Publications

The following publications are available for downloading from this site. For a complete list of publications, see the cv.

Recently Published

"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.

"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

"Recognition and Reconciliation: Actualized Agency in Hegel's Jena Phenomenology" - in  Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus/International Yearbook of German Idealism, Vol.2, (2004)

"Leaving Nature Behind (On John McDowel's Mind and World)," from The Persistence of Subjectivity (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

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.

"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:

"Leaving Nature Behind (On John McDowel's Mind and World)," from The Persistence of Subjectivity (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

"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.

Work in Press/in Progress

"The Absence of Aesthetics in Hegel's Aesthetics," forthcoming in second volume of The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, ed. F. Beiser.

Angels and Devils in Almodóvar's Talk to Her - 76 KB (MS Word) Forthcoming in a collection of essays on the film, edited by Anne Eaton (Routledge).

How to Overcome Oneself: Nietzsche on Freedom - 98K (MS Word)
Forthcoming in an OUP volume, edited by Ken Gemes

Eine ‚Logik der Erfahrung‘? Über Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes - 194K (MS Word)
Forthcoming in Conference Proceedings, Jena Phänomenologie conference

On Maisie's Knowing Her Own Mind - 121K (MS Word)
Forthcoming, Blackwell Companion to Henry James, ed. Greg Zacharias

The Unboundedness of the Conceptual: On Finite and Absolute Idealism - 104K (MS Word)
Forthcoming in Conference Proceedings, “Transcendentalism and Naturalism,” ed. Mark Sacks

Review of Bernard Williams, In the Beginning Was the Deed, forthcomning, Journal of Philosophy

Review of Bernard Reginster, The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche On Overcoming Nihilism, by Bernard Reginster, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

Hegel's Social Theory of Action. Manuscript.

Natural and Normative. Manuscript. Conference paper at National Humanities Center on Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity. November 2006.

English version of Nietzsche: moraliste français (Four lectures)

--Lecture One

--Lecture Two

--Lecture Three

--Lecture Four

--Bibliography