Publications

Monograph:

• 2025. Hegel and Colonialism (co-authored with Franz Knappik). Cambridge University Press.

Special Issue:

• 2024. Racism and Colonialism in Hegel’s Philosophy (co-edited with Franz Knappik). Special Issue of the Hegel Bulletin (two volumes).

Edited Volumes:

• 2020. Social Functions: Metaphysical, Normative, and Methodological Perspectives. co-edited with Rebekka Hufendiek and Raphael van Riel
• 2021. Der Realität widerstehen: Aufsätze von Sally Haslanger, übersetzt von Thyra Elsasser, Philipp Hölzing und Daniel James, herausgegeben von Daniel James, mit einem Nachwort von Daniel James. Suhrkamp.

Other articles and book chapters, published or accepted for publication:

• Forthcoming, “G. W. F. Hegel, Frantz Fanon and Angela Davis on Recognition, Slavery, and Liberation” (co-authored with Franz Knappik)), In Matt Congdon & Thomas Khurana (eds.), The Philosophy of Recognition, Routledge.
• Forthcoming, “How do Germans and US-American Conceive of Race? Using Corpus Analysis and Semantic Feature Production Tasks to Compare Race Conceptions” (co-authored with Leda Berio, and Benedict Kenyah-Damptey), In Justin Sytsma, Joe Ulatowski & Dan Weijers (eds.), Experimental Philosophy and Corpus Methods (Advances in Experimental Philosophy), Bloomsbury.
• Forthcoming, “Hegel and the Metaphysics of Social Kinds.” (co-authored with Franz Knappik), In James Conant & Jonas Held (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Analytic Philosophy
• Forthcoming, “To Be Free Is To Be A Citizen: To be Free is to be a Citizen: Hegel on Social Holism and Human Agency, In Stephanie Collins, Brian Epstein, Sally Haslanger & Hans-Bernhard Schmid (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology, Oxford University Press.
• 2025, “Folk-Theories of Race, Cross-Culturally.” (co-authored with Leda Berio, Benedict Kenyah-Damptey, Steffen Koch and Alexander Wiegmann), Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
• 2024, “Who Counts in Official Statistics? Ethical-Epistemic Issues in German Migration and the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data” (co-authored with Morgan Thompson and Tereza Hendl), Journal of Applied Philosophy.
• 2023, “A Comparative Corpus Analysis of Race and Rasse” (co-authored with Leda Berio, Kurt Erbach, and Benedict Kenyah-Damptey), Journal of Applied Corpus Linguistics.
• 2023, “Exploring the Metaphysics of Hegel’s Racism: The Teleology of the ‘Concept’ and the Taxonomy of Races.” (co-authored with Franz Knappik), Hegel Bulletin, Special Issue on Hegel and Teleology, edited by Edgar Maraguat and Jim Kreines
• 2020 ,“Social Organisms: Hegel’s Organisational View of Social Functions.”, In Social Functions: Metaphysical, Normative, and Methodological Perspectives, co-edited with Rebekka Hufendiek and Raphael van Riel

Work in Progress

Marx on the Structure of Capitalist Domination

This paper examines Marx’s claim that capitalism harbours a distinctive wrong, unlike those found in slavery or serfdom. Marx describes this wrong in terms of semblance and appearance: a concealed domination masked by the illusion of freedom when viewed at the level of individuals rather than classes. Recent debates interpret this wrong as a form of structural domination, but a tension remains over whether the capitalist class or the capitalist mode of production itself wields this power. I propose a third view: capitalist domination is an iterated power, where the mode of production systematically enables capitalists to exploit workers. Competition, driven by “total social capital,” is the central mechanism: it both enforces class domination and conceals it, presenting systemic constraint as the natural outcome of individual motives.

Partial Racialisation

This paper examines the ambiguous racialisation of European Jews through the lens of “off-whiteness.” I begin with processual accounts of racialisation by Lawrence Blum and Adam Hochman, which illuminate how groups can become more or less racialised over time. While insightful, these approaches cannot explain why partially racialised groups fall into one racial category rather than another. To address this, I turn to Charles Mills’s racial contract and Aaron Griffiths’s functionalist refinement, which link racial categories to social positions within a structure of domination. On this view, groups can count as “white enough” without being fully white — a satisficing account of whiteness that captures their ambiguous racialisation. Bringing processual and positional perspectives together, I show how European Jews have historically been racialised as “off-white”: sufficiently white to share some privileges, but never fully secure within whiteness. I conclude by proposing a “Judeo-Christian contract” to capture its conditional and precarious character.