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90Dan Zahavi, ed. , The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 33 (6): 500-506. 2013.
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113Park, 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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An invitation to philosophyIn Jack Reynolds John Roffe (ed.), Understanding Derrida, Continuum. pp. 1--5. 2004.
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175Wounds 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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58Russell, 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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219Postanalytic 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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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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219Transcendental 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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24Jacques Derrida, Rogues: Two Essays on Reason Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 25 (5): 343-346. 2005.
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306Transcendental Priority and Deleuzian Normativity. A Reply to James WilliamsDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 2 (1): 101-108. 2008.I am grateful that someone whose work I greatly admire could be the philosopher to so eloquently and succinctly cut to the heart of the problem that I posed in the previous issue of Deleuze Studies. James Williams' critical reply leaves me, prima facie, confronted by a stark alternative: either I have misunderstood Deleuze, or I have illustrated problems and lacunae in Deleuze. I will suggest, however, that this is a false alternative, and that Williams' and my divergent accounts of The Logic of…Read more
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36Philosophy and/or politicsIn Matthew Sharpe, Rory Jeffs & Jack Reynolds (eds.), 100 years of European philosophy since the Great War: crisis and reconfigurations, Springer. pp. 215-232. 2017.In this chapter, I revisit the question of the philosophical significance of the Great War upon the trajectory of philosophy in the twentieth century. While accounts of this are very rare in philosophy, and this is itself symptomatic, those that are given are also strangely implausible. They usually assert one of two things: that the War had little or no philosophical significance because most of the major developments had already begun, or—at the opposite extreme—they maintain that nothing was …Read more
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Herman Rapaport, Later Derrida: Reading the Recent Work (review)Philosophy in Review 24 47-49. 2004.
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100Reply to GlendinningInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 17 (2). 2009.This "reply" continues the debate with Simon Glendinning regarding his book The Idea of Continental Philosophy, and pursues my claim that there is a distinctive 'temporal turn' associated with twentieth century continental philosophy. I also offer some family resemblance criteria for continental philosophy.
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2396Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty: Immanence, Univocity and PhenomenologyJournal of the British Society of Phenomenology 37 (3): 228-51. 2006.This paper will seek firstly to understand Deleuze’s main challenges to phenomenology, particularly as they are expressed in The Logic of Sense and What is Philosophy?, although reference will also be made to Pure Immanence and Difference and Repetition. We will then turn to a discussion of one of the few passages in which Deleuze directly engages 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 “fi…Read more
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Paul Patton and John Protevi, eds., Between Deleuze and Derrida (review)Philosophy in Review 23 399-402. 2003.
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103Maurice Merleau-pontyInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2001.Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work is commonly associated with the philosophical movement called existentialism and its intention to begin with an analysis of the concrete experiences, perceptions, and difficulties, of human existence. However, he never propounded quite the same extreme accounts of radical freedom, being-towards-death, anguished responsibility, and conflicting relations with others, for which existentialism became both famous and notorious in the 1940s and 1950s. Perhaps because of th…Read more
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130Continuum Companion to Existentialism (edited book)Continuum. 2011.The Continuum Companion to Existentialism offers the definitive guide to a key area of modern European philosophy. The book covers the fundamental questions asked by existentialism, providing valuable guidance for students and researchers to some of the many important and enduring contributions of existentialist thinkers. Eighteen specially commissioned essays from an international team of experts explore existentialism’s relationship to philosophical method; ontology; politics; psychoanalysis; …Read more
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19John Llewelyn, Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (1): 44-46. 2003.
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81Understanding Derrida (edited book)Continuum. 2004.The essays cover language, metaphysics, the subject, politics, ethics, the decision, translation, religion, psychoanalysis, literature, art, and Derrida's ...
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388Throughout much of the twentieth 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 nineteenth century - from Frege and Husserl to Derrida and Searle - the book goes on …Read more
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Jacques Derrida, Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2 (review)Philosophy in Review 25 343-346. 2005.
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