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11A 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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1700Nietzsche’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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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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786How 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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2244Dasein, 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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56Paul Loeb, The Death of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra (review)New Nietzsche Studies 8 (3-4): 196-204. 2011.
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75Nietzsche's 'on the Genealogy of Morality': An IntroductionCambridge University Press. 2008.Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality is a forceful, perplexing, important book, radical in its own time and profoundly influential ever since. This introductory textbook offers a comprehensive, close reading of the entire work, with a section-by-section analysis that also aims to show how the Genealogy holds together as an integrated whole. The Genealogy is helpfully situated within Nietzsche's wider philosophy, and occasional interludes examine supplementary topics that further enhance the …Read more
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608Prospects for a Democratic Agon : Why We Can Still Be NietzscheansJournal of Nietzsche Studies 24 (1): 132-147. 2002.
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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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6A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy: An Experiment in Postmodern PoliticsJournal of Nietzsche Studies 15 88-91. 1998.
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464Nietzsche, Democracy, and Excellence: Politics as JazzInternational Studies in Philosophy 32 (3): 39-50. 2000.
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476Human nature in a postmodern world: Reflections on the work of Eugene Gendlin (review)Human Studies 17 (3). 1994.
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969Writing Knowledge in the SoulEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2): 319-332. 2007.In this essay I take up Plato’s critique of poetry, which has little to do with epistemology and representational imitation, but rather the powerful effects that poeticperformances can have on audiences, enthralling them with vivid image-worlds and blocking the powers of critical reflection. By focusing on the perceived psychological dangers of poetry in performance and reception, I want to suggest that Plato’s critique was caught up in the larger story of momentous shifts in the Greek world, tu…Read more
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469Phainomenon and Logos in Aristotle's EthicsIn Hatab Lawrence J. (ed.), Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics, Bloomsbury. pp. 10-30. 2013.
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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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59Time‐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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793A 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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38Proto-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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113Nietzsche'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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30Ethics 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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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |