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2453Resistance is Not Futile: Frederick Douglass on Panoptic Plantations and the Un-Making of Docile Bodies and Enslaved SoulsPhilosophy and Literature 35 (2): 251-268. 2011.Frederick Douglass, in his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, describes how his sociopolitical identity was scripted by the white other and how his spatiotemporal existence was likewise constrained through constant surveillance and disciplinary dispositifs. Even so, Douglass was able to assert his humanity through creative acts of resistance. In this essay, I highlight the ways in which Douglass refused to accept the other-imposed narrative, demonstrating with his …Read more
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1867Gadamer on the Event of Art, the Other, and a Gesture Toward a Gadamerian Approach to Free Jazz"Journal of Applied Hermeneutics (1). 2016.Several prominent contemporary philosophers, including Jürgen Habermas, John Caputo, and Robert Bernasconi, have at times painted a somewhat negative picture of Gadamer as not only an uncritical traditionalist, but also as one whose philosophical project fails to appreciate difference. Against such claims, I argue that Gadamer’s reflections on art exhibit a genuine appreciation for alterity not unrelated to his hermeneutical approach to the other. Thus, by bringing Gadamer’s reflections on our e…Read more
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26The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82 (2): 374-378. 2008.
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900Being Given: Towards a Phenomenology of Givenness, by Jean-Luc Marion, trans. Jeffrey L. Kossky (review)Ars Disputandi 5. 2005.
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31Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 84 (1): 166-168. 2010.
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645“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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1421Unearthing 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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Areas of Specialization
Hans-Georg Gadamer |
Hermeneutics |
Aesthetics |
Continental Philosophy |