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6Special Issue: The Ancient Philosophy SocietyEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 9 5-5. 2005.
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65On Giorgio Agamben’s Naked LifeEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (1): 113-124. 2011.This article attempts to explore why it is that the “state of exception” is so pivotal to Agamben’s analysis of sovereignty and the possibility of a coming community beyond the sovereign state and its power machines. The essay distinguishes between two senses of the state of exception and tries to explain their interconnection. The “zone of indistinction” opens up an irreparable gap between sovereign power and its execution and between “bare life” and citizenship. These are the spaces that both …Read more
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121Broken Words: Maurice Blanchot and the Impossibility of WritingComparative and Continental Philosophy 1 (2): 181-192. 2009.This essay explains what Blanchot understands as writing and the space of literature. For Blanchot, writing is the place where the impossible interruption of the destiny of things is put into play, an interruption that world-formation needs but negates and conceals. Writing belongs to an excess outside of language, an otherness of language. The need to write is linked to the point at which nothing can be done with words. Writing is contrasted with dialectical language and the totalizing aim of t…Read more
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10The Decentered Self: Nietzsche's Transgression of Metaphysical SubjectivitySouthern Journal of Philosophy 29 (4): 419-430. 1991.
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8Across the Tradition of PhilosophyEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 9 (1): 5-6. 2004.
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42The Middle Voice of Charles ScottEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (1): 89-97. 2012.My essay attempts humbly to honor and celebrate the voice of Charles Scott by thematizing one of the major insights of his body of work, namely the significance of the middle voice. I attempt in various ways to show the significance of the middle voice in the work of Charles Scott and to offer some commentary on what is meant by the middle voice. Finally, I ask about the implications of a middle-voiced philosophy for an understanding of the self of human beings and for an understanding of the th…Read more
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49Heidegger's aristotelian reading of Plato: The discovery of the philosopherResearch in Phenomenology 25 (1): 274-282. 1995.
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21Socrates the Doxologist: Sean Kirkland’s Reading of Plato’s Early DialoguesResearch in Phenomenology 46 (1): 148-156. 2016.
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40On Giorgio Agamben’s Naked LifeEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (1): 113-124. 2011.This article attempts to explore why it is that the “state of exception” is so pivotal to Agamben’s analysis of sovereignty and the possibility of a coming community beyond the sovereign state and its power machines. The essay distinguishes between two senses of the state of exception and tries to explain their interconnection. The “zone of indistinction” opens up an irreparable gap between sovereign power and its execution and between “bare life” and citizenship. These are the spaces that both …Read more
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29James Risser's Contemporary Hermeneutics: The Way-Making Community of Those Who Are StrangePhilosophy Today 58 (1): 97-105. 2014.This article is an interpretive analysis of James Risser’s book The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics. I focus on the key elements of Risser’s notion of community and what I call his hermeneutics of the strange and foreign. The article pays particular attention to some of the most important themes in Risser’s book: aesthetics and the flash of beauty; language and the poetic word; the transmission of tradition; the movement of Ruinanz and the circulation of life; weaving. Overall…Read more
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3The Hermeneutic Circle is Broken: On the Circulation of Being in Jean-Luc Nancy’s Hermeneutic PhilosophyInternationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik. 2011.
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1Beyond Logos: Naming Difference in Plato’s TheaetetusInternationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik. 2005.
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132The Parting of Being: On Creation and Sharing in Nancy’s Political OntologyResearch in Phenomenology 40 (3): 295-308. 2010.I expose facets of Nancy's notion of being singular plural. Nancy's political ontology overcomes the metaphysical dualism of theory and practice by thinking the space of the between as primary. Nancy's treatment of the event of creation and the presence of the divine rethink meta-physical notions of origin and God in a way that emphasizes the parting of unity and the plurality of the world. Nancy thinks the everyday and the existential together by affirming the importance of curiosity and wonder…Read more
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62Heidegger's Interpretation of Aristotle: The Finitude of Being. Review of "Aristoteles Metaphysik 0 1-3" by Martin Heidegger (review)Research in Phenomenology 14 (1): 249. 1984.
Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |