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Philosophy and Freedom, Derrida, Rorty, Habermas, Foucault, coll. « Studies in Continental Thought »Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 193 (2): 262-262. 2003.
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Time in the Ditch. Analytic Philosophy and the McCarthy EraRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 193 (4): 452-453. 2003.
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1A Question Of Origin: Hegel's Privileging Of Spoken Over Written LanguageBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 47 50-60. 2003.
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7Speaking of the Speaking of Matter: Responses to Casey and SushytskaPhilosophy Today 58 (4): 745-761. 2014.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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4Contradiction and Resolution in the State: Hegel's Covert ViewClio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 15 (4): 379-390. 1986.
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44Back from Syracuse?Critical Inquiry 15 (2): 427-430. 1989.It has been claimed, out of admiration for the great thinker, that his political errors have nothing to do with his philosophy. If only we could be content with that! Wholly unnoticed was how damaging such a “defense” of so important a thinker really is. And how could it be made consistent with the fact that the same man, in the fifties, saw and said things about the industrial revolution and technology that today are still truly astonishing for their foresight?In any case: no surprise should be…Read more
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89Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy EraDiacritics 26 (1): 33-49. 1996.In _Time in the Ditch, _John McCumber explores the effect of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950s. The possibility that the political pressures of the McCarthy era might have skewed the development of the discipline has rarely been addressed in the subsequent half century. Why was silence maintained for so long? And what happens, McCumber asks, when political events and pressures go beyond interfering with individual careers to influence the nature of a discipline itself?
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8Book reviews: A Philosophical Introduction to the ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’ (review)Continental Philosophy Review 37 (3): 367-381. 2004.
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158Hegel on HabitThe Owl of Minerva 21 (2): 155-165. 1990.“Die Gewohnheit” is given as title for two paragraphs in the section of the 1830 Philosophy of Mind on “Subjective Spirit,” but the word itself occurs in only one of them. A more cursory treatment of the topic is thus formally impossible, and Hegel seems to follow what he calls the tendency, in “scientific” treatments of Spirit, either to speak condescendingly of habit or to pass it over altogether. But Hegel does not share the grounds for that tendency, which according to him are two: Either th…Read more
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65Substance and Reciprocity in HegelThe Owl of Minerva 35 (1-2): 1-24. 2003.This paper explores how an earlier stage of Hegel’s system structures later stages. Starting with the section on “substance” in the Logic, I argue that substance for Hegel is a “dialectical” or narrative structure, one whose nature is to unfold over time. In the Logic, substance unfolds into causality and reciprocity in turn. This established, I then show how this narrative structure can be found in Hegel’s treatments of three phases of objective spirit: marriage, family, and state. Objective sp…Read more
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53Hegel, Heidegger and the Ground of History (review)The Owl of Minerva 18 (1): 68-70. 1986.The question of the ground of history, according to Gillespie, is the question of what history is. German Idealism’s attempt to construe history as a source of value was the “fullest and perhaps the most profound” attempt to answer this question, and culminated in Hegel’s vindication of history as a rational process. The twentieth century, with its wars and holocausts, has made it impossible to affirm history as a rational process or a source of value, and Heidegger’s account of history as an in…Read more
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23Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 72 (5). 1999.
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Hegel and natural languageIn Angelica Nuzzo (ed.), Hegel and the Analytic Tradition, Continuum. 2009.
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6Hegel and the logics of historyIn Will Dudley (ed.), Hegel and History, State University of New York Press. pp. 69-83. 2009.
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24Review of John Russon, Reading Hegel's Phenomenology (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (6). 2005.
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23Hegel's Epistemology: A philosophical introduction to the 'phenomenology of spirit' (review)Continental Philosophy Review 37 (3): 367-381. 2004.
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45Anamnesis as Memory of Intelligibles in PlotinusArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 60 (2): 160-167. 1978.
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44A Closed Intellectual Community: The Policing of American PhilosophyStudies in Practical Philosophy 2 (2): 125-137. 2000.
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32Absolute Knowledge (review)The Owl of Minerva 16 (1): 83-86. 1984.The ultimate purpose of Alan White’s careful and detailed confrontation of Hegel with Schelling is to rehabilitate first philosophy itself. In this effort, White argues two subtheses: that first philosophy is possible as “Hegelian transcendental ontology”; and that Hegel’s thought makes sense only as “transcendental ontology.” Defending Hegel against Schelling is crucial in two senses: first, Schelling’s Hegel-critique contains, “in at least rudimentary form, all of the fundamental criticisms th…Read more
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University of California, Los AngelesEuropean Languages and Transcultural StudiesDistinguished Professor