Fordham University            The Jesuit University of New York
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Jeffrey Flynn
Assistant Professor of Philosophy

112 Collins Hall


Curriculum Vitae



Research Interests

Critical Theory (especially Habermas)
Social and Political Philosophy
Human Rights Theory and Practice


Selected Publications

"Two Models of Human Rights: Extending the Rawls-Habermas Debate," in Habermas and Rawls:
 Disputing the Political, James Gordon Finlayson & Fabian Freyenhagen, eds. (Routledge, forthcoming).

“Human Rights, Transnational Solidarity, and Duties to the Global Poor,”
Constellations 16:1 (2009).

Introduction," Hauke Brunkhorst, Solidarity (MIT Press, 2005).


Communicative Power in Habermas’s Theory of Democracy,” European Journal of Political Theory 3:4 (2004).


Habermas on Human Rights: Law, Morality, & Intercultural Dialogue,” Social Theory & Practice 29:3 (2003).


Book Reviews

Jürgen Habermas, Between Naturalism and Religion (Polity 2008), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (May 2009).

Axel Honneth, Disrespect: The Normative Grounds of Critical Theory (Polity 2007), International Philosophical
Quarterly 48:4 (2008).

Translations

Rainer Forst, The Right to Justification: Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice.
New Directions in Critical Theory, Amy Allen, ed. (Columbia University Press, in preparation).

Hauke Brunkhorst, Solidarity: From Civic Friendship to a Global Legal Community.
Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, Thomas McCarthy, ed. (MIT Press, 2005).