Farid Abdel‐nour
Biographic Data
| ID | 4384703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Farid Abdel‐nour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Farid |
| FAMILY NAME | Abdel‐nour |
| SIGNATURE | NOUR F A |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice. By Maeve McKeown. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 280p
Responsibility for structural injustice
Following Iris Marion Young, Catherine Lu allocates responsibility for transforming unjust global structures to the agents who participate in perpetuating and reproducing those structures. She also adopts Young’s qualitative distinction between the ‘liability’ and ‘social connection’ models of responsibility, reserving the first for interactional injustice where identifiable victims and perpetrators are involved, and the second for structural inj…
Responsible for the state: The case of obedient subjects
This article explains how we ordinary subjects of a state who are neither political leaders nor functionaries are responsible for outcomes that are properly attributed to that state and that took place during our adult lifetime. Its focus is on the connection we forge to those outcomes via our obedience alone. If our responsibility as subjects is justified, it would apply under all regime types including oppressive and authoritarian ones. The arg…
Irreconcilable Narratives and Overlapping Consensus: The Jewish State and the Palestinian Right of Return
The Israeli demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people and the Palestinian demand that Israelis recognize the Palestinian refugees’ moral right to return express the two peoples’ need to have their respective causes affirmed by the “other side.” Yet, the two causes are irreconcilable as are the core political narratives that give them meaning. The question then arises as to whether an end to the conflict ca…
From Critic to Cheerleader: The Clarifying Example of Benny Morris' ‘Conversion’
Benny Morris attributes his ‘conversion’ to the political events of the year 2000. This article offers an explanation of his conversion that is internal to his work as a historian of the events of 1948. Through the 1990s Morris was faced with overwhelming evidence that made it difficult for him to continue to escape the fundamental insight that a Jewish state could not have been established in Palestine in 1948 without large-scale Palestinian dis…
Rights, Democracy, and Fulfillment in the Era of Identity Politics: Principled Compromises in a Compromised World
Rights, Democracy, and Fulfillment in the Era of Identity Politics: Principled Compromises in a Compromised World. By David Ingram. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004. 280p. $70.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. David Ingram situates his work within the tradition of critical social theory and traces its normative impulse to the young Marx's aspiration for human fulfillment. However, in order to avoid the trap of utopianism, he adopts a pragm…
Responsibility and National Memory: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem
Farewell to Justification: Habermas, Human Rights, and Universalist Morality
In his recent work, Jürgen Habermas signals the abandonment of his earlier claims to justify human rights and universalist morality. This paper explains the above shift, arguing that it is the inescapable result of his attempts in recent years to accommodate pluralism. The paper demonstrates how Habermas’s universal pragmatic justification of modern normative standards was inextricably tied to his consensus theory of validity. He was compelled by…
An International Ethics of Evil
Ethical debates in international relations tend to rely either on the vocabulary of norms or the vocabulary of evil. In an effort to conceive of a richer international ethics, this article explores the possibility of combining the two. Since the vocabulary of norms is indispensable, the question is how to supplement it. The most prevalent conception of evil turns out to be a dangerous and inappropriate supplement, for it posits evil as absolutely…
National Responsibility
This article offers an account of the responsibility that individuals bear by virtue of their national belonging alone. Via their national pride, the living connect themselves actively with select actions performed by others who might long be dead. They imagine themselves as having won past wars, built ancient empires and the like. This same feat of their imagination imposes on them a responsibility for the bad outcomes that were brought about th…
Liberalism and Ethnocentrism
From Arm's Length to Intrusion: Rawls's "Law of Peoples" and the Challenge of Stability
The "law of peoples" that Rawls articulates for the intersocietal context and that he claims to be acceptable to liberal as well as hierarchical societies is unacceptable to the latter as he describes them. An adjustment to his argument allows for an account of hierarchical societies' acceptance of his principles, but it also reveals how controversial these remain to them. It turns out that what is needed is for the advocates of the law of people…
National Responsibility
This article offers an account of the responsibility that individuals bear by virtue of their national belonging alone. Via their national pride, the living connect themselves actively with select actions performed by others who might long be dead. They imagine themselves as having won past wars, built ancient empires and the like. This same feat of their imagination imposes on them a responsibility for the bad outcomes that were brought about th…
Responsibility and National Memory: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem
Responsibility for structural injustice
Following Iris Marion Young, Catherine Lu allocates responsibility for transforming unjust global structures to the agents who participate in perpetuating and reproducing those structures. She also adopts Young’s qualitative distinction between the ‘liability’ and ‘social connection’ models of responsibility, reserving the first for interactional injustice where identifiable victims and perpetrators are involved, and the second for structural inj…
Responsible for the state: The case of obedient subjects
This article explains how we ordinary subjects of a state who are neither political leaders nor functionaries are responsible for outcomes that are properly attributed to that state and that took place during our adult lifetime. Its focus is on the connection we forge to those outcomes via our obedience alone. If our responsibility as subjects is justified, it would apply under all regime types including oppressive and authoritarian ones. The arg…
Irreconcilable Narratives and Overlapping Consensus: The Jewish State and the Palestinian Right of Return
The Israeli demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people and the Palestinian demand that Israelis recognize the Palestinian refugees’ moral right to return express the two peoples’ need to have their respective causes affirmed by the “other side.” Yet, the two causes are irreconcilable as are the core political narratives that give them meaning. The question then arises as to whether an end to the conflict ca…
Farewell to Justification: Habermas, Human Rights, and Universalist Morality
In his recent work, Jürgen Habermas signals the abandonment of his earlier claims to justify human rights and universalist morality. This paper explains the above shift, arguing that it is the inescapable result of his attempts in recent years to accommodate pluralism. The paper demonstrates how Habermas’s universal pragmatic justification of modern normative standards was inextricably tied to his consensus theory of validity. He was compelled by…
From Arm's Length to Intrusion: Rawls's "Law of Peoples" and the Challenge of Stability
The "law of peoples" that Rawls articulates for the intersocietal context and that he claims to be acceptable to liberal as well as hierarchical societies is unacceptable to the latter as he describes them. An adjustment to his argument allows for an account of hierarchical societies' acceptance of his principles, but it also reveals how controversial these remain to them. It turns out that what is needed is for the advocates of the law of people…
From Arm's Length to Intrusion: Rawls's "Law of Peoples" and the Challenge of Stability
The "law of peoples" that Rawls articulates for the intersocietal context and that he claims to be acceptable to liberal as well as hierarchical societies is unacceptable to the latter as he describes them. An adjustment to his argument allows for an account of hierarchical societies' acceptance of his principles, but it also reveals how controversial these remain to them. It turns out that what is needed is for the advocates of the law of people…
Liberalism and Ethnocentrism
National Responsibility
This article offers an account of the responsibility that individuals bear by virtue of their national belonging alone. Via their national pride, the living connect themselves actively with select actions performed by others who might long be dead. They imagine themselves as having won past wars, built ancient empires and the like. This same feat of their imagination imposes on them a responsibility for the bad outcomes that were brought about th…
Responsibility and National Memory: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem
Farewell to Justification: Habermas, Human Rights, and Universalist Morality
In his recent work, Jürgen Habermas signals the abandonment of his earlier claims to justify human rights and universalist morality. This paper explains the above shift, arguing that it is the inescapable result of his attempts in recent years to accommodate pluralism. The paper demonstrates how Habermas’s universal pragmatic justification of modern normative standards was inextricably tied to his consensus theory of validity. He was compelled by…
An International Ethics of Evil
Ethical debates in international relations tend to rely either on the vocabulary of norms or the vocabulary of evil. In an effort to conceive of a richer international ethics, this article explores the possibility of combining the two. Since the vocabulary of norms is indispensable, the question is how to supplement it. The most prevalent conception of evil turns out to be a dangerous and inappropriate supplement, for it posits evil as absolutely…
Rights, Democracy, and Fulfillment in the Era of Identity Politics: Principled Compromises in a Compromised World
Rights, Democracy, and Fulfillment in the Era of Identity Politics: Principled Compromises in a Compromised World. By David Ingram. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004. 280p. $70.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. David Ingram situates his work within the tradition of critical social theory and traces its normative impulse to the young Marx's aspiration for human fulfillment. However, in order to avoid the trap of utopianism, he adopts a pragm…
From Critic to Cheerleader: The Clarifying Example of Benny Morris' ‘Conversion’
Benny Morris attributes his ‘conversion’ to the political events of the year 2000. This article offers an explanation of his conversion that is internal to his work as a historian of the events of 1948. Through the 1990s Morris was faced with overwhelming evidence that made it difficult for him to continue to escape the fundamental insight that a Jewish state could not have been established in Palestine in 1948 without large-scale Palestinian dis…
Irreconcilable Narratives and Overlapping Consensus: The Jewish State and the Palestinian Right of Return
The Israeli demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people and the Palestinian demand that Israelis recognize the Palestinian refugees’ moral right to return express the two peoples’ need to have their respective causes affirmed by the “other side.” Yet, the two causes are irreconcilable as are the core political narratives that give them meaning. The question then arises as to whether an end to the conflict ca…
Responsible for the state: The case of obedient subjects
This article explains how we ordinary subjects of a state who are neither political leaders nor functionaries are responsible for outcomes that are properly attributed to that state and that took place during our adult lifetime. Its focus is on the connection we forge to those outcomes via our obedience alone. If our responsibility as subjects is justified, it would apply under all regime types including oppressive and authoritarian ones. The arg…
Responsibility for structural injustice
Following Iris Marion Young, Catherine Lu allocates responsibility for transforming unjust global structures to the agents who participate in perpetuating and reproducing those structures. She also adopts Young’s qualitative distinction between the ‘liability’ and ‘social connection’ models of responsibility, reserving the first for interactional injustice where identifiable victims and perpetrators are involved, and the second for structural inj…
With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice. By Maeve McKeown. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 280p
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