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18Who is Schelling’s Bruno?Rivista di Estetica 74 181-190. 2020.Schelling argued that early modern science had discarded the ancient teaching of matter – the world soul (die Weltseele or anima mundi, the unity of soul and body, eternity and time, absolute possibility and existence) – «into the common grave they dug for nature and have brought about the death of all science». In order to put science on a more philosophical tract, Schelling retrieved the work of Giordano Bruno as part of his «handful» of thinkers who in a contemporary context appear on the bor…Read more
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25Taking Turns with Fritsch: On Intergenerational Time and SpaceEtica & Politica / Ethics & Politics. forthcoming.This is an appreciative examination of Matthias Fritsch’s significant new book, Taking Turns with the Earth: Phenomenology, Deconstruction, and Intergenerational Justice (Stanford, 2018). After analyzing the temporal axis of Fritsch’s intervention into the question of intergenerational justice in the context of the ecological crisis, I extend it to a complementary spatial analysis by following some of the book’s important cues. I develop this in terms of some recent North American Indigenous phi…Read more
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5Nelson, Eric S., Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought: London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2017, v + 343 pagesDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 18 (4): 647-650. 2019.
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11Nelson, Eric S., Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought: London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2017, v + 343 pagesDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 18 (4): 647-650. 2019.
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16Dōgen and Continental PhilosophyResearch in Phenomenology 49 (3): 287-300. 2019.Continental philosophy, beginning with Kant, has found itself exposed to the abyss of reason. This crisis makes it a more ready dialogue partner with some of the Zen tradition. I explore this opening by bringing Eihei Dōgen into an encounter with Continental thought, broadly construed. Rather than demonstrate how Dōgen already fits within Continental thought or re-engineering the latter so that he can fit, I argue that this encounter, already precipitated by Continental philosophy’s own acknowle…Read more
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When Washing Rice, Know That the Water Is Your Own Life: An Essay on Dōgen in the Age of Fast FoodIn Marjolein Oele & Gerard Kuperus (eds.), Ontologies of Nature: Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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27Traversing the Heart: Journeys of the Inter-religious Imagination, edited by Richard Kearney and Eileen Rizo-Patron, Brill (review)Comparative and Continental Philosophy 3 (1): 128-132. 2011.
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14The Use and Abuse of Philosophy for Life: Notes on McCumber’s On Philosophy: Notes from a CrisisComparative and Continental Philosophy 6 (2): 196-202. 2014.John McCumber’s new book takes up the current professional crisis in the discipline of philosophy and traces it back to a series of fateful philosophical distinctions that have resulted in an oppressively substantialist disposition and, in so doing, have rendered philosophy pernicious. When humankind thrives, philosophy wanes, but when philosophy thrives, humankind generally wanes. In reviewing McCumber’s timely and important work, I also reflect on philosophy’s current crisis of relevance, both…Read more
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13On the True Sense of Art: A Critical Companion to the Transfigurements of John Sallis (edited book)Nothwestern University Press. 2016.On the True Sense of Art collects essays by philosophers responding to John Sallis's Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art as well as his other works on the philosophy of art, including Force of Imagination and Logic of Imagination. Each of the chapters, by some of the leading thinkers in Continental philosophy, engages Sallis's work on both ancient and new senses of aesthetics--a transfiguration of aesthetics--as a beginning that is always beginning again. With a responsive essay by Sallis…Read more
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17Kitarō Nishida in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts: Mit Texten Nishidas in deutscher Übersetzung (review)Comparative and Continental Philosophy 9 (2): 195-197. 2017.
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88Dōgen and the Unknown KnownsEnvironmental Philosophy 10 (1): 39-61. 2013.Thinkers like Slavoj Žižek and Tim Morton have heralded the end of our ideological constructions of nature, warning that popular “ecology” or the “natural” is just the latest opiate of the masses. Attempting to think what I call Nature after Nature, I turn to the Kamakura period Zen master Dōgen Eihei (1200–1253) to explore the possibilities of thinking Nature in its non-ideological self-presentation or what Dōgen called “mountains and rivers (sansui).” I bring Dōgen into dialogue with his great…Read more
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26Nietzsche’s JoyEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (1): 117-139. 2005.This essay is devoted to an examination of the relationship between truth and laughter in the works of Nietzsche. My central text shall be the much malignedbook four of Zarathustra, with special attention paid to the braying of the ass. Laughter has been traditionally considered irrelevent to serious philosophical content and, at best, a stylistic quirk. I argue that this stems from a basic predjudice that is constitutive of a large part of the Western tradition, namely, the confusion of working…Read more
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30Kelly Oliver, Earth & World: Philosophy after the Apollo MissionsSocial Theory and Practice 43 (1): 209-213. 2017.
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10Interpreting Schelling: Critical Essays ed. by Lara OstaricJournal of the History of Philosophy 54 (4): 684-685. 2016.As a sign that interest in Schelling is growing beyond its initial reception within more continentally inflected studies, Lara Osteric has collected eleven generally impressive essays that are organized around the chronological development of Schelling’s thinking, and that reassess his place in the history of philosophy.Eric Watkins enters the debate around the decisive influences on Schelling’s early thinking. Conceding the well-known influences of Hölderlin, Fichte, Jacobi, and the Pantheismus…Read more
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39David Pollard and PhilosophyResearch in Phenomenology 46 (1): 117-134. 2016._ Source: _Volume 46, Issue 1, pp 117 - 134 This essay attends to both the critical and poetic work of David Pollard. In so doing, it not only engages the works themselves, but also allows the contours of such an engagement to manifest themselves, both with regards to the works at hand and more broadly. What does reading and thinking with Pollard give us to experience about reading and thinking as such?
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24Painting Mountains and Rivers: Gary Snyder, Dōgen, and the Elemental Sutra of the WildResearch in Phenomenology 44 (2): 240-261. 2014.In this essay I hope to make some new contributions to the philosophical opening occasioned by John Sallis’ articulation of an “elementology” more broadly and by his turn to Guo Xi’s exquisite Song Dynasty shan-shui scroll painting, Early Spring more particularly. I do so by bringing the remarkable writings by the American poet and thinker Gary Snyder, especially in relationship to his reading of the great Kamakura Zen Master Eihei Dōgen, directly into the fray of contemporary Continental discou…Read more
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10Schelling's Practice of the Wild: Time, Art, ImaginationState University of New York Press. 2015._Reconsiders the contemporary relevance of Schelling’s radical philosophical and religious ecology._
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4The Ages of the World (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2000._A new English translation of Schelling’s unfinished magnum opus, complete with a contextualizing introduction by the translator._
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43Schelling Now: Contemporary Readings (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2004.These 14 essays bring Schelling in tune with such luminaries as Heidegger, Derrida, Bataille, Foucault, Deleuze, Levinas, and Irigaray and situate him squarely in the centre of current themes.
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Kyriaki Goudeli, Challenges to German Idealism: Schelling, Fichte and Kant Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (3): 181-183. 2004.
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23The Barbarian Principle: Merleau-Ponty, Schelling, and the Question of Nature (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2013.Essays exploring a rich intersection between phenomenology and idealism with contemporary relevance
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23Historical-Critical Introduction to the Philosophy of MythologyState University of New York Press. 2007.Appearing in English for the first time, Schelling’s 1842 lectures develop the idea that many philosophical concepts are born of religious-mythological notions