Books
After Evil: Human Rights Discourse in the Twenty-First Century. Columbia University Press New York, 2010 (forthcoming)
Political Identity: Thinking Through Marx. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.
Selected Publications
“Journalistic Silence and Governmental Speech: Can Institutions Have Rights?” Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. 16:2 (Fall 1981): 319-376.
“Vigilante Action Against Pornography: The Symbolic Destruction of Symbols.” Social Text. 12 (Fall 1985): 3-18.
“Discrimination Law Through the Looking Glass.” Wisconsin Law Review. 1985, no. 4: 937-988.
“The Logic and Legacy of Dred Scott: Marshall, Taney and the Sublimation of Republican Thought.” Studies on American Political Development. Vol. 3. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1989: 199-260.
“Law and Government.” Civitas. Center for Civic Education: Law in a Free Society, 1991, pp. 330-7..
“Is Moderation a Virtue?” in Virtue, Love, and Form ed., T. Irwin and M. Nussbaum, Apeiron, XXVI, nos. 3 and 4 (1993), pp. 111-136.
“Sunstein, The Partial Constitution,” Political Theory, vol. 23:1, (February 1995) pp. 182-195.
“Sojourners and Survivors: Two Logics of Constitutional Protection” Studies on American Political Development. vol. 9, Cambridge University Press (Fall 1995), pp. 229-85.
“Sojourners and Survivors: Two Logics of Constitutional Development” University of Chicago Law Roundtable vol. 3, no 1 (Winter 1996), pp. 121-84 [revised version]
“Beyond Satisfaction: Democracy, Consumption, and the Future of Socialism” Topoi vol. 15 no. 2 (September 1996), pp. 189-210.
“Beyond Satisfaction: Democracy, Consumption, and the Future of Socialism” (revised version), Kathryn Dean, ed. Politics and the Ends of Identity, Kathryn Dean, ed., Ashgate Publishing: Aldershot, 1997, pp. 196-233.
“Two Concepts of Victimhood in Transitional Regimes,” Occasional Paper. Center for African Studies, University of Capetown, South Africa. 1998.
“Justice as Afterlife,” Occasional Paper. Center for African Studies, University of Capetown, South Africa, 1998.
“After Evil: Moral Logics of National Recovery in the TRC Final Report ,” University of Witwatersrand, Johannesberg, South Africa. Proceedings of Conference: “The TRC: Commissioning the Past,” 1999.
“Forgiving and Forgetting: Lincoln and the Politics of National Recovery” in Carla Hesse and Robert Post, eds. Human Rights and Political Transitions, Zone Press: New York, 2000, pp. 135-75.
“Human Rights and the Politics of Victimhood,” Ethics and International Affiars, 16:2 (October, 2002), pp.91-108.
“The Liberalism of Fear and the Counterrevolutionary Project,” Ethics and International Affairs, 16:2 (October, 2002), pp. 118-24.
“Way of Winning: The Costs of Moral in Transitional Regimes,” in Modernity and the Problem of Evil, ed. Alan Schrift, Indiana University Press, 2005), pp. 81-111.
“Who Fooled Whom?” Theory and Event, 2005
“NOB,” In Memoriam: Norman O. Brown, New Pacific Press, 2005.
“’Never Again’: The Ethics of the Neighbor and the Logic of Genocide”, Post-Modern Culture (2005)
“Anticipatory Regret: Can Free Speech Be Protected When It Matters?” boundary 2 32, no. 3 (2005): 169-97.
“The Real Scandal: Moves to Privatize Higher Education” San Francisco Chronicle, January 15, 2006
“Disavowing Evil: From Grief to Grievance and Back Again”, Post-Modern Culture, 200
“Athens and Jerusalem after Auschwitz: Still the Jewish Question” Thesis 11 102 (forthcoming 2010)