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    Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory.Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon & Max Pensky - 2018 - University of Chicago Press.
    Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to “traditional values,” in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only on the far fringes through most of the postwar era? Does it herald a new wave of authoritarianism? Is liberal democracy itself in crisis? In this volume, three distinguished scholars draw on critical theory to address our (...)
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    Amnesty on trial: impunity, accountability, and the norms of international law.Max Pensky - 2008 - Ethics and Global Politics 1 (1-2).
    An emerging consensus regards domestic amnesties for international crimes as generally inconsistent with international law. This legal consensus rests on a norm against impunity: the chief role of international criminal law, and of the fledgling International Criminal Court , is to end impunity for violators of the worst of criminal acts. But the anti-impunity norm, and the anti-amnesty consensus that has arisen from it, now face serious difficulties. The ICC's role in the ongoing conflict in Northern Uganda illustrates the deadlock (...)
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  3. Natural history: The life and afterlife of a concept in Adorno.Max Pensky - 2004 - Critical Horizons 5 (1):227-258.
    Theodor Adorno's concept of 'natural history' [Naturgeschichte] was central for a number of Adorno's theoretical projects, but remains elusive. In this essay, I analyse different dimensions of the concept of natural history, distinguishing amongst (a) a reflection on the normative and methodological bases of philosophical anthropology and critical social science; (b) a conception of critical memory oriented toward the preservation of the memory of historical suffering; and (c) the notion of 'mindfulness of nature in the subject' provocatively asserted in Max (...)
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    Two cheers for cosmopolitanism: Cosmopolitan solidarity as second-order inclusion.Max Pensky - 2007 - Journal of Social Philosophy 38 (1):165–184.
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    (1 other version)The Ends of Solidarity: Discourse Theory in Ethics and Politics.Max Pensky - 2008 - State University of New York Press.
    An in-depth look at the theory of solidarity of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, serving also as a comprehensive introduction to his work.
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    Critique and Disappointment.Max Pensky - 2019 - In Peter Eli Gordon (ed.), A companion to Adorno. Hoboken: Wiley. pp. 503–517.
    Why did Theodor W. Adorno write Negative Dialectics? In an age where, as Adorno argued in that book, philosophy appears to have become obsolete, answering this question requires reconstructing Adorno's complex views on the role, status, and possibility of philosophical thinking after its “appointment” with its historical hour was missed. This chapter explores this concept of lateness by reconstructing the ways in which Negative Dialectics, indeed all of Adorno's philosophical work, is an exercise in “disappointment.”.
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    The Actuality of Adorno: Critical Essays on Adorno and the Postmodern.Max Pensky (ed.) - 1997 - State University of New York Press.
    Brings together some of the most prominent and influential contemporary interpreters of Adorno's work in a wide-ranging collection of essays that explores Adorno's relation to themes and problems in postmodern thought.
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    Two cheers for the impunity norm.Max Pensky - 2016 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (4-5):487-499.
    International criminal law is dedicated to the battle against impunity. However, the concept of impunity lacks clarity. Providing that clarity also reveals challenges for the current state and future prospects of the project of ICL, which this article frames in cosmopolitan terms. The ‘impunity norm’ of ICL is generally presented in a deontic form. It holds that impunity for perpetrators of international crimes is a wrong so profound that states and international bodies have a pro tanto duty to prosecute and (...)
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    Beyond the Message in a Bottle: The Other Critical Theory.Max Pensky - 2003 - Constellations 10 (1):135-144.
    Book reviewed in this article:Alex Demirović, Der nonkonformistische Intellektuelle. Die Entwicklung der Kritischen Theorie zur Frankfurter Schule.
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    Cosmopolitanism and the Solidarity Problem: Habermas on National and Cultural Identities.Max Pensky - 2000 - Constellations 7 (1):64-79.
  11. On the use and abuse of memory: Habermas, "anamnestic solidarity," and the historikerstreit.Max Pensky - 1989 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 15 (4):351-380.
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    Contributions toward a theory of storms: Historical knowing and historical progress in Kant and Benjamin.Max Pensky - 2010 - Philosophical Forum 41 (1-2):149-174.
    There is a picture by Klee called Angelus Novus . It shows an angel who seems about to move away from something he stares at. His eyes are wide, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how the angel of history must look. His face is turned toward the past. Where a chain of events appears before us, he sees one single catastrophe, which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it at his feet. The angel would (...)
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    Comments on Seyla Benhabib, The Claims of Culture.Max Pensky - 2004 - Constellations 11 (2):258-265.
  14. Jürgen Habermas and the Antinomies of the Intellectual.Max Pensky - 1999 - In Peter Dews (ed.), Habermas: a critical reader. Malden, Mass., USA: Blackwell. pp. 211--37.
     
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    Blackwell Companion to Adorno.Peter E. Gordon, Espen Hammer & Maxim Pensky (eds.) - forthcoming - Wiley-Blackwell.
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  16. Solidarity as fact or norm?: Social integration between system and lifeworld.Max Pensky - 2006 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 32 (7):819-823.
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    A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law During the Great War. By Isabel V. Hull.Max Pensky - 2017 - Constellations 24 (1):135-137.
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    Critical Theory and the Politics of Memory.Max Pensky - 2008 - Philosophy Today 52 (Supplement):114-123.
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    Jewishness and jurisgenesis: On Seyla Benhabib’s Exile, Statelessness and Migration.Max Pensky - 2020 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 46 (1):10-17.
    The postwar era saw a remarkable transformation of international law, from a loose arrangement of agreements designed to reduce collective action problems to a normative commitment to the inherent dignity of the individual person. Seyla Benhabib’s new book shows the extent to which this transformation was a matter of deeply personal experiences. Understanding this dialectic between the personal and the universal is crucial for understanding not just the genesis of contemporary normative international law, but also its prospects for survival. This (...)
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    Jürgen Habermas, Existential Hero?Max Pensky - 2005 - Radical Philosophy Review 8 (2):197-209.
    This review of Martin Matuštík’s Jürgen Habermas: A Philosophical-Political Profile questions whether Matuštík’s description of theexistentialist dimensions of Habermas’s political theory is adequate to the internal differentiation of Habermas’s conception of a substantive ethical life. In doing so, it questions whether Habermas’ own theory adequately distinguishes between first-person singular and first-person plural ethical discourse. The review closes with a reflection on ethical self-reflection and the collective past, a theme that Matuštík’s book discusses under the theme of “anamnestic solidarity.”.
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    New old Prague.Max Pensky - 2017 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 43 (3):310-311.
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  22. Pragmatism and Solidarity with the Past.Max Pensky - 2009 - In Chad Kautzer & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire. Indiana University Press. pp. 73.
     
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    Third Generation Critical Theory.Max Pensky - 1998 - In Simon Critchley & William Ralph Schroeder (eds.), A Companion to Continental Philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 407–416.
    A “third generation” of critical theory can no longer be said to be composed of anything as cohesive and unified as a “school.” Critical theory today continues across a much more diverse spectrum of different philosophical approaches, influences, and questions. Its adherents are no longer united by national, geographical, or even linguistic ties, and do not necessarily even share the basic commitment to radical political change that characterized first generation critical theory. How, then, ought one to characterize the spectrum of (...)
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    The Relevance of the Past: Between Construction and Debt.Max Pensky - 2003 - Intertexts 7 (2):131-142.
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    Review of Thomas wheatland, The Frankfurt School in Exile[REVIEW]Max Pensky - 2010 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (1).
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