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13James J. DiCenso: Kant, Religion, and PoliticsPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (3): 304-307. 2011.
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12Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation: Volume 1. Edited and Translated by Judith Norman, Alistair Welchman and Christopher Janaway (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (3): 302-303. 2011.
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10Daniel Blue: The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche. The Quest for Identity, 1844–1869Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 70 (1): 071-073. 2017.
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9Joel Madore: Difficult Freedom and Radical Evil in KantPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (4): 365-368. 2011.
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9Metaphysics and the Catholic viewInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 75 (3): 265-283. 2014.Contemporary philosophy of religion almost allergically reacts to metaphysics. They do so because of the various critiques of the potential reach of reason, which each in their own way argue that God cannot be appropriately approached via autonomous reason. In this article, I argue, on the one hand, that these critiques are furtively inspired by a certain outlook on transcendence, which I call the ‘Protestant view’ and, on the other hand, that numerous contemporary philosophers of religion are s…Read more
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9William Desmond: The Intimate Strangeness of Being (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 65 (3): 298-300. 2012.
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8Review of James J. DiCenso: Kant, Religion, and Politics (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (3): 304-307. 2011.
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8Daniel Blue: The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche. The Quest for Identity, 1844–1869Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 69 (1): 071-073. 2016.
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8Reconciliation, Incarnation, and Headless HegelianismFaith and Philosophy 34 (2): 201-222. 2017.A number of contemporary authors (e.g., Catherine Malabou, Slavoj Žižek, and John Caputo) claim that Hegel’s Religionsphilosophie provides important insights for contemporary philosophy of religion. John Caputo argues that Hegel’s notion of incarnation as radical kenosis is a powerful tool for postmodern Radical Theology. In this essay, I scrutinize this claim by balancing Hegel’s notion of incarnation with his notion of recognition—the latter of which Caputo removes from a “headless Hegelianism…Read more
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8Freedom and Creation in Schelling (edited book)Frommann-Holzboog. 2022.This volume is dedicated to the exploration of the connection between freedom and creation in Schelling’s late philosophy. It contains contributions of internationally renowned and younger Schelling scholars from several countries. The scholarly interest in Schelling’s late philosophy has considerably increased during the last decades. Together with the rising number of available primary texts and translations, this has led, among other things, to a received scholarly view of Schelling’s Erlange…Read more
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7Pessimism in Kant's Ethics and Rational ReligionLexington Books. 2018.Dennis Vanden Auweele explores Kant’s moral and religious philosophy and shows that a pessimistic undercurrent pervades them. This provides a new vantage point not only to comprehensively assess Kantian philosophy, but also to provide much needed context and reading assistance to the general premises of Kant's philosophy and rationality.
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6Review of Christopher Ben Simpson: The William Desmond Reader (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 66 (1): 38-40. 2013.
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6Review of Oliver Sensen (Ed.): Kant on Moral Autonomy (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 66 (3): 326-329. 2013.
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5Robert Pippin : Introductions to NietzschePhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 65 (2): 133-135. 2012.
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5Sandra Shapshay, Reconstructing Schopenhauer’s Ethics: Hope, Compassion, and Animal Welfare Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019 Pp. 248 ISBN 9780190906801 (hbk), $74.00 (review)Kantian Review 25 (1): 158-163. 2020.
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5Schopenhauer’s Fourfold Root (edited book)Routledge. 2016.This volume collects 12 essays by various contributors on the subject of the importance and influence of Schopenhauer’s doctoral dissertation for both Schopenhauer’s more well-known philosophy and the ongoing discussion of the subject of the principle of sufficient reason. The contributions deal with the historical context of Schopenhauer’s reflections, their relationship to idealism, the insights they hold for Schopenhauer’s views of consciousness and sensation, and how they illuminate Schopenh…Read more
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4The Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer’s PessimismRoutledge. 2017.This book connects Schopenhauer’s philosophy with transcendental idealism by exploring the distinctly Kantian roots of his pessimism. By clearly discerning four types of coming to knowledge, it demonstrates how Schopenhauer’s epistemology can enlighten this connection with other areas of his philosophy. The individual chapters in this book discuss how these knowledge types—immediate or mediate, representational or non-representational—relate to Schopenhauer’s metaphysics, ethics and action, phil…Read more
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4Schopenhauer and the later Schelling in Dialogue on Mythology and ReligionJournal of Religion 97 (4): 451-474. 2017.
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4William Desmond: The Intimate Strangeness of BeingPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 65 (3): 298-300. 2012.
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3Exceeding Reason: Freedom and Religion in Schelling and NietzscheDe Gruyter. 2020.The work of the later Schelling seems antithetical to that of Nietzsche: one a Romantic, idealist and Christian, the other Dionysian, anti-idealist and anti-Christian. Still, there is a very meaningful and educative dialogue to be found between Schelling and Nietzsche on the topics of reason, freedom and religion. Both of them start their philosophy with a similar critique of the Western tradition, which to them is overly dualist, rationalist and anti-organic. In response, they hope to inculcate…Read more
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3Review of Allen Wood and Songsuk Susan Hahn (Eds.): The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790-1870) (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 66 (3): 322-325. 2013.
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2William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics (edited book)Palgrave Macmillan. 2018.This volume collects seventeen new essays by well-established and junior scholars on the philosophical relevance of metaxological philosophy and its main proponent, William Desmond. The volume mines metaxological thought for its salience in contemporary discussions in Continental philosophy, specifically in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and aesthetics. Among others, topics under discussion include the goodness of being, the existence and nature of God, and the aesthe…Read more
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2Arthur Schopenhauer: Cogitata. Philosophische Notizen aus dem NachlassPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 70 (3): 214-216. 2017.
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2Past and Present Political Theology: Expanding the Canon (edited book)Routledge. 2020.This book demonstrates how discussions of Political Theology have been a constant feature throughout philosophical modernity and that they continue to impact contemporary political debates. By tracing the historical roots and detailing the contemporary outworking of Political Theology in Europe, it contends that this growing field requires a broader "canon" in order for it to mature. Political Theology is shown here to be about the diversity of relationships between religious beliefs and politic…Read more
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1IntroductionIn William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 1-12. 2018.This chapter introduces the main aspects of metaxological philosophy: metaphysics, perplexity, community of art, ethics and being, and dialectical philosophy. It also provides a summary of the topics addressed in the contributions.
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1Against the Flow: Schopenhauer and Schelling on Negative FreedomIn Gregory S. Moss (ed.), The Being of Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 209-222. 2022.Schelling’s later philosophical thought and Schopenhauer’s philosophy undeniably have a Kantian pedigree. Their respective philosophies have had their major impact, however, in the late nineteenth century and twentieth century. For reasons that are both historical and systematical, the later Schelling (after 1809) and Schopenhauer were not deemed valuable interlocutors in the post-Kantian debates of the early nineteenth century. The reason for this, I argue, is that they go against the idealisti…Read more
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Silence, Excess, and AutonomyIn William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 195-207. 2018.Continuing on the value of givenness, Dennis Vanden Auweele argues that a modern project for absolutized autonomy cannot do but dread silence, which signals a hiccup or momentary lapse in the project of logos. And yet, Vanden Auweele shows that silence can be a convalescence that renders human beings receptive to something in excess of finite determination, which can in turn inspire self-determination to new heights.
Leuven, Belgium
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
19th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |