Robert Meister
Biographic Data
| ID | 770903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Meister |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Meister |
| SIGNATURE | MEISTER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Moishe on Value and Wealth
Randy Martin
The article develops political implications of the late Randy Martin’s idea of “derivative sociality” as the real subsumption of human life under the option form. The option form, beginning with the hedge, allows realized surplus value to be preserved (locked in) and eventually accumulated by securing its convertibility back into money—its “liquidity.” The opposite, financial illiquidity is capital disaccumulation in Marx’s sense. It follows that…
Reinventing Marx for an Age of Finance
This essay accounts for the production of specifically financial products such as hedges, focusing on how and why their liquidity adds value through a critical re-reading of Marx’s account of relative surplus value in the production of commodities. It then considers the political implications of its restatement of Marx’s view of capitalism, arguing that a political price should be exacted for rolling over the option of historical justice in the s…
Athens, Jerusalem and Rome after Auschwitz
This article treats post-Holocaust humanitarianism as a secular version of St Paul's 'Jewish Question': why are there still Jews now that the particularities of Jewish history have universal meaning? It considers Paul's Judaeo-Christianity, a distinctively Christian embrace of Jewish survival, as the prototype of today's secular project of conversion to human rights, and asks what it means within this project for Jews to regard themselves as the …
"Never Again"
“Never Again”: The Ethics of the Neighbor and the Logic of Genocide Robert Meister (bio) Proximity and Ethics Since the fall of communism, there has been a growing literature on the responsibility of the “world community” to “never again” stand by while neighbors commit atrocities against neighbors (Power, “Never Again”).1 This literature has yet to be reformulated as a comprehensive political theory of the recent fin de siècle, but it is already…
What is to be Done? Thinking Politically about the 2004 Election
What is to be Done? Thinking Politically about the 2004 Election Robert Meister (bio) For many of us, the entire campaign season was bathed in an aura of knowingness without engagement. We counted on swing state voters to accept Kerry’s words at face value and righteously blamed the Bush campaign for misrepresenting positions that we silently believed Kerry did not really hold. The sad truth is that neither side believed what Kerry said. Even mor…
Anticipatory Regret
Research Article| August 01 2005 Anticipatory Regret: Can Free Speech Be Protected When It Matters? Robert Meister Robert Meister Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 169–197. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-32-3-169 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Meister; Anticipatory Regret: Can Free Speech Be Protected When It Matters?. bou…
Human Rights and the Politics of Victimhood
In the lexicon of rights, the concept of human rights can play a wide variety of roles. Human rights can be defined as substantive natural rights that transcend politics and culture or as the rights that underlie political and cultural differences. They can be defined narrowly as rights that could be asserted against enemies in war or, more broadly, as the aspirational goals to which governments are held accountable by their citizens and the worl…
The Liberalism of Fear and the Counterrevolutionary Project
Much of Catherine Lu's response resonates in tone and substance with my article. Like me, Lu speaks in the language of moral psychology and relies heavily on the later work of that preeminent moral psychologist among liberal theorists, Judith Shklar. She agrees, moreover, with both Shklar and me that victimhood (and the fear it produces) is morally damaging more often than not, and that the recent literature on human rights, which focuses on the …
Sojourners and Survivors
Liberal political analysis is ordinarily based on a sharp distinction between domestic and international politics, and an assumption that domestic politics is the proper arena for democratic self-determination. But self-governing citizens have never exhausted the cast of characters who populate liberal states. Living alongside them there are often domestic aliens – permanent residents who are subject to the law, and may be protected by it, but wh…
Books in Review
Grant McConnell
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The Logic and Legacy of Dred Scott
The continuing repression by jurists and scholars of the role of Dred Scott in our constitutional history has given that case a pervasive influence that is rarely, if ever, acknowledged. The following discussion will abstract from the moral embarrassment of Dred Scott in order to treat its jurisprudence as the missing link that connects the underlying framework of Marshallian constitutionalism with later struggles over the meaning of the Fourteen…
Vigilante Action against Pornography
This essay is concerned with the relationship between two distinct problems arising out of the first amendment: The first is the problem of civil disobedience and political protest; the second is the problem of pornography and censorship. These problems are ususally treated in separate literatures. I will begin, however, by describing an incident which combines them in a clear and unavoidable way
Human Rights and the Politics of Victimhood
In the lexicon of rights, the concept of human rights can play a wide variety of roles. Human rights can be defined as substantive natural rights that transcend politics and culture or as the rights that underlie political and cultural differences. They can be defined narrowly as rights that could be asserted against enemies in war or, more broadly, as the aspirational goals to which governments are held accountable by their citizens and the worl…
The Liberalism of Fear and the Counterrevolutionary Project
Much of Catherine Lu's response resonates in tone and substance with my article. Like me, Lu speaks in the language of moral psychology and relies heavily on the later work of that preeminent moral psychologist among liberal theorists, Judith Shklar. She agrees, moreover, with both Shklar and me that victimhood (and the fear it produces) is morally damaging more often than not, and that the recent literature on human rights, which focuses on the …
The Logic and Legacy of Dred Scott
The continuing repression by jurists and scholars of the role of Dred Scott in our constitutional history has given that case a pervasive influence that is rarely, if ever, acknowledged. The following discussion will abstract from the moral embarrassment of Dred Scott in order to treat its jurisprudence as the missing link that connects the underlying framework of Marshallian constitutionalism with later struggles over the meaning of the Fourteen…
Moishe on Value and Wealth
Books in Review
Vigilante Action against Pornography
This essay is concerned with the relationship between two distinct problems arising out of the first amendment: The first is the problem of civil disobedience and political protest; the second is the problem of pornography and censorship. These problems are ususally treated in separate literatures. I will begin, however, by describing an incident which combines them in a clear and unavoidable way
The Logic and Legacy of Dred Scott
The continuing repression by jurists and scholars of the role of Dred Scott in our constitutional history has given that case a pervasive influence that is rarely, if ever, acknowledged. The following discussion will abstract from the moral embarrassment of Dred Scott in order to treat its jurisprudence as the missing link that connects the underlying framework of Marshallian constitutionalism with later struggles over the meaning of the Fourteen…
Grant McConnell
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Sojourners and Survivors
Liberal political analysis is ordinarily based on a sharp distinction between domestic and international politics, and an assumption that domestic politics is the proper arena for democratic self-determination. But self-governing citizens have never exhausted the cast of characters who populate liberal states. Living alongside them there are often domestic aliens – permanent residents who are subject to the law, and may be protected by it, but wh…
Books in Review
Human Rights and the Politics of Victimhood
In the lexicon of rights, the concept of human rights can play a wide variety of roles. Human rights can be defined as substantive natural rights that transcend politics and culture or as the rights that underlie political and cultural differences. They can be defined narrowly as rights that could be asserted against enemies in war or, more broadly, as the aspirational goals to which governments are held accountable by their citizens and the worl…
The Liberalism of Fear and the Counterrevolutionary Project
Much of Catherine Lu's response resonates in tone and substance with my article. Like me, Lu speaks in the language of moral psychology and relies heavily on the later work of that preeminent moral psychologist among liberal theorists, Judith Shklar. She agrees, moreover, with both Shklar and me that victimhood (and the fear it produces) is morally damaging more often than not, and that the recent literature on human rights, which focuses on the …
"Never Again"
“Never Again”: The Ethics of the Neighbor and the Logic of Genocide Robert Meister (bio) Proximity and Ethics Since the fall of communism, there has been a growing literature on the responsibility of the “world community” to “never again” stand by while neighbors commit atrocities against neighbors (Power, “Never Again”).1 This literature has yet to be reformulated as a comprehensive political theory of the recent fin de siècle, but it is already…
What is to be Done? Thinking Politically about the 2004 Election
What is to be Done? Thinking Politically about the 2004 Election Robert Meister (bio) For many of us, the entire campaign season was bathed in an aura of knowingness without engagement. We counted on swing state voters to accept Kerry’s words at face value and righteously blamed the Bush campaign for misrepresenting positions that we silently believed Kerry did not really hold. The sad truth is that neither side believed what Kerry said. Even mor…
Anticipatory Regret
Research Article| August 01 2005 Anticipatory Regret: Can Free Speech Be Protected When It Matters? Robert Meister Robert Meister Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 169–197. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-32-3-169 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Meister; Anticipatory Regret: Can Free Speech Be Protected When It Matters?. bou…
Athens, Jerusalem and Rome after Auschwitz
This article treats post-Holocaust humanitarianism as a secular version of St Paul's 'Jewish Question': why are there still Jews now that the particularities of Jewish history have universal meaning? It considers Paul's Judaeo-Christianity, a distinctively Christian embrace of Jewish survival, as the prototype of today's secular project of conversion to human rights, and asks what it means within this project for Jews to regard themselves as the …
Reinventing Marx for an Age of Finance
This essay accounts for the production of specifically financial products such as hedges, focusing on how and why their liquidity adds value through a critical re-reading of Marx’s account of relative surplus value in the production of commodities. It then considers the political implications of its restatement of Marx’s view of capitalism, arguing that a political price should be exacted for rolling over the option of historical justice in the s…
Randy Martin
The article develops political implications of the late Randy Martin’s idea of “derivative sociality” as the real subsumption of human life under the option form. The option form, beginning with the hedge, allows realized surplus value to be preserved (locked in) and eventually accumulated by securing its convertibility back into money—its “liquidity.” The opposite, financial illiquidity is capital disaccumulation in Marx’s sense. It follows that…
Moishe on Value and Wealth
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