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36Vernacular Metaphysics: On Terrence Malick's The Thin Red LineCritical Inquiry 39 (2): 247-275. 2013.
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80Medical Practice and Social AuthorityJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 21 (4): 417-437. 1996.Questions of medical ethics are often treated as especially difficult casuistical problems or as difficult cases illustrative of paradoxes or advantages in global moral theories. I argue here, in opposition to such approaches, for the inseparability of questions of social history and social theory from any normative assessment of medical practices. The focus of the discussion is the question of the legitimacy of the social authority exercised by physicians, and the insufficiency of traditional d…Read more
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7Bernard Williams once made the interesting point that both Wittgenstein and Nietzsche were trying to say something about what it might mean for philosophy to come to an end, for a culture to be cured of philosophy. He meant the end of philosophical theory, the idea that unaided human reason could contribute to knowledge about substance, being, our conceptual scheme, the highest values, the meaning of history or the way language works. For both Wittgenstein and Nietzsche there is no good or modes…Read more
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241Self-Interpreting Selves: Comments on Alexander Nehamas's Nietzsche: Life as LiteratureJournal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (2): 118-133. 2014.When Alexander Nehamas’s pathbreaking, elegantly conceived and executed book, Nietzsche: Life as Literature,1 first appeared in 1985, the reception of Nietzsche in the Anglo-American philosophical community was still in its initial, hesitant stages, even after the relative success of Walter Kaufmann’s much earlier, 1950 book, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Anti-Christ,2 and its postwar “decontamination” of Nietzsche after his appropriation by the Nazis.3 Arthur Danto’s 1964 book, Nietzsch…Read more
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612. Hegel, Freedom, The Will: The Philosophy of Right: §§ 1–33In Ludwig Siep (ed.), G. W. F. Hegel: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. pp. 31-54. 2014.
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111Kant on empirical conceptsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 10 (1): 1-19. 1979.
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75The question of freedom in the modern German tradition is not just a metaphysical question. It concerns the status of a free life as a value, indeed, as they took to saying, the “absolute” value. A free life is of unconditional and incomparable and inestimable value, and it is the basis of the unique, and again, absolute, unqualifiable respect owed to any human person just as such. This certainly increases the pressure on anyone who espouses such a view to tell us what a free life consists in. K…Read more
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32Psychology Degree Zero? The Representation of Action in the Films of the Dardenne BrothersCritical Inquiry 41 (4): 757-785. 2015.
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3Brusotti, Marco (1997b). “Erkenntnis als Passion: Nietzsches Denkweg zwischen Morgenröte und der Fröhliche Wissenschaft,” Nietzsche-Studien, Band 26 (1997), 199-225.
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18Chapter One. On Hegel’s Claim That Self-Consciousness Is “Desire Itself”In Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Princeton University Press. pp. 6-53. 2010.
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138The Status of Literature in Hegel's Phenomenology of SpiritIn Richard T. Gray, Nicholas Halmi, Gary Handwerk, Michael A. Rosenthal & Klaus Vieweg (eds.), Inventions of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Imaginary since Romanticism, University of Washington Press. 2011.Hegel, in a chapter called “Absolute Knowing,” end his most exciting and original work, the Jena Phenomenology of Spirit, with a quotation, or rather a significant misquotation, of a poet? The poet is Schiller and the poem is his 1782 “Freundschaft” (Friendship). This immediately turns into two questions: Why are the last words not Hegel’s own, and why are they rather a poet’s? I will turn to the details in a moment but, as noted, such an inquiry may not be worth the trouble. Authors, even philo…Read more
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15The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of IconoclasmCommon Knowledge 8 (2): 417-417. 2002.
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74Hegel, Modernity, and HabermasThe Monist 74 (3): 329-357. 1991.Characterizing Hegel’s complex assessment of modernity has always depended on which texts one looks at, and how one understands the “modernity problem.” It is obvious enough that Hegel’s pre-Jena and early Jena writings do indeed partly reflect what Nietzsche called a kind of German “homesickness,” a distaste with Enlightenment “positivity,” and an appeal to the models of the Greek polis and the early Christian communities as ways of understanding, by contrast, the limitations of modern philosop…Read more
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1Kant’s Theory of Form: An Essay on the Critique of Pure ReasonTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 47 (3): 515-516. 1982.
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17Response to Fred Rush and Adrian DaubJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73 (3): 323-329. 2015.
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34Hegelianism as modernismInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 38 (3). 1995.No abstract
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