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23La política del fuego: El desplazamiento contemporáneo del paradigma geopolíticoIsegoría 49 599-613. 2013.Este artículo teoriza la transición del régimen global geopolítico (es decir, la política de la tierra) a régimen piropolítico, o la política del fuego. En base a filosofía política de Carl Schmitt, la tesis es que la certidumbre, estabilidad y orden arraigados en la tierra están desplazados por la anomia del fuego, como un símbolo y dominio concreto de lo político hoy
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1Given the Right—of GivingEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (1): 93-108. 2007.This essay approaches the Hegelian problem of giving and givenness through the marginal figures of the animal, the child, and “superstitious humanity,”representing, in one way or another, the unperturbed relationship with immediacy. I argue that, for Hegel, the process of subjectivization supersedes these figures by learning to reject the immediately given and to accept only what is self-given. Yet, interspersed throughout this process are various imbalances and asymmetries, whereby the subject …Read more
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122Vegetal anti-metaphysics: Learning from plantsContinental Philosophy Review 44 (4): 469-489. 2011.By denying to vegetal life the core values of autonomy, individualization, self-identity, originality, and essentiality, traditional philosophy not only marginalizes plants but, inadvertently, confers on them a crucial role in the current transvaluation of metaphysical value systems. From the position of absolute exteriority and heteronomy, vegetation accomplishes a living reversal of metaphysical values and points toward the collapse of hierarchical dualisms
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12Emmanuel Levinas and the Limits to Ethics: A Critique and a Re-Appropriation by Aryeh Botwinick (review)Review of Metaphysics 68 (3): 642-644. 2015.
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7To Open a Site (with Heidegger)Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (1): 197-217. 2016.Drawing on the texts of Martin Heidegger, at times interpreted against the grain, I tackle the relation between ecology and economy in our era of rampant economism. I begin by outlining the ecological and economic variations on ethics and politics, with the view to the logos and nomos of dwelling (oikos). Thereafter, I consider the rise of a worldless, homeless world from the undue emphasis placed on nomos, which is but the active (actively gathering) dimension of logos. This lopsidedness, I arg…Read more
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Beyond History in History: Historiographic Threads in Foucault and LévinasClio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 34 (4): 419-442. 2005.
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2Pyropolitics: When the World is AblazeRowman & Littlefield International. 2014.A highly original theory of the political, the book explores the literal and metaphorical flare-ups in political theology, revolutionary thought, radical protests, and global energy production
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274On the Mountains, or The Aristocracies of SpaceEnvironment, Space, Place 4 (2): 63-74. 2012.Mountain peaks, like all uninhabitable and barely accessible environments, stand in the way of a clear-cut distinction between “place” and “space.” Building on the environmental thought of Aldo Leopold, as well as the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and twentieth-century phenomenology, I draw attention to this obscure in-between region and argue that the conceptual distinction must be subject to careful adumbration, depending on the concrete place where it is employed. Subsequently, mountains …Read more
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58Plant-Soul: The Elusive Meanings of Vegetative LifeEnvironmental Philosophy 8 (1): 83-99. 2011.In this paper, I propose an ontological-hermeneutical approach to the question of vegetative life. I argue that, though it is a product of the metaphysical traditionthat from Aristotle to Nietzsche ascribes to the life of plants but a single function, the notion of plant-soul is useful for the formulation of a post-metaphysicalphilosophy of vegetation. Offered as a prolegomenon to such thinking about plants, this paper focuses on the multiplicity of meanings, the obscurity, and thepotentialities…Read more
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37From the Concept of the Political to the Event of PoliticsTélos 2009 (147): 55-76. 2009.“From the concept of the political to the event of politics”: as always, the title is a promise and a contract. In keeping with this titular undertaking, which outlines a certain itinerary or trajectory, the reader might expect to be guided from the abstract sterility of the concept to the concrete level of political events as they unfold in history, from a higher to a lower level of analysis, from the general to the singular, from the speculative (in the Hegelian sense) to the positively demons…Read more
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15The Phenomenology of Ontico-Ontological DifferenceBulletin d'Analyse Phénoménologique (2): 1-20. 2012.Le présent article interprète la lecture heideggerienne de la phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel comme une critique voilée de la phénoménologie de la conscience de Husserl. Je défends l'idée qu'en dernier ressort, Heidegger affirme l'insuffisance des deux phénoménologies, exclusivement préoccupées par l'être ou les étants, et montre la voie pour une troisième phénoménologie, celle de la différence ontico-ontologique
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6Carl Schmitt and the Risk of the PoliticalTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2005 (132): 5-24. 2005.
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8The future and its enemies: In defense of political hopeContemporary Political Theory 13 (3). 2014.
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22Alexandra Cook. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Botany: The Salutary Science (review)Environmental Philosophy 10 (2): 119-122. 2013.
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85Phenomenology of Distraction, or Attention in the Fissuring of Time and SpaceResearch in Phenomenology 41 (3): 396-419. 2011.The goal of “Phenomenology of Distraction“ is to explore the imbrication of attention and distraction within existential spatiality and temporality. First, I juxtapose the Heideggerian dispersion of concern (which includes, among other things, the attentive comportment) in everyday life, conceived as a way to get distracted from one's impending mortality, to Fernando Pessoa's embracing of the inauthentic, superficial, and restless existence, where attention necessarily reverts into distraction. …Read more
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13No Title available: DialogueDialogue 51 (1): 170-173. 2012.Book Reviews Michael Marder, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie, FirstView Article
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32Gianni Vattimo, From Z to ATélos 2011 (154): 164-169. 2011.ExcerptIt is only fitting that the readers of Telos should be introduced to the thought of contemporary Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo at a certain “end” marked by the last lesson he gave on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Turin on October 14, 2008. Announced here is the coming to a close of a lecture course and of a long and illustrious university career, though not the end of an active theoretical and political engagement. (As far as the latter is concerned, Vattimo w…Read more
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45What Is Living and What Is Dead in Attention?Research in Phenomenology 39 (1): 29-51. 2009.The goal of this article is to outline a triangular nexus between life, death, and attention. Not only does the act of attending animate or enliven consciousness in the passage from inactional and indeterminate potentiality to the actional determination of a noema but it also coincides with intentionality, itself the form of life proper to consciousness. Upon outlining the “enlivening” element in attention and the overlap between attention and psychic life as such, I will discuss its deadening a…Read more
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48Existential Phenomenology According to Clarice LispectorPhilosophy and Literature 37 (2): 374-388. 2013.Is love when you don’t give a name to things’ identity? The Passion According to G.H., like much of Clarice Lispector’s writing, hovers on the razor-thin and fragile edge between description and the ineffable, between existence and nonexistence, between the world and its disappearance, between losing and finding oneself. It is no wonder, then, that a plethora of contradictions explode from the very first lines of the narrative that passionately wishes to share an obscure experience, of which the…Read more
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15To Open a Site (with Heidegger)Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (1): 197-217. 2016.Drawing on the texts of Martin Heidegger, at times interpreted against the grain, I tackle the relation between ecology and economy in our era of rampant economism. I begin by outlining the ecological and economic variations on ethics and politics, with the view to the logos and nomos of dwelling (oikos). Thereafter, I consider the rise of a worldless, homeless world from the undue emphasis placed on nomos, which is but the active (actively gathering) dimension of logos. This lopsidedness, I arg…Read more
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14Review of Simon skempton, Alienation After Derrida (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (11). 2010.
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32On the Verge of RespectEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 18 (1): 247-265. 2013.In contrast to the legal, metaphysically laden, and epistemological paradigms, the ontological interpretation of respect concerns not only the relation between the “subject” and the “object” (or, better, the provider and the recipient, of this attitude) but also the being of the respected and the respecting. This paper develops an ontology of respect with regard to the human treatment of plants and teases out the meanings of vegetal life that germinate in this relation. What is at stake, I claim…Read more
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22The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive RealismUniversity of Toronto. 2009.The Event of the Thing is the most complete examination to date of Derrida's understanding of thinghood and its crucial role in psychoanalysis, ethics, literary ...
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31“Higher than Actuality” – The Possibility of Phenomenology in HeideggerIndo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology 5 (2): 1-10. 2005.This paper proceeds from a schematic analysis of Heidegger’s notion of ‘possibility’ to consider the methodological significance of Heidegger’s conception of what is essential in phenomenology as inhering not “in its actuality as a philosophical ‘movement’”, but in the understanding of phenomenology “as a possibility”. In conclusion, the paper points to the efficacy of possibility and its mode of fulfilment as radically different from the actualization of latent potentiality.
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24Groundless existence: the political ontology of Carl SchmittContinuum. 2010.Groundless existence is a unique examination of the implicit phenomenological and existential foundations of Schmitt's political philosophy.
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11The Philosopher's Plant: An Intellectual HerbariumCambridge University Press. 2014.Despite their conceptual allergy to vegetal life, philosophers have used germination, growth, blossoming, fruition, reproduction, and decay as illustrations of abstract concepts; mentioned plants in passing as the natural backdrops for dialogues, letters, and other compositions; spun elaborate allegories out of flowers, trees, and even grass; and recommended appropriate medicinal, dietary, and aesthetic approaches to select species of plants. In this book, Michael Marder illuminates the vegetal …Read more
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53Carl Schmitt's “Cosmopolitan Restaurant”: Culture, Multiculturalism, and Complexio OppositorumTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2008 (142): 29-47. 2008.Disentangling Complexio OppositorumCarl Schmitt's Roman Catholicism and Political Form (1923) features a term, the importance of which political philosophy has yet to fathom. This notion is complexio oppositorum, describing Catholicism as “a complex of opposites”: “There appears to be no antithesis it [Roman Catholicism] does not embrace. It has long and proudly claimed to have united within itself all forms of state and government.…But this complexio oppositorum also holds sway over everything …Read more
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18The future and its enemies: In defense of political hopeContemporary Political Theory 13 (3). 2012.
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