Essays & Book Chapters
“The Romance of the Self: Marilynne Robinson’s Existential Humanism.”
“The Romance of the Self: Marilynne Robinson’s Existential Humanism.”With Anna Hadfield. in A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson, ed. Shannon Mariotti and Joseph Lane (University of Kentucky Press, 2016).
Reconciling Oneself to the Impossibility of Reconciliation: Judgment and Worldliness in Hannah Arendt's Politics
This essay will appear in: "Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch” ed. by Roger Berkowitz and Ian Storey (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016)
Read a Draft of the essay here.
Instituting freedom: Steve Buckler and Hannah Arendt on an Engaged Political Theory
European Journal of Political Theory 2014, Vol. 13(3) 372–377
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Assassinating Justly: Reflections on Justice and Revenge in the Osama Bin Laden Killing
Culture & the Humanities, Volume 7 Issue 3, October 2011
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Lost in the Loneliness of Anti-Social Networks
The Fortnightly Review, (2011). Review of Sherry Turkle's Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
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Liberating the Animal
Theory & Event (2010). Review of Vanessa Lemm's Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy
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Thinking in Dark Times - Six Questions for Roger Berkowitz
Harpers Magazine, (2009)
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Approaching Infinity: Dignity in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon
Philosophy and Literature, (October 2009)
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The Judge as Tragic Hero: An Arendtian Critique of Judging
HannahArendt.net, Articles/Research Notes v.4 (2008)
- Revised version, originally published in The Graduate Review (cont. as Critical Sense) v. 1, #1 (1994)
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Transcendence & Finitude in Drucilla Cornell's Philosophy of the Limit
Memory, Imagination, Feminism. On Drucilla Cornell, ed. Renee Heberle and Benjamin Pryor. (SUNY, 2008)
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Disorderly Differences: Recognition, Accommodation, and American Law
(With Austin Sarat). Law and Religion, ed. Gad Barzilai (Ashgate, 2006)
- Originally published in Yale J. of Law and Humanities (June 1994).
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Friedrich Nietzsche, the Code of Manu, and the Art of Legislation
New Nietzsche Studies v. 6 (2006)
- Expanded version, originally published in Cardozo Law Rev. v. 24 (2003).
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The Accusers: Law, Justice, and the Image of Prosecutors in Hollywood
Griffith Faculty Law Review v. 13, #2 (2005)
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Harsh Justice
Law, Culture, and the Humanities, v. 1, #1 (2005). Review of James Whitman's Harsh Justice
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The Spring of Law: Some Thoughts Inspired by Nietzsche's Doctrine of the Sittlichkeit der Sitte
Rechtsgeschichte v. 6 (2005)
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Nietzche's Love
Journal of Politics, v. 65 (2003). Review of Laurence Lampert's Nietzsche's Task
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Some Prefatory Remarks on Positive Law (Gesetz)
Rechtshistorisches Journal, v. 19 (2000). Review of A. Sebok's Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence.
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Crossing the Warrior Path
Rechtshistorisches Journal, Volume 16, 1998. Review essay on Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
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Truth and Error: Legal Error and the Uniquely American Doctrine of Habeas Corpus
Error Iudicis. Juristische Wahrheit und justizieller Irrtum, ed. A. Gouron, et al. (1998)
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The Judge as Captain
Europaische und Amerikanische Richterbilder, ed. A. Gouron, et al. (1996)
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Melville's War Poetry and the Human Form
Printed in A Political Companion to Herman Melville, ed. by Jason Frank.
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Die Ohnmacht der Demokratie
Philosophie Magazin, Sonder Ausgabe "Hannah Arendt, Die Freiheit des Denkens."
Drones and the Question of "The Human"
Carnegie Journal of Ethics & International Affairs, volume 28, issue 02, pp. 159-169.
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Justice
"Justice," The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. by Michael Gibbons (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118474396)
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Should We Justify War
Published in "Just War in Religion and Politics," ed. by Jacob Neusner, Bruce Chilton, and R.E. Tully (University Press of America, 2013).
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Hannah Arendts erste Briefe an Karl Jaspers und Martin Heidegger: Freundschaft, Versöhnung und Wiederaufbau einer gemeinsamen Welt
Nach dem Krieg! - Nach dem Exil? Erste Briefe/First Letters 1945-1950, II, ed. Detlef Garz and David Kettler (Text und Kritik, 2012).
Apologies. This article is not currently available online.
Hannah Arendt and Human Rights
The Handbook of Human Rights (Routledge, 2011)
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Bearing Logs on Our Shoulders: Reconciliation, Judgment and the Building of a Common World
Theory and Event, (2011)
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Solitude and the Activity of Thinking
in Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics, ed. Roger Berkowitz, Jeff Katz, and Thomas Keenan (2009)
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Revolutionary Constitutionalism: Some Thoughts on Laurie Ackermann's Dignity Jurisprudence
Acta Juridica (2008)
- Reprinted in Dignity, Freedom and the Post-Apartheid Legal Order, ed. by Alfred Barnard (Jutta, 2009).
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Hannah Arendt and Human Rights
Philosophy in Review (December, 2007). Review of Peg Birmingham's Hannah Arendt and Human Rights
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Democratic Legitimacy and the Scientific Foundation of Modern Law
Theoretical Inquiries in Law, v. 8.1 (2006)
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The Encyclopedia of Truth
Law, Culture, and the Humanities, v. 2, #1 (2006). Review of Rainer Maria Kiesow's The Alphabet of Law
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Revenge and Justice
Guest editor of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. Vol. 1, #3 (Spring, 2006)
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Parables of Revenge and Masculinity in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River
Law, Culture, and the Humanities v. 1, #3 (2005) (With Drucilla Cornell)
- Reprinted in Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity, Drucilla Cornell (Fordham University Press, 2009).
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The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition
Harvard University Press (2005); Law Press (Forthcoming, 2010). Chinese language edition; Fordham University Press (2010). Paperback.
Read more of the introduction as well as reviews here.
Error-Centricity, Habeas Corpus, and the Rule of Law as the Law of Rules
Louisiana Law Review v. 64 (2004)
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Law, Justice, and the Transformation of the Prosecutorial Ethic
Rechtssysteme im Vergleich: Die Staatsanwaltschaft, ed. Dieter Simon, et al. (2004)
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'Not Guilty' - Millennial Speculations on Legal Defense from Queen Fredegond to Bill Clinton
Advocatus Defensorum, ed. Dieter Simon, et al. (2000)
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