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28The State of Sovereignty: Lessons From the Political Fictions of ModernityState University of New York Press. 2012.Considers the problems of sovereignty through the work of Rousseau, Arendt, Foucault, Agamben, and Derrida
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37Spinoza and the biopolitical roots of modernityAngelaki 18 (3): 91-102. 2013.Much has been written about biopolitical sovereignty in the wake of Agamben's work, which relies, at least in the first volume of Homo Sacer, on Carl Schmitt's transcendental account of sovereignty. This article argues, however, that Foucault and Arendt rightly identify what Derrida once called the “changing shape and place of sovereignty” in modernity, which for them is horizontal and disseminated within a presupposed nation. For this reason, we will look to the source of modern philosophical i…Read more
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53Graham Harman, Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 14 (2): 206-210. 2010.
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Change We Can’t Believe In: Adrian Johnston on Badiou, Žižek, & Political TransformationInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 4 (3). 2010.
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22Questioning Freedom in the Later Work of DerridaPhilosophy Today 50 (Supplement): 133-138. 2006.
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67Meillassoux's Speculative Politics: Time and the Divinity to ComeAnalecta Hermeneutica 4 1-14. 2012.
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16Foucault’s Last DecadeSymposium 20 (2): 181-211. 2016.At the time of his death in 1984, Foucault’s late career forays into Stoicism and other sets of ancient texts were often little understood, except as part of a larger project on the history of sexuality. Indeed, outside of France and outside of an incipient queer theory, Foucault was often taken up in terms of debates over post-structuralism and postmodernism—themes all but absent from his writings. More than thirty years later, after the publication of all of his lecture courses at the Collège…Read more
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44Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2007.In recent years, Richard Kearney has emerged as a leading figure in the field of continental philosophy, widely recognized for his work in the areas of philosophical and religious hermeneutics, theory and practice of the imagination, and political thought. This much-anticipated--and long overdue--study is the first to reflect the full range and impact of Kearney's extensive contributions to contemporary philosophy. The book opens with Kearney's own "prelude" in which he traces his intellectual i…Read more
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35Beyond Hermeneutics: Derrida's Semiology as a Temporal Metaphysics of CommunicationAnalecta Hermeneutica 4. 2012.
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56Simon Critchley's Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of ResistancePhaenEx 2 (2): 320-328. 2007.
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56Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and MetaphysicsSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 14 (2): 206-210. 2010.
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118Interviews: Graham Harman, Jane Bennett, Tim Morton, Ian Bogost, Levi Bryant and Paul EnnisSpeculations 1 (1): 84-134. 2010.The context for these interviews was a seminar [Peter Gratton] conducted on speculative realism in the Spring 2010. There has been great interest in speculative realism and one reason Gratton surmise[s] is not just the arguments offered, though [Gratton doesn't] want to take away from them; each of these scholars are vivid writers and great pedagogues, many of whom are in constant contact with their readers via their weblogs. Thus these interviews provided an opportunity to forward student quest…Read more
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66Derrida and the Limits of Sovereign Reason: Freedom, Equality, but not FraternityTélos 2009 (148): 141-159. 2009.“What must be thought,” Jacques Derrida writes in the closing pages of Rogues, “is this inconceivable and unknowable thing, a freedom that would no longer be the power of a subject, a freedom without autonomy, a heteronomy without servitude, in short, something like a passive decision.”1 To certain readers of Derrida, this passage, coming near the end of Rogues, written some two years before he passed away, would mark the fundamental failure of his thought. “What must be thought …”: an exhortati…Read more
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46What More Is There to Say? Revisiting Agamben's Depiction of Homo SacerThe European Legacy 16 (5): 599-613. 2011.This article argues that Agamben's “paradigmatic method” leads to particular choices in his depiction of the figure of the homo sacer. Reviewing this project also suggests that there's more to history—the example given is the story of homo sacer—than Agamben's method would ever leave us to say. In other words, there are still resources in the tradition for something new, and thus there is much more left to say about its legacies.
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8The Meillassoux DictionaryEdinburgh University Press. 2014.The first dictionary dedicated to Quentin Meillassoux and the controversies surrounding his thought Perfect for philosophers just starting to read his work and for those looking to deepen their engagement, this dictionary defines all of the major terms of Meillassoux's work, prefaced by an introduction explaining his importance for the Continental philosophy scene. A-Z entries explain the influence of key figures, from Kant to Heidegger to Derrida, and define the complex terms that Meillassoux u…Read more
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Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency (review)Philosophy in Review 29 (6): 427-430. 2009.
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39Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, DeconstructionSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 14 (2): 214-218. 2010.
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2Graham Harman, Heidegger Explained: From Phenomenon to Thing Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (1): 24-26. 2008.
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41Speculative Realism: Problems and ProspectsBloomsbury Academic. 2014.Problems and Prospects Peter Gratton. uncoveredness of entities that serves as the basis for a true assertion is dependent upon dasein's understanding of being, which lets these entities manifest themselves. hence, as heidegger will say, ...
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Introduction: The miracle of imaginingIn Peter Gratton, John Panteleimon Manoussakis & Richard Kearney (eds.), Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge, Northwestern University Press. 2007.
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