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3Hermeneutics and Modern PhilosophyIn Niall Keane & Chris Lawn (eds.), A Companion to Hermeneutics, Wiley. 2015.While people have a remarkable facility for understanding often hugely complex forms of communication and interaction in everyday cultural and social contexts, from the structures of symphonic works to what their partner means when they say “I don't understand Brahms”, philosophical analysis seeks to isolate one form of understanding as if it were the key to all others. In order to become language, noises and marks have to be in a manner in which non‐linguistic things are not. The essential divi…Read more
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2John McDowell's Mind and World, and early romantic epistemologyRevue Internationale de Philosophie 50 (197): 515-554. 1996.
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2Geschichte und Eigensinn (review)Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1985 (66): 183-190. 1985.
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1Review of Adorno. A critical introduction by Simon Jarvis (review)European Journal of Philosophy 6 (3). 1998.
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1Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism: And Other Writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1998.The founding text of modern hermeneutics. Written by the philosopher and theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher as a method for the interpretation and textual criticism of the New Testament, it develops ideas about language and the interpretation of texts that are in many respects still unsurpassed and are becoming current in the contemporary philosophy of language. Contrary to the traditional view of Schleiermacher as a theorist of empathetic interpretation, in this text he offers a view of unders…Read more
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1On the History of Modern Philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2012.On the History of Modern Philosophy is a key transitional text in the history of European philosophy. In it, F. W. J. Schelling surveys philosophy from Descartes to German Idealism and shows why the Idealist project is ultimately doomed to failure. The lectures trace the path of philosophy from Descartes through Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Fichte, Jacobi, to Hegel and Schelling's own work. The extensive critiques of Hegel prefigure many of the arguments to be found in Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, Marx, N…Read more
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1What comes after art?In John J. Joughin & Simon Malpas (eds.), The New Aestheticism, Manchester University Press. pp. 72. 2003.
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1Oldest system programme of German idealismAesthetics and Subjectivity : From Kant to Nietzsche. 1990.
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Fichte's Transcendental Philosophy. The Original Duplicity of Intelligence and Will (review)Philosophy 75 (2): 296-312. 2000.
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The Actuality Of Schelling's Hegel-CritiqueBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 21 19-29. 1990.
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