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Kenneth Baynes

Professor of Philosophy

Courses and Seminars Fall 2011

Research and Teaching Interests

Ken Baynes works primarily in social and political philosophy, with a special focus in critical theory (the "Frankfurt School") and modern and contemporary German philosophy. He is a co-editor of After Philosophy: End or Transformation? (MIT Press), and Discourse and Democracy (SUNY Press), and the author of The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls and Habermas (SUNY Press). His current interests are in the normative or obligatory character of rules and practices, attempts to ground moral principles in practical reason, and the relationship between democracy and basic rights, including "multicultural rights" (if indeed there are any!).

Professor Baynes is Director of Graduate Studies for the Philosophy Department.

Selected Publications

Books:

• Discourse and Democracy: Essays in Habermas's Between Facts and Norms, co-edited with Rene von Schomberg (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002)
• The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, and Habermas (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992)
  
• Translation of Axel Honneth, The Critique of Power (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991)
• After Philosophy: End or Transformation?, co-edited with James Bohman and Thomas McCarthy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987)

Articles:

Articles
(1) Refereed Journals
“Democratic Equality and Respect,” Theoria 117 (December 2008)
“The Hermeneutics of ‘Situated Cosmopolitanism’,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 33 (2007), pp. 301-08
“’Gadamerian Platitudes’ and Rational Interpretations,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 33 (2007), pp. 65-80
“Ethos and Institution: On the Site of Distributive Justice” The Journal of Social Philosophy 37 (2006), pp. 184-198.
“Understanding Evil” (Review Essay), Constellations 11 (2004), pp. 434-444.
“Freedom and Recognition in Hegel and Habermas”, Philosophy and Social Criticism 28 (2002), pp. 1-17.
"Rights as Critique and the Critique of Rights: Karl Marx, Wendy Brown and the Social Function of Rights," Political Theory 28 (2000), pp. 451-468.
"Deliberative Democracy and the Regress Problem", The Modern Schoolman 73 (July 1997): 178-184.
"Modernity as Autonomy," Inquiry 38 (1995): 289-303
"Communicative Ethics, The Public Sphere, and Communication Media," Critical Studies in Mass Communication 11 (1994): 315-326
"Constructivism and Practical Reason in Rawls," Analyse und Kritik 14 (1992): 18-32
"Liberal Neutrality, Pluralism, and Deliberative Politics," Praxis International 12 (1992): 50-69
"Rational Reconstruction and Social Criticism: Habermas's Model of Interpretive Social Science" The Philosophical Forum 21 (Fall 1989): 122-145;
reprinted in Hermeneutics and Critical Theory, ed. by Michael Kelly (MIT Press, 1990)
"Kant on Property Rights and the Social Contract" The Monist 72 (July 1989): 433-453
"State and Civil Society in Hegel: Comments on Dallmayr and Arato" Cardozo Law Review 10 (March 1989): 1415-1426
"Dialectic and Deliberation in Aristotle's Practical Philosophy," Southwest Philosophy Review 6 (1990): 19-42
"The Liberal/Communitarian Controversy and Communicative Ethics" Philosophy and Social Criticism 14 (1988): 293-313; reprinted in Universalism vs.
Communitarianism, ed. by David Rasmussen (MIT Press, 1990)