Kenneth Baynes
Biographic Data
| ID | 1002089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Baynes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Baynes |
| SIGNATURE | BAYNES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-3193-8517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Political liberalism, public reason and the Goldilocks problem: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials
Michelman's Constitutional Essentials raises important questions about the idea of political liberalism and related idea of public reason. This essay offers a sympathetic commentary while also exploring the importance of the idea of reciprocity for both Rawls and Michelman
Criticizing democracy, democratizing critical theory: A brief retrospective on James Bohman's work
Social equality, social freedom and democracy
Habermas
This chapter examines Jürgen Habermas's major contributions to social and political thought. Habermas is regarded as one of the most influential figures in contemporary political theory. In his later work Habermas has begun to expand the normative political implications of his work in social theory and philosophy, culminating in Between Facts and Norms . This chapter first provides an overview of Habermas's earlier work, especially his study on t…
Habermas
Jürgen Habermas is one of the most important German philosophers and social theorists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. His work has been compared in scope with Max Weber’s, and in philosophical breadth to that of Kant and Hegel. In this much-needed introduction Kenneth Baynes engages with the full range of Habermas’s philosophical work, addressing his early arguments concerning the emergence of the public sphere and his initi…
Deliberative Democracy and Public Reason
O artigo reexamina as concepções habermasianas de política deliberativa e democracia procedimental à luz de outras teorias deliberativas, de forma a explorar as suas semelhanças e diferenças e investigar o quanto devem à ideia de razão pública e as implicações práticas daquela ideia
Discourse ethics and the political conception of human rights
This article examines two recent alternatives to the traditional conception of human rights as natural rights: the account of human rights found in discourse ethics and the ‘political conception’ of human rights influenced by the work of Rawls. I argue that both accounts have distinct merits and that they are not as opposed to one another as is sometimes supposed. At the same time, the discourse ethics account must confront a deep ambiguity in it…
Toward a political conception of human rights
Human rights have become a wider and more visible feature of our political discourse, yet many have also noted the great discrepancy between the human rights invoked in this discourse and traditional philosophical accounts that conceive of human rights as natural rights. This article explores an alternative approach in which human rights are conceived primarily as international norms aimed at securing the basic conditions of membership or inclusi…
Democratic equality and respect
O artigo procura mostrar que a idéia liberal de assegurar uma igual liberdade para todos deve ser reexaminada em dois âmbitos de discussões acerca de um desejável equilíbrio entre liberdade e igualdade, de forma a evitar a separação tanto da liberdade e da igualdade como dos domínios opondo reivindicações formais e substantivas. Estas devem antes ser consideradas em suas condições correlatas, exigidas para um exercício democrático efetivo da auto…
Democratic Equality and Respect
This essay explores two largely distinct discussions about equality: the 'luck egalitarian' debate concerning the appropriate metric of equality and the 'equality and difference' debate which has focused on the need for egalitarianism to consider the underlying norms in light of which the abstract principle to 'treat equals equally' operates. In the end, both of these discussions point to the importance of political equality for egalitarianism mo…
Special section: Lorenzo Simpson's The Unfinished Project : The hermeneutics of `situated cosmopolitanism
Gadamerian platitudes’ and rational interpretations
The article considers some of the methodological commitments - specifically, what Brandom calls ‘Gadamerian platitudes’ - defended in Tales of the Mighty Dead. I argue that, given his commitment to Gadamer’s model of dialogue and Vorgriff der Vollkommenheit (‘anticipation of completeness’), Brandom should also accept Habermas’ position on the ineliminability of the second-person or performative perspective concerning our interpretive claims
Ethos and Institution: On the Site of Distributive Justice
The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory
Critical Theory constitutes one of the major intellectual traditions of the twentieth century, and is centrally important for philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theory of art, the study of modern European literatures and music, the history of ideas, sociology, psychology, and cultural studies. In this volume an international team of distinguished contributors examines the major figures in Critical Theory, including Horkheimer, Adorno, M…
Understanding Evil
A Critical Theory Perspective on Civil Society and the State
Freedom and recognition in Hegel and Habermas
Contrary to some popular interpretations, I argue that Hegel and Habermas share many basic assumptions in their respective accounts of freedom. In particular, both respond to weaknesses in Kant’s idea of freedom as acting from (certain kinds of) reasons by explicating this idea with reference to specific social practices or ‘forms of recognition’ that in turn express suppositions and expectations that actors adopt with respect to one another. I i…
Critical Theory and World Politics
This book represents the first attempt to bring together the leading critical theorists of world politics to discuss both the promise and the pitfalls of their work. The authors range broadly across the terrain of world politics, engaging with both theory and emancipatory practice. Critiques by two scholars from other IR traditions are also included. The result is a seminal statement of the critical theory approach to understanding world politics…
Rights as Critique and the Critique of Rights: Karl Marx, Wendy Brown, and the Social Function of Rights
The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls and Habermas
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls and Habermas. By Kenneth Baynes. (State Univ. of New York Press, 1992. Pp. ix + 242. Price $18.95 p/b.) M.S. Lane M.S. Lane King’s College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 184, July 1996, Pages 399–401, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956455 Published: 01 July 1996
The Cambridge Companion to Habermas
Jurgen Habermas is unquestionably one of the foremost philosophers writing today. His notions of communicative action and rationality have exerted a profound influence within philosophy and the social sciences. This volume examines the historical and intellectual contexts out of which Habermas' work emerged, and offers an overview of his main ideas, including those in his most recent publication. Amongst the topics discussed are his relationship …
Communicative ethics, the public sphere and communication media
The normative assumptions and likely practical consequences of Jürgen Habermas 's communicative ethics and related conception of the public sphere have been the topic of much critical discussion. After reviewing some of the general features of Habermas's moral theory, I take up criticisms directed at his conception of the self or moral agency, his assumptions about the generalizability of human interests, and the supposed utopianism of his theory…
The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
xxxii,340p. ; 23cm
Books in Review
Constructivism and Practical Reason in Rawls
This essay argues that Rawls’s recent constructivist approach waivers between a relativist defense and a more Kantian account which grounds his conception of justice in the idea of an agreement between free and equal moral persons. It is suggested that this ambiguity lies at the center of his attempt to provide a “political not metaphysical” account which is also not “political in the wrong way”
Rights as Critique and the Critique of Rights: Karl Marx, Wendy Brown, and the Social Function of Rights
Communicative ethics, the public sphere and communication media
The normative assumptions and likely practical consequences of Jürgen Habermas 's communicative ethics and related conception of the public sphere have been the topic of much critical discussion. After reviewing some of the general features of Habermas's moral theory, I take up criticisms directed at his conception of the self or moral agency, his assumptions about the generalizability of human interests, and the supposed utopianism of his theory…
Discourse ethics and the political conception of human rights
This article examines two recent alternatives to the traditional conception of human rights as natural rights: the account of human rights found in discourse ethics and the ‘political conception’ of human rights influenced by the work of Rawls. I argue that both accounts have distinct merits and that they are not as opposed to one another as is sometimes supposed. At the same time, the discourse ethics account must confront a deep ambiguity in it…
Deliberative Democracy and Public Reason
O artigo reexamina as concepções habermasianas de política deliberativa e democracia procedimental à luz de outras teorias deliberativas, de forma a explorar as suas semelhanças e diferenças e investigar o quanto devem à ideia de razão pública e as implicações práticas daquela ideia
Freedom and recognition in Hegel and Habermas
Contrary to some popular interpretations, I argue that Hegel and Habermas share many basic assumptions in their respective accounts of freedom. In particular, both respond to weaknesses in Kant’s idea of freedom as acting from (certain kinds of) reasons by explicating this idea with reference to specific social practices or ‘forms of recognition’ that in turn express suppositions and expectations that actors adopt with respect to one another. I i…
Political liberalism, public reason and the Goldilocks problem: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials
Michelman's Constitutional Essentials raises important questions about the idea of political liberalism and related idea of public reason. This essay offers a sympathetic commentary while also exploring the importance of the idea of reciprocity for both Rawls and Michelman
Toward a political conception of human rights
Human rights have become a wider and more visible feature of our political discourse, yet many have also noted the great discrepancy between the human rights invoked in this discourse and traditional philosophical accounts that conceive of human rights as natural rights. This article explores an alternative approach in which human rights are conceived primarily as international norms aimed at securing the basic conditions of membership or inclusi…
The Liberal/Communitarian Controversy and Communicative Ethics
Kant on Property Rights and the Social Contract
Journal Article Kant on Property Rights and the Social Contract Get access Kenneth Baynes Kenneth Baynes State University of New York Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 72, Issue 3, 1 July 1989, Pages 433–453, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist198972319 Published: 09 December 2014
Constructivism and Practical Reason in Rawls
This essay argues that Rawls’s recent constructivist approach waivers between a relativist defense and a more Kantian account which grounds his conception of justice in the idea of an agreement between free and equal moral persons. It is suggested that this ambiguity lies at the center of his attempt to provide a “political not metaphysical” account which is also not “political in the wrong way”
Social Action and Human Nature
This work applies itself to a critique of Marxian theory, which is especially sensitive to issues in the new social movements, ecological and feminist. The work of writers such as Gehlen and Plessner, and that of three historical anthropologists is discussed
The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
xxxii,340p. ; 23cm
Books in Review
Communicative ethics, the public sphere and communication media
The normative assumptions and likely practical consequences of Jürgen Habermas 's communicative ethics and related conception of the public sphere have been the topic of much critical discussion. After reviewing some of the general features of Habermas's moral theory, I take up criticisms directed at his conception of the self or moral agency, his assumptions about the generalizability of human interests, and the supposed utopianism of his theory…
The Cambridge Companion to Habermas
Jurgen Habermas is unquestionably one of the foremost philosophers writing today. His notions of communicative action and rationality have exerted a profound influence within philosophy and the social sciences. This volume examines the historical and intellectual contexts out of which Habermas' work emerged, and offers an overview of his main ideas, including those in his most recent publication. Amongst the topics discussed are his relationship …
The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls and Habermas
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls and Habermas. By Kenneth Baynes. (State Univ. of New York Press, 1992. Pp. ix + 242. Price $18.95 p/b.) M.S. Lane M.S. Lane King’s College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 184, July 1996, Pages 399–401, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956455 Published: 01 July 1996
Critical Theory and World Politics
This book represents the first attempt to bring together the leading critical theorists of world politics to discuss both the promise and the pitfalls of their work. The authors range broadly across the terrain of world politics, engaging with both theory and emancipatory practice. Critiques by two scholars from other IR traditions are also included. The result is a seminal statement of the critical theory approach to understanding world politics…
Rights as Critique and the Critique of Rights: Karl Marx, Wendy Brown, and the Social Function of Rights
A Critical Theory Perspective on Civil Society and the State
Freedom and recognition in Hegel and Habermas
Contrary to some popular interpretations, I argue that Hegel and Habermas share many basic assumptions in their respective accounts of freedom. In particular, both respond to weaknesses in Kant’s idea of freedom as acting from (certain kinds of) reasons by explicating this idea with reference to specific social practices or ‘forms of recognition’ that in turn express suppositions and expectations that actors adopt with respect to one another. I i…
The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory
Critical Theory constitutes one of the major intellectual traditions of the twentieth century, and is centrally important for philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theory of art, the study of modern European literatures and music, the history of ideas, sociology, psychology, and cultural studies. In this volume an international team of distinguished contributors examines the major figures in Critical Theory, including Horkheimer, Adorno, M…
Understanding Evil
Ethos and Institution: On the Site of Distributive Justice
Special section: Lorenzo Simpson's The Unfinished Project : The hermeneutics of `situated cosmopolitanism
Gadamerian platitudes’ and rational interpretations
The article considers some of the methodological commitments - specifically, what Brandom calls ‘Gadamerian platitudes’ - defended in Tales of the Mighty Dead. I argue that, given his commitment to Gadamer’s model of dialogue and Vorgriff der Vollkommenheit (‘anticipation of completeness’), Brandom should also accept Habermas’ position on the ineliminability of the second-person or performative perspective concerning our interpretive claims
Democratic equality and respect
O artigo procura mostrar que a idéia liberal de assegurar uma igual liberdade para todos deve ser reexaminada em dois âmbitos de discussões acerca de um desejável equilíbrio entre liberdade e igualdade, de forma a evitar a separação tanto da liberdade e da igualdade como dos domínios opondo reivindicações formais e substantivas. Estas devem antes ser consideradas em suas condições correlatas, exigidas para um exercício democrático efetivo da auto…
Democratic Equality and Respect
This essay explores two largely distinct discussions about equality: the 'luck egalitarian' debate concerning the appropriate metric of equality and the 'equality and difference' debate which has focused on the need for egalitarianism to consider the underlying norms in light of which the abstract principle to 'treat equals equally' operates. In the end, both of these discussions point to the importance of political equality for egalitarianism mo…
Discourse ethics and the political conception of human rights
This article examines two recent alternatives to the traditional conception of human rights as natural rights: the account of human rights found in discourse ethics and the ‘political conception’ of human rights influenced by the work of Rawls. I argue that both accounts have distinct merits and that they are not as opposed to one another as is sometimes supposed. At the same time, the discourse ethics account must confront a deep ambiguity in it…
Toward a political conception of human rights
Human rights have become a wider and more visible feature of our political discourse, yet many have also noted the great discrepancy between the human rights invoked in this discourse and traditional philosophical accounts that conceive of human rights as natural rights. This article explores an alternative approach in which human rights are conceived primarily as international norms aimed at securing the basic conditions of membership or inclusi…
Deliberative Democracy and Public Reason
O artigo reexamina as concepções habermasianas de política deliberativa e democracia procedimental à luz de outras teorias deliberativas, de forma a explorar as suas semelhanças e diferenças e investigar o quanto devem à ideia de razão pública e as implicações práticas daquela ideia
Habermas
Jürgen Habermas is one of the most important German philosophers and social theorists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. His work has been compared in scope with Max Weber’s, and in philosophical breadth to that of Kant and Hegel. In this much-needed introduction Kenneth Baynes engages with the full range of Habermas’s philosophical work, addressing his early arguments concerning the emergence of the public sphere and his initi…
Habermas
This chapter examines Jürgen Habermas's major contributions to social and political thought. Habermas is regarded as one of the most influential figures in contemporary political theory. In his later work Habermas has begun to expand the normative political implications of his work in social theory and philosophy, culminating in Between Facts and Norms . This chapter first provides an overview of Habermas's earlier work, especially his study on t…
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