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13Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, WorldLexington Books. 2021.This original, contemporary synthesis between phenomenology and Marx’s late work begins from Edmund Husserl’s The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology to chart a new program for Socratic phenomenology in the current confrontation between planetary technology and place-based Indigeneity.
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12From ideology-critique to epochal criticismArgumentation 9 (1): 33-57. 1995.It is a danger in the discursive turn in the human sciences that social criticism be abandoned in favour of ‘continuing the conversation.’ However, an analysis of the reflexive paradox inherent in every communication act provides the basis for a non-foundationalist critique of the historical epoch
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10Logic of Subsumption, Logic of Invention, and Workplace Democracy: Marx, Marcuse, and SimondonPhilosophy and Technology 32 (4): 613-625. 2019.Through a comparison of the logic of socio-economic and technical development in Marx with the logic of technical invention in Simondon, I argue the thesis that worker’s democracy is the forgotten political form that offers a viable alternative to both capitalism and Soviet-style Communism, the dominant political régimes of the Cold War period that have not yet been surpassed. Marx’s detailed account of the capitalist technical logic from handwork through manufacture to industry is a logic of co…Read more
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8The Critical Turn: Rhetoric & Philosophy in Postmodern Discourse (edited book)Southern Illinois University Press. 1992.Concerned with criticizing representational theories of knowledge by developing alternative concepts of knowing and communicating, Ian Angus and Lenore Langsdorf bring together eight essays that are united by a common theme: the convergence of philosophy and rhetoric. In the first chapter, Angus and Langsdorf illustrate the centrality of critical reasoning to the nature of questioning itself, arguing that human inquiry has entered a "new situation" where "the convictions and orientations that ha…Read more
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8Crossing borders: essays in honour of Ian H. Angus (edited book)ARP Books. 2020.Crossing Borders: Essays In Honour of Ian H. Angus is a collection of original and cutting-edge essays by eighteen outstanding and diverse Canadian and International scholars that engage with Professor Ian Angus's rich contributions to three distinct, albeit overlapping, fields: Canadian Studies, Phenomenology and Critical Theory, and Communication and Media Studies. These contributions are distinct, unique, and have had resonance across the intellectual landscape over the thirty years that Angu…Read more
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7Dreams in the Psychology of ReligionLewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press. 1987.This is an in-depth study of the Canadian philosopher George Grant's intellectual development and his contribution to understanding the philosophical and political implications of contemporary technology.
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62. Locality and UniversalizationIn Identity and Justice, University of Toronto Press. pp. 13-36. 2008.
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44. The Principle of AssociationIn Identity and Justice, University of Toronto Press. pp. 63-88. 2008.
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43. Critique of Empire from Identity and JusticeIn Identity and Justice, University of Toronto Press. pp. 37-62. 2008.
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4Chapter One. The Intercultural Horizon of Contemporary UnderstandingIn Ming Xie (ed.), The Agon of Interpretations: Towards a Critical Intercultural Hermeneutics, University of Toronto Press. pp. 23-42. 2014.A critique of the application of hermeneutic methods to intercultural understanding and a defence of phenomenological methods.
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3Proposes a new theory of communication called "comparative media theory."
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2Bodies of Meaning (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 9 (1): 142-145. 2005.
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2Technique and Enlightenment: Limits of Instrumental Reason in the Life-WorldDissertation, York University (Canada). 1980.The present work develops the concept of instrumental reason in order to elaborate the implications of the connection of formalistic theory and technical action. Through a critique of this concept it establishes the limitations of instrumental reason and the necessity for a deeper conception o
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2Footnoes to Identity and JusticeIn Identity and Justice, University of Toronto Press. pp. 93-102. 2008.
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1Index to Identity and JusticeIn Identity and Justice, University of Toronto Press. pp. 103-105. 2008.
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1Dominique Janicaud, On the Human Condition Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 26 (4): 263-265. 2006.
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Inception of culture from the ontology of labour : the original contribution of Karel Kosík to a Marxian theory of cultureIn Joseph Grim Feinberg, Ivan Landa & Jan Mervart (eds.), Karel Kosík and the Dialectics of the concrete, Brill. 2021.
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