Publications
"The Weak Principle of Universalization and the Vulnerable: Comments on Minimal Morality," Analysis. 79 (1) 116-128. 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/any079)
Work in Progress
Free Labor and the Fullness of Self-Realization
Abstract. Recent discussions of unalienated labor and self-realization have revived debates about what Marxists call the fullness of self-realization: the possibility that a person can attain self-realization in multiple kinds (though by no means all kinds) of laboring activity. The fullness of self-realization captures the radical way that the activity of labor is transformed in a communist mode of production, from a particular type of occupation that is a mere means to making ends meet, to the diverse expression of human potential in a variety of creative activities that can be a source of self-realization for working people. In this paper, I defend the attainability of the fullness of self-realization, engaging with contemporary accounts of unalienated labor that either deny this attainability or restrict the fullness of self-realization to single but complex occupations.Â