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11This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer's reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines fundamental themes in Gadamer's hermeneutical aesthetics such as play, festival, symbol, contemporaneity, enactment, art's performative ontology, and hermeneutical identity. The first two chapters focus on Gadamer's critical appropriation and movement beyond Kantian and Hegelian aesthetics (and includes a coda on Heidegger's influence). The final three chapters argue for the con…Read more
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6Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy by Matthais FritschReview of Metaphysics 72 (3): 600-602. 2019.
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6Frantz Fanon and the Negritude Movement: How Strategic Essentialism Subverts Manichean BinariesCallaloo Journal of African Diaspora 36. 2013.Fanon’s insistence that the oppressed retain their ability to resist and (re)configure their subjectivity has political, ethical, and philosophical import, as it highlights the fact that the subjugated are not mere things determined from the outside. To the contrary, just as several contingent factors coalesced to create the historical situation in which the colonized subject finds herself, other equally contingent factors can emerge and help to bring about socio-political transformations. Like …Read more
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Gadamer, Fricker, and Honneth : testimonial injustice, prejudice, and social EsteemIn Paul Giladi & Nicola McMillan (eds.), Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Areas of Specialization
Hans-Georg Gadamer |
Hermeneutics |
Aesthetics |
Continental Philosophy |