Jeremy Fortier
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Fortier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Fortier |
| SIGNATURE | FORTIER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-9156-8711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why to be a Civic Constitutionalist
Languages of Freedom: Danielle Allen on Du Bois and the Declaration of Independence
Danielle Allen’s scholarship in American political thought is indebted to W. E. B. Du Bois, yet the nature of that debt is ambiguous. Allen cites Du Bois at key points and adapts some of hi
On Steven Pinker’s Hobbesian Liberalism
The long-contested notion of a Hobbesian liberalism can make a crucial contribution to understanding the theory and practice of liberal politics, if it is understood in a specific way: namely, as identifying a particular psychology, or ethos, pioneered by Thomas Hobbes and carried over into liberalism. In this view, liberalism needs to be identified not only with institutional or legal structures (with regard to which Hobbes is no liberal), but a…
Nietzsche's Political Engagements: On the Relationship between Philosophy and Politics in The Wanderer and His Shadow
In Nietzsche's early and late writings, he appears as an antimodern, antiliberal political revolutionary, championing the world-transformative characters of (first) Richard Wagner and (later) Zarathustra. By contrast, in the writings of his “middle period,” Nietzsche struck up a rapprochement with the modern world, and developed the ideal of a “free spirit.” Among those writings, The Wanderer and His Shadow sheds the most revealing light on the f…
Can Liberalism Lose the Enlightenment
John Rawls’s Political Liberalism asserts that liberal politics can and should be conducted without engaging debates about the truth of its theoretical foundations. This paper argues that political liberalism is in fact far more concerned with questions of truth than Rawls was willing to admit. Once political liberalism’s relation to truth claims is understood more clearly, it becomes evident that political liberalism is closer to its Enlightenme…
Why to be a Civic Constitutionalist
Can Liberalism Lose the Enlightenment
John Rawls’s Political Liberalism asserts that liberal politics can and should be conducted without engaging debates about the truth of its theoretical foundations. This paper argues that political liberalism is in fact far more concerned with questions of truth than Rawls was willing to admit. Once political liberalism’s relation to truth claims is understood more clearly, it becomes evident that political liberalism is closer to its Enlightenme…
On Steven Pinker’s Hobbesian Liberalism
The long-contested notion of a Hobbesian liberalism can make a crucial contribution to understanding the theory and practice of liberal politics, if it is understood in a specific way: namely, as identifying a particular psychology, or ethos, pioneered by Thomas Hobbes and carried over into liberalism. In this view, liberalism needs to be identified not only with institutional or legal structures (with regard to which Hobbes is no liberal), but a…
Nietzsche's Political Engagements: On the Relationship between Philosophy and Politics in The Wanderer and His Shadow
In Nietzsche's early and late writings, he appears as an antimodern, antiliberal political revolutionary, championing the world-transformative characters of (first) Richard Wagner and (later) Zarathustra. By contrast, in the writings of his “middle period,” Nietzsche struck up a rapprochement with the modern world, and developed the ideal of a “free spirit.” Among those writings, The Wanderer and His Shadow sheds the most revealing light on the f…
Can Liberalism Lose the Enlightenment
John Rawls’s Political Liberalism asserts that liberal politics can and should be conducted without engaging debates about the truth of its theoretical foundations. This paper argues that political liberalism is in fact far more concerned with questions of truth than Rawls was willing to admit. Once political liberalism’s relation to truth claims is understood more clearly, it becomes evident that political liberalism is closer to its Enlightenme…
Nietzsche's Political Engagements: On the Relationship between Philosophy and Politics in The Wanderer and His Shadow
In Nietzsche's early and late writings, he appears as an antimodern, antiliberal political revolutionary, championing the world-transformative characters of (first) Richard Wagner and (later) Zarathustra. By contrast, in the writings of his “middle period,” Nietzsche struck up a rapprochement with the modern world, and developed the ideal of a “free spirit.” Among those writings, The Wanderer and His Shadow sheds the most revealing light on the f…
On Steven Pinker’s Hobbesian Liberalism
The long-contested notion of a Hobbesian liberalism can make a crucial contribution to understanding the theory and practice of liberal politics, if it is understood in a specific way: namely, as identifying a particular psychology, or ethos, pioneered by Thomas Hobbes and carried over into liberalism. In this view, liberalism needs to be identified not only with institutional or legal structures (with regard to which Hobbes is no liberal), but a…
Languages of Freedom: Danielle Allen on Du Bois and the Declaration of Independence
Danielle Allen’s scholarship in American political thought is indebted to W. E. B. Du Bois, yet the nature of that debt is ambiguous. Allen cites Du Bois at key points and adapts some of hi
Why to be a Civic Constitutionalist
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