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25Historical-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
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18The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His TimeState University of New York Press. 2003.Puts Schelling in conversation with twentieth-century continental philosophy
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5The Prospect Of Mortality: Buddhist And Heideggerian Critical Reflections On EttingerIn Charles Tandy & Scott R. Stroud (eds.), The philosophy of Robert Ettinger, Universal Publishers. pp. 219. 2002.
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58The Return of the Repressed: Schelling, Kierkegaard, and Nachtraglichkeit in the Legacy of German IdealismResearch in Phenomenology 41 (1): 134-147. 2011.
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24Søren Kierkegaard and the Common Man (review)Review of Metaphysics 57 (2): 387-389. 2003.Jørgen Bukdhal’s study is a quietly moving and deceptively simple corrective to Kierkegaard’s reception. First published in Danish in 1961, it dispels the image of a lonely, angst-ridden individual, hopelessly mired in interiority and oblivious to concrete social ills. By deftly and eruditely elucidating the problematics of his time and by following the full expanse of his philosophical career, Bukdahl’s Kierkegaard comes closer to someone like Levinas. For “what matters is to exist for the sake…Read more
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57Nietzsche’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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21Review of Alison Ross, The Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy: Presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (5). 2008.
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29The varieties of sick experience: Nietzsche, James, and the art of healthVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 54 (1): 101-112. 2009.The essay seeks to bring William James into dialogue with Friedrich Nietzsche around the issue of the nature of sickness, and its overcoming or convalescence. It is, at first glance, folly to reconcile religious rebirth with the convalescence that led Nietzsche to the “great health.” To try and see beyond this folly, we will consider carefully the site in which health emerges for both thinkers. This discussion is further motivated by an interest in the prospects for religion after the death of G…Read more
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50Schelling’s Contemporary Resurgence: The Dawn after the Night When All Cows Were Black (review)Philosophy Compass 6 (9): 585-598. 2011.After a long period of neglect that began in his lifetime, why has Schelling reemerged as an important philosopher, germane to contemporary concerns? In the first part of this essay I offer a brief history of Schelling’s early descent into obscurity and gradual ascent back into the light of philosophical relevance. In the second and final part of the essay, I offer a brief survey of the current Schelling resurgence in the English speaking reception of Continental philosophy.
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The bottom of my soul has such depth that neither joy nor the waves of sorrow can reach it : an introduction to the Kyoto SchoolIn David Edward Jones & Ellen R. Klein (eds.), Asian texts, Asian contexts: encounters with Asian philosophies and religions, State University of New York Press. 2010.
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21MitwissenschaftEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (2): 215-232. 2004.This essay seeks to explicate the ethical dimension of Schelling’s project. Schelling complicates the theory/praxis distinction by arguing that these two modalities are different sides of the same movement in thinking. I attempt to establish this by first examining Schelling’s early essay, Neue Deduktion des Naturrechts, and then by turning to his celebrated Freedom essay. Although I chiefl y examine an early work and then a work from his middle period, I contend that the ethical dimension gover…Read more
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27MitwissenschaftEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (2): 215-232. 2004.This essay seeks to explicate the ethical dimension of Schelling’s project. Schelling complicates the theory/praxis distinction by arguing that these two modalities are different sides of the same movement in thinking. I attempt to establish this by first examining Schelling’s early essay, Neue Deduktion des Naturrechts, and then by turning to his celebrated Freedom essay. Although I chiefl y examine an early work and then a work from his middle period, I contend that the ethical dimension gover…Read more
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4Hegel, G.W.F., Hegel on Hamann, translated from the German and with an introduction by Lisa Marie Anderson (review)Comparative and Continental Philosophy 1 (1): 145-149. 2009.
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16Hegel, G.W.F., Hegel on Hamann, translated from the German and with an introduction by Lisa Marie AndersonComparative and Continental Philosophy 1 (1): 145-149. 2009.
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54Animal desiring: Nietzsche, Bataille, and a world without imageResearch in Phenomenology 31 (1): 96-112. 2001.This paper addresses the question of the earth. I center this effort on a reading of the figure of animality in the writings of Nietzsche and Bataille. I begin by accepting one of the decisive questions (die Entscheidungen) that Heidegger poses in the Beiträge zur Philosophie: "Whether nature is degraded to the exploitative place of calculation and furnishing and to an opportunity to 'have an experience' or whether nature as the self-closing Earth bears the opening of a world without image." In …Read more