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Against received ppinion: recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for an analysis of populism and liberal democracy (2023)
Journal Article
KHAN, G. (2023). Against received ppinion: recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for an analysis of populism and liberal democracy. Philosophy and Social Criticism,

In philosophy and political theory, the term paradox is often used synonymously with antinomy, contradiction, and aporia. This paper clarifies the meaning of these terms through tracing their respective etymology. We see that antinomy denotes a deep-... Read More about Against received ppinion: recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for an analysis of populism and liberal democracy.

Against received opinion: Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy (2023)
Journal Article
Khan, G. (2023). Against received opinion: Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy. Philosophy and Social Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537231219944

In philosophy and political theory, the term paradox is often used synonymously with antinomy, contradiction and aporia. This article clarifies the meaning of these terms through tracing their respective etymology. We see that antinomy denotes a deep... Read More about Against received opinion: Recovering the original meaning of ‘paradox’ for populism and liberal democracy.

From domination to emancipation and freedom: reading Ernesto Laclau's post-Marxism in conjunction with Philip Pettit's neo-republicanism (2019)
Journal Article
Khan, G. (2019). From domination to emancipation and freedom: reading Ernesto Laclau's post-Marxism in conjunction with Philip Pettit's neo-republicanism. Global Discourse / Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, 9(2), 391-409. https://doi.org/10.1332/204378919X15526540593660

© Bristol University Press 2019. In this paper, I bring Ernesto Laclau’s post-Marxist approach into conversation with the analytical thinker Philip Pettit, who has developed an influential neo-republican conception of freedom as ‘non-domination’. Bot... Read More about From domination to emancipation and freedom: reading Ernesto Laclau's post-Marxism in conjunction with Philip Pettit's neo-republicanism.

Rereading Habermas's charge of “performative contradiction” in light of Derrida's account of the paradoxes of philosophical grounding (2018)
Journal Article
Khan, G. (2019). Rereading Habermas's charge of “performative contradiction” in light of Derrida's account of the paradoxes of philosophical grounding. Constellations, 26(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12385

Beyond the ontological turn: affirming the relative autonomy of politics (2017)
Journal Article
Khan, G. A. (2017). Beyond the ontological turn: affirming the relative autonomy of politics. Political Studies Review, 15(4), 551-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929917712933

In this article, I critically evaluate a characteristic tendency that is found across the various traditions of poststructuralism, both narrowly and more broadly defined. This is an increasing propensity to be preoccupied with ontological questions a... Read More about Beyond the ontological turn: affirming the relative autonomy of politics.