Stefan Bird-Pollan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4126156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Bird-Pollan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bird-Pollan |
| SIGNATURE | BIRD-POLLAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0401-9975 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Does Adorno Have a Theory of Fascist Thinking
A psychoanalytic conceptual framework for understanding populism
In this paper, I argue for two claims. The first is that all social and political thinking lies along a continuum and that the structure of each thought along the continuum is that of a basic desire for self-determination. Self-determination, I argued, occurs in a variety of ways including, importantly, at a variety of levels of intention. On the one hand, there are the relatively unreflective ways of understanding oneself as autonomous. I attrib…
Making Conceptual Space for the Unconscious
Populism, Liberalism and the Eclipse of Emotion
I argue that the way philosophy conceives of the political subject fails to understand the populist subject. In Section I, I shall sketch an ambiguity in how Hobbes conceives of the political subject as both driven by the passions and yet capable of rationally subduing them. In Section II, I argue that these two different conceptions of the will lead to different models of political representation. In Section III, I offer an sketch of some of the…
Constitutive tension
Philosophy and working-through the past
Fanon, Freud and the psychological origins of colonial oppression
Critiques of Judgment
The Immanence of Space and History
What can be learned from a life, especially one that was dedicated to action? The few but extraordinary writings of Frantz Fanon, who died in 1961 of leukaemia, are a meditation on just this point
The singularity of being; Lacan and the immortal within
Fanon
I argue that Franz Fanon can usefully be situated in the tradition of German Idealism in the sense that he takes from Kant and especially Hegel the conception of agency as something to be achieved through struggle for the ideal of humanity as self-determining. Fanon sees the suffering cased by colonial rule in Africa and elsewhere as deriving from the systematic deprivation of agency by the colonial power. Using the work of Hegel, Fanon seeks to …
Hegel’s grounding of intersubjectivity in the master–slave dialectic
In this article I seek to explain Hegel’s significance to contemporary meta-ethics, in particular to Kantian constructivism. I argue that in the master–slave dialectic in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel shows that self-consciousness and intersubjectivity arise at the same time. This point, I argue, shows that there is no problem with taking other people’s reasons to motivate us since reflection on our aims is necessarily also reflection on the…
Nation state, capitalism, democracy
This article attempts, for the first time, to link some central motives in the thought of Jürgen Habermas with the biographical experiences of the philosopher and social theorist. What are the relations which Habermas himself thematizes in his life story by means of discursive analysis? Three elements are central: the change in significance of the nation state against the backdrop of the process of European integration, the concept of a deliberat…
Hegel’s grounding of intersubjectivity in the master–slave dialectic
In this article I seek to explain Hegel’s significance to contemporary meta-ethics, in particular to Kantian constructivism. I argue that in the master–slave dialectic in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel shows that self-consciousness and intersubjectivity arise at the same time. This point, I argue, shows that there is no problem with taking other people’s reasons to motivate us since reflection on our aims is necessarily also reflection on the…
Fanon
I argue that Franz Fanon can usefully be situated in the tradition of German Idealism in the sense that he takes from Kant and especially Hegel the conception of agency as something to be achieved through struggle for the ideal of humanity as self-determining. Fanon sees the suffering cased by colonial rule in Africa and elsewhere as deriving from the systematic deprivation of agency by the colonial power. Using the work of Hegel, Fanon seeks to …
Fanon, Freud and the psychological origins of colonial oppression
Nation state, capitalism, democracy
This article attempts, for the first time, to link some central motives in the thought of Jürgen Habermas with the biographical experiences of the philosopher and social theorist. What are the relations which Habermas himself thematizes in his life story by means of discursive analysis? Three elements are central: the change in significance of the nation state against the backdrop of the process of European integration, the concept of a deliberat…
Nation state, capitalism, democracy
This article attempts, for the first time, to link some central motives in the thought of Jürgen Habermas with the biographical experiences of the philosopher and social theorist. What are the relations which Habermas himself thematizes in his life story by means of discursive analysis? Three elements are central: the change in significance of the nation state against the backdrop of the process of European integration, the concept of a deliberat…
Fanon
I argue that Franz Fanon can usefully be situated in the tradition of German Idealism in the sense that he takes from Kant and especially Hegel the conception of agency as something to be achieved through struggle for the ideal of humanity as self-determining. Fanon sees the suffering cased by colonial rule in Africa and elsewhere as deriving from the systematic deprivation of agency by the colonial power. Using the work of Hegel, Fanon seeks to …
Hegel’s grounding of intersubjectivity in the master–slave dialectic
In this article I seek to explain Hegel’s significance to contemporary meta-ethics, in particular to Kantian constructivism. I argue that in the master–slave dialectic in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel shows that self-consciousness and intersubjectivity arise at the same time. This point, I argue, shows that there is no problem with taking other people’s reasons to motivate us since reflection on our aims is necessarily also reflection on the…
Critiques of Judgment
The Immanence of Space and History
What can be learned from a life, especially one that was dedicated to action? The few but extraordinary writings of Frantz Fanon, who died in 1961 of leukaemia, are a meditation on just this point
The singularity of being; Lacan and the immortal within
Fanon, Freud and the psychological origins of colonial oppression
Philosophy and working-through the past
Constitutive tension
Populism, Liberalism and the Eclipse of Emotion
I argue that the way philosophy conceives of the political subject fails to understand the populist subject. In Section I, I shall sketch an ambiguity in how Hobbes conceives of the political subject as both driven by the passions and yet capable of rationally subduing them. In Section II, I argue that these two different conceptions of the will lead to different models of political representation. In Section III, I offer an sketch of some of the…
A psychoanalytic conceptual framework for understanding populism
In this paper, I argue for two claims. The first is that all social and political thinking lies along a continuum and that the structure of each thought along the continuum is that of a basic desire for self-determination. Self-determination, I argued, occurs in a variety of ways including, importantly, at a variety of levels of intention. On the one hand, there are the relatively unreflective ways of understanding oneself as autonomous. I attrib…
Making Conceptual Space for the Unconscious
Does Adorno Have a Theory of Fascist Thinking
Philosophy (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)