Barry Hindess

Biographic Data

ID5657950
NAMEBarry Hindess
GIVEN NAMESBarry
FAMILY NAMEHindess
SIGNATUREHINDESS B
AFFILIATIONSAustralian National University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS103
TOTAL CITATIONS747
AUTHOR COUNT100
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX15

  • Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left

    Barry Hinde, Barry HindessARTICLEThe European Legacy2018Cited by: 1

    Gareth Dale could hardly have chosen a more propitious time to publish this substantial political and intellectual biography. Today, many years after his death in 1964, Karl Polanyi’s star is risin

  • A Comment on Paul Muldoon's “Contesting Australian Asylum Policy”

    Open AccessBarry HindessARTICLEAustralian Journal of Politics &…2017

    The core of Paul Muldoon’s “Contesting Australian Asylum Policy” \n is a subtle and \nsophisticated reading of Plato’s tale of the last days of Socrates which he uses it to \nthrow light on the dilemma facing Australians who despair of their government’s \nasylum-seeker policy. While I do not dispute his commentary on Socrates, its bearing \non the position of those who reject Australia’s asylum-seeker policies is less \nstraightforward than Muld…

  • The Concept of “the State” in Modern Political Thought

    Open AccessBarry HindessARTICLEAustralian Journal of Politics &…2017

    Quentin Skinner's magisterial The Foundations of Modern Political Thought was first published in 1978. A commemorative volume appeared almost thirty years later. My aim in this paper is less to revisit this last discussion by questioning either the importance or the impact of Skinner's book, both of which seem to me undeniable, than it is to unsettle a few of the assumptions that not only inform The Foundations and much of the work that it inspir…

  • Routledge Revivals: Parliamentary Democracy and Socialist Politics (1983): Parliamentary Democracy and Socialist Politics

    (Roys Paul (Roys Paul Q Hirst Dec'D), Barry HindessBOOKRoutledge Revivals2016

    First published in 1983, this book is concerned with the prospects for socialist politics in contemporary Britain, in particular with the limitations of political analysis produced both by Marxist socialism and the non-Marxist socialism of the Labour left. The author suggests ways in which socialist political analysis and strategic thinking should be reconstructed if socialism in Britain was to survive political as a force. The major Marxist deba…

  • Kantian cosmopolitanism and its limits

    Christine Helliwell, Barry HindessARTICLECritical Review of International…2015Cited by: 2References: 19

    The cosmopolitanism of the European Enlightenment was mostly a limited matter of a Eurocentric anti-nationalism promoting the ideal of Europe as an harmonious system of balancing states. Against this background, Kant’s cosmopolitan vision stands out as more inclusive because, far from restricting its concerns to Europe, it proposes to bring all of humanity together by locating its different sections in a developmental framework that runs from the…

  • Rationality and the Characterization of Modern Society

    Barry HindessCHAPTERMax Weber Ration & Modern MW52014

    There is no contradiction involved in saying that Weber&s;s theory of rationalization has enormous relevance to contemporary conditions and has even proved prophetic, and, at the same time, that it is undeveloped as a theory. It remained in his work at a relatively low level of abstraction, amply illustrated at a concrete level with examples of a comparative and historical kind. This chapter involves in a theoretical statement of rationality-inte…

  • Bringing Metaphysics Back In

    Barry HindessARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2014

    Ian Hunter has made a name for himself as a critic of German university metaphysics, finding its progeny at work in places where many of us would not even think of looking, for example in the late twentieth-century celebration of theory in the humanities. Some of his recent work has focused on a rather different issue: the methodological task of making intellectual history empirical. Here he builds on Quentin Skinner's rationale for the Cambridge…

  • Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 52

    Athar Hussain, Tony Cutler et al.BOOKMarx's Capital and Capitalism Today2013Cited by: 62

    This volume is concerned with the re-evaluation and criticism of Capital itself. It is in three parts, each covering a specific area of Marxist theory. The first part contains an investigation into Marx’s theory of value and considers the types of questions and modes of analysis to which this theory leads. In the second part the nature and implications of necessary economic ‘laws of tendency’ in the capitalist mode of production are covered. Fina…

  • Response to David Tacey on Derrida’s religiosity

    Open AccessBarry HindessARTICLEThesis Eleven2013References: 3

  • Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption: The New Integrity Warriors

    Luís De Sousa, Barry Hindess et al.BOOKGovernments, NGOs and anti-corrupti…2012

    Foreword by Yves Meny 1. Introduction Luis de Sousa, Peter Larmour and Barry Hindess Part 1: Theories and Concepts: Corruption, Anti-Corruption and Democratic Politics 2. International Anti-Corruption as a Program of Normalisation Barry Hindess 3. Anti-Corruption as a Risk to Democracy: On the Unintended Consequences of International Anti-Corruption Campaigns Staffan Andersson and Paul M. Heywood 4. The Development of Inspection and Oversight: Bl…

  • Corruption: Expanding the Focus

    Open AccessManuhuia Barcham, Barry Hindess et al.BOOKCorruption2012

    Recent years have seen an unprecedented rise in interest in the topic of corruption, resulting in a rising demand for suitable teaching materials. This edited collection brings together two different approaches to the study of corruption — the first represented by a large, practically-oriented literature devoted to identifying the causes of corruption, assessing its incidence and working out how to bring it under control; the second by a smaller …

  • Freedom, Equality and the Market: Arguments on Social Policy

    Barry HindessBOOKFreedom, Equality and the Market2012

    This new textbook for students of social theory considers the role of public intervention in social and economic processes. It is a clear, critical discussion of different theoretical and political perspectives on social policy. Barry Hindess begins with the ‘consensus’ view, shared by senior politicians, civil servants, and academics throughout much of the postwar period. This view depends on two beliefs: in the capacity of government to manage …

  • Response

    Open AccessBarry HindessARTICLEAlternatives Global Local Political2011

  • The Past in the Present

    Open AccessChristine Helliwell, Barry HindessARTICLEAustralian Journal of Politics &…2011

    At least since John Locke's observation (in his Second Treatise of Government , 1690) that “in the beginning, all the world was America”, Western thinkers have engaged in the practice of treating non‐Western people as if they were living in the European past, a practice which remains pervasive within contemporary social and political thought. This article begins to chart the genealogy of this practice, exploring its classical (ancient Greek and R…

  • Liberalism: Rationality of Government and Vision of History

    Barry Hinde, Barry HindessARTICLESocial Identities2010Cited by: 1References: 11

    The paper addresses two issues arising from Foucault's work. One concerns his treatment of liberalism in The Birth of Biopolitics, which is probably more familiar through the work of the (mostly) British ‘governmentality’ school, and the other concerns a comment on relations between the West and the rest in The Order of Things that seems to express an insensitive Eurocentrism. I argue that we cannot make sense of liberalism without grasping the p…

  • Citizenship and Empire

    Barry HindessCHAPTERSovereign Bodies2009

  • How Useful Is the Concept of GlobalSociety

    Open AccessBarry Hinde, Barry HindessARTICLEInternational Political Sociology2009Cited by: 3References: 8

    How useful is the concept of global society? This question has been raised in different ways by several contributors to IPS, most forcefully by Mathias Albert (2007), who argues that globalization theory needs to turn to theories of society. My initial response is to note that two claims are raised by this proposition: first, that there is a significant body of literature which might usefully be called “globalization theory”; and second, that, if…

  • A Tale of Origins and Disparity

    Barry Hinde, Barry HindessARTICLEJournal of Cultural Economy2009Cited by: 3References: 7

    Foucault's works are always a challenge, and this set of lectures raises more questions than most. The first and most obvious concerns his choice of title (the title given in the course summary pub

  • Political theory and ‘actually existing liberalism’

    Barry HindessARTICLECritical Review of International…2008Cited by: 8References: 6

    This note disputes Anthony Langlois’s (2007) argument: first, that liberalism is committed to the equal worth of all individuals; second, that the critics of liberal cosmopolitanism are really clos

  • Been there, done that

    Barry Hinde, Barry HindessARTICLEPostcolonial Studies2008Cited by: 4

    The familiar phrase in my title is usually understood as indicating that one has already experienced the topic under discussion and become bored with it. Here it flags the view, first, that all portions of humanity go through essentially the same historical stages that can be identified in the history of the West, and thus that, whatever our non-Western contemporaries may now be experiencing, the West has already ‘been there, done that’. This vie…

  • Government and Discipline

    Open AccessBarry Hinde, Barry HindessARTICLEInternational Political Sociology2008Cited by: 1References: 5

    In a recent discussion of the second, much expanded edition of Stephen Lukes’Power: A Radical View, I argued that the system of states is the site of a major limitation in Lukes’ analysis (Hindess 2007). Not only does Lukes in this book say nothing about power in international affairs, but also his focus on what he takes to be the “generic” meaning of power (2005:69), and thus on domination, is likely to obscure important aspects of the workings …

  • Contributions to the Forum

    Open AccessBarry HindessARTICLEInternational Political Sociology2007

    One cannot but applaud the ambitions of the first IPS editorial which are to extend the reach of international relations by engaging with sociology and social theory and to bring the approaches of European social theory to bear on the traditions of Anglo-American social science in the expectation that these engagements will work to the benefit of all parties. It is impossible to deny that the IR discipline “remains closely tied to specific tradit…

  • Locke's state of nature

    Open AccessBarry HindessARTICLEHistory of the Human Sciences2007References: 12

    Scholarly discussion has treated the account of the state of nature which Locke presents in his Second Treatise as neither an hypothesis nor a description but rather as a fiction. John Dunn, for example, claims that it is a `theoretical analysis of the fundamental relations of right and duty which obtain between human beings, relations which are logically prior to the particular historical situations in which all actual human beings always in fac…

  • Corruption

    Open AccessBarry Hinde, Barry HindessOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2007

    The most general meaning of corruption is that of impurity, infection, or decay. Corruption can happen to anything – a piece of fruit, a sporting event, a religious community, or a university – but the term is now most commonly used to suggest that there is something rotten in the government of the state. Thus, as conceptions of the naturally sound condition of government change, so too does the focus of concern regarding its corruption. In the s…

  • Uneven development in the moment of theory1

    Barry Hinde, Barry HindessARTICLEPostcolonial Studies2007

    Contributors to the History of Theory Seminar were invited to include ‘historical reflection’ on the emergence of the ‘moment of theory’, a period running from the late 1960s through to the early 1