Critical HorizonsPub Date : 2024-02-21DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2024.2313437
Antoon Vandevelde
{"title":"The Concept of Solidarity – A Humean Perspective","authors":"Antoon Vandevelde","doi":"10.1080/14409917.2024.2313437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2024.2313437","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I define solidarity as the willingness to share with people we do not know personally but whom we consider to be equal to ourselves on the basis of some common feature allowing for...","PeriodicalId":51905,"journal":{"name":"Critical Horizons","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139917764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical HorizonsPub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2024.2313433
Roberto Mordacci
{"title":"Active Respect and Critical Solidarity","authors":"Roberto Mordacci","doi":"10.1080/14409917.2024.2313433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2024.2313433","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that, to distinguish between “critical” and “uncritical” solidarity, the normative concept of solidarity must be grounded on the principle of respect for persons. I start analyz...","PeriodicalId":51905,"journal":{"name":"Critical Horizons","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139764971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical HorizonsPub Date : 2024-02-11DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2024.2313434
Francesca Pongiglione
{"title":"The Epistemic Requirements of Solidarity","authors":"Francesca Pongiglione","doi":"10.1080/14409917.2024.2313434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2024.2313434","url":null,"abstract":"The global age has confronted human beings with new and numerous challenges, from global poverty, to labour exploitation, to climate change. Many individuals, aware of such challenges, wish to act ...","PeriodicalId":51905,"journal":{"name":"Critical Horizons","volume":"23 5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139764784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical HorizonsPub Date : 2024-01-29DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2023.2286866
Christine Abbt
{"title":"The Captivated Gaze. Diderot’s Allegory of the Cave and Democracy","authors":"Christine Abbt","doi":"10.1080/14409917.2023.2286866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2023.2286866","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of the captivated gaze has been taken up repeatedly in philosophy. Plato's Allegory of the Cave stands paradigmatically for this. Here, the gaze at the shadowy images prevents people fr...","PeriodicalId":51905,"journal":{"name":"Critical Horizons","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139764783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical HorizonsPub Date : 2023-12-24DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2023.2286869
Michael Räber
{"title":"Struggles Over Recognition Under Conditions of Hypervisibility: Honneth, Rancière, and Ellison on the Politics of Perception","authors":"Michael Räber","doi":"10.1080/14409917.2023.2286869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2023.2286869","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores two emancipatory ways that the struggle over recognition can take under conditions of social invisibility and hyper-visibility: that of social visibilization, and that of a dial...","PeriodicalId":51905,"journal":{"name":"Critical Horizons","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139037014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical HorizonsPub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2023.2286865
Emmanuel Alloa
{"title":"Invisibility: From Discrimination to Resistance","authors":"Emmanuel Alloa","doi":"10.1080/14409917.2023.2286865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2023.2286865","url":null,"abstract":"The paper takes heed of the fact that, when evaluating normative issues through the semantics of visibility and invisibility, a transfer takes place from optical to political semantics which is not...","PeriodicalId":51905,"journal":{"name":"Critical Horizons","volume":"111 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138581174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical HorizonsPub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2023.2286867
David Owen
{"title":"Ways of (Not) Seeing: (In)visibility, Equality and the Politics of Recognition","authors":"David Owen","doi":"10.1080/14409917.2023.2286867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2023.2286867","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the theorization of (in)visibility in Honneth, Ranciere, Cavell and Tully. It situates the work of Honneth and Ranciere against the background of Wittgenstein's account of con...","PeriodicalId":51905,"journal":{"name":"Critical Horizons","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138581284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical HorizonsPub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2023.2286868
Tina Chanter
{"title":"Impossible Identifications: How Can Rancière Help us to Think the Black Lives Matter Movement, and How Can the Black Lives Matter Movement Help us to Rethink Rancière?","authors":"Tina Chanter","doi":"10.1080/14409917.2023.2286868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2023.2286868","url":null,"abstract":"I consider Bromell’s critique of Rancière in the context of a discussion of the Black Lives Matter movement, focusing on taking a knee. I argue that Rancière’s analysis can shed light on the Black ...","PeriodicalId":51905,"journal":{"name":"Critical Horizons","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138581248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical HorizonsPub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2023.2286864
Michael Räber
{"title":"Introduction: The Aesthetics and Politics of (In)Visibility","authors":"Michael Räber","doi":"10.1080/14409917.2023.2286864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2023.2286864","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":51905,"journal":{"name":"Critical Horizons","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138506861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical HorizonsPub Date : 2023-10-12DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2023.2262340
Raf Geenens
{"title":"Unity and Division. Lefort and Clastres on the Role of Power in the Constitution of Society","authors":"Raf Geenens","doi":"10.1080/14409917.2023.2262340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2023.2262340","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article looks at the relation between the ideas of philosopher Claude Lefort and ethnologist Pierre Clastres. Both French authors worked in the same paradigm. They were convinced that politics is the “infrastructure” of society: all societies are politically constituted and can only be understood by interpreting the workings of political power. Yet they strongly disagreed on the dividedness of society. Clastres believed that a good solution to the problem of power is possible, while Lefort believes that the presence of power points to the impossibility of any society to coincide with itself. This article also discusses the way they both use the expression “the place of power” and asks to what extent non-Western societies were, both for Clastres and for Lefort, ever more than just a foil to present and illuminate their strongly held theoretical beliefs.KEYWORDS: DemocracypowerexoticismClaude LefortPierre Clastres Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 A much earlier version of this text was published in German as “Claude Lefort Und Pierre Clastres: Einheit Und Teilung.”2 The word “decentre” is particularly apt here as Clastres claims that he is effectuating a Copernican revolution. So far, ethnology was practiced from within the Western world view, as a purportedly neutral vantage point. But this will never do justice to the proper being of primitive societies (Clastres, La Société Contre l’état. Recherches d’anthropologie Politique, 23.).3 As Judith Revel explains, Clastres’s project in this regard resembles that of his contemporaries Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. For them as well, the challenge is to stop reintegrating what is other under our own norms (Revel, Foucault: Une Pensée Du Discontinu, 253–4.). Revel especially explores the analogy with Foucault. Christopher Holman also emphasises this aspect of Clastres’s thought (Holman, “Pierre Clastres as Comparative Political Theorist.”).4 An exception is Samuel Moyn’s 2012 article “Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division,” which dedicates several pages to Lefort’s interpretation of Clastres’s work. Moyn’s most important text on Clastres is entitled “Of savagery and civil society: Pierre Clastres and the transformation of French political thought” (2004). This text does not discuss Lefort but is highly recommended. There are also some informative pages on the relation between Clastres and Lefort in Bernard Flynn’s The Philosophy of Claude Lefort. Interpreting the Political (94–8).5 See my “Democracy, Human Rights, and History: Reading Lefort.”6 Lefort, “Société 'sans Histoire’ et Historicité.”7 The word suffociation (“étouffement”) is used in the original text but has been left out in the re-publication (see page 108 in the 1952 version).8 Lefort, “Société ‘sans Histoire’ et Historicité,” 66.9 Lefort, 69–70.10 Howard, The Marxian Legacy, 250. Note that Dick Howard is commenting on Lefort’s first text on pr","PeriodicalId":51905,"journal":{"name":"Critical Horizons","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136014559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}