Acumen Publishing

VOLUME 10 (2009) ISSUE 3

Contents

Recognition and Redistribution: Rethinking N. Fraser's Dualistic Model
Christian Lazzeri

Second Nature and Recognition: Hegel and the Social Sphere
Italo Testa

From Critique to Reconstruction: On Axel Honneth's Theory of Recognition and its Critical Potential
Edoardo Toniolatti

Alain Badiou's Politics and the Problem of Social History
David Wild

Review Essay

1968's Paradoxical Topicality
Deborah Cohen, Jacques Guilhaumou and Emmanuel Renault

Reviews

Slavoj Zizek, Violence
Geoff Boucher

Toula Nicolocapoulos, The Radical Critique of Liberalism: In Memory of a Vision
Matthew Sharpe

Gerhard Richter, Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life
Paolo A. Bolanos

Mattias Iser, Emporung und Fortschritt: Grundlagen einer kritischen Theorie der Gesellschaft
Titus Stahl

VOLUME 10 (2009) ISSUE 2

**SPECIAL ISSUE**
Ethics of Commitment and Politics of Resistance:
Simon Critchley’s Neo-Anarchism
Edited by Robert Sinnerbrink and Philip A. Quadrio

Contents

Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance: Simon Critchley’s
Infinitely Demanding
Robert Sinnerbrink and Philip A. Quadrio

On Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment,
Politics of Resistance
Alain Badiou
 
Neo-Anarchism or Neo-Liberalism? Yes, Please! A Response to Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding
Robert Sinnerbrink
 
“Critchley is Zizek”: In Defence of Critical Political Philosophy
Matthew Sharpe

The Common Root of Commitment, Resistance and Power
Karin de Boer
 
Speaking to the People: Critchley, Rousseau and the Deficit in Practical Rationality
Philip A. Quadrio
 
Which Anarchism? On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Infinity for (Political) Life: A Response to Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding
Nina Power
 
A Plea for Prometheus
Alberto Toscano
 
Humorous Commitments and Non-Violent Politics: A Response
to Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding
Fiona Jenkins
 
Mystical Anarchism
Simon Critchley

 
VOLUME 10 (2009) ISSUE 1

Contents

Exceptional Justice? A Discourse Ethical Contribution to the Immigrant Question
David Ingram 

Interpretation after Kant
Karl Ameriks

Pragmatism and Radical Democracy
Craig Browne

Is Neoliberalism a Liberalism, or a Stranger Kind of Bird?
Matthew Sharpe 

Recognition as a Reference Point for a Concept of Progress in Critical Theory
Ejvind Hansen

Review Essay

Bound by Recognition?
Robert R. Williams

Reviews

James Bohman, Democracy Across Borders From Demos to Demoi 
John Rundell

Seyla Benhabib, Another Cosmopolitanism with Jeremy Waldron, Bonnie Honig, & Will Kymlicka edited by Robert Post
Sarah Sorial

VOLUME 9 (2008) ISSUE 1

Contents

Editors' Introduction

Analysing Hope
Nicholas H. Smith

Pandora's Box: Reflections on a Myth
Vincent Geoghegan

Pragmatism, Utopia and Anti-Utopia
Ruth Levitas

Philosophy, Social Hope and Democratic Criticism: Critical Theory for a Global Age
Shane O'Neill

Becoming Who We Are: Democracy and the Political Problem of Hope
Andrew Norris

Social Hope and State Lawlessness
Norman Geras

Reviews

Peter Dews, The Idea of Evil
Nicholas H. Smith

Richard Rorty, Philosophy as Cultural Politics
Michael Bacon

Jurgen Habermas, Time of Transitions
Fabian Schuppert

Axel Honneth, Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory
Julie Connolly

Paul Redding, Analytical Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought
Titus Stahl

Nikolas Kompridis (ed.), Philosophical Romanticism
Robert Sinnerbrink

VOLUME 9 (2008) ISSUE 2

Contents

War and Splendour
Alphonso Lingis

Autonomy of Art or the Dignity of the Artwork
Agnes Heller

The Spirit of the Enlightenment
Tzvetan Todorov

New Adventures in the Dialectic of Humanism: Todorov, Sebald and Agamben
John Grumley

Václav Havel’s Absurd Route to Democracy
Anthony Kammas

Reviews

T. Rayner, Foucault’s Heidegger: Philosophy and Transformative Experience 
Mark G. E. Kelly

Emmanuel Renault, Souffrances Sociales. Sociologie, Psychologie et Politique
Jean-Philippe Deranty

Mitchell Dean, Governing Societies: Political Perspectives on Domestic and International Rule
Timothy Rayner 

VOLUME 8 (2007) ISSUE 1

Contents

The Irreducibility of Progress: Kant’s Account of the Relationship between Morality and History
Axel Honneth

Condorcet: Communication/Science/Democracy
György Márkus

The Roots of Hegel’s “Master/Slave Relationship”
Remo Bodei

More than All the Others’: Meditation on Responsibility
Martin Matuštik

What if the Other were an Animal? Hegel on Jews, Animals and Disease
Andrew Benjamin

Foucault and Liberalism. Rationality, Revolution, Resistance
Jacques Bidet

Review Essays

The Politics of the Multiple: On Alain Badiou’s Being and Event
Robert Sinnerbrink

The Renewal of Critique in Neo-capitalism: On Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello’s The New Spirit of Capitalism
Claude Gautier

Reviews

The Political Theory of Recognition: A Critical Introduction by Simon Thompson
Ruth Cox

VOLUME 8 (2007) ISSUE 2

Contents

Adorno and the Problems of a Critical Construction of the Historical Present
Albrecht Wellmer

Form as an Organization of Time
Martin Seel

Adorno and Proust on the Recovery of Experience
Roger Foster

The Hermeneutics of Work: On Richard Sennett
Nicholas H. Smith

From Fordism to Post-Fordism: Beyond or Back to Alienation?
Emmanuel Renault

Presidential Function and Democracy: Nicolas Sarkozy and the Weimar Legacy
Emmanuel Pasquier

Review Essay

Democratic Aesthetics: On Jacques Rancière's Latest Work
Jean-Philippe Deranty

Reviews

Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy by Claude Lefort
John Rundell

Re-Presenting the Good Society by Maeve Cooke
Arto Laitinen

Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future by Nikolas Kompridis
Robert Sinnerbrink