Andrew J Pierce
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew J Pierce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Pierce |
| SIGNATURE | PIERCE A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Mary's College Notre Dame IN 46556 USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0231-7549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
If Racism is Self-Love, then What is Anti-Racism? in advance: A Reply to Silva’s Racism as Self-Love
This paper explores the implications of Grant Silva’s account of racism as self-love, particularly its implications for resisting racism and pursuing racial justice. I argue that the Rousseauian concept of amour-propre, or self-love, which Silva relies on, can take a positive form, allowing for the possibility of redirecting white self-interest toward anti-racist projects. This argument makes conceptual space for an anti-racist politics that is g…
To conceal domination in production’: Horkheimer and Adorno’s critical functionalist theory of race
This article revisits the Frankfurt School’s reflections on race, anti-Semitism and fascism, focusing especially on the theory of race implicit in Dialectic of Enlightenment. It argues that this theory has the potential to be developed into a critical functionalist theory of race that avoids both class and race reductionism, offering a thoroughly intersectional competitor to currently dominant philosophies of race. The key to such a theory is the…
Justice without Solidarity? Collective Identity and the Fate of the ‘Ethical’ in Habermas' Recent Political Theory
In past work, Habermas has claimed that justice and solidarity stand in a complementary relationship—that ‘ethical’ relations of solidarity are the ‘reverse side’ of justice. Yet in a recent address to the World Congress of Philosophy , he rejects this idea. This paper argues against this rejection. After explaining the idea, arguing for its centrality to Habermas' thought, and evaluating Habermas' scant reflections on this major transformation, …
Globalizing Human Rights, Transforming Global Capitalism. A Review of David Ingram’s World Crisis and Underdevelopment: A Critical Theory of Poverty, Agency, and Coercion
Authentic Identities
The Myth of the White Minority
In recent years, and especially in the wake of Barack Obama's reelection, projections that whites will soon become a minority have proliferated. In this essay, I will argue that such predictions are misleading at best, as they rest on questionable philosophical presuppositions, including the presupposition that racial concepts like 'whiteness' are static and unchanging rather than fluid and continually being reconstructed. If I am right about the…
Aesthetic Mediation and the Politics of Technology: (Re)New(ed) Strategies for a Critical Social Theory
There is a rich history in early critical theory of attempting to harness the power of aesthetic imagination for the purposes of political liberation. But this approach has largely faded to the background of contemporary critical theory, eclipsed lately by attempts to reconstruct and apply norms of rationality to processes of democratic will formation à la Habermas. This paper represents a small attempt to return the aesthetic element to its prop…
Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription
Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right to determine the meaning of their shared group identity, and that such a right is especially important for historically oppressed groups. The author specifies this right by way of a modified discourse ethic, demonstrating that it can provide the foundation for a conception of identity politics that avoids many of its usual pit…
Collective identity, oppression, and the right to self-ascription
Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right to determine the meaning of their shared group identity, and that such a right is especially important for historically oppressed groups. The author specifies this right by way of a modified discourse ethic, demonstrating that it can provide the foundation for a conception of identity politics that avoids many of its usual pit…
Protestant Theology at the Crossroads: How to Face the Crucial Tasks for Theology in the Twenty-First Century
The Myth of the White Minority
In recent years, and especially in the wake of Barack Obama's reelection, projections that whites will soon become a minority have proliferated. In this essay, I will argue that such predictions are misleading at best, as they rest on questionable philosophical presuppositions, including the presupposition that racial concepts like 'whiteness' are static and unchanging rather than fluid and continually being reconstructed. If I am right about the…
Protestant Theology at the Crossroads: How to Face the Crucial Tasks for Theology in the Twenty-First Century
Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription
Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right to determine the meaning of their shared group identity, and that such a right is especially important for historically oppressed groups. The author specifies this right by way of a modified discourse ethic, demonstrating that it can provide the foundation for a conception of identity politics that avoids many of its usual pit…
Collective identity, oppression, and the right to self-ascription
Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right to determine the meaning of their shared group identity, and that such a right is especially important for historically oppressed groups. The author specifies this right by way of a modified discourse ethic, demonstrating that it can provide the foundation for a conception of identity politics that avoids many of its usual pit…
Aesthetic Mediation and the Politics of Technology: (Re)New(ed) Strategies for a Critical Social Theory
There is a rich history in early critical theory of attempting to harness the power of aesthetic imagination for the purposes of political liberation. But this approach has largely faded to the background of contemporary critical theory, eclipsed lately by attempts to reconstruct and apply norms of rationality to processes of democratic will formation à la Habermas. This paper represents a small attempt to return the aesthetic element to its prop…
Authentic Identities
The Myth of the White Minority
In recent years, and especially in the wake of Barack Obama's reelection, projections that whites will soon become a minority have proliferated. In this essay, I will argue that such predictions are misleading at best, as they rest on questionable philosophical presuppositions, including the presupposition that racial concepts like 'whiteness' are static and unchanging rather than fluid and continually being reconstructed. If I am right about the…
Justice without Solidarity? Collective Identity and the Fate of the ‘Ethical’ in Habermas' Recent Political Theory
In past work, Habermas has claimed that justice and solidarity stand in a complementary relationship—that ‘ethical’ relations of solidarity are the ‘reverse side’ of justice. Yet in a recent address to the World Congress of Philosophy , he rejects this idea. This paper argues against this rejection. After explaining the idea, arguing for its centrality to Habermas' thought, and evaluating Habermas' scant reflections on this major transformation, …
Globalizing Human Rights, Transforming Global Capitalism. A Review of David Ingram’s World Crisis and Underdevelopment: A Critical Theory of Poverty, Agency, and Coercion
To conceal domination in production’: Horkheimer and Adorno’s critical functionalist theory of race
This article revisits the Frankfurt School’s reflections on race, anti-Semitism and fascism, focusing especially on the theory of race implicit in Dialectic of Enlightenment. It argues that this theory has the potential to be developed into a critical functionalist theory of race that avoids both class and race reductionism, offering a thoroughly intersectional competitor to currently dominant philosophies of race. The key to such a theory is the…
If Racism is Self-Love, then What is Anti-Racism? in advance: A Reply to Silva’s Racism as Self-Love
This paper explores the implications of Grant Silva’s account of racism as self-love, particularly its implications for resisting racism and pursuing racial justice. I argue that the Rousseauian concept of amour-propre, or self-love, which Silva relies on, can take a positive form, allowing for the possibility of redirecting white self-interest toward anti-racist projects. This argument makes conceptual space for an anti-racist politics that is g…
Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)