Philosophy & Social Criticism
Violence, economic development, and knowledge production
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The notion of economic violence has long been recognized in the work of Johan Galtung and others. The work of Thomas Pogge and the field of global justice have addressed the impact of economic dispariti…
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The ethics of knowledge production and the problem of global knowledge inequality
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Given demonstrated global knowledge inequality, this article attempts to draw out the connection between tertiary education and research (TER), economic development and infrastructure, and human develop…
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Linguistic domination: A republican approach to linguistic justice
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Linguistic justice is about institutions distributing material and symbolic resources fairly when they are faced with linguistic diversity. However, no theory of linguistic justice has developed a syste…
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Introduction: Nationalism, nation-building, and the decline of empires
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In May 2023, Reset Dialogues on Civilizations organized the international conference ‘Nationalism, Nation-Building, and the Decline of Empires’ in Dublin. The purpose was to gather a group of historians…
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Foucault’s naturalism: The importance of scientific epistemology for the genealogical method
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article offers a novel reconstruction of Foucault’s methodology that emphasises his respect for the natural sciences. Foucault’s work has long been suspected of reducing knowledge to power, and thu…
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From the age of immanence to the autonomy of the political: (Post)operaismo in theory and practice
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article critically examines the transition from Marx to Spinoza within Antonio Negri’s postoperaist thought and explores a potential alternative rooted in Mario Tronti’s concept of the ‘autonomy of…
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The third Ukraine: A case of civic nationalism
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. To some extent, the current Russian-Ukrainian may be described as a conflict between two visions of nation, respectively, ethnic and civic models. Putin believes that a language defines a nation. In his…
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From empire to nation: Management of religious pluralism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The transition from empire to nation-state poses challenges in managing religious and ethnic pluralism. Empires, characterized by hierarchical structures and diversity, contrast with nation-states, whic…
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Political friendship, respect, community: Hannah Arendt’s de-materialization of Aristotelian political friendship
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In this article I demonstrate how Hannah Arendt both appropriates and transforms Aristotle’s view of political friendship. I argue that the brief discussion of Aristotelian political friendship in The H…