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    What becomes of science in "the future of phenomenology"?
    Research in Phenomenology 32 (1): 219-229. 2002.
    A recent issue of Research in Phenomenology contains a section on "The Future of Phenomenology," but none of the articles contained therein deals with a future engagement of phenomenology with science, especially mathematical natural science. In this paper, I discuss this engagement that was once so central to phenomenology and suggest lines along which its revival can fruitfully occur. Toward this end, I trace the contours of the Heisenberg-Heidegger exchange and show how recent readings of the…Read more
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    Sallis, Brann, and the problem of imagination
    Research in Phenomenology 29 (1): 106-118. 1999.
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    Nietzsche on the Socratic morality as decadence
    with Allen W. Larsen
    The European Legacy 2 (2): 320-325. 1997.
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    In a letter written to Gadamer after receiving a copy of Truth and Method, Leo Strauss offered many criticisms with which Gadamer took issue. However, he acknowledged the important hint cited in the title. Perhaps strangely, Gadamer never took up this hint and showed very little interest in comedy throughout his Gesammelte Schriften. In this essay, I show that there are ample resources within Gadamerian hermeneutics to answer Strauss positively, also for a rich philosophy of comedy along Gadamer…Read more
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    Play resides at the heart of the Platonic dialogues, shaping their insights as well as informing their style. "The Play of the Platonic Dialogues" traces the prominent role of play, both as a general philosophical characteristic and as influencing the treatment of key issues. The nature of the forms, of the city, of virtue, of the soul and its immortality - these and others have been shaped by play. This book shows how Platonic playfulness is joined with the deepest seriousness throughout the di…Read more
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    Reveals comedy's contributions to the philosophical enterprise
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    Heidegger's heraclitean comedy
    Research in Phenomenology 37 (2): 254-268. 2007.
    "Heidegger" and "comedy" are words that one seldom finds conjoined. However, in his 1943 Summer Freiburg lecture course entitled " Der Anfang des abendländischen Denkens. Heraklit ," the word " komisch " occurs significantly, it is regarded as superior to " das Tragische ," and thus can open up a new vista onto Heideggerian thought. In this paper, I discuss Heidegger's interpretive translation of Heraclitus' Fragment 123: Φυσιζ κρυπτ∊σθαι φιλ∊ι. I attempt to show how Heidegger distinguishes his …Read more
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    Book reviews (review)
    with Douglas Moggach, Louis J. Hammann, Nancy Vine Durling, Gabriel Albiac, André Mineau, Gilbert Larochelle, Henrietta Leyser, Dorothy Koenigsberger, John Collier, Gerhard Richter, Hartmut Rosenau, Margaret A. Maiumdar, Fredric S. Zuckerman, Fred S. Michael, Emily Michael, Ian Duncan, John E. Weakland, Deborah L. Madsen, David Stevenson, José Luis Nella Hernandez, David Garrioch, Howard G. Schneiderman, Terrell Carver, Tjitske Akkerman, K. Steven Vincent, Thomas M. Banchich, Richard Bosworth, Joyce S. Pedersen, Dieter A. Binder, Frederick Wasser, Bernard Zelechow, Hrvoje Lorkovic, Krishan Kumar, Kate Ince, Laurie M. Johnson Bagby, James R. Watson, Vitezslav Vellmský, William R. Everdell, Reinhard Heinisch, Hermine W. Williams, Tracy B. Strong, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Keith Bradley, Tracey Rowland, David W. Lovell, and A. S. Gratwick
    The European Legacy 1 (6): 1969-2032. 1996.
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    _Explores Schelling’s Essay on Human Freedom, focusing on the themes of freedom, evil, and love, and the relationship between his ideas and those of Plato and Kant._
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    Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason
    Indiana University Press. 2005.
    With particular focus on imagination, Bernard Freydberg presents a close reading of Kant’s second critique, The Critique of Practical Reason. In an interpretation that is daring as well as rigorous, Freydberg reveals imagination as both its central force and the bridge that links Kant’s three critiques. Freydberg’s reading offers a powerful challenge to the widespread view that Kant’s ethics calls for rigid, self-denying obedience. Here, to the contrary, the search for self-fulfillment becomes a…Read more
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    Concerning 'Syntheses of Understanding’ in the B Deduction
    Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 2 287-293. 1995.
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    The Romance of a Platonic Crossing
    Philosophy Today 54 (4): 401-407. 2010.
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    Recent continental philosophy and comedy
    Philosophy Compass 5 (7): 516-524. 2010.
    Recently, the philosophical significance of comedy has attracted a great deal of attention from Continental philosophers, including this author. After venturing an account for this sudden interest, this paper surveys six contemporary books that take different views of this phenomenon. This fertile field will surely benefit from the contributions and responses of Philosophy Compass' readers.
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    Mathematical and Elemental Coordinates: The Role of Imagination
    Research in Phenomenology 44 (2): 161-169. 2014.
    Both in Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental and in his very recent Logic of Imagination: The Expanse of the Elemental, John Sallis enacts a reconfiguration of the relationship of geometry to elementology, which might be regarded more generally as a rethinking of the relation of mathematics to philosophy. The paper will trace this reconfiguration in two ways: as it lies present but concealed in the history of philosophy, for example, in Descartes’ so-called “dualism” and in Kant’s pu…Read more
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    Hearkening to Thalia: Toward the Rebirth of Comedy in Continental Philosophy
    Research in Phenomenology 39 (3): 401-415. 2009.
    This paper discloses and furthers the rebirth of comedy in Continental philosophy in three stages. The first treats Greek comedy, bringing forth the comic contours in Plato and exploring the philosophical content of Aristophanic comedy. The second examines certain German encounters with comedy, from the staid Wieland translations of Aristophanes through the thoughtful discussions of Schiller, Hegel, and Nietzsche. The third investigates twentieth-century American comedy and its connection to Ame…Read more