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16Heidegger and Myth: A Loop in the History of BeingJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 22 (2): 45-64. 1991.(1991). Heidegger and Myth: A Loop in the History of Being. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 22, Psychoanalysis, Emotion, and Myth, pp. 45-64.
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27Time‐sharing in the Bestiary: On Daniel W. Conway's “The Politics of Decadence”Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (S1): 35-41. 1999.
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876A Story of Unrequited LoveEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (2): 287-296. 2015.Aristotle’s Poetics defends the value of tragic poetry, presumably to counter Plato’s critique in the Republic. Can this defense resonate with something larger and rather surprising, that Aristotle’s overall philosophy displays a tragic character? I define the tragic as pertaining to indigenous and inescapable limits on life, knowledge, control, achievement, and agency. I explore how such limits figure in Aristotle’s physics, metaphysics, and biological works. Accordingly I want to disturb the c…Read more
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41Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech IRowman & Littlefield International. 2017.How is it that sounds from the mouth or marks on a page—which by themselves are nothing like things or events in the world—can be world-disclosive in an automatic manner? In this fascinating and important book, Lawrence J. Hatab presents a new vocabulary for Heidegger’s early phenomenology of being-in-the-world and applies it to the question of language. He takes language to be a mode of dwelling, in which there is an immediate, direct disclosure of meanings, and sketches an extensive picture of…Read more
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115Nietzsche's life sentence: coming to terms with eternal recurrenceRoutledge. 2005.In this book, Lawrence Hatab provides an accessible and provocative exploration of one of the best-known and still most puzzling aspects of Nietzsche's thought: eternal recurrence, the claim that life endlessly repeats itself identically in every detail. Hatab argues that eternal recurrence can and should be read literally, in just the way Nietzsche described it in the texts. The book offers a readable treatment of most of the core topics in Nietzsche's philosophy, all discussed in the light of …Read more
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Liberty & Equality: DvdMilk Bottle Productions. 2002.Is political discourse an impotent spectator to the ongoing exercise of political power? Can we ever resolve the tensions between the political values of liberty and equality? With Drew Arrowood, Lawrence Hatab, and James Sterba
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33Ethics and Finitude: Heideggerian Contributions to Moral Philosophy (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.This book explores what anyone interested in ethics can draw from Heidegger's thinking. Heidegger argues for the radical finitude of being. But finitude is not only an ontological matter; it is also located in ethical life. Moral matters are responses to finite limit-conditions, and ethics itself is finite in its modes of disclosure, appropriation, and performance. With Heidegger's help, Lawrence Hatab argues that ethics should be understood as the contingent engagement of basic practical questi…Read more
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821The Point of Language in Heidegger’s ThinkingGatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 6 1-22. 2016.
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2425Heidegger and Wittgenstein on Language and MysteryInternational Studies in Philosophy 15 (3): 25-43. 1983.
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9The Question of God in Heidegger’s Phenomenology (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 31 (4): 503-505. 1991.
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42Gerard J. Hughes, Aristotle on Ethics, London, Routledge, 2001, pp. x + 238Utilitas 15 (1): 117. 2003.
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14A Nietzschean Bestiary: Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and BrutalRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003.Nietzsche's use of metaphor has been widely noted but rarely focused to explore specific images in great detail. A Nietzschean Bestiary gathers essays devoted to the most notorious and celebrated beasts in Nietzsche's work. The essays illustrate Nietzsche's ample use of animal imagery, and link it to the dual philosophical purposes of recovering and revivifying human animality, which plays a significant role in his call for de-deifying nature
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58The Ecstatic Nature of EmpathyJournal of Philosophical Research 26 359-380. 2001.This paper ventures an analysis of empathy along the lines of Heidegger’s ecstatic structure of being-in-the-world. Empathy is construed as a mode of attunement disclosing the existential weal and woe of others, and as such it serves a basic ethical function of opening up moral import, interest, and motivation. The following conclusions will be drawn: 1) empathy is a genuine possibility in human experience and should not be understood as a “subjective” phenomenon; 2) empathy is “natural” in a wa…Read more
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2020Nietzsche’s Will to Power and PoliticsIn Manuel Knoll & Barry Stocker (eds.), Nietzsche as Political Philosopher, De Gruyter. pp. 113-134. 2014.
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25Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of TruthsOpen Court Publishing Company. 1990.Hatab's work is more than an interpretative study, inspired by Neitzsche and Heidegger of the historical relationship between myth and philosophy in ancient Greece. Its conclusions go beyond the historical case study, and amount to a defence of the intelligibility of myth against an exclusively rational or objective view of the world.
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846How Does the Ascetic Ideal Function in Nietzsche's Genealogy?Journal of Nietzsche Studies 35 (1): 106-123. 2008.
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1William H. Schaberg, The Nietzsche Canon: A Publication History and Bibliography Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (3): 201-203. 1996.
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1832Dasein, The Early Years: Heideggerian Reflections on ChildhoodInternational Philosophical Quarterly 54 (4): 379-391. 2014.Like most philosophers, Heidegger gave little attention to childhood, but his philosophical emphasis on pre-reflective practice and understanding seems uniquely qualified to help make sense of a child’s experience and development. Moreover, it seems to me that many central Heideggerian concepts are best defended, exemplified, and articulated by bringing child development into the discussion. A Heideggerain emphasis on pre-theoretical world-involvement opens up a rich array of phenomena for study…Read more
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