Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In recent pragmatist-leaning philosophy and ethics, the Jamesian notion of the cries of the wounded has reemerged as a method of evoking moral progress. Philosophers like Philip Kitcher have argued that…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This paper examines the epistemic dimension of dominant group ideologies in order to disrupt oppressive epistemic norms; specifically, the aspiration to ‘neutral’ knowledge, and as a result, what is giv…
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Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In this paper I argue that the pessimistic reading of Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment, which suggests reason is ensconced within the domination of myth, misses a key component of the …
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The aim of the present study is to articulate a comparative study of Zeno of Citium and Immanuel Kant. The main reason for the comparative form of the study is that the full extent of the selective affi…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. An authoritative directive, when it has legitimacy, is a reason to exclude from consideration some of the reasons to act and not to act in this way. One is obliged to obey, even when one disagrees with …
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article engages the role of temporality in the work of Thomas Hobbes. Rather than focusing on the political individual proposed by his later works, it politicizes the conception of subjectivity adv…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Louis Althusser is perhaps most well-known for his concept of ‘Ideological State Apparatuses’ (ISAs). However, Althusser is not clear about what role, if any, ISAs play in a post-capitalist society. At …
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The article scrutinizes Foucault’s articulations of resistance, arguing against the entrenched understanding that resistance in Foucault is necessarily negative, or impossible. We concentrate on a speci…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The article aims to take a stand in the debates surrounding the potential contribution of the theoreticians of the first generation of the Frankfurt School to postcolonial/decolonial theory, by showing …