Gulshan Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gulshan Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gulshan |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9462-7450 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Against received opinion
In philosophy and political theory, the term paradox is often used synonymously with antinomy, contradiction and aporia. This article clarifies the meaning of these terms through tracing their respective etymology. We see that antinomy denotes a deep-seated conceptual opposition, whereas contradiction and aporia represent alternative responses to antinomy. The former presents the antinomy as potentially resolvable at some future time, and the lat…
The Anthropocene as abstract machine – a conversation
Dissensual politics
From domination to emancipation and freedom
In this paper, I bring Ernesto Laclau's post-Marxist approach into conversation with the analytical thinker Philip Pettit, who has developed an influential neo-republican conception of freedom as ‘non-domination’. Both thinkers aim to reconfigure power and domination towards more democratic and egalitarian relations and I evaluate the political implications of their respective conceptions of domination/non-domination, emancipation and freedom. I …
Rereading Habermas's charge of “performative contradiction” in light of Derrida's account of the paradoxes of philosophical grounding
contradiction' in light of Derrida's account of the paradoxes of philosophical groundingSeveral commentators have blamed poststructuralism for the advent of 'post truth' politics (Grayling, 2015;Calcutt, 2016;Coughlan, 2017).The suggestion is that poststructuralist claims about 'antifoundationalism' prepared the ground for the current situation; where leading statesmen now dismiss seemingly factual information as 'fake news', and, on a paucity of…
Beyond the Ontological Turn
In this article, I critically evaluate a characteristic tendency that is found across the various traditions of poststructuralism, both narrowly and more broadly defined. This is an increasing propensity to be preoccupied with ontological questions and seemingly at the expense of either a refinement of political concepts or a concrete analysis of forms of power and domination. I consider the reasons for this development and stress how this charac…
The Politics of Poststructuralism Today
Critical republicanism
Vital Materiality and Non-Human Agency
Jane Bennett, Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, published her awaited book Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things in 2010. Her distinctive notion of ‘vibrant matter’ invokes a new and different political imaginary outside the Hegelian and psychoanalytic framework of the subject and object/other relation. Bennett demonstrates that both human and nonhuman entities (including ino…
Politics and morality in Habermas’ discourse ethics
In this article I argue that Jürgen Habermas’ notion of morality (moral norms) has more in common with Hegel’s notion of ‘ethical life’ as a ‘ sittlich’ relation – understood as a socially integrative force – rather than Kant’s supreme principle of personal morality. I show that Habermas and Hegel, each in his own way, make a distinction between morality and ethics. However, I make the case that Habermas’ conception of ‘morality’ incorporates asp…
Habermas and Oakeshott on Rationalism, Morality and Democratic Politics
In this article I compare Michael Oakeshott's and Jürgen Habermas' respective accounts of morality, rationality and politics. I show that they both theorise the conditions of the modern political community as a ‘civil association’, and I argue that this comparison enables us to challenge predominant understandings of each thinker and to address criticisms levelled against them. I demonstrate that the contextualist and Hegelian aspects of Habermas…
Agency, Nature and Emergent Properties
Habermas
Pluralisation
In this article I demonstrate that William Connolly's ‘ethos of pluralisation’ and Ernesto Laclau's theory of ‘hegemony’ are incompatible conceptions of theorising societal relations and collective political formations. I argue that Laclau's notion of hegemony has narcissistic and authoritarian implications by demonstrating the close proximity between his account of politics and Theodor Adorno's analysis of ‘authoritarian’ discourses. I make the …
Agency, Nature and Emergent Properties
Critical republicanism
Pluralisation
In this article I demonstrate that William Connolly's ‘ethos of pluralisation’ and Ernesto Laclau's theory of ‘hegemony’ are incompatible conceptions of theorising societal relations and collective political formations. I argue that Laclau's notion of hegemony has narcissistic and authoritarian implications by demonstrating the close proximity between his account of politics and Theodor Adorno's analysis of ‘authoritarian’ discourses. I make the …
Politics and morality in Habermas’ discourse ethics
In this article I argue that Jürgen Habermas’ notion of morality (moral norms) has more in common with Hegel’s notion of ‘ethical life’ as a ‘ sittlich’ relation – understood as a socially integrative force – rather than Kant’s supreme principle of personal morality. I show that Habermas and Hegel, each in his own way, make a distinction between morality and ethics. However, I make the case that Habermas’ conception of ‘morality’ incorporates asp…
Habermas and Oakeshott on Rationalism, Morality and Democratic Politics
In this article I compare Michael Oakeshott's and Jürgen Habermas' respective accounts of morality, rationality and politics. I show that they both theorise the conditions of the modern political community as a ‘civil association’, and I argue that this comparison enables us to challenge predominant understandings of each thinker and to address criticisms levelled against them. I demonstrate that the contextualist and Hegelian aspects of Habermas…
Rereading Habermas's charge of “performative contradiction” in light of Derrida's account of the paradoxes of philosophical grounding
contradiction' in light of Derrida's account of the paradoxes of philosophical groundingSeveral commentators have blamed poststructuralism for the advent of 'post truth' politics (Grayling, 2015;Calcutt, 2016;Coughlan, 2017).The suggestion is that poststructuralist claims about 'antifoundationalism' prepared the ground for the current situation; where leading statesmen now dismiss seemingly factual information as 'fake news', and, on a paucity of…
The Politics of Poststructuralism Today
Habermas
Pluralisation
In this article I demonstrate that William Connolly's ‘ethos of pluralisation’ and Ernesto Laclau's theory of ‘hegemony’ are incompatible conceptions of theorising societal relations and collective political formations. I argue that Laclau's notion of hegemony has narcissistic and authoritarian implications by demonstrating the close proximity between his account of politics and Theodor Adorno's analysis of ‘authoritarian’ discourses. I make the …
Habermas
Agency, Nature and Emergent Properties
Vital Materiality and Non-Human Agency
Jane Bennett, Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, published her awaited book Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things in 2010. Her distinctive notion of ‘vibrant matter’ invokes a new and different political imaginary outside the Hegelian and psychoanalytic framework of the subject and object/other relation. Bennett demonstrates that both human and nonhuman entities (including ino…
Politics and morality in Habermas’ discourse ethics
In this article I argue that Jürgen Habermas’ notion of morality (moral norms) has more in common with Hegel’s notion of ‘ethical life’ as a ‘ sittlich’ relation – understood as a socially integrative force – rather than Kant’s supreme principle of personal morality. I show that Habermas and Hegel, each in his own way, make a distinction between morality and ethics. However, I make the case that Habermas’ conception of ‘morality’ incorporates asp…
Habermas and Oakeshott on Rationalism, Morality and Democratic Politics
In this article I compare Michael Oakeshott's and Jürgen Habermas' respective accounts of morality, rationality and politics. I show that they both theorise the conditions of the modern political community as a ‘civil association’, and I argue that this comparison enables us to challenge predominant understandings of each thinker and to address criticisms levelled against them. I demonstrate that the contextualist and Hegelian aspects of Habermas…
Critical republicanism
Beyond the Ontological Turn
In this article, I critically evaluate a characteristic tendency that is found across the various traditions of poststructuralism, both narrowly and more broadly defined. This is an increasing propensity to be preoccupied with ontological questions and seemingly at the expense of either a refinement of political concepts or a concrete analysis of forms of power and domination. I consider the reasons for this development and stress how this charac…
The Politics of Poststructuralism Today
Dissensual politics
From domination to emancipation and freedom
In this paper, I bring Ernesto Laclau's post-Marxist approach into conversation with the analytical thinker Philip Pettit, who has developed an influential neo-republican conception of freedom as ‘non-domination’. Both thinkers aim to reconfigure power and domination towards more democratic and egalitarian relations and I evaluate the political implications of their respective conceptions of domination/non-domination, emancipation and freedom. I …
Rereading Habermas's charge of “performative contradiction” in light of Derrida's account of the paradoxes of philosophical grounding
contradiction' in light of Derrida's account of the paradoxes of philosophical groundingSeveral commentators have blamed poststructuralism for the advent of 'post truth' politics (Grayling, 2015;Calcutt, 2016;Coughlan, 2017).The suggestion is that poststructuralist claims about 'antifoundationalism' prepared the ground for the current situation; where leading statesmen now dismiss seemingly factual information as 'fake news', and, on a paucity of…
Against received opinion
In philosophy and political theory, the term paradox is often used synonymously with antinomy, contradiction and aporia. This article clarifies the meaning of these terms through tracing their respective etymology. We see that antinomy denotes a deep-seated conceptual opposition, whereas contradiction and aporia represent alternative responses to antinomy. The former presents the antinomy as potentially resolvable at some future time, and the lat…
The Anthropocene as abstract machine – a conversation
Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (8 works) · Political philosophy (6 works)