Publications

R.J. CONCES (06-16-2005)

Books

Blurred Visions:  Philosophy, Science, and Ideology in a Troubled World.  The San Francisco State University Series in Philosophy.  New York:  Peter Lang, 1997.

*reviewed in International Third World Studies Journal and Review 8 (1996) by Michael L. Gillespie.

Refereed Journal Articles

"A Sisyphean Tale: The Pathology of Ethnic Nationalism and the Pedagogy of Forging Humane Democracies in the Balkans." Studies in East European Thought (The Netherlands) 57 (2005): 139-84.

"Sizifovska Priča: Patologija etničkog nacionalizma i pedagogija kovanja humanih demokratija na Balkanu" ("A Sisyphean Tale: The Pathology of Ethnic Nationalism and the Pedagogy of Forging Humane Democracies in the Balkans"), Dijalog (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 1-2 (2005): 74-99. Translated into Bosnian by Srebren Dizdar.

"Eine Sisyphos-Erzählung: Zur Pathologie des (religiösen) ethnischen Nationalismus und Praxis humaner Demokratieförderung auf dem Balkan" ("A Sisyphean Tale: The Pathology of (Religious) Ethnic Nationalism and the Pedagogy of Forging of Humane Democracies in the Balkans"), Kakanien Revisted (04-02-2004): 1-8. Translated into German by Ursula Reber.

"Unified Pluralism: Fostering Reconciliation and the Demise of Ethnic Nationalism,"  Studies in East European Thought (The Netherlands) 54 (December 2002): 285-302.

"Opravdavanje prisilne i neprisilne intervencije i strateski i humanitarni argumenti" ("Justifying Coercive and Non-Coercive Intervention: Humanitarian and Strategic Arguments"), Sociajdemokrat (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 9 (January 2002): 55-74.  Translated into Bosnian by Jasminka Babić-Avidispahić.

"Objedinjeni pluralizam: gajenje pomirenja i okoncanje etnickog nacionalizma" ("Unified Pluralism: Fostering Reconciliation and the Demise of Ethnic Nationalism"), Dijalog (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 3-4 (2001): 125-39. Translated into Bosnian by Jasminka Babić-Avidispahić.

"Justifying Coercive and Non-Coercive Intervention: Humanitarian and Strategic Arguments," Acta Analytica (Slovenia) 16 (December 2001): 133-52.

Consensual Foundations and Resistance in Locke's `Second Treatise.'"  Theoria no. 91 (June 1998): 19-33.

"Contract, Trust, and Resistance in the `Second Treatise.'" The Locke Newsletter no. 28 (1997): 117-33.

"Ethics and Sovereignty" (Co-author:  William L. Blizek).  International Third World Studies Journal and Review  8 (1996): 1-11.  Published October 1997.

"The Semblance of Ideologies and Scientific Theories and the Constitution of Facts."  Review Journal of Philosophy and Social Science  21 (1996): 1-18.

"A Participatory Approach to the Teaching of Critical Reasoning."  APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy (Spring 1995): 114-16.

"Aesthetic Alienation and the Art of Modernity."  Southwest Philosophy Review 10 (July 1994): 149-64.

Book Contributions

"Pasthënie" ("Foreword"), in Fatos Tarifa, Kërkimi i legjitimitetit dhe venitja e utopisë (The Quest for Legitimacy and the Withering Away of Utopia). Tirana: Globus R., 2002, pp. 93-98.

"A Participatory Approach to the Teaching of Critical Reasoning," in Tziporah Kasachkoff, ed., In the Socratic Tradition:  Essays on Teaching Philosophy.  Lanham, MD:  Rowman & Littlefield, 1997, pp. 161-65.

Book Reviews

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir of Books by Azar Nafisi. International Third World Studies Journal and Review 15 (2004): 23-25.

Culture, Ideology and Society by Fatos Tarifa. International Third World Studies Journal and Review  14 (2003): 35-37.Reprinted in Kakanien Revisted (14/05/2005, pp. 1-4).

The Quest for Legitimacy and the Withering Away of Utopia  by Fatos Tarifa.  International Third World Studies Journal and Review, 13 (2002): 23-26. Reprinted in Kakanien Revisted (17/01/2005, pp. 1-5).

The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny by Scott Anderson.   International Third World Studies Journal and Review 11 (2000): 45-47.

Ethics for the New Millennium by The Dalai Lama.  International Third World Studies Journal and Review 11 (2000): 49-51.

To End a War by Richard Holbrooke.  International Third World Studies Journal and Review 10 (1998/99):77-79.

Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power  by Anatol Lieven.  International Third World Studies Journal and Review 10 (1998/99):81-84.

The Decolonization of Imagination:  Culture, Knowledge and Power edited by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Bhikhu Parekh.  International Third World Studies Journal and Review 9 (1997).  Published October 1998:73-75.

The Price of a Dream:  The Story of the Grameen Bank and the Idea That Is Helping the Poor to Change Their Lives by David Borstein.  International Third World Studies Journal and Review 8 (1996). Published October 1997: 91-92.

Other Publications

" 'Reconstructing' Kosovo: Ontology to Politics and the Less Traveled Road," Bosnia Daily (July 22, 2005 - No. 1050), pp.8-9.

"Re-Inventing the Labyrinth: Self-Identity, Spirituality, and the Ethics of Intervention in the Lives of Persons Afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease," Alzheimer's Association Midlands Chapter Newsletter 5 no. 3 (Summer 2004), p. 8.

"Kosovo: The Fragile Nature of Civility," Bosnia Daily (March 22, 2004), p. 9.

"Higher Education Reform in BiH," Bosnia Daily (February 10, 2003), pp. 9-10.

"Half Empty Half Full?" Bosnia Daily (July 18, 2002), p. 3.

 "Bosnian "Culture of Dependency"," Bosnia Daily (September 26, 2001), p. 3. 

" Universiteti Në Vendet Në Tranzicion Drejt Kapitalizmet Dhe Demokracisë" ("In Defense of Education: The University in Transitional Democratic Capitalist Countries"), Zëri, Pristina, Kosovo (July 14, 2001), pp. 35-37.  Translated into Albanian by Besnik Domi.

Foreword, International Third World Studies Journal and Review 6-10, 13 (1994-2000, 2002).

"A Scandal Without a Dialogue," Columbia Daily Tribune (March, 4, 1990),  p. 33.


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