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504Alterity in Merleau-Ponty’s Prose of the WorldEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (2): 425-442. 2012.I argue in this paper that Maurice Merleau-Ponty provides a compelling account of alterity in The Prose of the World. I begin by tracing this account of alterity back to its roots in Phenomenology of Perception. I then show how the dynamic of expression articulated in The Prose of the World overcomes the limitations of the account given in the earlier work. After addressing an objection to the effect that the account given in The Prose of the World fails for the same reason as the one given in P…Read more
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249Democratic Inheritance and the Problem of Normativity: A Review Essay of Samir Haddad’s Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy (review)SCTIW Review 11 (1): 1-6. 2014.
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387Moral Dilemma and Moral Sense A Phenomenological AccountJournal of Speculative Philosophy 29 (2): 218-235. 2015.In this paper I argue that a phenomenological account of moral sense-bestowal can provide valuable insight into the possibility of moral dilemmas. I propose an account of moral sense-bestowal that is grounded in the phenomenology of expression that Maurice Merleau-Ponty developed throughout the course of his philosophical work, and most explicitly in the period immediately following the publication of Phenomenology of Perception. Based on this Merleau-Pontian account of moral sense-bestowal, I d…Read more
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