Publications

2026 Listening To AI: The Challenge of Non-Human Speech Joshua Foa Dienstag · Polity · Scholar only — 2026 Theatre, Spectatorship, Politics Joshua Foa Dienstag · Contemporary Political Theory · Scholar only — 2021 Dignity, difference, and the representation of nature Joshua Foa Dienstag · Political Theory · Scholar only 9 2021 Letter from the Joshua Foa Dienstag · Political Theory · Scholar only — 2020 Cinema pessimism: A political theory of representation and reciprocity Joshua Foa Dienstag · Oxford University Press · Scholar only 21 2018 Nietzsche’s Final Teaching. By Michael Allen Gillespie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 264p. $35.00 cloth. Joshua Foa Dienstag · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2017 Anthony Giddens. Politics, Sociology and Social Theory: Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), viii+ 304 pp … Joshua Foa Dienstag · The Politics of the Black Nation · Scholar only — 2017 Hart and Cohle: The Hopeful Pessimism of True Detective Joshua Foa Dienstag · True detective and philosophy: A deeper kind of darkness · Scholar only 2 2017 The example of history and the history of examples in political theory Joshua Foa Dienstag · New Literary History · Scholar only 6 2017 Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860–1900, by Frederick C. Beiser. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, ix+ 301 pp. ISBN 10/13: 978-0-19-876871-5 hb£ 40.00 Joshua Foa Dienstag · European Journal of Philosophy · Scholar only — 2016 A reply to my critics Joshua Foa Dienstag · Cinema, Democracy and Perfectionism: Joshua Foa Dienstag in Dialogue · Scholar only 1 2016 Cinema, democracy and perfectionism: Joshua Foa Dienstag in dialogue Joshua Foa Dienstag · Manchester University Press · Scholar only 11 2016 Evils of Representation in Europa and Melancholia Joshua Foa Dienstag · Politics, Theory, and Film: Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier · Scholar only 2 2016 Nietzsche's pessimism in the shadow of Dostoevsky's Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only 2 2016 On political theory, the humanities, and the social sciences Joshua Foa Dienstag · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only 15 2015 Blade Runner’s humanism: Cinema and representation Joshua Foa Dienstag · Contemporary Political Theory · Scholar only 15 2015 Evils of Representation: Werewolves, Pessimism, and Realism in Europa and Melancholia Joshua Foa Dienstag · Theory & Event · Scholar only 8 2015 Hans-Georg Gadamer, truth and method Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only 8 2014 Kateb, George (1931–) Joshua Foa Dienstag · The Encyclopedia of Political Thought · Scholar only — 2012 A Storied Shooting Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only — 2012 A storied shooting: Liberty Valance and the paradox of sovereignty Joshua Foa Dienstag · Political theory · Scholar only 15 2011 Nietzschean origins Joshua Foa Dienstag · The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy · Scholar only — 2011 Postmodern approaches to the History of Political Thought Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only 4 2009 A Philosophy That Is Grievous But True” Cultural Pessimism In Rousseau And Leopardi Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only — 2009 Aphorisms And Pessimisms Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only 1 2009 Cervantes As Educator Don Quixote And The Practice Of Pessimism Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only — 2009 Chapter Three.“The Evils Of The World Honestly Admitted” Metaphysical Pessimism In Schopenhauer And Freud Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only — 2009 Connollyism, What Joshua Foa Dienstag · Theory & Event · Scholar only 2 2009 Consciousness Is A Disease” Existential Pessimism In Camus, Unamuno, And Cioran Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only 2 2009 Man of peace: Hobbes between politics and science Joshua Foa Dienstag · Pol. Theory · Scholar only 8 2009 Nietzsche’s Dionysian Pessimism Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only — 2009 Pessimism And Freedom Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only — 2009 Pessimism And Freedom (The Pessimist Speaks) Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only — 2009 Pessimistic realism and realistic pessimism Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only 28 2009 Pessimistic Realism and Realistic Pessimism, u: D. Bell (ur.): Political Thought and International Relations; Variations on Realist theme Joshua Foa Dienstag · Oxford: Oxford University Press · Scholar only 6 2009 Review Essays: Man of Peace: Hobbes Between Politics and Science Joshua Foa Dienstag · Political Theory · Scholar only — 2009 The anatomy of pessimism Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only 2 2006 Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only — 2006 Between Terror and Freedom: Philosophy, Politics, and Fiction Speak of Modernity Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only — 2006 Pessimism: Philosophy Joshua Foa Dienstag · Ethics, Spirit · Scholar only 16 2006 Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit Joshua Foa Dienstag · The Encyclopedia of Political Thought · Scholar only 410 2006 The Open: Man and Animal Joshua Foa Dienstag · Political Theory · Scholar only 2 2004 Tragedy, Pessimism, Nietzsche Joshua Foa Dienstag · New Literary History · Scholar only 77 2001 Nietzsche's dionysian pessimism Joshua Foa Dienstag · American Political Science Review · Scholar only 67 2001 What is Living and What is Dead in the Interpretation of Hegel? Joshua Foa Dienstag · Political Theory · Scholar only 5 2000 Myths and Nationhood Joshua Foa Dienstag · The Journal of Politics · Scholar only — 2000 Nietzsche's friends and enemies Joshua Foa Dienstag · The Review of politics · Scholar only 3 1999 Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes. By Quentin Skinner Joshua Foa Dienstag · Scholar only — 1999 The pessimistic spirit Joshua Foa Dienstag · Philosophy & social criticism · Scholar only 12 1998 Wittgenstein among the savages: Language, action and political theory Joshua Foa Dienstag · Polity · Scholar only 10