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2The Volcano and the dream: Consequences of RomanticismIn P. D. Bubbio & P. Redding (eds.), Religion After Kant: God and Culture in the Idealist Era, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2012.
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31This essay presents a critical interpretation of Derrida’s deconstructive reading of Walter Benjamin’s text, "Critique of Violence." It examines the relationship between deconstruction and justice, and the parallel Derrida draws between deconstructive reading and Benjamin’s account of pure violence. I argue that Derrida blurs Benjamin’s distinction between the political general strike and the proletarian general strike. As a consequence, Derrida criticises Benjamin’s metaphysical complicity with…Read more
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89Cinematic Ideas, on David Lynch's Mulholland DriveFilm-Philosophy 9 (4). 2005.he enigmatic films of David Lynch have been interpreted from a variety of perspectives. Among these we can find Lynch the postmodernist ironist, Lynch the transgressive neoconservative, and Lynch the visionary explorer of the unconscious. Martha P. Nochimson's recent study, for example, presents an eloquent case for regarding Lynch as a Jungian 'surfer of the waves of the collective unconscious', whose films combine the intuitive embracing of subconscious Life Energy with a celebration of the cr…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Aesthetics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |