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11Rethinking Spontaneism: Rosa Luxemburg, Skilful Expertise, and the Politics of HabitJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 55 (1): 12-27. 2023.Rosa Luxemburg defended a view of spontaneism as a way of according strategic priority to popular initiatives over the directives of vanguard parties. But she never worked out a theory of spontaneism, and consequently it has typically been dismissed as lacking solid grounds. In this paper, I take an initial step toward rehabilitating spontaneism by rethinking its assumptions concerning historical agency in embodied habitual terms. After first outlining Luxemburg’s view of spontaneism itself, I c…Read more
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10Generating Sense: Schizophrenia and Phenomenological PraxisSchutzian Research. A Yearbook of Worldly Phenomenology and Qualitative Social Science 3 (n/a): 121-132. 2011.The aim of phenomenology is to provide a critical account of the origins and genesis of the world. This implies that the standpoint of the phenomenologicalreduction is properly extramundane. But it remains an outstanding task to formulate a credible account of the reduction that would be adequate to this seemingly impossible methodological condition. This paper contributes to rethinking the reduction accordingly. Building on efforts to thematize its intersubjective and corporeal aspects, the red…Read more
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9Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 12 (2): 186-195. 2008.
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9Mythopoetic naturalizationMetodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 9 (2): 469-500. 2021.This paper sketches a new approach to the critical-theoretic problem of reification understood as a normatively problematic form of naturalizing or dehistoricizing entifcation. Entifcation in general is approached phenomenologically in terms of the mythic outer horizonality of the lifeworld, and reification is shown to stem from the dichotomy between nature and history which, along with a corresponding dichotomy between myth and reason, is characteristic of Enlightenment rationality. Dereificati…Read more
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9Marxism and Phenomenology: The Dialectical Horizons of Critique (edited book)Lexington Books. 2021.This volume examines various points of contact between Marxism and phenomenology. Although these traditions can appear conceptually incompatible, the contributors reveal productive complementarities on themes such as alienation, reification, and ecology, which illuminate and can help to resolve the crises of contemporary capitalism.
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9Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of PhilosophyBloomsbury Academic. 2014.Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception - a canonical text of twentieth-century philosophy - concludes with an appeal to 'heroism' by citing a series of enigmatic sentences drawn from Saint-Exupe;ry's Pilote de guerre. Surprisingly, however, these lines are antithetical to the philosophical thrust of Merleau-Ponty's project. This book aims to explain this situation. Foregrounding liminal themes in Merleau-Ponty's thought that have been largely overlooked - e.g., sacrifice, death, myth, faith…Read more
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8The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday (review)Symposium 11 (2): 468-471. 2007.
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5Review of Galen A. Johnson, Mauro Carbone, and Emmanuel De Saint Aubert. Merleau-Ponty’s Poetic of the World: Philosophy and Literature (review)Chiasmi International 24 409-414. 2022.
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3Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism: The Matrixed Ontology by Rajiv KaushikReview of Metaphysics 74 (4): 630-632. 2021.
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2Merleau-Ponty's Developmental Ontology by David MorrisReview of Metaphysics 73 (4): 852-854. 2020.
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Leonard Lawlor, This is Not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (5): 346-348. 2008.
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Nick Hewlett, Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere: Re-thinking Emancipation Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (6): 411-413. 2008.
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Jack Reynolds, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (3): 208-210. 2005.
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Dorothea Olkowski and Gail Weiss, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-PontyPhilosophy in Review 28 (1): 64. 2008.
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Bernard Flynn, The Philosophy of Claude Lefort: Interpreting the PoliticalPhilosophy in Review 27 (1): 22. 2007.
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