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70Towards a Critical Philosophy of Science: Continental Beginnings and Bugbears, Whigs, and WaterbearsInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24 (4): 343-391. 2010.Continental philosophy of science has developed alongside mainstream analytic philosophy of science. But where continental approaches are inclusive, analytic philosophies of science are not–excluding not merely Nietzsche’s philosophy of science but Gödel’s philosophy of physics. As a radicalization of Kant, Nietzsche’s critical philosophy of science puts science in question and Nietzsche’s critique of the methodological foundations of classical philology bears on science, particularly evolution …Read more
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Greek Bronze: On Sculptures, Mirrors, and LifeYearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 1-30. 2006.
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41Nietzsche's Chaos Sive Natura: Evening Gold and the Dancing StarRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 57 (2): 225-245. 2001.Nietzsche's creative and fundamental account of chaos in both its cosmic, universal as well as its humane context, recalls the ancient Greek meaning of chaos rather than its modern, disordered, decadent significance. In this generatively primordial sense, chaos corresponds not to the watery nothingness of Semitic myth or modern, scientific entropy but creative, uncountenancedly abundant potency. And in such an archaic sense, Nietzsche's chaos is a word for both nature and art. Nietzsche's creati…Read more
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85Calling Science Pseudoscience: Fleck's Archaeologies of Fact and Latour's ‘Biography of an Investigation’ in AIDS Denialism and HomeopathyInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29 (1): 1-39. 2015.Fleck's Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact foregrounds claims traditionally excluded from reception, often regarded as opposed to fact, scientific claims that are increasingly seldom discussed in connection with philosophy of science save as examples of pseudoscience. I am especially concerned with scientists who question the epidemiological link between HIV and AIDS and who are thereby discounted—no matter their credentials, no matter the cogency of their arguments, no matter the sobr…Read more
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283Nietzsche and Eros between the devil and God's deep blue sea: The problem of the artist as actor-jew-womanContinental Philosophy Review 33 (2): 159-188. 2000.In a single aphorism in The Gay Science, Nietzsche arrays “The Problem of the Artist” in a reticulated constellation. Addressing every member of the excluded grouping of disenfranchised “others,” Nietzsche turns to the destitution of a god of love keyed to the selfturning absorption of the human heart. His ultimate and irrecusably tragic project to restore the innocence of becoming requires the affirmation of the problem of suffering as the task of learning how to love. Nietzsche sees the eros o…Read more
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14Between Hölderlin and Heidegger: Nietzsche's transfiguration of philosophyNietzsche Studien 29 (1): 267-301. 2000.
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6For both continental and analytic styles of philosophy, the thought of Martin Heidegger must be counted as one of the most important influences in contemporary philosophy. In this book, essays by internationally noted scholars, ranging from David B. Allison to Slavoj Zizek, honour the interpretive contributions of William J. Richardson's pathbreaking Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought. The essays move from traditional phenomenology to the idea of essential (another) thinking, the questi…Read more
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35Nietzsche—Ancient Philology, Ancient Philosophy, and the Classical TraditionNew Nietzsche Studies 4 (1-2): 171-191. 2000.
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82Heidegger on technology and Gelassenheit: wabi-sabi and the art of VerfallenheitAI and Society 32 (2): 157-166. 2017.
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19The Essence of Questioning After Technology: Tϵχνή as Constraint and the Saving PowerJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 30 (1): 106-125. 1999.
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14Genius Loci - Lo spazio scolpito e il mistero di Nietzsche, Lou e il Sacro MonteRivista di Estetica 53 235-262. 2013.This essay explores Nietzsche’s visit to Orta, including his visit with Lou von Salomé to Sacro Monte. Yet there are two Sacri Monti, one at Orta and one, some distance away, at Varallo. Lou reports that Nietzsche described this visit as the «most charming dream» [entzückendsten Traum] of his life and scholars have concluded that this dream refers to Nietzsche’s erotic moment – just a kiss – with Lou. This essay argues for a hermeneutico-phenomenological consideration of the locus itself: featur…Read more
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65Nietzsche’s Imperative as a Friend’s Encomium: On Becoming the One You Are, Ethics, and BlessingNietzsche Studien 32 (1): 29-58. 2003.you ought to - you should - become the one you are -, such a command opposes the strictures of Kant ’s practical imperatives, offering an assertion that seems to encourage us as what we are. As David B. Allison stresses in his book, Nietzsche’s is a voice that addresses us as a friend would: “like a friend who seems to share your every concern - and your aversions and suspicions as well. Like a true friend, he rarely tells you what you ought to do.”
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Reflections on greek bronze and «the statue of humanity»: Heidegger’s aesthetic phenomenology and nietzsche’s agonistic politicsExistentia 17 (5-6): 423-472. 2007.
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20From Nietzsche's artist to Heidegger's world: The post-aesthetic perspective (review)Man and World 22 (1): 3-23. 1989.
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26Politics and Heidegger: Aristotle, Superman, and ŽižekTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2012 (161): 141-161. 2012.Excerpt“Philosophy is metaphysics”1—so Heidegger reminds us and goes on to explain what metaphysics does. As we recall his 1929 inaugural lecture, “What is Metaphysics?” the project of questioning/defining metaphysics is one he undertakes throughout his life, so that as we read in 1964: “Metaphysics thinks beings as a whole—the world, man, God—with respect to Being, with respect to the belonging together of beings in Being.”2 In addition to Descartes, and hence with implicit reference to Husserl…Read more
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13By now it is clear that the word postmodern has a settled into an insurmountable usage in the field of architecture and this in addition to its continuing currency for art critics and theorists, social analysts, and political and literary theorists, not to mention journalists and philosophers. Nevertheless no one less influential for the real or built presence of postmodernism than Charles Jencks could complain that with respect to architecture, critics apply the term as a kind of catchall, so tha…Read more
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23Nietzsche’s imperative call, Werde, der Du bist - Become the one you are - is, to say the least, an odd sort of imperative: dissonant and yet intrinsically inspiring. Thus Alexander Nehamas in an essay on this very theme names it the “most haunting of Nietzsche’s haunting aphorisms.” 1 Expressed as it is in The Gay Science, “Du sollst der werden, der du bist” (GS 270, KSA 3, p. 519) - Thou shalt -.
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29Adorno’s radio phenomenologyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 40 (10): 957-996. 2014.Adorno’s phenomenological study of radio offers a sociology of music in a political and cultural context. Situating that phenomenology in the context of Adorno’s philosophical background and the world political circumstances of Adorno’s collaboration with Paul Lazarsfeld on the Princeton Radio Project, illuminates both Adorno’s Current of Music and the Dialectic of Enlightenment with Max Horkheimer and the ‘Culture Industry’. Together with an analysis of popular music in social practice/culture,…Read more
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98Words in Blood, Like Flowers: Philosophy and Poetry, Music and Eros in Holderlin, Nietzsche, and HeideggerState University of New York Press. 2006._A philosophical exploration of the power that poetry, music, and the erotic have on us._
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64in Charles Scott and Arleen Dallery, eds., Ethics and Danger: Currents in Continental Thought. Albany. State University of New York Press. 1992. Pp. 83-106
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24In what follows I offer a parodic brief against analytic style philosophy just as it is that style characteristic of professional philosophy of science. I discuss the ad hoc resilience and sophisticated disdain variously operative in analytic discourse, including reviews of the maverick rhetoricism of the late Paul Feyerabend and others towards a critique of the postmodern condition in science and philosophy. What I name continental style philosophical thinking primarily regards the historical a…Read more
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