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Asher Horowitz
department-of-politics
Professor Emeritus
Office: c/o 672 ROSS SOUTH
Email: horowitz@yorku.ca
Primary website: http://www.yorku.ca/horowitz/
Degrees
PhD, University of TorontoMA, University of Toronto
BA, McGill
Research Interests
History
, History of Political Philosophy, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis and Politics, Ecology and Political Thought, Contemporary Continental Theory
Books
Publication
Year
Ethics At a Standstill: History and Subjectivity in Levinas and the Frankfurt School. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, forthcoming April 2008
2008
Ed., Difficult Justice: Commentaries on Levinas and Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006 (with G. Horowitz)
2006
Ed., The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995 (with Terry Maley)
1995
Rousseau, Nature and History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987 (paperback edition, 1992)
1992
Selections reprinted in Joseph Losko and Leonard Williams, Eds. Political Theory: Classic Writings and Contemporary Views. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991
1991
'Everywhere They Are in Chains': Political Theory from Rousseau to Marx. Toronto: Nelson, 1988 (with Gad Horowitz)
1988
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
"Mystical Kernels? Rational Shells? Habermas and Adorno on Reification and Re-Enchantment," in D. Burke Et. Al., Adorno and the Need in Thinking. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007
2007
"Beyond Rational Peace: On the Possibility/Necessity of a Levinasian Hyperpolitics," in Asher Horowitz and Gad Horowitz, Eds., Difficult Justice: Commentaries on Levinas and Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, 27-47
2006
"Is Liberalism All We Need? Prelude Via Fascism," in Asher Horowitz and Gad Horowitz, Eds. Difficult Justice: Commentaries on Levinas and Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, 12-23
2006
"The Comedy of Enlightenment: Habermas' Critique of Weber," in A. Horowitz and T. Maley, Eds., The Barbarism of Reason, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995 164-185",The Comedy of Enlightenment: Habermas' Critique of Weber"
1995
"Introduction" to A. Horowitz and T. Maley, Eds., The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995, 1-15
1995
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
"How Levinas Taught Me to Read Benjamin," PhaenEx, Vol. 1, No. 1, (Spring/Summer 2006), 164-197
2006
"'By A Hair's Breadth': Critique, Transcendence and the Ethical in Adorno and Levinas," Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2002, 213-248
2002
"An Ethical Orientation for Marxism: Geras and Levinas," Rethinking Maexism, Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 2002 (with Gad Horowitz) forthcoming
2002
"'Like a Tangled Mobile': Reason and Reification in the Quasi-Dialectical Theory of Juergen Habermas," Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1998, 1-23
1998
"A Narcissism of the Minor differences: What is at Issue and What is at Stake in the Civic Humanism Question," Polity, Vol. XXX, No. 1, Fall, 1997, 1-27 (with R.K. Matthews)
Reprinted in Michael V. Kennedy and William Shade, Eds., The World Turned Upside Down. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2001, 224-253
Reprinted in Michael V. Kennedy and William Shade, Eds., The World Turned Upside Down. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2001, 224-253
1997
"Rousseau's Historical Anthropology," Review of Politics, Spring 1990, 215-241
1990
"Will, Community and alienation in Rousseau's Social Contract," Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Vol. 10, No. 3, Fall, 1986
1986
Degrees
PhD, University of TorontoMA, University of Toronto
BA, McGill
Research Interests
History
, History of Political Philosophy, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis and Politics, Ecology and Political Thought, Contemporary Continental Theory
All Publications
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
"Mystical Kernels? Rational Shells? Habermas and Adorno on Reification and Re-Enchantment," in D. Burke Et. Al., Adorno and the Need in Thinking. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007
2007
"Beyond Rational Peace: On the Possibility/Necessity of a Levinasian Hyperpolitics," in Asher Horowitz and Gad Horowitz, Eds., Difficult Justice: Commentaries on Levinas and Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, 27-47
2006
"Is Liberalism All We Need? Prelude Via Fascism," in Asher Horowitz and Gad Horowitz, Eds. Difficult Justice: Commentaries on Levinas and Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, 12-23
2006
"The Comedy of Enlightenment: Habermas' Critique of Weber," in A. Horowitz and T. Maley, Eds., The Barbarism of Reason, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995 164-185",The Comedy of Enlightenment: Habermas' Critique of Weber"
1995
"Introduction" to A. Horowitz and T. Maley, Eds., The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995, 1-15
1995
Books
Publication
Year
Ethics At a Standstill: History and Subjectivity in Levinas and the Frankfurt School. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, forthcoming April 2008
2008
Ed., Difficult Justice: Commentaries on Levinas and Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006 (with G. Horowitz)
2006
Ed., The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995 (with Terry Maley)
1995
Rousseau, Nature and History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987 (paperback edition, 1992)
1992
Selections reprinted in Joseph Losko and Leonard Williams, Eds. Political Theory: Classic Writings and Contemporary Views. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991
1991
'Everywhere They Are in Chains': Political Theory from Rousseau to Marx. Toronto: Nelson, 1988 (with Gad Horowitz)
1988
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
"How Levinas Taught Me to Read Benjamin," PhaenEx, Vol. 1, No. 1, (Spring/Summer 2006), 164-197
2006
"'By A Hair's Breadth': Critique, Transcendence and the Ethical in Adorno and Levinas," Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2002, 213-248
2002
"An Ethical Orientation for Marxism: Geras and Levinas," Rethinking Maexism, Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 2002 (with Gad Horowitz) forthcoming
2002
"'Like a Tangled Mobile': Reason and Reification in the Quasi-Dialectical Theory of Juergen Habermas," Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1998, 1-23
1998
"A Narcissism of the Minor differences: What is at Issue and What is at Stake in the Civic Humanism Question," Polity, Vol. XXX, No. 1, Fall, 1997, 1-27 (with R.K. Matthews)
Reprinted in Michael V. Kennedy and William Shade, Eds., The World Turned Upside Down. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2001, 224-253
Reprinted in Michael V. Kennedy and William Shade, Eds., The World Turned Upside Down. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2001, 224-253
1997
"Rousseau's Historical Anthropology," Review of Politics, Spring 1990, 215-241
1990
"Will, Community and alienation in Rousseau's Social Contract," Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Vol. 10, No. 3, Fall, 1986
1986
