Works by Janos Kis
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Janos Kis
Politics as a Moral Problem.János Kis - 2008 - Ceu Press.details
In a world where politics is often associated with notions such as moral decay, frustration and disappointment, the feeling of betrayal, and of democracy in ...
Political Theory in Social and Political Philosophy
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Philosophy in the times of late modernity: Reflections on György Márkus's Culture, Science, Society.János Kis - 2015 - Thesis Eleven 126 (1):7-18.details
It is a central claim of György Márkus's philosophy of culture that the Enlightenment project ended up in deep, apparently irresolvable antinomies. But, unlike the majority of 'postmodern' thinkers, Márkus insists that the commitments of the Enlightenment cannot and should not be given up. This tension between the failure of the Enlightenment to produce a society of free and equal persons, each leading their lives autonomously, drawing on the resources of rational high culture, and the impossibility and undesirability of the (...) abandonment of the commitments of the Enlightenment finds an expression in what Márkus calls 'the antinomies of late modernity'. This paper offers an interpretation of Márkus's conception; it identifies a certain ambiguity in Márkus's use of the term 'antinomies', and suggests that Márkus's ambition is compatible with maintaining the first two but is failed by the third one which should, therefore, be abandoned. (shrink)
20th Century German Philosophy in European Philosophy
A Politika Mint Erkölcsi Probléma.János Kis - 2004 - Élet És Irodalom.details
Between reform and revolution: three hypotheses about the nature of regime change.Jänos Kis - 1993 - Constellations 1 (3):399-421.details
Continental Political Philosophy in Continental Philosophy
Beyond the Nation State.Janos Kis - 1996 - Social Research: An International Quarterly 63 (1):191-245.details
Nationalism in Social and Political Philosophy
Berlin's two concepts of positive liberty.Janos Kis - 2013 - European Journal of Political Theory 12 (1):31-48.details
In 'Two Concepts of Liberty', Berlin wavered between two readings of the concept of positive liberty. In the first one, 'positive liberty' is a distinct concept, different from that of 'negative liberty'. Those who advocate liberty in the negative sense and those who advocate it in the positive sense do not disagree on which interpretation of the same thing – 'liberty' – is the correct one; they speak about different things. Both defend valid ideals, although those ideals may not be (...) simultaneously achievable. In the second reading, negative and positive liberty are competing interpretations of the same concept, the defenders of negative liberty being involved in a substantive disagreement with the advocates of positive liberty on what the same term – 'liberty' – really means. On this understanding, negative and positive liberty cannot both be valid ideals: one of them (negative liberty) is a genuine value, the other (positive liberty) being nothing but the perversion of it. My article aims to uncover the roots of this ambiguity in unresolved difficulties in Berlin's account of the history of the ideas of negative and positive liberty and, more importantly, in his conception of value pluralism. (shrink)
Positive and Negative Freedom in Social and Political Philosophy
Behind the Veil of Ignorance.János Kis - 2002 - Croatian Journal of Philosophy 2 (2):131-159.details
The paper examines consensual contractarianism John Rawls proposed in his A Theory of Justice, and develops the following criticism. The veil of ignorance device requires but cannot secure the neutrality of the primary goods. In the Rawlsian 'original position' of contract, the only relevant information the hypothetical choosers are allowed to have is that they all prefer to have some 'primary goods' rather than not to have any, and that they prefer to have more rather than less of the primary (...) goods. This stipulation entails that the 'primary goods' are neutral with regard to the diverging preferences of the choosers. In other words, for the Rawlsian contract to yield acceptable results, neutrality of the primary goods must hold. It cannot, however. Hence Rawls' account of a consensual contract is untenable. The paper suggests that the difficulty is not rooted in the particular features of the Rawlsian theory but in the very idea of a consensual contract. (shrink)
John Rawls in 20th Century Philosophy
How is Critical Economic Theory Possible?Hogyan Lehetséges Kritikai Gazdaságtan?John Edward Grumley & János Kis (eds.) - 2022 - Brill.details
A masterpiece of critical theory available in English for the first time in jargon-free language for philosophers, political economists, and the general public interested in Marxism, capitalism and socialism.
The first divide in György Márkus's philosophical development.János Kis - 2020 - Thesis Eleven 160 (1):7-21.details
This paper systematises the works of György Márkus into two or possibly three periods. These emphasise the underlying consistency of purpose and interpreting theoretical interests throughout the oeuvre. despite the changing and socio-political forms and language games, all three share common features. These stages move from this initial critique of Orthodox Marxism employing the intellectual rigor of analytical and a philosophical anthropology to an investigation of the internal contradictions in Marx's mature economic writings. to a final post-marxist phase after he (...) left Hungary dominated by continual philosophical themes and a social democratic political perspective. (shrink)
Nation-Building and Beyond.Janos Kis - 2002 - In Will Kymlicka & Magda Opalski (eds.), Can Liberal Pluralism Be Exported?: Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe. Oxford University Press.details
States and Nations in Social and Political Philosophy
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Hungary and the Invasion of Czechoslovakia: On the Moral Responsibility of the Intellectuals.Janos Kis - 1990 - Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 2 (1):21-24.details
Beyond the National State.Janos Kis - 1996 - Social Research: An International Quarterly 63 (1).details