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43Kant, Cavell, and the Circumstances of PhilosophyJournal of Aesthetic Education 48 (3): 73-86. 2014.It is a pleasure to respond to Paul Guyer’s rich, imaginative, and sound paper on perfectionist themes in Kant and Cavell in relation to moral and aesthetic education, just as it was instructive and pleasurable to read it. Overall, it is one of the best and most useful things I have read on Cavell, especially in deepening and enriching the insights of both Kant and Cavell by juxtaposing them against each other, rather than simply repeating the terminology of either alone. I am going to do two th…Read more
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Dewey's aestheticsIn Molly Cochran (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Dewey, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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1Hegel on musicIn Stephen Houlgate (ed.), Hegel and the Arts, Northwestern University Press. 2007.
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208Form and content: An aesthetic theory of artBritish Journal of Aesthetics 25 (4): 303-316. 1985.
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39Christopher J. Insole, Kant and the Creation of Freedom: A Theological Problem (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). ISBN 9780199677603. xiv + 264, £ 65 (review)Philosophical Investigations 37 (2): 178-182. 2014.
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3Dieter Henrich, The Course of Remembrance and Other Essays on Hölderlin Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 18 (2): 110-113. 1998.
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27Book ReviewsPaul. Woodruff, Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 248. $22.00 ; $11.95 (review)Ethics 114 (2): 385-388. 2004.
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31Halsall, Francis, Jansen, Julia & O'Connor, TonyBritish Journal of Aesthetics 49 (3): 315. 2009.
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5Acknowledging the Moral LawIn Beatrix Himmelmann (ed.), Why Be Moral? An Argument from the Human Condition in Response to Hobbes and Nietzsche, . pp. 199-216. 2015.
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19ALTIERI, CHARLES. Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience. Cornell University Press, 2015, xii + 262 pp., $79.95 cloth, $28.95 paper (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74 (3): 306-307. 2016.
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6The poetic of reason: Introducing rational poetic experimentalism By StefánSnævarr. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. xii + 464 (review)Metaphilosophy 54 (4): 565-569. 2023.Metaphilosophy, EarlyView.
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14Review of J. M. Bernstein (ed.), Classical and Romantic German Aesthetics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (8). 2003.
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31The Aesthetics of Argument, by Martin WarnerMind 127 (505): 294-298. 2018.© Mind Association 2017Exactly how radical change in commitments on matters of fundamental concern is possible has been a problem since at least Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus and Augustine's rejection of Pelagianism and defence of divine grace. If an act of will is required to accept the offer of grace, then isn’t something important left to us to do? And if so, can or does reason play any role in such radical change? If so, how? Martin Warner takes on these large questions in The Ae…Read more
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3Literature, Philosophy, Persona, PoliticsIn Jonathan Gilmore & Lydia Goehr (eds.), A Companion to Arthur C. Danto, Wiley. 2022.Arthur Danto's philosophical writing is replete with literary references. Philosophy is purely a conceptual enterprise, aimed at solving problems about the natures of things precisely where no empirical information is available to settle what they are. Danto chose the philosophy of literature, and in particular the relations between literature and philosophy, as the topic of his 1983 APA Presidential Address. Danto describes “the bottom‐line view of philosophy” that undertakes to develop only vi…Read more
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13Narrative Rehearsal, Expression, and Goethe's ''Wandrers Nachtlied II''In Noel Carroll & John Gibson (eds.), Narrative, Emotion, and Insight, Penn State University. pp. 109. 2011.
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Literature as Material Figuration: Benjamin, Sebald, and Human Life in TimeActa Philosophica Fennica 79 13. 2006.
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15Nancy Yousef, The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein and the Language of Everyday LifeNordic Wittgenstein Review 12. 2023.
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16Irony and idealism: Rereading Schlegel, Hegel, and Kierkegaard, by Fred Rush. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, xvi + 312 pp. ISBN 13:978–0–19‐968822‐7 hb £50.00 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 25 (4): 1228-1231. 2017.
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28Hegel’s Account of the Unconscious and Why It MattersReview of Metaphysics 67 (3): 491-515. 2014.Hegel’s account of the unconscious and his broader philosophy of mind offer us a well worked out form of non-dualist, non-reductionist, non-eliminativist, non-representationalist naturalism. Hegel describes the development of discursively structured thought (and responsiveness to norms) in ethological terms as emerging from initial somatic-sensory states, from states and processes of bodily activity on the part of a feeling soul, and from structured habituation in relation to other subjects. Imp…Read more
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4How Movies Think: Cavell on Film as a Medium of ArtEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 51 (1): 3. 2020.
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4Cavell and the American JeremiadJournal of Philosophical Research 39 377-391. 2014.Building on remarks by Dewey, Brandom, and Wittgenstein among others, this paper characterizes and defends a general style of philosophy as elucidatory analysis of concepts in circulation within a culture. The presence of this general style is then traced briefly in Quine and Beardsley. I then raise the question whether there is anything distinctively American about this general style. Drawing on work by Sacvan Bercovitch, I argue that use of this style is motivated by America’s distinctive reli…Read more
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3Aus Lyrik über Leben lernen: Literatur, Ethik und EmotionIn Ottmar Ette (ed.), Wissensformen und Wissensnormen des ZusammenLebens: Literatur - Kultur - Geschichte - Medien, De Gruyter. pp. 76-86. 2012.
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37After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism, by Robert B. PippinMind 124 (493): 380-384. 2015.
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16Conceptual Analysis, Practical Commitment, and Ordinary LanguageGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 39 (2): 341-363. 2018.
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17Analytic Philosophy of FilmIn Noël Carroll, Laura T. Di Summa & Shawn Loht (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, Springer. pp. 237-258. 2019.This chapter contrasts the broadly empirical, pluralist, and construction device–oriented approaches to film study of analytic philosophy of film with the broadly socially hermeneutic, artistically and politically avant-gardist stances of Continental film theory. Analytic philosophy of film has tended to focus on classic Hollywood films and continuity editing, in order to explore the achievements of these films as art, while Continental film theory frequently finds such films to be regressive an…Read more
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8Adorno as a Modernist WriterIn Peter Eli Gordon (ed.), A companion to Adorno, Wiley. 2019.Like other major modernist writers, Adorno sets himself against modern social formations, understood as deadening and evacuated of meaning. In Minima Moralia, he makes emphatic use of distinctively modernist literary techniques within philosophy as a form of writing. In focusing on particular circumstances of trauma and epiphany, he seeks to disclose in images the hollowness of modern life and to gesture toward life otherwise.
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