Asher Horowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4397964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asher Horowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asher |
| FAMILY NAME | Horowitz |
| SIGNATURE | HOROWITZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Ethical Orientation for Marxism: Geras and Levinas
By a hair’s breadth’: Critique, transcendence and the ethical in Adorno and Levinas
The article stages the beginning of a virtual conversation between Levinas’s ‘ethics as first philosophy’ and Adorno’s negative dialectic. Part I frames the problem: for both thinkers the task of critique depends on some access to a ‘fixed point’ for transcendence (Levinas) or a ‘standpoint removed’ from the domain of existence (Adorno). Part II traces the deep, even essential, connection both perceive between knowledge and violence, a link which…
Like a tangled mobile: Reason and reification in the quasi-dialectical theory of Jürgen Habermas
Habermas' claim to provide a critique of reification by means other than marxian ones requires him to transpose not only meaningful freedom, but also a dialectical view of social becoming, into terms com patible with linguistically mediated intersubjectivity. In order to remain critical of reification as colonization, he thus finds himself committed to the view that colonization is the outcome of the development of two perma nent and competing pr…
Narcissism of the Minor Differences: What Is at Issue and What Is at Stake in the Civic Humanism Question
Debate about the nature and vitality of a civic humanist tradition in America long featured an argument between adherents of Louis Hartz's thesis of the United States as the world's most liberal nation and J. G. A. Pocock's claim that the eighteenth-century American political culture involved a transformation of the European civic republican tradition. More recently, scholars have converged on a pluralistic account stressing the mutual interactio…
The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment
The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment
The recent renewal of interest in Max Weber evidences an attempt to enlist his thought in the service of a renewed dream of Enlightenment individualism. Yet he was the first twentieth-century thinker to fully appreciate the pervasiveness and ambiguity of rationalization which threatened to undermine the hopes of the Enlightenment.Asher Horowitz and Terry Maley present a collection of essays tracing the contemporary significance of Weber's work fo…
Democracy and Socialism: Prénuptial Theorizing
Law and Customs Thrust Us Bank into Infancy: Rousseau's Historical Anthropology
The view of Rousseau as a romantic for whom history is a fatal acquisition negating what is most essential and valuable in human nature has been powerfully renewed in many recent interpretations. It remains possible, however, to reinterpret Rousseau's view of history as both the key to the whole of his work and his most important contribution to the tradition of radical political thought. The identification of history with fatality is insufficien…
Law and Customs Thrust Us Bank into Infancy: Rousseau's Historical Anthropology
The view of Rousseau as a romantic for whom history is a fatal acquisition negating what is most essential and valuable in human nature has been powerfully renewed in many recent interpretations. It remains possible, however, to reinterpret Rousseau's view of history as both the key to the whole of his work and his most important contribution to the tradition of radical political thought. The identification of history with fatality is insufficien…
Like a tangled mobile: Reason and reification in the quasi-dialectical theory of Jürgen Habermas
Habermas' claim to provide a critique of reification by means other than marxian ones requires him to transpose not only meaningful freedom, but also a dialectical view of social becoming, into terms com patible with linguistically mediated intersubjectivity. In order to remain critical of reification as colonization, he thus finds himself committed to the view that colonization is the outcome of the development of two perma nent and competing pr…
Narcissism of the Minor Differences: What Is at Issue and What Is at Stake in the Civic Humanism Question
Debate about the nature and vitality of a civic humanist tradition in America long featured an argument between adherents of Louis Hartz's thesis of the United States as the world's most liberal nation and J. G. A. Pocock's claim that the eighteenth-century American political culture involved a transformation of the European civic republican tradition. More recently, scholars have converged on a pluralistic account stressing the mutual interactio…
An Ethical Orientation for Marxism: Geras and Levinas
Democracy and Socialism: Prénuptial Theorizing
Law and Customs Thrust Us Bank into Infancy: Rousseau's Historical Anthropology
The view of Rousseau as a romantic for whom history is a fatal acquisition negating what is most essential and valuable in human nature has been powerfully renewed in many recent interpretations. It remains possible, however, to reinterpret Rousseau's view of history as both the key to the whole of his work and his most important contribution to the tradition of radical political thought. The identification of history with fatality is insufficien…
The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment
The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment
The recent renewal of interest in Max Weber evidences an attempt to enlist his thought in the service of a renewed dream of Enlightenment individualism. Yet he was the first twentieth-century thinker to fully appreciate the pervasiveness and ambiguity of rationalization which threatened to undermine the hopes of the Enlightenment.Asher Horowitz and Terry Maley present a collection of essays tracing the contemporary significance of Weber's work fo…
Narcissism of the Minor Differences: What Is at Issue and What Is at Stake in the Civic Humanism Question
Debate about the nature and vitality of a civic humanist tradition in America long featured an argument between adherents of Louis Hartz's thesis of the United States as the world's most liberal nation and J. G. A. Pocock's claim that the eighteenth-century American political culture involved a transformation of the European civic republican tradition. More recently, scholars have converged on a pluralistic account stressing the mutual interactio…
Like a tangled mobile: Reason and reification in the quasi-dialectical theory of Jürgen Habermas
Habermas' claim to provide a critique of reification by means other than marxian ones requires him to transpose not only meaningful freedom, but also a dialectical view of social becoming, into terms com patible with linguistically mediated intersubjectivity. In order to remain critical of reification as colonization, he thus finds himself committed to the view that colonization is the outcome of the development of two perma nent and competing pr…
By a hair’s breadth’: Critique, transcendence and the ethical in Adorno and Levinas
The article stages the beginning of a virtual conversation between Levinas’s ‘ethics as first philosophy’ and Adorno’s negative dialectic. Part I frames the problem: for both thinkers the task of critique depends on some access to a ‘fixed point’ for transcendence (Levinas) or a ‘standpoint removed’ from the domain of existence (Adorno). Part II traces the deep, even essential, connection both perceive between knowledge and violence, a link which…
An Ethical Orientation for Marxism: Geras and Levinas
Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (3 works)