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910Being Given: Towards a Phenomenology of Givenness, by Jean-Luc Marion, trans. Jeffrey L. Kossky (review)Ars Disputandi 5. 2005.
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32Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 84 (1): 166-168. 2010.
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654“What Has Coltrane to Do With Mozart: The Dynamism and Built-in Flexibility of Music”Expositions 3 57-71. 2009.Although contemporary Western culture and criticism has usually valued composition over improvisation and placed the authority of a musical work with the written text rather than the performer, this essay posits these divisions as too facile to articulate the complex dynamics of making music in any genre or form. Rather it insists that music should be understood as pieces that are created with specific intentions by composers but which possess possibilities of interpretation that can only be br…Read more
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1422Unearthing Consonances in Foucault's Account of Greco‐Roman Self‐writing and Christian Technologies of the SelfHeythrop Journal 55 (2): 188-202. 2014.Foucault’s later writings continue his analyses of subject-formation but now with a view to foregrounding an active subject capable of self-transformation via ascetical and other self-imposed disciplinary practices. In my essay, I engage Foucault’s studies of ancient Greco-Roman and Christian technologies of the self with a two-fold purpose in view. First, I bring to the fore additional continuities either downplayed or overlooked by Foucault’s analysis between Greco-Roman transformative practi…Read more
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436Foucault, Douglass, Fanon, and Scotus in dialogue: on social construction and freedomPalgrave-Macmillan. 2013.Through examining Douglass's and Fanon's concrete experiences of oppression, Cynthia R. Nielsen demonstrates the empirical validity of Foucault's theoretical analyses concerning power, resistance, and subject-formation. Going beyond merely confirming Foucault's insights, Douglass and Fanon expand, strengthen, and offer correctives to the emancipatory dimensions of Foucault's project. Unlike Foucault, Douglass and Fanon were not hesitant to make transhistorical judgments condemning slavery and co…Read more
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6452Resistance Through Re-narration: Fanon on De-constructing Racialized SubjectivitiesAfrican Identies 9 (4): 363-385. 2011.Frantz Fanon offers a lucid account of his entrance into the white world where the weightiness of the ‘white gaze’ nearly crushed him. In chapter five of Black Skins, White Masks, he develops his historico-racial and epidermal racial schemata as correctives to Merleau-Ponty’s overly inclusive corporeal schema. Experientially aware of the reality of socially constructed (racialized) subjectivities, Fanon uses his schemata to explain the creation, maintenance, and eventual rigidification of white-…Read more
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56Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration (book chapter)Lexington Books. 2014.Western philosophy’s relationship with prisons stretches from Plato’s own incarceration to the modern era of mass incarceration. Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration draws together a broad range of philosophical thinkers, from both inside and outside prison walls, in the United States and beyond, who draw on a variety of critical perspectives (including phenomenology, deconstruction, and feminist theory) and historical and contemporary figures in philosophy …Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Hans-Georg Gadamer |
Hermeneutics |
Aesthetics |
Continental Philosophy |