Andrew Norris
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 980544 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Norris |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Norris |
| FIRMA | NORRIS A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9451-9388 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Cavell’s Wager, and Ours
In both 1990’s Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome and 2004’s Cities of Words , Stanley Cavell presents his contribution to democratic thought as an addendum to John Rawls’s Theory of Justice . In this essay I consider the implications of this for Cavell’s understanding of democracy, focusing on his discussion of “the wager of democracy” in the later text. When one attends to the details of that discussion, as I do at some length, it becomes clear…
Democracy Between Form and Content
In this essay I evaluate Larry Alan Busk's critique of contemporary democratic theorists and contemporary "democratic" politics in Democracy in Spite of the Demos in the context of Carl Schmitt's critique of modern democracy. I argue that Busk shares Schmitt's general conception of democracy and of the dangers attending any appeal to it. Though Busk presents Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno as alternatives to the current crop of democratic theo…
Deciphering Influence on Social Media
Influencer marketing spending in the United States was expected to surpass $6 billion in 2023. This marketing tactic poses a public health threat, as research suggests it has been utilized to undercut decades of public health progress-such as gains made against tobacco use among adolescents. Public health and public opinion researchers need practical tools to capture influential accounts on social media. Utilizing X (formerly Twitter) little ciga…
Dewey, Self-Realization, and Romanticism
John Dewey’s conception of democracy as the political form devoted to the maximum individual self-realization of the citizenry, in the broadest sense of that term, promises to lift democracy above angry populism while avoiding untenable and contentious metaphysical commitments. The idea of self-realization is traditionally tied to a hierarchical and therefore unacceptable model of society. Dewey breaks this tie by stripping the idea of its metaph…
Cavell's inheritance of Luther
The question of Martin Luther's influence on Stanley Cavell has been almost entirely neglected in the extensive scholarly literature on Cavell. Though the former is often taken to be an essentially interpersonal matter, I argue that it concerns first and foremost that aspect of the world Kant names the Ding an sich , and that Cavell's understanding of this follows Luther's conception of our proper relation to God. On this basis, I then argue that…
Perfection and Disaster
Academic essays typically and quite rightly advance theses and defend them with arguments. In this essay, I do not propose or defend a thesis. Instead, I try to ask, in a sustained way, a straightforward question: what’s the sense in talking about ethical or political perfectionism in a world facing cataclysmic environmental collapse? At what kind of perfection might one aim in a world fundamentally out of balance: a world of mass extinction and …
The Exemplary Exception
Being realistic about neoliberalism
Skepticism and Critique in Arendt and Cavell
In this article I compare and contrast Hannah Arendt’s and Stanley Cavell’s understandings of critique, focusing in each case upon the role played in it by skepticism. Both writers are decisively influenced by the later Heidegger’s thought that thinking as such is, first, the necessary turn to a practice adequate to our situation and, second, something that we shun. They also share the desire to take up this Heideggerian thought in Kantian terms:…
Michael Oakeshott and the Postulates of Individuality
Michael Oakeshott provides the best articulation of the widespread view that the moral foundations of the modern state limit it to the defense and maintenance of a system of formal rules governing individuals and non-state enterprises. While this understanding of the proper relation between individual and state has been challenged by liberals of a more Rawlsian persuasion, these criticisms have persuaded few to change their minds, as they rest up…
A Maelstrom of International Law and Intrigue
Journal Article A Maelstrom of International Law and Intrigue: The Remarkable Voyage of the S.S. City of Flint Get access Andrew Norris Andrew Norris Coast Guard judge advocate *currently serving as the Coast Guard service chair and as a member of the Joint Military Operations faculty at the Naval War College. He is a judge on the Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals, and an adjunct faculty member at Rogers Williams Law School, where he teaches …
Gilbert Meilaender, Should We Live Forever? The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging
On Public Action
This essay explores Hannah Arendt’s contribution to our understanding of the rhetorical as opposed to the aesthetic quality of public speech, with an emphasis upon her conception of opinion and glory. Arendt’s focus on the revelatory quality of public action in speech is widely understood to preclude or seriously limit its communicative aspect. I argue that this is a misunderstanding, and that accepting it would reduce speech not merely to the di…
Truth and Democracy
Scholars from a variety of fields, including prominent political and legal theorists, philosophers, and intellectual historians, take up the question of whether democratic politics requires talk about truth, and, if so, how truth should matter to democratic politics.
The political theory of Stanley Cavell
Jean-Luc Nancy on the political after Heidegger and Schmitt
It is commonly recognized that Jean-Luc Nancy’s efforts to elaborate a conception of ‘the political’ are based upon Heidegger’s thinking of die Tecknik, even as they seek to overcome the difficulties that beset Heidegger’s own politics. But few have noted that Nancy also seeks to critically engage Carl Schmitt’s conception of das Politische, according to which there is a metaphysical and practical need for a sovereign decision on friends and enem…
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Rhetoric and reality surrounding water quality issues in a peri‐urban western Sydney community
As the driest inhabited continent, Australia faces pressing issues of water quality and quantity. A recent decade of drought has heightened interest. We surveyed a community on the Hawkesbury–Nepean floodplain, the river that provides most of Sydney’s potable water. The survey targeted respondents’ perceptions of the source of water in local wetlands, causes of water pollution, their willingness to undertake environmental action to improve water …
Becoming Who We Are
In this article I argue that hope is rightly numbered by Hesiod among the evils, as hope cannot be separated from an awareness of the inadequacy of one's current state. Political hope for democrats in particular is tied to the awareness that we have not yet realized ourselves, that, to paraphrase Pindar, we have not yet become who we are. I argue that, although Rorty comes close to articulating this in his book Achieving Our Country, his emphasis…
Sovereignty, Exception, and Norm
Carl Schmitt's Political Theology is the locus classicus of contemporary discussions of sovereignty. I argue that Schmitt's conception of sovereignty is excessively metaphysical and that it posits an incoherent 'sovereign’ ability to decide what shall count as normal. Schmitt follows and radicalizes the late Bodin's claims – themselves the product of a political theology, namely, Bodin 's conversion to Judaism – regarding the necessity of an indi…
The Claim to Community
Stanley Cavell's unique contributions to the study of epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, film, Shakespeare, and American philosophy have all received wide acclaim. But there has been relatively little recognition of the pertinence of Cavell's work to our understanding of political philosophy. The Claim to Community fills this gap with essays from a wide range of prominent American, English, French, and Italian philosophers and political theorists,…
Cynicism, Skepticism, and the Politics of Truth
Reply to Flathman and Strong
Heideggerian Law Beyond Law? Technique, Recht, and Phusis
In this essay I situate Philippe Nonet's reading of the Antigone within his larger Heideggerian Destruktion of the tradition of Western legal philosophy. I argue that the sweeping terms of Nonet's condemnation of that tradition as a mode of nihilism place significant strains upon his reading of the tragedy, and, more importantly, leave little reason to hope that an appreciation of the law Nonet sees embodied in the Gestalt of Antigone's person wi…
Ernesto Laclau and the logic of ‘the political’
Ernesto Laclau's theory of antagonism and political identity has been widely celebrated as one of the most promising attempts to apply the lessons of ‘poststructuralism’ to political theory. This essay argues, however, that this initial promise is not fulfilled. Laclau's attempt to define and analyse ‘the political’ as such operates at such an abstract level that Laclau is forced to make sweeping claims about the nature of politics and identity t…
Politics, Metaphysics, and Death
Arendt, Kant, and the Politics of Common Sense
Hannah Arendt is best known for her argument that political action is a form of revelatory praxis. Such action would not be possible without the non-objective judgments of a multiplicity of spectators. The Arendtian theory of political action therefore requires a theory of impartial but non-objective judgment. In an attempt to develop such a theory, Arendt at the end of her life turned to Kant's Critique of Judgment. However, Kant's aesthetic, re…
Jean‐Luc Nancy and the Myth of the Common
Ernesto Laclau and the logic of ‘the political’
Ernesto Laclau's theory of antagonism and political identity has been widely celebrated as one of the most promising attempts to apply the lessons of ‘poststructuralism’ to political theory. This essay argues, however, that this initial promise is not fulfilled. Laclau's attempt to define and analyse ‘the political’ as such operates at such an abstract level that Laclau is forced to make sweeping claims about the nature of politics and identity t…
Against Antagonism
Being realistic about neoliberalism
Michael Oakeshott and the Postulates of Individuality
Michael Oakeshott provides the best articulation of the widespread view that the moral foundations of the modern state limit it to the defense and maintenance of a system of formal rules governing individuals and non-state enterprises. While this understanding of the proper relation between individual and state has been challenged by liberals of a more Rawlsian persuasion, these criticisms have persuaded few to change their minds, as they rest up…
On Public Action
This essay explores Hannah Arendt’s contribution to our understanding of the rhetorical as opposed to the aesthetic quality of public speech, with an emphasis upon her conception of opinion and glory. Arendt’s focus on the revelatory quality of public action in speech is widely understood to preclude or seriously limit its communicative aspect. I argue that this is a misunderstanding, and that accepting it would reduce speech not merely to the di…
Jean-Luc Nancy on the political after Heidegger and Schmitt
It is commonly recognized that Jean-Luc Nancy’s efforts to elaborate a conception of ‘the political’ are based upon Heidegger’s thinking of die Tecknik, even as they seek to overcome the difficulties that beset Heidegger’s own politics. But few have noted that Nancy also seeks to critically engage Carl Schmitt’s conception of das Politische, according to which there is a metaphysical and practical need for a sovereign decision on friends and enem…
Sovereignty, Exception, and Norm
Carl Schmitt's Political Theology is the locus classicus of contemporary discussions of sovereignty. I argue that Schmitt's conception of sovereignty is excessively metaphysical and that it posits an incoherent 'sovereign’ ability to decide what shall count as normal. Schmitt follows and radicalizes the late Bodin's claims – themselves the product of a political theology, namely, Bodin 's conversion to Judaism – regarding the necessity of an indi…
Skepticism and Critique in Arendt and Cavell
In this article I compare and contrast Hannah Arendt’s and Stanley Cavell’s understandings of critique, focusing in each case upon the role played in it by skepticism. Both writers are decisively influenced by the later Heidegger’s thought that thinking as such is, first, the necessary turn to a practice adequate to our situation and, second, something that we shun. They also share the desire to take up this Heideggerian thought in Kantian terms:…
The political theory of Stanley Cavell
Political Revisions
But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves, A tune upon the blue guitar Of things exactly as they are. — Wallace Stevens
Arendt, Kant, and the Politics of Common Sense
Hannah Arendt is best known for her argument that political action is a form of revelatory praxis. Such action would not be possible without the non-objective judgments of a multiplicity of spectators. The Arendtian theory of political action therefore requires a theory of impartial but non-objective judgment. In an attempt to develop such a theory, Arendt at the end of her life turned to Kant's Critique of Judgment. However, Kant's aesthetic, re…
Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of the Living Dead
Diacritics - Volume 30, Number 4, Winter 2000
Books in Review
Jean‐Luc Nancy and the Myth of the Common
Political Revisions
But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves, A tune upon the blue guitar Of things exactly as they are. — Wallace Stevens
Against Antagonism
“Us” and “Them”
In the Aristotelian tradition, politics is a matter of public deliberation over questions of justice and injustice. The Bush administration's response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has been uniformly hostile to this notion, and it has instead promoted a jingoistic politics of self‐assertion by an America largely identified with the executive branch of its government. This is doubly disturbing, as the executive branch has sought …
Beyond the Fury of Destruction
The Exemplary Exception
Politics, Metaphysics, and Death
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of sovereignty and the politics of life and death laid out in his multivolume Homo Sacer project. Agamben argues that in both the modern world and the ancient, politics inevitably involves a sovereign decision that bans some individuals from the political and …
Stanley Cavell and the Claim to Community
Stanley Cavell and the Claim to Community Andrew Norris (bio) The philosophical appeal to what we say, and the search for our criteria on the basis of which we say what we say, are claims to community. And the claim to community is always a search for the basis upon which it can or has been established. I have nothing more to go on than my conviction, my sense that I make sense. It may prove to be the case that I am wrong, that my conviction isol…
Politics, Metaphysics, and Death
The Claim to Community
Stanley Cavell's unique contributions to the study of epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, film, Shakespeare, and American philosophy have all received wide acclaim. But there has been relatively little recognition of the pertinence of Cavell's work to our understanding of political philosophy. The Claim to Community fills this gap with essays from a wide range of prominent American, English, French, and Italian philosophers and political theorists,…
Cynicism, Skepticism, and the Politics of Truth
Reply to Flathman and Strong
Heideggerian Law Beyond Law? Technique, Recht, and Phusis
In this essay I situate Philippe Nonet's reading of the Antigone within his larger Heideggerian Destruktion of the tradition of Western legal philosophy. I argue that the sweeping terms of Nonet's condemnation of that tradition as a mode of nihilism place significant strains upon his reading of the tragedy, and, more importantly, leave little reason to hope that an appreciation of the law Nonet sees embodied in the Gestalt of Antigone's person wi…
Ernesto Laclau and the logic of ‘the political’
Ernesto Laclau's theory of antagonism and political identity has been widely celebrated as one of the most promising attempts to apply the lessons of ‘poststructuralism’ to political theory. This essay argues, however, that this initial promise is not fulfilled. Laclau's attempt to define and analyse ‘the political’ as such operates at such an abstract level that Laclau is forced to make sweeping claims about the nature of politics and identity t…
Sovereignty, Exception, and Norm
Carl Schmitt's Political Theology is the locus classicus of contemporary discussions of sovereignty. I argue that Schmitt's conception of sovereignty is excessively metaphysical and that it posits an incoherent 'sovereign’ ability to decide what shall count as normal. Schmitt follows and radicalizes the late Bodin's claims – themselves the product of a political theology, namely, Bodin 's conversion to Judaism – regarding the necessity of an indi…
Becoming Who We Are
In this article I argue that hope is rightly numbered by Hesiod among the evils, as hope cannot be separated from an awareness of the inadequacy of one's current state. Political hope for democrats in particular is tied to the awareness that we have not yet realized ourselves, that, to paraphrase Pindar, we have not yet become who we are. I argue that, although Rorty comes close to articulating this in his book Achieving Our Country, his emphasis…
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Rhetoric and reality surrounding water quality issues in a peri‐urban western Sydney community
As the driest inhabited continent, Australia faces pressing issues of water quality and quantity. A recent decade of drought has heightened interest. We surveyed a community on the Hawkesbury–Nepean floodplain, the river that provides most of Sydney’s potable water. The survey targeted respondents’ perceptions of the source of water in local wetlands, causes of water pollution, their willingness to undertake environmental action to improve water …
Jean-Luc Nancy on the political after Heidegger and Schmitt
It is commonly recognized that Jean-Luc Nancy’s efforts to elaborate a conception of ‘the political’ are based upon Heidegger’s thinking of die Tecknik, even as they seek to overcome the difficulties that beset Heidegger’s own politics. But few have noted that Nancy also seeks to critically engage Carl Schmitt’s conception of das Politische, according to which there is a metaphysical and practical need for a sovereign decision on friends and enem…
Truth and Democracy
Scholars from a variety of fields, including prominent political and legal theorists, philosophers, and intellectual historians, take up the question of whether democratic politics requires talk about truth, and, if so, how truth should matter to democratic politics.
The political theory of Stanley Cavell
On Public Action
This essay explores Hannah Arendt’s contribution to our understanding of the rhetorical as opposed to the aesthetic quality of public speech, with an emphasis upon her conception of opinion and glory. Arendt’s focus on the revelatory quality of public action in speech is widely understood to preclude or seriously limit its communicative aspect. I argue that this is a misunderstanding, and that accepting it would reduce speech not merely to the di…
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