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12Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation. By Martin Heidegger; translated by U. Hasse & M. Sinclair. Pp. xiv, 312, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2016, $55.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 58 (4): 724-725. 2017.
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12Exorcising Philosophical Modernity: Cyril O'Regan and Christian Discourse after Modernity. Edited by Phillip John PaulGonzales. Pp. xii, 299, Eugene, OR, Wipf & Stock, 2020, $36.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 201-202. 2021.
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12The Crisis of Modernity. By Augusto del Noce. Edited and Translated by Carlo Lancellotti. Pp. 312, Montreal, McGills‐Queen's University Press, 2014, $34.95 (review)Heythrop Journal 58 (4): 737-738. 2017.
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11Between the Canon and the Messiah: The Structure of Faith in Contemporary Continental Thought. By Colby Dickinson. Pp. 266, London: Bloomsbury, 2013, $37.95 (review)Heythrop Journal 56 (6): 1088-1089. 2015.
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11Not Even a God Can Save Us Now: Reading Machiavelli After HeideggerMcgill-Queen's University Press. 2017.The interplay between violence, religion, and politics is a central problem for societies and has attracted the attention of important philosophers, including Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and René Girard. Centuries earlier during the Italian Renaissance, these same problems drew the interest of Niccolò Machiavelli. In Not Even a God Can Save Us Now, Brian Harding argues that Machiavelli’s work anticipates – and often illuminates – contemporary theories on the place of violence in our lives…Read more
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10Eco‐Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy. Edited by M.Fritsch, P.Lynes, & D.Wood. Pp. 314, Bronx, NY, Fordham University Press, 2018, $32.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 208-208. 2021.
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10Hegel. By Martin Heidegger. Trans. J. Arel & N. Feuerhahn. Pp. xix, 168, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2015, $28.23 (review)Heythrop Journal 58 (4): 720-721. 2017.
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10Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger and the Return of the Far Right. By Ronald Beiner. Pp. 167, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, $18.68 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 159-160. 2021.
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9Fate and Faith after Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy. By Peter S.Dillard. Pp. 178, Eugene, Oregon, Pickwick, 2020, $24.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 160-161. 2021.
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8Augustine and Roman VirtueContinuum. 2011.[From the publisher] "Augustine and Roman Virtue" seeks to correct what the author sees as a fundamental misapprehension in medieval thought, a misapprehension that fuels further problems and misunderstandings in the historiography of philosophy. This misapprehension is the assumption that the development of certain themes associated with medieval philosophy is due, primarily if not exclusively, to extra-philosophical religious commitments rather than philosophical argumentation, referred to her…Read more
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8Being and Truth. By Martin Heidegger. Trans. G. Fried and R. Polt. Pp. xviii, 236, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2016, $39.95 (review)Heythrop Journal 58 (4): 721-722. 2017.
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8Metaphysical Speculation and its Applicability to a Mode of LivingBochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 9 81-92. 2004.This paper argues that Boethius’ De Consolatione Philosophiae presents theoretical metaphysical speculation as having a direct bearing on the life of the metaphysician. Boethius accomplishes this through his depiction of Lady Philosophy’s ‘therapy’ wherein complex metaphysical arguments are utilized to pull Boethius out of his depression, returning him to what she calls his true self. I begin the paper by contextualizing this discussion in terms of the debate as to whether or not the ‘philosophi…Read more
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8The History of Beyng. By Martin Heidegger; translated by Wiliam McNeill and Jeffrey Powell. Pp. xiii, 208, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2015, $36.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 58 (4): 723-724. 2017.
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8German Philosophy: A Dialogue. By AlainBadiou and Jean‐LucNancy. Edited by JanVölker; translated by R. Lambert. Pp. 81. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2018, $11.66 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 182-183. 2021.
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8Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiēsis. By Elliot R.Wolfson. Pp. 468, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2019, $47.99 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 163-163. 2021.
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6Rebellion and the SacredContagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 30 (1): 29-45. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Rebellion and the SacredSacrifice in Camus's RebelBrian Harding (bio)René Girard has argued, in "Camus's Stranger Retried," that Camus's later novel The Fall represents a kind of novelistic conversion on Camus's part: an admission that the ethics of The Stranger were faulty. This is a criticism not only of a character (Mersault) but of the author's own views. In fact, on the Girardian reading, The Fall recognizes that Camus's own act…Read more
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6Heidegger’s Politics of Enframing: Technology and Responsibility. By JavierCardoza‐Kon. Pp. xi, 144, London, Bloomsbury, 2018, £31.48 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 162-163. 2021.
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5Eckhart, Heidegger and the Imperative of Releasement. By Ian AlexanderMoore. Pp. xvii, 331, Albany, SUNY University Press, 2019, $95.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 156-157. 2021.
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5The Disintegration of Community: On Jorge Portilla's Social and Political Philosophy. By Carlos AlbertoSánchez & FranciscoGallegos. Pp. ix, 215, Albany, NY, SUNY Press, 2020, $95.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 170-170. 2021.
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4Michel Henry's practical philosophy (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2022.Providing theoretical and applied analyses of Michel Henry's practical philosophy in light of his guiding idea of Life, this is the first sustained exploration of Henry's practical thought in anglophone literature, reaffirming his centrality to contemporary continental thought. This book ranges from the tension between his methodological insistence on life as non-intentional and worldly activities to Henry's engagement with the practical philosophy of intellectuals such as Marx, Freud, and Kandi…Read more
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2Mimesis and Science: Empirical Research on Imitation and the Mimetic Theory of Culture and Religion, edited by Scott R. Garrels (review)The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion 50 23-26. 2016.
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1Machiavelli’s Politics and Critical Theory of TechnologyArgumentos de Razón Técnica: Revista Española de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad, y Filosofía de la Tecnología 12 37-58. 2009.This paper attempts to forge a dialogue between Machiavelli and Andrew Feenburg's Critical Theory of Technology. It makes some interesting points along the way, but I've re-thought a lot of what I say in here, and am not sure if I would still endorse it all.
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What is Minimalist Phenomenology?Alea:Alea: Revista Internacional de Fenomenología y Hermenéutica 6 161-181. 2008.In this paper I look at Dominique Janicaud’s proposal for a minimalist phenomenology. He develops this proposal in Phenomenology wide open, a sequel of sorts to his essay on the ‘Theological turn.’ Eschewing his polemics, I try to determine (a) the problem that he hopes minimalist phenomenology will solve; (b) the nature of this minimalism and how it differs from other approaches to phenomenology; and (c) critically evaluate some aspects of this minimalism, wondering if the gains of minimalist…Read more
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A Study of Bergson’s Theory of War: A Study of Libido Dominandi,"Philosophy and Social Criticism. forthcoming.
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Is Machiavelli's Discussion of the Eternity of the World Averroistic?Southwest Philosophical Studies 32 77-84. 2010.No, it is not Averroistic. Read the paper to find out why.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset's Anti-Idealistic Interpretation of PhenomenologyIn Michael R. Kelly & Brian Harding (eds.), Early Phenomenology: Metaphysics, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Religion, Bloomsbury. pp. 107-124. 2016.In this paper, relying mainly on his "Preface for Germans" I describe Ortega's complaints about Husserl's transcendental reduction, his own "anti-idealistic" approach to phenomenology, and his alternative version of the reduction, a reduction to life. Similarities with the work of Michel Henry are noted, but not explored in detail. Mention is made of Graham Harmon's interpretation of Ortega in "Guerrilla Metaphysics," but only to set up my interpretation of Ortega.
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Privileging the Recipient of the GiftAlea: Revista Internacional de Fenomenología y Hermenéutica 9 95-112. 2011.A substantial part of Marion’s project in Being Given turns on a “triple epoché” wherein Marion brackets each part of the tripartite structure of the gift – the giver, the recipient and the given itself – to show that none of them is essential for thinking about the gift. In three separate variations, each element of the gift is bracketed individually, and in each of these instances the other two elements are specifically not bracketed. Indeed, Marion admits that the reduction he proposes “dem…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Existentialism |
Phenomenology |
Augustine |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
Areas of Interest
Existentialism |
Phenomenology |
Augustine |
Niccolo Machiavelli |