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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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Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |