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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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110Kant 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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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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14The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of IconoclasmCommon Knowledge 8 (2): 417-417. 2002.
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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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32Hegelianism as modernismInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 38 (3). 1995.No abstract
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46Introductions to Nietzsche (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2012.Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche's completed works and also his unpublished notebooks. The essays address such topics as his criticism of morality and Christianity, his doctrines of the will to power and the eternal recurrence, his perspectivism, his theorie…Read more
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14Photographing Mindedness: Cinematic Technique and Philosophy in the Films of the Dardenne BrothersIn Waldemar Zacharasiewicz & Ludwig Nagl (eds.), Ein Filmphilosophie-Symposium Mit Robert B. Pippin: Western, Film Noir Und Das Kino der Brüder Dardenne, De Gruyter. pp. 17-42. 2016.
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50Fatalism in American film noir: some cinematic philosophyUniversity of Virginia Press. 2012.Introduction -- Trapped by oneself in Jacques Tourneur's Out of the past -- "A deliberate, intentional fool" in Orson Welles's The lady from Shanghai -- Sexual agency in Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street -- "Why didn't you shoot again, baby?": concluding remarks.
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1How to overcome oneself: Nietzsche on freedomIn Ken Gemes & Simon May (eds.), Nietzsche on freedom and autonomy, Oxford University Press. pp. 69. 2009.
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14Naturalität und Geistigkeit in Hegels KompatibilismusDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 49 (1): 45-64. 2001.
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27Review: Prauss, Erscheinung bei Kant. Ein Problem der Kritik der reinen Vernunft (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 12 (3): 403-405. 1974.
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91What Is a Western? Politics and Self-Knowledge in John Ford's The SearchersCritical Inquiry 35 (2): 223-253. 2009.
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