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91Dan Zahavi, ed. , The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 33 (6): 500-506. 2013.
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114Park, J. Y., ED., buddhisms and deconstructions Lanham, maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006, 290+ XXII pp., IBSN: 0742534189, pb (review)Sophia 46 (2): 211-213. 2007.Jack Reynolds has written Merleau-Ponty and Derrida, coedited Understanding Derrida, taught at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, and shaken hands with HHDL. He remains in the realm of samsara
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186Wounds and Scars: Deleuze on the Time (and the Ethics) of the EventDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 1 (2): 15. 2007.This essay examines Deleuze's account of time and the wound in The Logic of Sense and, to a lesser extent, in Difference and Repetition. As such, it will also explicate his understanding of the event, as well as the notoriously opaque ethics of counter-actualisation that are bound up with it, before raising certain problems that are associated with the transcendental and ethical priority that he accords to the event and what he calls the time of Aion. I will conclude by proposing a dialectic bet…Read more
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Touched by Time: Some Critical Reflections on Derrida's Engagement with Merleau-Ponty in Le ToucherSOPHIA: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics 47 (3): 311-325. 2008.
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1Derrida has been rather frequently acclaimed for his conception of alterity, which we are told isirrecuperable and beyond the dialectic. However, this essay will argue that his attempts to instantiate anethics of responsibility to the “otherness of the other” are more problematic than is commonly assumed.Much of Derrida’s work on alterity palpably bears a tension between his emphasis upon an absolute andirrecuperable notion of alterity that is always deferred and always ‘to come’, and his simult…Read more
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64Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty: Immanence, Univocity and PhenomenologyJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 37 (3): 228-251. 2006.This paper seeks firstly to understand Deleuze’s main challenges to phenomenology, particularly as they are expressed in The Logic of Sense and Difference and Repetition. We then turn to a discussion of one of the few passages in which Deleuze and Guattari directly engage with Merleau-Ponty, which occurs in the chapter on art in What is Philosophy? In this text, he and Guattari offer a critique of what they call the “final avatar” of phenomenology – that is, the “fleshism” that Merleau- Ponty pr…Read more
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22Deleuze’s Other-StructureSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 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 expres…Read more
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179Wounds and Scars: Deleuze on the Time and Ethics of the EventDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 1 (2): 144-166. 2007.This paper explores the idea that Deleuze’s oeuvre is best understood as a philosophy of the wound, synonymous with a philosophy of the event. Although this wound/scar typology may appear to be a metaphorical conceit, the motif of the wound recurs frequently and perhaps even symptomatically in many of Deleuze’s texts, particularly where he is attempting to delineate some of the most important differences (transcendental, temporal, and ethical) between himself and his phenomenological predecessor…Read more
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An invitation to philosophyIn Jack Reynolds John Roffe (ed.), Understanding Derrida, Continuum. pp. 1--5. 2004.
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60Russell, Ryle and Phenomenology: An Alternative Parsing of the WaysIn Aaron Preston (ed.), Interpreting the Analytic Tradition, Routledge. pp. 52-69. 2017.In this paper, we examine the historical relationship between phenomenology and the emerging analytic tradition. We pay particular attention to the reception of Husserl’s work by Russell, Moore, and others, and to some convergences between phenomenology and ordinary language philosophy, noted by Wittgenstein, Austin, and Ryle. Focusing on Russell and Ryle, we argue that the historical details suggest an alternative parsing of the ways to the “parting of the ways” narrative made famous by Dummett…Read more
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221Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides (edited book)Continuum. 2010.This important collection of essays details some of the more significant methodological and philosophical differences that have separated the two traditions, as ...
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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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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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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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330Merleau-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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45Introduction: 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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55Existentialist 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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23Jacques Derrida, Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2 Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (5): 343-346. 2005.
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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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207Existentialism 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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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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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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Jacques Taminiaux, The Metamorphoses of Phenomenological Reduction (review)Philosophy in Review 24 302-303. 2004.
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224Transcendental 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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