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68Sartre's Legacy (edited book)Routledge. 2013.Examines Sartre's reception and legacy, both within France and beyond
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200Jacques DerridaInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2002.This article attempts to introduce some of the central dimensions of Jacques Derrida's thought, with attention given to both early and late texts in his oeuvre.
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68Philosophy, Violence, MetaphorSophia 55 (1): 1-4. 2016.In this paper, I explore the complex ethical dynamics of violence and nonviolence in Mahāyāna Buddhism by considering some of the historical precedents and scriptural prescriptions that inform modern and contemporary Buddhist acts of self-immolation. Through considering these scripturally sanctioned Mahāyāna ‘case studies,’ the paper traces the tension that exists in Buddhist thought between violence and nonviolence, outlines the interplay of key Mahāyāna ideas of transcendence and altruism, and…Read more
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409Deleuze’s Other-StructureSymposium 12 (1): 67-88. 2008.Deleuze suggests that his work grounds a new conception of the Other–the Other as expression of a possible world, as a structure that precedes any subsequent dialectical mediation, including the master-slave dialectic of social relations. I will argue, however, that the ethico-political injunction that Deleuze derives from his analysis of the 'other-structure' confronts a different problem. It commits Deleuze to either tacitly prescribing a romantic morality of difference that valorizes expressi…Read more
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124Possible and Impossible, Self and Other, and the Reversibility of Merleau-Ponty and DerridaPhilosophy Today 48 (1): 35-49. 2004.This essay examines some of Derrida’s most famous ‘possible-impossible’ aporias, including his discussions of giving, hospitality, forgiveness, and mourning. He argues that the condition of the possibility of such themes is also, and at once, the condition of their impossibility. In order to reveal the shared logic upon which these aporias rely, and also to raise some questions about their persuasive efficacy, it will be argued that of the two polarities evoked by each of his possible-impossible…Read more
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161Throughout much of the 20th Century, the relationship between analytic and continental philosophy has been one of disinterest, caution or hostility. Recent debates in philosophy have highlighted some of the similarities between the two approaches and even envisaged a post-continental and post-analytic philosophy. Opening with a history of key encounters between philosophers of opposing camps since the late 19th Century - from Frege and Husserl to Derrida and Searle - the book goes on to explore …Read more
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Neither-Nor: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology in the "The Intertwining/The Chiasm"In Ariane Mildenberg (ed.), Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism, Bloomsbury Publishing Usa. 2018.In this chapter we examine Merleau-Ponty's chapter, "The Intertwining/The Chiasm", before considering some of the criticisms made by his contemporaries and ‘successors’: Lacan, Irigaray, Levinas, Derrida and Deleuze.
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549Jean-Paul Sartre: Key Concepts (Kindle e-book edition) (edited book)Routledge. 2013.Most readers of Sartre focus only on the works written at the peak of his influence as a public intellectual in the 1940s, notably "Being and Nothingness". "Jean-Paul Sartre: Key Concepts" aims to reassess Sartre and to introduce readers to the full breadth of his philosophy. Bringing together leading international scholars, the book examines concepts from across Sartre's career, from his initial views on the "inner life" of conscious experience, to his later conceptions of hope as the binding a…Read more
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20Jacques Taminiaux, The Metamorphoses of Phenomenological Reduction Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (4): 302-303. 2004.
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75Time out of Joint: Between Phenomenology and PoststructuralismParrhesia: A Critical Journal of Philosophy (9): 55-64. 2010.In this essay, I take off from Nathan Widder’s impressive book, Reflections on Time and Politics, by highlighting what I take to be one of the major internal differences within continental philosophy that Widder’s book helps to make manifest: that between phenomenology and post-structuralism (which includes the renewed interest in, and use of, Nietzsche and Bergson’s work by poststructuralist philosophers). While many deplore the use of umbrella terms like these, I hope to be able to proffer som…Read more
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75Phenomenology and naturalism: a hybrid and heretical proposalInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 24 (3): 393-412. 2016.In this paper I aim to develop a largely non-empirical case for the compatibility of phenomenology and naturalism. To do so, I will criticise what I take to be the standard construal of the relationship between transcendental phenomenology and naturalism, and defend a ‘minimal’ version of phenomenology that is compatible with liberal naturalism in the ontological register and with weak forms of methodological naturalism, the latter of which is understood as advocating ‘results continuity’, over …Read more
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Jacques Derrida, Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews, 1971-2001 (review)Philosophy in Review 23 94-96. 2003.
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70Review of Taylor Carman (ed.), Mark Hansen (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (9). 2005.
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22Herman Rapaport, Later Derrida: Reading the Recent Work Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (1): 47-49. 2004.
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21Paul Patton and John Protevi, eds., Between Deleuze and Derrida Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (6): 399-402. 2003.
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258Derrida and Deleuze on Time and the FutureBorderlands 3 (1): 15. 2004.This paper compares the "future politics", and the philosophies of time, of Derrida and Deleuze.
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329Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and the Alterity of the OtherSymposium 6 (1): 63-78. 2002.Suggesting that phenomenology results in an “imperialism of the same” that considers the other only in terms of their effect upon the subject rather than in their genuine alterity, Levinas initiates a line of thought that can still be discerned in the work of Foucault, Derrida and Claude Lefort. However, this paper argues that Merleau-Ponty’s work is capable of avoiding this line of criticism, and that his position is an important alternative to the more dominant Derridean and Levinasian concept…Read more
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44Introduction: Merleau-Ponty’s Gordian knotContinental Philosophy Review 50 (1): 1-3. 2016.Whether or not Merleau-Ponty’s version of phenomenology should be considered a form of ‘transcendental’ philosophy is open to debate. Although the Phenomenology of Perception presents his position as a transcendental one, many of its features—such as its exploitation of empirical science—might lead to doubt that it can be. This paper considers whether Merleau-Ponty meets what I call the ‘transcendentalist challenge’ of defining and grounding claims of a distinctive transcendental kind. It begins…Read more
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83Transcendental Pragmatics? Pragmatism, Deleuze, and MetaphilosophyIn Sean Bowden, Simone Bignall & Paul Patton (eds.), Deleuze and Pragmatism, Routledge. pp. 235-46. 2014.In this chapter I juxtapose the methodological commitments of Gilles Deleuze with some different forms of contemporary neo-pragmatism developed by Nicholas Rescher, Sami Pihlstrom and Joseph Margolis. Focusing upon their respective conceptions of transcendental reasoning, naturalism, and common sense, I conclude that Deleuze’s philosophy challenges some core aspects of contemporary neo-pragmatism, and hence also the prospects for a rapprochement that might warrant the name of "transcendental pra…Read more
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54Existentialist Methodology and Perspective: Writing the First-personIn Soren Overgaard & Giuseppina D'Oro (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology, Cambridge University Press. pp. 344-65. 2017.Without proposing anything quite so grandiose as a return to existentialism, in this paper we aim to articulate and minimally defend certain core existentialist insights concerning the first-person perspective, the relationship between theory and practice, and the mode of philosophical presentation conducive to best making those points. We will do this by considering some of the central methodological objections that have been posed around the role of the first-person perspective and “lived expe…Read more
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141Touched by Time: Some Critical Reflections on Derrida’s Engagement with Merleau-Ponty in Le ToucherSophia 47 (3): 311-25. 2008.The philosophical relationship that obtains between the work of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida has continued to intrigue and preoccupy many of us despite, or perhaps even partly because of, the fact that Derrida did not accord the work of Merleau-Ponty much attention during his remarkably prolific career. Two relatively recent books of Derrida’s have addressed this gap: Memoirs of the Blind and, more recently, On Touching. However, although Derrida proposes an “entire re-reading” of the later Merleau…Read more
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99Chronopathologies: The Politics of Time in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Philosophy and PhenomenologyLexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield. 2011.A battle over the politics of time is a major part of what is at stake in the differences between three competing currents of contemporary philosophy: analytic philosophy, post-structuralist philosophy, and phenomenological philosophy. Avowed or tacit philosophies of time define representatives of each of these groups and also guard against their potential interlocutors. However, by bringing the temporal differences between these philosophical trajectories to the fore, and showing both their met…Read more
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23Jacques Derrida, Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2 Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (5): 343-346. 2005.
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150The Master-slave dialectic and the 'sado-masochistic entity': Some ObjectionsAngelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 14 (3): 11-25. 2009.Hegel’s famous analyses of the ‘master-slave dialectic’, and the more general struggle for recognition which it is a part of, have been remarkably influential throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bound up with the dominance of this idea, however, has been a corresponding treatment of sadism and masochism as complicit projects that are mutually necessary for one another in a manner that is structurally isomorphic with the way in which master and slave depend on one another. In clini…Read more
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204Existentialism and Poststructuralism: Some Unfashionable ObservationsIn Felicity Joseph, Jack Reynolds & Ashley Woodward (eds.), Continuum Companion to Existentialism, Continuum. pp. 260. 2011.This chapter challenges the received doxa that the generation of ‘poststructuralist’ philosophers broke decisively with existentialism and rendered it out of date, a mere historical curiosity. Drawing on recent research in the area, it draws some lines of influence, and even argues for some surprising points of commonality, between existentialism and poststructuralism. At least some of the core philosophical ideas of poststructuralists such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze …Read more
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20Chickening Out and the Idea of Continental PhilosophyInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 17 (2): 255-72. 2009.Despite its consistently mild tone, Simon Glendinning’s The Idea of Continental Philosophy is a provocative and uncompromising work. It is to be admired for this. Without “chickening out” (94), Glendinning purports to show that there can be no coherent philosophical understanding of continental philosophy as comprising any sort of distinct or unified tradition. Furthermore, he argues that the vast majority of us working in this so-called tradition actually know this at some level but shy away fr…Read more
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216Transcendental Arguments About Other Minds and IntersubjectivityPhilosophy Compass 6 (5): 300-311. 2011.This article describes some of the main arguments for the existence of other minds, and intersubjectivity more generally, that depend upon a transcendental justification. This means that our focus will be largely on ‘continental’ philosophy, not only because of the abiding interest in this tradition in thematising intersubjectivity, but also because transcendental reasoning is close to ubiquitous in continental philosophy. Neither point holds for analytic philosophy. As such, this essay will int…Read more
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140Merleau-Ponty: Key ConceptsAcumen Publishing. 2008.Having initially not had the attention of Sartre or Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty's work is arguably now more widely influential than either of his two contemporaries. "Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts" presents an accessible guide to the core ideas which structure Merleau-Ponty's thinking as well as to his influences and the value of his ideas to a wide range of disciplines. The first section of the book presents the context of Merleau-Ponty's thinking, the major debates of his time, particularly existen…Read more
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