I am an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Fordham University. I work mainly in political philosophy and critical social theory. My current research focuses on the historical development and contemporary practice of humanitarianism and human rights. I have also done a lot of work on Jürgen Habermas's social and political theory. I am generally interested in methodological debates on normative, historical, and critical approaches to morality and politics. |
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Robin Celikates and I recently co-authored a new entry on "Critical Theory" for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
In 2013-14, I was a Member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ) and I am currently working on a book on humanitarianism. Here are some of my recent essays and reviews on human rights and humanitarianism:
In 2013-14, I was a Member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ) and I am currently working on a book on humanitarianism. Here are some of my recent essays and reviews on human rights and humanitarianism:
- "Seeing Suffering," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs (2021)
- "Suffering and Status," Humanitarianism & Human Rights: A World of Differences?, Michael Barnett, ed. (Cambridge 2020)
- "Do-gooders," Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development (2019)
- "Consuming Human Rights," Journal of Human Rights Practice (2019)
- "Genealogies of Human Rights - What's at Stake?" in Human Rights: Moral or Political?, Adam Etinson, ed. (Oxford 2018)
- "Philosophers, Historians, and Suffering Strangers," Moving the Social (2017)
- "On the Relatively Recent Rise of Human Dignity," Anthropological Quarterly (2016)
- Review of A Passion for Society: How We Think About Human Suffering, American Anthropologist (2016)
Reframing the Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights: A Philosophical Approach
(Routledge 2014, issued in paperback 2016).
"A model work of political philosophy: careful and clear in its argument, rich in detail, and ambitious in scope."
- Stephen C. Angle, Wesleyan University -- Full review at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
”An exciting new contribution to the literature on human rights. Flynn systematically reconstructs Habermas’s discourse-theoretical approach to human rights and compellingly argues for its superiority over rival approaches.”
- Amy Allen, Penn State
"Written in lucid and incisive prose, the book comprehensively reexamines the role, limits, and ideal nature of intercultural dialogue on human rights in the contemporary world. The result is a deeply valuable and timely piece of scholarship, and one that is well suited to spur the creation of new philosophical research on this ever more pressing topic."
- Adam Etinson, University of St. Andrews -- Full Review at Political Theory
(Routledge 2014, issued in paperback 2016).
"A model work of political philosophy: careful and clear in its argument, rich in detail, and ambitious in scope."
- Stephen C. Angle, Wesleyan University -- Full review at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
”An exciting new contribution to the literature on human rights. Flynn systematically reconstructs Habermas’s discourse-theoretical approach to human rights and compellingly argues for its superiority over rival approaches.”
- Amy Allen, Penn State
"Written in lucid and incisive prose, the book comprehensively reexamines the role, limits, and ideal nature of intercultural dialogue on human rights in the contemporary world. The result is a deeply valuable and timely piece of scholarship, and one that is well suited to spur the creation of new philosophical research on this ever more pressing topic."
- Adam Etinson, University of St. Andrews -- Full Review at Political Theory