Social Sciences: Politics & International Relations

David Owen

BA PhD

Primary position:
Head of the Division of Politics & International Relations
Other positions:
Professor of Social & Political Philosophy

Background

Academic Qualifications
1989 PhD Durham University
1985 BA Durham University

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"I am happy to supervise students in the areas of contemporary European and Anglo-American social and political philosophy."

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Article

Owen, David and Woodford, Clare M. (2012) Foucault, Cavell and the Government of self and others: on truth-telling, friendship and an ethics of democracy. Iride (In Press).
Owen, David (2012) Citizenship and the marginalities of migrants. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (In Press).
Owen, David (2012) Constituting the polity, constituting the demos. Ethics and Global Politics (In Press).
Owen, David (2012) Transnational citizenship and the democratic state. Critical Review in Social and Political Philosophy (In Press).
Owen, David (2011) Must the tolerant person have a sense of humour? On the structure of tolerance as a virtue. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 14, (3), 385-403. (doi:10.1080/13698230.2011.571879).
Owen, David (2011) Must the tolerant person have a sense of humour? Critical Review in Social and Political Philosophy (In Press).
Smith, Graham and Owen, David (2011) Machiavellian democratic innovations: McCormick’s people’s tribunate. The Good Society, 20, (2), 203-215. (doi:10.5325/goodsociety.20.2.0203).
Owen, David (2011) National responsibility, global justice and transnational power. Review of International Studies, 36, (S1), 97-112. (doi:10.1017/S0260210511000118). (In Press).
Owen, David (2010) Die verlorene und die wiedergefundene Wirklichkeit. Ethik, Politik und Imagination bei Raymond Geuss. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 58, (3), 431-443. (doi:10.1524/dzph.2010.0034).
Owen, David (2010) Reification, ideology and power: expression and agency in Honneth’s theory of recognition. Journal of Power, 3, (1), 97-109. (doi:10.1080/17540291003630387 ).
Owen, David (2008) Pluralism and the pathos of distance (or: how to relax with style): Connolly, agonistic respect and the limits of political theory. British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 10, (2), 210-226. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-856X.2007.00310.x).
Owen, David (2008) Nietzsche’s genealogy revisited. [in special issue: Special Issue on Contemporary Research in Nietzsche Studies] Journal of Nietzsche Studies , 35/36, 141-154. (doi:10.1353/nie.0.0028).
Owen, David (2005) On failing to be agents: freedom, servitude and the concept of the 'weak' in Nietzsche's practical philosophy. Philosophical Topics, 33, (2)
Owen, David (2005) On genealogy and political theory. Political Theory, 33, (1), 110-120. (doi:10.1177/0090591704263572).
Owen, David (2003) The contest of enlightenment: an essay on critique and genealogy. Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 25, 35-57.
Owen, David and Ridley, Aaron (2003) On fate. International Studies in Philosophy, 35, (3)
Owen, David (2003) Nietzsche, re-evaluation and the turn to genealogy. European Journal of Philosophy, 11, (3), 249-272. (doi:10.1111/1468-0378.00186).
Owen, David (2003) Culture, equality and polemic. Economy and Society, 32, (2), 325-340. (doi:10.1080/0308514032000073473).
Owen, D. and Johansson, T. (2002) Interpretation, Verstandlichkeit and die Grenzen einer Phanomenologie der Moral. Deutsche Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie, 50, (4), 567-580.
Owen, David (2002) Equality, democracy and self-respect: Nietzsche's agonic perfectionism. Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 24, 113-131.
Owen, D. (2002) Re-orienting international relations: on pragmatism, pluralism and practical reasoning. Millennium, 31, (3), 653-673.
Owen, David (2002) Criticism and captivity: on genealogy and critical theory. European Journal of Philosophy, 10, (2), 216-230. (doi:10.1111/1468-0378.00158).
Owen, Daniel and Bentley, Russell (2001) Ethical loyalties, civic virtue and the circumstances of politics. Philosophical Explorations, 4, (3), 223-239. (doi:10.1080/10002001098538718).
Owen, David (2001) Wittgenstein and genealogy. SATS: Nordic Journal of Philosophy, 2, (2)
Owen, David (2000) Of overgrown children and last men: Nietzsche's critique and Weber's cultural science. Nietzsche-studien, 29
Owen, D. (2000) Is there a doctrine of will to power? International Studies in Philosophy, XXXII, (3)
Owen, David (1999) Political philosophy in a post-imperial voice. Economy and Society, 28, (4), 520-549. (doi:10.1080/03085149900000016).
Owen, David (1999) Cultural diversity and the conversation of justice: Reading Cavell on political voice and the expression of consent. Political Theory, 27, (5), 579-596.
Owen, D. (1997) Foucault, Habermas and the claims of reason. History of the Human Sciences, 9, (2), 119-138.
Owen, David (1995) Genealogy as exemplary critique: reflections on Foucault and the imagination of the political. Economy and Society, 24, (4), 489-506. (doi:10.1080/03085149500000021).
Owen, D. (1995) Imagining America: reflections on politics and time in three forms of popular film. Film and Philosophy, 1, (1)
Owen, David (1994) Agonal thought: reading Nietzsche as a political thinker. Angelaki. Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 1, (3), 119-128.
Owen, D. (1992) The judgement of Nietzsche: philosophy, politics, modernity. History of the Human Sciences, 5, (3), 121-135.
Owen, D. (1991) Foucault, psychiatry and the spectre of dangerousness. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 2, (3), 238-241.
Owen, D. (1991) Autonomy and "inner distance": a trace of Nietzsche in Weber. History of the Human Sciences, 4, (1) (doi:10.1177/095269519100400104).

Book

Stoker, Gerry, Mason, Andrew, McGrew, Anthony, Armstrong, Chris, Owen, David, Smith, Graham, Banya, Momoh, McGhee, Derek and Saunders, Clare (2011) Prospects for citizenship, London, GB, Bloomsbury Academic Press, 208pp.
Owen, David (2007) Nietzsche's genealogy of morality , UK, Acumen Press, 192pp.
Laden, Anthony Simon and Owen, David (2007) Multiculturalism and Political theory, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 432pp.
Owen, David (2007) Nietzsche’s genealogy of morality, Stocksfield, UK, Acumen Publishing, 192pp.
van den Brink, Bert and Owen, David (2007) Recognition and power in contemporary social and political theory, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press
Owen, David and Strong, Tracy B. (eds.) (2004) Max Weber: the vocation essays: "science as a vocation", "politics as a vocation", Indianapolis, USA, Hackett, 176pp.
Brewster, Scott, Joughin, John J., Owen, David and Walker, Richard J. (eds.) (2000) Inhuman reflections: rethinking the limits of the human, Manchester, UK, Manchester University Press, 256pp.
Ashenden, Samantha and Owen, David (1999) Foucault contra Habermas: recasting the dialogue between genealogy and critical theory, London, UK, Sage, 224pp.
Owen, David (ed.) (1997) Sociology after Postmodernism, London, UK, Sage Publications Ltd, 228pp.
Owen, David (1995) Nietzsche, politics and modernity: a critique of liberal reason, USA, Sage Publications, 192pp. (Philosophy and Social Criticism).
Owen, David (1994) Maturity and modernity: Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault and the ambivalence of reason, London, UK, Routledge

Book Section

Owen, David (2011) Foucault, Tully and agonistic struggles over recognition. In, Bankovsky, M. and Goff, Le (eds.) Recognition Theory and Contemporary French Moral and Political Philosophy. Manchester, GB, Manchester University Press, 133-165. (In Press).
Owen, David (2010) Dilemmas of inclusion. In, Nash, K. (ed.) Transnationalizing the Public Sphere. Cambridge, GB, Polity Press. (In Press).
Owen, David (2010) Genealogy. In, Bevir, Mark (ed.) SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Theory. London, GB, Sage. (In Press).
Owen, David (2010) Nietzsche and analytic philosophy. In, Gemes, K. and Richardson, J. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche. Oxford, GB, Oxford University Press. (In Press).
Owen, David (2010) Responsibilities of justice. In, Niesen, P. (ed.) Gerechtigkeit, Demokratie, Inklusion: Motive aus dem Werk von Iris Young. Baden-Baden, DE, Nomos. (Submitted).
Owen, David (2009) Transnational citizenship – migration and membership. In, Stoker, Gerry, Armstrong, Chris, Mason, Andrew D., McGrew, Anthony, Owen, David and Smith, Graham (eds.) Prospects for Citizenship. , Bloomsbury Academic.
Owen, D. (2009) Resident aliens, non-resident citizens and voting rights: towards a pluralist theory of transnational political equality and modes of political belonging. In, Calder, Gideon, Cole, Phillip and Seglow, Jonathan (eds.) Citizenship Acquisition and National Belonging: Migration, Membership and the Liberal Democratic State. Basingstoke, GB, Palgrave Macmillan, 52-73. (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship).
Owen, David (2009) Autonomy, self-respect and self-love: Nietzsche on ethical agency. In, Gemes, Ken and May, Simon (eds.) Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy. Oxford, GB, Oxford University Press.
Owen, David (2009) The expressive agon: on political agency in a constitutional democratic polity. In, Schaap, Andrew (ed.) Law and Agonistic Politics (Edinburgh Centre for Law and Society). , Ashgate, 71-86.
Owen, David (2008) Nietzsche, ethical agency and the problem of democracy. In, Siemens, Herman W. and Roodt, Vasti (eds.) Nietzsche, Power and Politics. , De Gruyter, 37-68. (doi:10.1515/9783110217339.2.143).
Owen, David (2007) Self-government and "democracy as reflexive co-operation": reflections on Honneth's social and political ideal. In, van den Brink, Bert and Owen, David (eds.) Recognition and Power. Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 290-320.
Owen, David and Tully, J. (2007) Redistribution and Recognition: Two Approaches. In, Laden, A. and Owen, D. (eds.) Multiculturalism and Political Theory. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 265-291.
Owen, D. (2006) Nietzsche rhetorical therapies. In, Ricks, S. (ed.) Reading Nietzsche at the Margins. , SUNY Press. (In Press).
Owen, David (2006) Perfectionism, parrhesia and care of the self: Cavell and Foucault on ethics and politics. In, Norris, A. (ed.) The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy. , Stanford University Press.
Owen, David (2003) Democracy. In, Bellamy, Richard and Mason, Andrew (eds.) Political Concepts. , Manchester University Press.
Owen, David (2003) Genealogy as perspicuous representation. In, Heyes, Cressida J. (ed.) The Grammar of Politics: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy. , Cornell University Press, 82-98.
Owen, D. (2001) Democracy, perfectionism and 'undetermined messianic hope'. Cavell, Derrida and the ethos of democracy-to-come. In, Nagl, Ludwig and Mouffe, Chantal (eds.) The Legacy of Wittgenstein: Pragmatism or Deconstruction. Oxford, UK, Peter Lang.
Owen, David (2001) The avoidance of cruelty: joshing Rorty on liberal irony. In, Festenstein, Matthew and Thompson, Simon (eds.) Richard Rorty: Critical Dialogues. Oxford, UK, Polity Press, 93-110.
Owen, David and Ridley, Aaron (2000) Dramatis personae: Nietzsche as cultural physician. In, Schrift, Alan D. (ed.) Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics. Berkeley, USA, University of California press.
Owen, David (2000) "Postmodern" political sociology. In, Nash, Kate and Scott, Alan (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. Oxford, UK, Basil Blackwell. (Blackwell Companions to Sociology).
Owen, David (1999) The inhuman, the all-too-human and the overhuman. In, Brewster, Scott, Joughin, John J., Owen, David and Walker, Richard J. (eds.) Inhuman Reflections: Rethinking the Limits of the Human. Manchester, UK, Manchester University Press.
Owen, David (1999) Orientation and enlightenment. In, Ashenden, Samatha and Owen, David (eds.) Foucault contra Habermas: recasting the dialogue between genealogy and critical theory. London, UK, Sage, 21-44.
Owen, D. (1998) Nietzsche, enlightenment and the problem of Noble ethics. In, Lippitt, J. (ed.) Nietzsche's Futures. International Fifth Annual Conference: Nietzsche and the Future of the Human London, UK, Palgrave Macmillan.
 

Research

Research Interests

Politics: Problems of Political Community; Contemporary Democratic Theory; Ethics & Politics of Migration,; Theories of Power and Freedom.

Philosophy: Post-Kantian Moral and Political Philosophy; Nietzsche; Wittgenstein; Foucault

Work in progress

Nietzsche's Contest: Freedom, Perfectionism and Realism in Political Theory, a contracted book with Rowman and Littlefield 

Migration and Political Theory, a book contracted to Routledge

As a member of the Steering Committee for the 3 year AHRB 'Nietzsche and Modern Moral Philosophy' project, I will also be editing and authoring a number of publications arising from this project.

 

Teaching Responsibilities

Citizenship and Multiculturalism & The Ethics and Politics of Migration.

Research Supervision

I am happy to supervise students in the areas of contemporary European and Anglo-American social and political philosophy as well as on topics such as asylum seekers and refugees, immigration, political membership and multiculturalism.

Contact

Professor David Owen
Politics & International Relations
Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom

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