled Virtue? Comments on Nomy Arpaly" in Philosophical Explorations, vol. 10, no. 3.
Review article, Bernard Williams, In the Beginning Was the Deed, Journal of Philosophy , vol. CIV, No. 10 (October 2007)
On Maisie's Knowing Her Own Mind in A Companion to Henry James, ed. by Greg W. Zacharias (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)
Review article, Bernard Reginster, The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche On Overcoming Nihilism, by Bernard Reginster, fPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research vol. 77, No. 1 (July 2008)
Angels and Devils in Almodóvar's Talk to Her - 76 KB (pdf) In Talk to Her, ed. A.W. Eaton (New York: Routledge, 2009)
"What is a Western? Politics and Self-Knowledge in John Ford's The Searchers, in Critical Inquiry, vol. 35 (Winter 2009)
"The Absence of Aesthetics in Hegel's Aesthetics," forthcoming in second volume of The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth Century Philosophy, ed. F. Beiser. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
"How to Overcome Oneself: Nietzsche on Freedom" - (pdf) in Nietzsche onFreedom and Autonomy, ed. Ken Gemes and Simon May (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Agent and Deed in Nietzsche's Genealogy, in A Companion to Nietzsche, ed. Keith Ansell Pearson (Blackwell)
Natural and Normative. Daedelus, Summer, 2009
Work in Press/in Progress
"The Paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J.M. Coetzee," forthcoming in a cellection edited by P. Singer and A. Leist.
Eine ‚Logik der Erfahrung‘? Über Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes - 194K (MS Word)
Forthcoming in Conference Proceedings, Jena Phänomenologie conference
Hegel's Social Theory of Action. Manuscript.