UCD School of Philosophy

Scoil na Fealsúnachta UCD

Professor Maeve Cooke, BA, MA, DrPhil (Konstanz), MRIA

Telephone: 00353-1-716 8352
Fax: 00353-1-716 8258
Office: D501
E-mail: Maeve.Cooke@ucd.ie

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Interests:
critical social theory; law, religion, politics and philosophy; autonomy, ideology and power

Academic qualifications

1980: BA in German and Politics (UCD) with double first class honours
1982: MA in Politics (UCD) with first class honours
1989: Dr. Phil. in Philosophy (University of Konstanz, Germany)

Employment history

2006 to date: Professor, School of Philosophy, UCD
2005 - 2006: Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, UCD.
2003-2005: Associate Professor for German Social and Political Thought, Department of German, UCD
1993-2003: Statutory Lecturer, Department of German, UCD
1990-1993: College Lecturer, Department of German, UCD
1989-1990: Assistant Lecturer, Department of German, UCD
1988-1989: Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft to Prof. J. Mittelstrass and Prof. A. Wellmer, Department of Philosophy, University of Konstanz
1984-1986: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Ethics and Politics, UCD
1983-1984: Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft to Prof. A. Wellmer, Department of Philosophy, University of Konstanz
1980-1982: Tutor in Dept. of Ethics and Politics, UCD and in Department of German, UCD

Academic distinctions, fellowships and awards

2005: Elected member of the Royal Irish Academy
2002-3: Government of Ireland Senior Fellowship
2001-2002: A. v. Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, University of Frankfurt/Main
1999-2000: UCD President’s Fellowship
1994-1996: A. v. Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, The Free University, Berlin
1991: DAAD (Bonn) Fellowship, University of Konstanz
1986-88: Swiss Government Scholarship, University of Zürich
1982-3: DAAD (Bonn) Scholarship, University of Konstanz
1981: Norwegian Government Scholarship, University of Oslo
1980-1: UCD Postgraduate Scholarship
1978-9: DAAD (Bonn) Scholarship, University of Freiburg
1977-8: UCD Arts Faculty Scholarship
1977: Henry Hutchinson Stewart Literary Scholarship (NUI)

Directorships, memberships, etc

Co-director of the International Colloquium “Philosophy and the Social Sciences”
Member of Irish Philosophy Society
Editorial Associate of the scholarly journal Constellations
Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Publications

Books as sole author

(1994) Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 232 pages.
(2006) Re-Presenting the Good Society, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 304 pages.

Books as sole editor

(1998) On the Pragmatics of Communication, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 454 pages.

Articles (journals and books)

(1992) “Habermas, Autonomy, and the Identity of the Self”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 18, nos. 3/4, pp. 269-291.
(1993) “Habermas and Consensus”, European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 247-267.
(1993) “Negative Freiheit? Zum Problem eines postmetaphysischen Freiheitsbegriffs”. In Zur Verteidigung der Vernunft gegen ihre Liebhaber und Verächter, edited by C. Menke & M. Seel, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, pp. 285-299.
(1994) “Realizing the Post-Conventional Self”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 20, nos.1/2, pp. 87-101.
(1994) “Postkonventionelle Selbstverwirklichung: Überlegungen zur praktischen Subjektivität”, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 61-72.
(1994) “Selfhood and Solidarity”, Constellations, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 338-358.
(1995) “Habermas and Law”. In Justice and Legal Theory in Ireland, edited by G. Quinn, A. Ingram and S. Livingstone, Dublin: Oak Tree Press, pp. 121-133.
(1995) “Die Suche nach einem Selbst: Überlegungen zur Frage der Selbstwerdung in Jonathan Rabans Hunting Mr Heartbreak”. In Reisen im Diskurs: Modelle der literarischen Fremderfahrung, edited by A. Fuchs and T. Harden, Heidelberg: C. Winter, pp. 35-54.
(1997) “Authenticity and Autonomy: Taylor, Habermas, and the Politics of Recognition”, Political Theory, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 260-290.
(1997) “Are Ethical Conflicts Irreconcilable?” Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 1-19.
(1997) “Individualita a Solidarita”. In Etika Autonomie a Autenticity, edited and translated by Josef Velek, Prague: Filosofia, pp. 137-168.
(1997) “Authenticita a Autonomi: Taylor, Habermas a Politika Uznání”. In Etika Autonomie a Autenticity, edited and translated by Josef Velek, Prague: Filosofia, pp. 169-215.
(1998) “Questioning Autonomy: The Feminist Challenge and the Challenge for Feminism”. In Questioning Ethics, edited by R. Kearney, London: Routledge, pp. 258-282.
(1998) “Are Ethical Conflicts Irreconcilable?” In Reconstituting Social Criticism, edited by S. O’Neill and I. MacKenzie, London: Macmillan, pp. 171-189.
(1999) “Habermas, Feminism and the Question of Autonomy”. In Habermas: A Critical Reader, edited by P. Dews, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 178-210.
(1999) “A Space of One’s Own: Autonomy, Privacy, Liberty”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 25, no 1, pp. 23-53.
(1999) “Kritische Theorie und Religion”, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 707-884.
(2000) “Verdade e Signifacado na Pragmática Habermasiana”, trans. I. Morgado, Cadernos de Filosofia, no. 8, pp. 9-42.
(2000) “Five Arguments for Deliberative Democracy, Political Studies, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 947-969.
(2000) “Between ‘Objectivism’ and ‘Contextualism’: the Normative Foundations of Social Philosophy”, Critical Horizons, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 193-227.
(2000) “A Feminist Theory of Justice”. In Questioning Ireland, edited by J. Dunne, A. Ingram. F. Litton, Dublin, IPA Press, pp. 124-139.
(2001) “Critical Theory and Religion”. In Philosophy of Religion in the 21st Century, edited by D. Z. Phillips, and T. Tessin, London: Palgrave, pp. 211-243.
(2001) “An Evil Heart: Moral Evil and Moral Identity”. In Rethinking Evil, edited by M. P. Lara, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 113-130.
(2001) “Meaning and Truth in Habermas’s Pragmatics”, European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-23.
(2001) “Socio-Cultural Learning as a ‘Transcendental Fact’: Habermas’s Postmetaphysical Perspective”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 63-83.
(2002) “Five Arguments for Deliberative Democracy”. In Democracy as Public Deliberation, edited by M. Passerin d’Entreves, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 53-87.
(2002) “Argumentation and Transformation”, Argumentation, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 79-108.
(2002) “Die Stellung der Religion bei Jürgen Habermas”. In Religion, Moderne, Postmoderne, edited by K. Dethloff, L. Nagl, F. Wolfram, Berlin: Parerga, pp. 99-119.
(2003) “The Weaknesses of Strong Intersubjectivism: Habermas’s Conception of Justice”, European Journal of Political Theory, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 281-305.
(2003) “Ripensare il Momento della Redenzione: la Dimensione Utopica di una Teoria Sociale Critica”, Quaderni di Teoria Sociale, vol. 3, pp. 79-94.
(2004) “Redeeming Redemption: The Utopian Dimension of Critical Social Theory”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 30. no. 4, pp. 413-429.
(2004) “Privacy and Autonomy”. In Privacies. Philosophical Evaluations, edited by B. Rössler, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 98-112.
(2004) “Between ‘Objectivism’ and ‘Contextualism’: The Normative Foundations of Social Philosophy”. In Critical Theory after Habermas, edited by D. Freundlieb, W. Hudson and J. Rundell, Leiden & Boston: Brill, pp. 35-76 .
(2005) “Making The Case for Privacy Rights”, Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 131-143.
(2005) “Avoiding Authoritarianism: On the Problem of Justification in Contemporary Critical Social Theory”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 13. no. 3, pp. 379-404.
(2006) “The Ethics of Post-Holocaust Art: Reflections on Redemption and Representation”, German Life and Letters, vol. 59, 2, p. 266-279.
(2006) “Resurrecting the Rationality of Ideology Critique: Reflections on Laclau on Ideology”, Constellations, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 5-20.
(2006) “Säkulare Übersetzung oder Postsäkulare Argumentation? Habermas über Religion in der demokratischen Öffentlichkeit”. In Jürgen Habermas über Religion, edited by R. Langthaler and H. Nagl-Docekal, Wien/Berlin: Oldenbourg Verlag

Internet articles

(2000) “Gibt es eine Zukunft für die Sozialphilosophie?” Proceedings of A. v. Humboldt Foundation Conference, Dublin April (2000); http:/www.humboldt-foundation.de/aktuelles/hörsaal

Other scholarly publications

Scholarly book reviews

(1992) The Communicative Ethics Controversy, edited by S. Benhabib and F. Dallmayr, Philosophical Studies, vol. 33, pp. 335-338.
(1994) Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies by Barry Smart, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 384-385.
(1995) The Absorbed Self by Ciarán Benson, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 350-353.
(1997) Freedom within Reason by Susan Wolf, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 486-489.
(1998) Reflective Authenticity: Rethinking the Project of Modernity by Alessandro Ferrara, Constellations, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 572-575.
(2002) Jürgen Habermas: A Philosophical Political Profile by Martin Beck Matustík, Philosophy in Review, vol. XXII, no. 6, pp. 344-346.

Translations

(1984-1985) “Truth, Semblance and Reconciliation” by A. Wellmer, Telos, no. 62 Winter, pp. 89-94
(1998) “Some Further Clarifications of the Concept of Communicative Rationality” by J. Habermas. In On the Pragmatics of Communication, edited by M. Cooke, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, pp. 306-342.
(1998) “Richard Rorty’s Pragmatic Turn” by J. Habermas. In On the Pragmatics of Communication, edited by M. Cooke, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 343-382.
(1999) “Richard Rorty’s Pragmatic Turn” by J. Habermas. In Philosophers and their Critics, edited by R. Brandom, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 31-56.
(2000) “From Kant to Hegel: Robert Brandom’s Pragmatic Philosophy of Language” by J. Habermas, European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 8, no. 3: 322-355.
(2001) “Invisibility: On the Epistemology of ‘Recognition’ by A. Honneth, The Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume, LXXV, pp. 111-126.

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