Books
Democratic Philosophy and the Politics of Knowledge,
Penn State University Press, 1996.
Coeditor, Philosophy, Children, and the Family,
New York: Plenum Press, 1982.
Book Chapters
"Conceptualizing the Family," in Philosophy, Children,
and the Family, pp. 3-16.
"Women and Family Life," in Philosophy, Children,
and the Family, pp. 73-80.
Articles
"Critical Discussion of 'Home Economic: A Definition',"
in Home Economics:
A Definition, Washington, D.C.: AHEA, 1979, pp.63-90.
"Foucault and the Politics of Social Reproduction,"
Humanities in Society, Vol. 5, Nos. 3 and 4 (Summer, Fall 1982),
pp. 231-243.
"Marx and the Crisis in Social Dialectic," Praxis
International, Vol. 3, No. 4, January1984,
pp. 348-58.
"Alienation Theory and the Arms Race," Newsletter,
Research Committee on Alienation Theory,
International Sociology Association, June 1984, pp.8-13.
"Kaelin on Philosophical Literature," Analecta
Husserliana, Vol. XIX, 1985,
pp. 469-475.
"The Original Position as Social Practice" (co-authored
with Stephen L. Esquith),
Political Theory, Vol. 16, no. 2, May 1988, pp.
300-334.
"Alienation and Intellectual Practices" in Alienation
Theories and De-alienation Strategies, edited by D. Schweitzer
and F. Geyer, London: Science Reviews,1988.
"Technology, Culture, and Democratic Politics,"
The Centennial Review, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, Winter 1991,
pp. 31-50.
"Development: Historical Aspects of an Unavoidable
Idea," CASID CURRENT, MSU, December 1991, pp. 1-2.
"The Division of Labor as a Philosophical Idea,"
forthcoming in Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie.
"Intellectual Mediation After Liberalism and Socialism,"
in Political Dialogue: Theories
and Practices, ed., Stephen Esquith, Poznan Studies
in the Philosophy of the Sciences and Humanities, 1996, Vol. 46, pp. 183-213.
"Toward a Democratic Multiculturalism," in Community,
Difference, and
Diversity, eds., Alison Bailey and Paula Smitka,
Rodopi, forthcoming.
“Kimlikler ve Cumhuriyetci Tani(n)ma” (“Identities
and Republican Recognition”), in Cumhuriyet (Republicanism, an invited
collection commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Turkish Republic),
ed., Nuri Bilgin, Ege University, Izmir, 1999, pp. 153-59.
"Race and Recognition," Race, Class, and Community
Identity, eds., Andrew Light and Mecke Nagel, Humanity Press, 2000.
“The Possibility of Human Rights,” Center for
Advanced Study of International Development, 2000. [this article
has also appeared on the Web Site, “E Philosopher” (www.ephilosopher.com)]
Reviews
Leon Goldstein, Historical Knowing, Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research, December 1977.
Maurice Mandelbaum, The Anatomy of Historical Knowledge,
PPR, March 1979.
Peter Berger, Facing Up to Modernity, PPR, June
1980.
Adam Podgorecki and Maria Los, Multi-Dimensional
Sociology, PPR, December 1981.
Collins, Wainer, and Bremmer, eds., Science and
the Question of Human Equality, Contemporary Sociology, November
1982.
Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions, Centennial
Review, Vol. XXVIII, No.
4 and Vol. XXIX, No. 1, 1984-85.
John Sallis, ed., Deconstruction and Philosophy:
The Texts of Jacques Derrida, in The Modern Schoolman, LXVII,
January 1990.
Donald A. Crosby, The Specter of the Absurd, The
Modern Schoolman, LXIX, November 1991.
Stuart Barnett, ed., Hegel After Derrida, Essays
in Philosophy, I, No.2, June 2000.
Translation
Michael Gross, "The East German University Transformed:
Reflections of a Participant," Centennial Review, Winter 1994.
Acting Editor
Centennial Review, Winter 1993, Vol. XXXVIII, No.
1, special issue: "Poland: From Real Socialism to Democracy."
Centennial Review, Spring, 1993, Vol XXXVIII, No.
2.
Co-editor, special collections, Centennial
Review
"Four Essays on Scientific Integrity and the University,"
Spring 1994.
"Four Essays on Computers, Knowledge, and the
Disciplines," Fall 1994, accompanied by co-authored "Introduction."
Conference Papers
"Incompatible Conceptual Frameworks in Habermas's
Social Theory," Conference on Critical Theory, Center for Critical
Studies in Education, SUNY at Buffalo, August 1975.
"Ideology and Cognition," Panel on Critical Theory,
American Philosophical Association, Boston, December 1976.
"The Problem of a Critical Definition of Home
Economics," National Forum on the definition of Home Economics, Denver,
January 9, 1979.
Same paper presented to Home Economics Defined
Regional Forum, Dallas, March 9, 1979.
"Theses and Problems Regarding a Social Theory
of Knowledge," Fourth Conference on the Current State of Marxist
Theory, University of Louisville, November 17, 1979.
"Foucault and the Politics of Social Reproduction,"
a conference on Knowledge, Power, History at the University
of Southern California, October 29-31, 1981.
"Alienation and Intellectual Practices," 10th
World Congress of Sociology, Mexico City, August 16-21, 1982.
"Crisis in Social Dialectic," invited paper, American
Philosophical Association, Baltimore,
December 1982.
"Kaelin on Philosophical Literature," Symposium:
Phenomenological Approaches to Comparative Literature, MSU, February 7-8,
1983.
"Worldliness, Adulthood, and the Concept of Middle
Age," National Conference on Middle Age, MSU, May 21, 1983.
"What Are the Social Structures of Alienation?";
Conference on Urban Alienation and the Search for De-alienation Strategies,
Ohio State University, May 4-5, 1984.
"Alienation Theory and the Arms Race," Conference
on Karl Marx in the East and West, MSU, June 2, 1983.
"The Politics of Alienation," Marx and Christianity:
100 Years Later, the University of
Santa Clara, October 18-19, 1984.
"Orwell and the United States," Conference on Orwell's
1984, MSU, March 1, 1984.
"Dialectical approaches to the Social Being of
Theory," Critical Directions in Symbolic Interactionism:
Meeting of the Society of the Study of Symbolic Interactionism, Northern
Illinois University, March 5-7, 1984.
"The Theory of Knowledge in the Critique of Popular
Culture," Popular Culture Association Meetings, Toronto, March 30- April
1, 1984.
"Manufacturing Stability in A Theory of Justice"
(co-authored with Stephen Esquith), Conference on Marxism and
Ideology, University of Minnesota, Aug. 29-31, 1985.
"Criticism and the Language of Foreign Policy,"
Twentieth Conference on Modern Literature" The Politics
of Experience, MSU, Oct. 3-5, 1985.
"Normative Aspects of the Democratic Critique
of Mass Culture," Popular Culture Association Meetings, Atlanta,
April 2-4, 1986.
"Ideology and Social Action," panel presentation,
McKee Symposium, Department of Sociology, MSU, May 10, 1986.
"Alienated Politics and the Problem of Community,"
11th World Congress of Sociology, New Delhi, August 18-22,
1986.
"Alienated Politics and Foreign Policy,"
11th World Congress of Sociology, New Delhi, August 18-22,
1986.
"The Original Position as Social Practice" (co-authored
with Stephen Esquith), American Political Science Association,
Washington D.C., August 30, 1986.
"Philosophical Criticism and the Iran/Contra Affair,"
American Philosophical Association Meetings, Cincinnati, April
1988.
"Democracy and Knowledge/Power: Historicizing
the Communication Ethic," accepted for Conference on discourses
of Power, Arizona State University, Oct. 20-22, 1988.
"Communication Theory and the Critique of Alienation,"
12th World Congress of
Sociology, Madrid, July 1990.
"Postmodernism, Liberalism, and the Politics of
Agency," International Association of
Philosophy and Literature, Montreal, May 16-18,
1991.
"Rationality Debates: Philosophy within the
Division of Labor," Radical Scholars
Conference, Loyola University, November
10, 1991.
"Dialogue vs. Dialectic? Bakhtin and Political
Criticism," American Philosophical
Association, New York, December 28-30, 1991.
"Challenging the Division of Labor: Philosophy,
Democracy and the Question of
Expertise," Radical Scholars Conference,
Loyola University, November 29-31, 1993.
"Democracy and Intellectual Mediation--After Socialism
and Liberalism," Radical
Philosophy National Conference, Drake University,
Nov. 3-6, 1994.
"Toward a Democratic Multiculturalism," Conference
on "Community, Difference and
Diversity: Implications for Peace," University
of Dayton, October 19-22, 1995.
"Du Bois's Dialectic of Political Recognition,"
Conference on "The Academy and Race,"
March 8-10, 1996, Villanova University.
"Race and Recognition," Radical Philosophy Association
National Conference, Purdue
University, Nov. 14-17, 1996.
"Race, Identity, and Critical Theory," Rethinking
Marxism Conference, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, Dec. 5-9, 1996.
“Conceiving Racial Change,” for Intersections of
Race, Morgan State University, Oct.30-
Nov. 1, 1997.
“Race, Politics, and Social Reason,” panel on Race
and Democracy, American
Philosophical Association, Philadelphia,
Dec. 29, 1997.
“Du Bois as a Democratic Race Intellectual,” panel
on the centennial of “The
Conservation of Race,” American Philosophical
Association, Philadelphia, Dec. 30, 1997
“Heidegger’s Racialism,” World Congress of Philosophy,
Boston, Aug. 10-18, 1998.
“Race as Politics,” Radical Philosophy Association
National Conference, San Francisco State University, Nov. 5-8, 1998.
“Multiculturalism and the Idea of Race,” conference
on Current Trends in American Society and Culture, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universitaet,
Greifswald, Germany, May 3-4, 1999.
“Race, Media, and Politics,” Marxism 2000, University
of Massachusetts/Amherst, Sept. 212-24, 2000.
“The Possibility of Human Rights,” conference
on Justice and Justification, McMaster University, Oct. 26-29, 2000.
“Media Politics and Human Rights,” Philosophy
and Politics to Begin a New Millennium, Loyola University, Nov. 2-5, 2000.
Other Papers
"Habermas's Theory of Cognitive Interests," Department
of Philosophy, Michigan State University, February 1977.
"Marx on Religion," Montclair State College Colloquium,
April 1977.
"The Problem of Ideology in Dialectical Social
Theory," graduate Seminar in Sociology, MSU, December 1977.
"Dialectical Method in Capital, vol. I,"to Graduate
Seminar in Sociology, MSU,
December 1977.
"Marx and the Problem of Concrete Dialectic," Colloquium,
James Madison College, MSU, April 1978.
"Philosophical Issues Facing Home Economics," College
of Human Ecology, MSU, April 6, 1979.
"Social Theory And the Problem of Knowledge," Department
of Sociology, MSU, May 29, 1979.
"Systems of Action and Issues of Practical Rationality
Facing Home Economics,"Summer
Workshop:"Home Economics Defined," MSU,
July 3, 1979.
"Problems of Knowledge and Freedom in Marxist Thought,"
MSU Philosophy Club, April
18, 1983.
"Habermas and Communication Theory," Colloquium,
College of Communications Arts and Sciences, MSU, Spring, 1984.
"Rawls and Proceduralism," Colloquium on the History
of Economic Thought,
Department of Economics, MSU, May 20, 1985.
"Communication Theory and the Critique of Alienation,"
Department of Philosophy, MSU, February, 1990.
"Bakhtin, Philosophy, and Political Criticism,"
Calvin College, February, 26,1992.
"The Division of Labor: A Philosophical
Idea?" Department of Philosophy, MSU, November 13, 1992.
“Recognition Conflicts and Winnicott’s Account
of ‘The Piggle,’” Michigan Psychoanalytic Council Meeting, Ann Arbor, May
1998.
“ ‘Race’ als Politik,” John F. Kennedy Institute,
Frei Universitaet, Berlin, May 31, 1999.