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40The Question of God in Heidegger’s Phenomenology (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 31 (4): 503-505. 1991.
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39Proto-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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38Shocking Time: Reading Eternal Recurrence LiterallyIn Manuel Dries (ed.), Nietzsche on Time and History, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 149. 2008.
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32Ethics 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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29The 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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28Nietzsche's Earth: Great Events, Great Politics by Gary ShapiroJournal of the History of Philosophy 55 (3): 549-550. 2017.In Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, a central teaching calls on humanity to be "true to the earth," to affirm "the meaning [Sinn] of the earth." Scholars commonly read this as a call to embrace natural life, countering any transcendent or life-denying doctrine in the tradition. While certainly an apt reading, Gary Shapiro's remarkable new book draws attention to and articulates the many ways in which Nietzsche celebrates the actual earthen characteristics of human habitats: the concrete place…Read more
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22Myth 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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17Time‐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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15Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality and Literacy: Dwelling in Speech IiRowman & Littlefield International. 2019.Through his innovative study of language, noted Heidegger scholar Lawrence Hatab offers a proto-phenomenological account of the lived world, the “first” world of factical life, where pre-reflective, immediate disclosiveness precedes and makes possible representational models of language. Common distinctions between mind and world, fact and value, cognition and affect miss the meaning-laden dimension of embodied, practical existence, where language and life are a matter of “dwelling in speech.” I…Read more
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13Time Is a Flat CircleIn Tom Sparrow & Jacob Graham (eds.), True Detective and Philosophy, Wiley. 2017.In True Detective, the character of Rust Cohle is remarkable in giving voice to pessimism. Cohle says: "Time is a flat circle". This is Friedrich Nietzsche's doctrine of eternal recurrence, as depicted in The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Cohle expresses this idea in a pessimistic mood and it is meant to magnify the absurdity of life by declaring its endless repetition. Schopenhauer was an early influence on Nietzsche, and they agreed on certain basic things, including the primacy of a…Read more
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13Heidegger and Myth: A Loop in the History of BeingJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 22 (2): 45-64. 1991.
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12Problem of Affective Nihilism in Nietzsche: Thinking Differently, Feeling Differently by Kaitlyn CreasyJournal of Nietzsche Studies 53 (1): 90-96. 2022.Kaitlyn Creasy has written a very fine book, in which she sets out an important question—how affect and nihilism correlate in Nietzsche’s philosophy—and provides a multifaceted and well-organized answer that pays due attention to the complexities in Nietzsche’s texts as well as to current scholarship relevant to the matters at hand. The term “affective nihilism” is not deployed by Nietzsche per se, but it turns out to be a very useful concept for focusing and coordinating central aspects of Niet…Read more
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12Contesting Nietzsche by Christa Davis AcamporaContesting Nietzsche, by AcamporaChrista Davis. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 259 pp (review)Political Theory 42 (5): 626-629. 2014.
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12A 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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10On Nietzsche, Politics, and Time: A Response to William E. Connolly and Tracy B. StrongNew Nietzsche Studies 6 (3/4/1/2): 211-217. 2005.
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6A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy: An Experiment in Postmodern PoliticsJournal of Nietzsche Studies 15 88-91. 1998.
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6Redescribing the Zuhanden-Vorhanden RelationGatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 8 21-35. 2018.
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5Proto-Phenomenology and the Work of TruthGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 43 (1): 103-132. 2022.
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4How Does the Ascetic Ideal Function in Nietzsche's Genealogy?Journal of Nietzsche Studies 36 (1): 106-123. 2008.
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3Richard Capobianco. Engaging Heidegger (review)Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 1 86-93. 2011.
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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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The hurdle of words : language, being, and philosophy in HeideggerIn Michael J. Bowler & Ingo Farin (eds.), Hermeneutical Heidegger, Northwestern University Press. 2016.
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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
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