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    "In this stunning philosophical accomplishment, McCumber sheds important new light on the history of substance metaphysics and Heidegger's challenge to metaphysical thinking.... Well-documented, brilliant, definitely a major contribution to philosophy!" —Choice In this compelling work, John McCumber unfolds a history of Western metaphysics that is also a history of the legitimation of oppression. That is, until Heidegger. But Heidegger himself did not see how his conception of metaphysics opened…Read more
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    Hegel and the French Revolution (review)
    Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 30 338-340. 1984.
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    Letters to the Editor
    with Robert Audi, Frank B. Dilley, Fred Dretske, John Lachs, Philip Quinn, and Eric Hoffman
    Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 72 (5). 1999.
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    3. Hegel and Hamann: Ideas and Life
    In John Russon & Michael Baur (eds.), Hegel and the Tradition: Essays in Honour of H.S. Harris, University of Toronto Press. pp. 77-92. 1997.
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    John McCumber asserts that the true target of philosophical liberation is to break the structures of domination that have been encoded in western civilization.
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    Reshaping Reason: Toward a New Philosophy
    Indiana University Press. 2005.
    In Reshaping Reason, John McCumber breathes new life into American philosophy. Moving past the tired divide between "analytic" and "continental" camps, he proposes new directions to unite a discipline which has become more unfocused and invisible. McCumber recommends a new set of rational tools to enable philosophers and then puts these tools to work to redefine epistemology, ontology, and ethics. Reshaping Reason explores philosophy's achievements and failures in a cold light and paves the way …Read more
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    Understanding Hegel's Mature Critique of Kant
    Stanford University Press. 2013.
    A short introduction to an endless task -- Hegel and his project -- Hegel contra Kant on philosophical critique and the limits of knowledge -- Transcendental versus linguistic idealism -- The nature and development of will -- Hegel's critique of Kant's moral theory.
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    Problems and renewal in american philosophy
    Philosophical Studies 108 (1-2). 2002.
    Time in the Ditch presents evidence that the politics of the McCarthy Era has distorted American philosophy, both institutionally and intellectually, ever since that time. It proposes a new paradigm, situating reason, which is free of those distortions. It is neither an account of the new golden age of philosophy outside philosophy departments (as Harding wishes) nor a general history of the rise of analytical philosophy (as Hollinger thinks). I defend myself against Cohen's charges of factual e…Read more
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    In this provocative work, the author asks us to understand Hegel's system as a new approach to human linguistic communication.
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    In ‘Le puits et la pyramide’, Jacques Derrida critiques the way in which Hegel privileges speech over writing atEncyclopedia§459. He traces that privileging back to Hegel's teleologically motivated view of time as the sublation of space, which he takes in turn to be motivated by Hegel's concern, as a metaphysical thinker, for validating and securing the philosophical dream of “full presence”. This, on Hegelian terms, involves subjecting the “materiality” of space to the “ideality” of time.Perhap…Read more
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    Aristotelian Catharsis and the Purgation of Woman
    Diacritics 18 (4): 53. 1988.
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    Review of Allen W. Wood: Hegel’s Ethical Thought (review)
    Ethics 102 (2): 408-409. 1992.
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    The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection
    with Rodolphe Gasche
    Philosophical Review 100 (2): 300. 1991.
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    Book reviews: A Philosophical Introduction to the ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’ (review)
    Continental Philosophy Review 37 (3): 367-381. 2004.
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    Sound—Tone—Word
    Proceedings of the Hegel Society of America 17 111-125. 2006.
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    Hegel, “China” and Imihigo
    Journal of Chinese Philosophy 45 (1-2): 38-51. 2018.
    Hegel’s account of China, based mainly on the reports of European travelers and missionaries, is hardly trustworthy. Attention to it, however, can illuminate Hegel’s own critical practices. Displacing his claims about China onto the imaginary nation of “Baffinland,” I argue that Hegel’s critical standards derive from the basic nature of his thought, which requires that a good society be one that not merely tolerates but encourages the full development of human diversity. As an example of how thi…Read more
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    The present article responds to the points raised by Edward S. Casey and Julia Sushytska in this issue concerning the nature of the speaking of matter and that of its metaphysical complement,. It fills in several dimensions of those concepts which were omitted from my because of its specific focus on philosophy itself. Among the topics discussed are the way the abstract structure of comes to function concretely on society ; how the speaking of human matter relates to other kinds; the “temporocen…Read more
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    Review of Allen W. Wood: Hegel’s Ethical Thought (review)
    Ethics 102 (2): 408-409. 1992.
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    This fascinating study reveals the extensive influence of Cold War politics on academia, philosophical inquiry, and the course of intellectual history. From the rise of popular novels that championed the heroism of the individual to the proliferation of abstract art as a counter to socialist realism, the years of the Cold War had a profound impact on American intellectual life. As John McCumber shows in this fascinating account, philosophy, too, was hit hard by the Red Scare. Detailing the immen…Read more
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    Hegel's Anarchistic Utopia: The Politics of His Aesthetics
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 22 (2): 203-210. 2010.
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    Book reviews (review)
    with John T. Wilcox
    Man and World 20 (2): 221-240. 1987.
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    [Book review][beyond liberalism and communitarianism] (review)
    Ethics 114 (1): 211-212. 2003.
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    Review of Richard Lynch, Foucault’s Critical Ethics (review)
    Philosophy Today 64 (4): 949-955. 2020.
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    On Philosophy: Notes From a Crisis
    Stanford University Press. 2013.
    Deepening divisions separate today's philosophers, first, from the culture at large; then, from each other; and finally, from philosophy itself. Though these divisions tend to coalesce publicly as debates over the Enlightenment, their roots lie much deeper. Overcoming them thus requires a confrontation with the whole of Western philosophy. Only when we uncover the strange heritage of Aristotle's metaphysics, as reworked, for example, by Descartes and Kant, can we understand contemporary philosop…Read more
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    Contradiction and Resolution in the State: Hegel's Covert View
    Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 15 (4): 379-390. 1986.