Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article addresses two explanatory gaps in Althusser’s late work. One has to do with the relation between nominalism and materialism; the other engages the relation between Althusser’s later materia…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In this essay, I assess Stalin’s ideas and concepts about nationalities, their ‘manipulability’ and their legacies. I do this by briefly reconstructing their theoretical and political roots in both Tsar…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article offers a critical phenomenological analysis of prevailing myths of menopause. By drawing on Simone de Beauvoir’s conceptions of myths that essentialize existence, we have analyzed contempor…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Richard Rorty does have something ‘to say to [Black Americans]’ and to their racially conscious nonblack allies in the sense that his understanding of liberalism, his prophecies about the future and his…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Radical theories of democracy deal only marginally with climate impacts. Judith Butler is part of this tradition and has worked on ecological issues in recent years. She might help contribute to beginni…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Though John Rawls’s treatment of stability has received less attention than other parts of his work, it promises help in understanding how liberal institutions can reproduce themselves under non-ideal c…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Though John Rawls’s treatment of stability has received less attention than other parts of his work, it promises help in understanding how liberal institutions can reproduce themselves under non-ideal c…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Developing a plausible theory of political obligation is crucial for understanding our current political lives or constructing new ones. However, it proved to be hard to arrive at a theory that is unive…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. How does literature engage with the legacies of Empire? This article examines how imperial decline and nation building are reflected in textual production after the First World War. With Turkey as a cas…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Han Fei was a central figure in Chinese Legalism, which was a leading school of thought in the Warring States period of China, and which left a huge imprint on political culture in imperial China. This …