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20The Meaning of Life between Time and EternitySymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 25 (2): 4-16. 2021.This paper explores the question of the meaning of life, not only from the perspective of its temporal unfolding from birth to death but also from the perspective of its own particular meaning and its final cause, to use Aristotelian categories. In order to discuss this argument I refer myself to Edith Stein to show how crucial moments of her own life give rise to important and de????ining philosophical positions that touch upon questions of personal identity, social and communal relations, and …Read more
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20Metaphor in Context (review)Review of Metaphysics 55 (1): 162-163. 2001.Engaging contemporary notions of metaphor and drawing on his past work on the subject, Josef Stern presents a theory of metaphor which is based both on context and semantics. Over the past two decades philosophers of language, linguists, and cognitive scientists have generally believed that metaphor is external to the general conceptions of semantics and grammar. Moreover, metaphor is understood in its pragmatic sense, that is, as having its nature defined by its employment and various uses in l…Read more
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20John Dewey and Continental Philosophy (edited book)Southern Illinois University Press. 2010._John Dewey and Continental Philosophy_ provides a rich sampling of exchanges that could have taken place long ago between the traditions of American pragmatism and continental philosophy had the lines of communication been more open between Dewey and his European contemporaries. Since they were not, Paul Fairfield and thirteen of his colleagues seek to remedy the situation by bringing the philosophy of Dewey into conversation with several currents in continental philosophical thought, from post…Read more
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20Metaphor in Context (review)Review of Metaphysics 55 (1): 162-164. 2001.Engaging contemporary notions of metaphor and drawing on his past work on the subject, Josef Stern presents a theory of metaphor which is based both on context and semantics. Over the past two decades philosophers of language, linguists, and cognitive scientists have generally believed that metaphor is external to the general conceptions of semantics and grammar. Moreover, metaphor is understood in its pragmatic sense, that is, as having its nature defined by its employment and various uses in l…Read more
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19Human Being: A Philosophical Anthropology (edited book)University of Missouri. 2009.What is “human being”? In this book, Thomas Langan draws on a lifetime of study to offer a new understanding of this central question of our existence, turning to phenomenology and philosophical anthropology to help us better understand who we are as individuals and communities and what makes us act the way we do. While recognizing the human being as an individual with a particular genetic makeup and history, Langan also probes the real essence of human being that philosophers have tended to ign…Read more
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18Die Fülle oder das Nichts? Edith Stein and Martin Heidegger on the Question of BeingAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 74 (2): 269-285. 2000.
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17Voyous: Deux essais sur la raison (review)Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 14 (1): 94-98. 2004.
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17Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze/Guattari and the Arts. Jim Vernon, Steve G. Lofts. Lofts (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield International. 2014.A rich collection of critical essays, authored by philosophers and practicing artists, examining Deleuze and Guattari's engagement with a broad range of art forms.
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17Authentic Freedom and HappinessSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 25 (2): 67-74. 2021.This article seeks to advance a way of being in the world of the hu-man person that encompasses both the truest sense of freedom of choice and its result, namely, happiness. Starting from the proposal of a relational ethics in Stein I intend to show how, in the authentic relationship through Einfühlung, it is possible to arrive at the “revelation” of what is deeper in ourselves, i.e., the personal core that characterizes us as unique and unrepeatable entities. The growth and development of our …Read more
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15The Ethics of Writing, by Carlo Sini, translated by Silvia Benso with Brian SchroederComparative and Continental Philosophy 2 (2): 301-310. 2010.
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15God and the Caducity of BeingThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 36 36-41. 1998.Jean-Luc Marion claims that God must no longer be thought of in terms of the traditional metaphysical category of Being, for that reduces God to an all too human concept which he calls "Dieu." God must be conceived outside of the ontological difference and outside of the question of Being itself. Marion urges us to think of God as love. We wish to challenge Marion’s claim of the necessity to move au-delà de l’être by arguing that Marion presents a very limited understanding of Being: he interpre…Read more
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15Abolishing Time and History: Lazarus and the Possibility of Thinking Political Events outside TimeJournal of French Philosophy 17 (2): 13-36. 2007.none
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14Restless Mind:Curiositasand the Scope of Inquiry in St. Augustine's Psychology. By Joseph Torchia, O. P., Milwaukee, Marquette University Press, 2013, $29.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 57 (2): 386-387. 2016.
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14Gerda Walther’s Phenomenology of Sociality, Psychology, and Religion (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2018.This book explores the philosophical writings of Gerda Walther. It features essays that recover large parts of Walther’s oeuvre in order to show her contribution to phenomenology and philosophy. In addition, the volume contains English translations of her key work. The essays consider the interdisciplinary implications of Gerda Walther’s ideas for sociology, political science, psychology, women’s and gender studies, and religious studies. A student of Edmund Husserl, Edith Stein, and Alexander P…Read more
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13Edith Stein and Gerda Walther: The Role of Empathy in Experiencing CommunityIn Sebastian Luft & Ruth Hagengruber (eds.), Women Phenomenologists on Social Ontology: We-Experiences, Communal Life, and Joint Action, Springer Verlag. pp. 3-18. 2018.Gerda Walther[aut] Walther, Gerda has no developed account of empathyEmpathy; rather, she draws from the writings of early phenomenologists and psychologists on empathy. Generally, for Walther[aut]Walther, Gerda, empathy is an act of mind that permits the understanding of another’s consciousnessConsciousness and experienceExperience. Edith Stein[aut]Edith Stein, in many respects, lays the ground for a phenomenological account of empathy. Stein[aut]Stein, Edith’s treatment of intersubjectivityInt…Read more
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13Review of Eugene W. Holland, Daniel W. Smith, Charles J. stivale (eds.), Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (6). 2010.
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12Gerda Walther and the Possibility of a Non-intentional We of CommunityIn Gerda Walther’s Phenomenology of Sociality, Psychology, and Religion, Springer Verlag. pp. 57-70. 2018.Gerda Walther identifies the possibility of we-communities that are non-intentional and have no intentional object. What is expressed, shared, communicated, and understood between lovers need not necessarily manifest itself in an objective, social, or communal form, as is the case, for example, in a political party. I argue that this non-intentional we can be experienced at the level of habit or affect, a level that is lived but which is not fully grasped in terms of the consciousness of meaning…Read more
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12Moral Emotions: Reclaiming the Evidence of the Heart. By Anthony J. Steinbock. Pp. xii, 341, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2014, $89.95/$34.95 (review)Heythrop Journal 59 (4): 755-756. 2018.
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12Phenomenology and PsychologySymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 25 (2): 17-30. 2021.Edith Stein came to phenomenology after beginning her university studies in psychology. She struggled with the inability of psychology to justify and delineate its founding principles. She found in Edmund Husserl, though his sustained criticisms of psychologism, the possibility of a phenomenological ground for psychology. This article demonstrates how Stein, drawing from but also distancing herself from Husserl, justifies the possibility of a phenomenological psychology framed within a personali…Read more
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11Open borders: encounters between Italian philosophy and continental thought (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2021.Puts leading Italian thinkers into conversation with established Continental philosophers concerning the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.
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11Rethinking interiority: phenomenological approaches (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2023.A philosophical investigation of the concept of interiority, presenting readers with its unmined aspects and senses.
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11Thinking Community and the State from WithinAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82 (1): 31-45. 2008.Stein describes the peculiar mental life of the community as a Gemeinschaftserlebnis or lived experience of the community. Such an experience is marked by a certain form of consciousness insofar as one knows that one is dwelling with and for the other (miteinander und füreinander) at varying degrees of intensity.Furthermore, one experiences solidarity as one dwells within the experience of the other and vice versa. Two central problems arise with this phenomenologicaldescription. First, one wond…Read more
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11Gerda Walther and the Possibility of Telepathy as an Act of Personal Social MindSymposium 26 (1): 62-75. 2022.The phenomenologist Gerda Walther posits the possibility of a new social act, which she terms telepathy. It is marked by an intimate in-terpersonal union in which ego and alter ego become capable of sharing in the identical lived experience, though distant from one another. Here, there is no fusion or collective identi????ication; rather, in-dividuals, though they live the experience and mind of the other, never lose or transcend their own individuation. Unlike the act of empathy, there is no an…Read more
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10Interface: Modernity and Post-Modernity: The Possibility of Enthusiasm According to Immanuel Kant and Jean-Frangois LyotardPhilosophy Today 39 (4): 358-370. 1995.