I am currently researching and writing in the areas of human rights, antisemitism and social theory. I am co-convenor of the European Sociological Association Network 31 on Racism and Antisemitism and am co-editing with Claudine Attias-Donfut and Christine Achinger a Special Issue of European Societies on "Racism and Antisemitism in Contemporary Europe" (due out in 2011). I am also co-editing with Daniel Chernilo a special issue of the Journal of Classical Sociology on "Natural law and the rise of social theory".
In the past I have conducted research on cosmopolitan social theory, the relation of Marx to Enlightenment, the place of Hannah Arendt within the sociological canon, nationalism and antisemitism, the sociology of the Holocaust, crimes against humanity, the labour movement in apartheid South Africa and the UK and civil liberties. The overall theme of my work has to do with attacks on humanism and the recovery of humanism within social theory.
My books include Cosmopolitanism (Routledge 2007); Democracy and the Rule of Law: Marx's Critique of the Legal Form (Blackburn Press 2002; Pluto 1984 and 1985); Political Investigations: Hegel, Marx, Arendt (Routledge 2001); Being Stalked: A Memoir (Chatto and Windus, 1997); Beyond Apartheid: Labour and Liberation in South Africa (with Dennis Davis, Pluto 1990).
My edited collections include: "Cosmopolitanism: Past and Future", with Vivienne Boon, Special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory April 2007; Social Theory after the Holocaust (with Charles Turner, Liverpool University Press 2000); People, Nation and State (with Edward Mortimer, IB Tauris 1999); Civil Society: Democratic Perspectives (with Shirin Rai Frank Cass 1997); Policing the Miners' Strike (with Robert Millar, Lawrence and Wishart, Cobden Press 1985); Capitalism and the Rule of Law (with Richard Kinsey, John Lea and Jock Young, Hutchinson 1979).
RESEARCH PROJECTS
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Prof Robert D Fine(2010) '?Dehumanising the dehumanisers: reversal in human rights discourse?'
Journal of Global Ethics
6
(2), 179 - 190 (1744-9626)
[article]
Fine, R.(2010) 'Political argument and the legitimacy of international law'
in
Legality and legitimacy: normative and sociological approaches,
Editors:
Thornhill, C. and Ashenden, S. (9783832953546), Baden-Baden: Nomos
Fine R(2009) 'Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights: Radicalism in a Global Age'
Metaphilosophy
40
(1), 8 - 23
[article]
Prof Robert D Fine(2009) 'Fighting with Phantoms: A Contribution to the Debate on Anti-semitism in Europe'
Patterns Of Prejudice
43
(5), 459 - 479 (0031-322X)
[article]
Fine, R.(2009) 'An unfinished project: Marx's critique of Hegel's philosophy of right'
in
Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy,
105 - 120,
Editors:
Chitty, A. and McIvor, M. (9780230222373), Basingstoke ; New York: Palgrave MacMillan
