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7Scholarship in Heideggerian philosophy can be broadly differentiated into three groups, which evolved in the European and Anglo-American discourses after WWII, namely, first a transcendental (idealist Kantian) approach; second, an Aristotelian approach; and third, a Christian approach to Heidegger’s analytic of Dasein and his fundamental ontology. All of these basic positions are a result of Heidegger’s philosophy on his way to Being and Time (1927) which he developed both in his broad ranging a…Read more
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9From affectivity to subjectivity: Husserl's phenomenology revisitedPalgrave-Macmillan. 2007.Christian Lotz shows in this book that Husserl's Phenomenology and its key concept--subjectivity--is based on a concrete anthropological structure, such as self-affection and the bodily experience of the other. The analysis of the sensual sphere and the lived Body forces Husserl to an ongoing correction of his strong methodological assumptions. Subjectivity turns out to be an ambivalent phenomenon, as the subject is unable to fully present itself to itself, and therefore is forced to allow for a…Read more
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23XVIII. Deutscher Kongreß für Philosophie "Die Zukunft des Wissens" 4.-8.10.1999 an der Universität KonstanzZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 54 (1). 2000.
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77The events of morality and forgiveness: From Kant to DerridaResearch in Phenomenology 36 (1): 255-273. 2006.In this paper, I will perform a "step back" by showing how Derrida's analysis of forgiveness is rooted in Kantian moral philosophy and in Derrida's interpretation of Kierkegaard's concept of decision. This will require a discussion of the distinction that Kant draws in his Groundwork between price (the economic) and dignity (the incomparable), as well as a discussion of the underlying notion of singularity in Kant's text. In addition, Derrida universalizes Kierkegaard's concept of the agent so t…Read more
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21Ding und Verdinglichung: Technik- und Sozialphilosophie nach Heidegger und der Kritischen Theorie (edited book)Wilhelm Fink. 2012.
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Selbstgefühl: Eine historisch-systematische Erkundung (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 58 (2). 2004.
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2Faith, Freedom, Conscience. Luther, Fichte, and the Principle of InwardnessIn Jennifer Hockenbery (ed.), The Devil's Whore: Reason and Philosophy in the Lutheran Tradition, Fortress Press. pp. 95-101. 2011.
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65Poetry as anti-discourse: formalism, hermeneutics, and the poetics of Paul Celan (review)Continental Philosophy Review 44 (4): 491-510. 2011.I argue from a hermeneutic point of view that formal elements of poetry can only be identified because poetry is based on both the phenomenon and the conception of poetry, both of which precede the attempt to identify formal elements as the defining moment of poetry. Furthermore, I argue with Gadamer that poetry is based on a rupture with and an epoche of our non-poetic use of language in such a way that it liberates “fixed” universal aspects of everyday language, and that through establishing i…Read more
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22Joona Taipale, Phenomenology and Embodiment: Husserl and the Constitution of Subjectivity: Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2014, 243 pp, ISBN 978-0810129504, US-$ 35.95 , US-$ 79.95 (review)Husserl Studies 31 (2): 183-188. 2015.Phenomenology and Embodiment. Husserl and the Constitution of Subjectivity is a surprising study, given that much has been written during the last decades on phenomenology and embodiment. Although its author, Joona Taipale, does not offer revolutionarily new insights into Husserl’s phenomenology , the book is an outstanding contribution to phenomenology in general, and to Husserlian phenomenology in particular. For although it covers a broad range of topics within the area of a phenomenology of …Read more
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111The Return of Abstract Universalism. A Critique of David Graeber’s Concept of Society and CommunismRadical Philosophy Review 18 (2): 245-262. 2015.
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19Cognitivism and Practical IntentionalityInternational Philosophical Quarterly 47 (2): 153-166. 2007.Hubert L. Dreyfus has worked out a critique of what he calls “representationalism” and “cognitivism,” one proponent of which, according to Dreyfus, is Husserl. But I think that Dreyfus misunderstands the Husserlian conception of practical intentionality and that his characterization of Husserl as a “representationalist” or as a “cognitivist” is thereby wrongheaded. In this paper I examine Dreyfus’s interpretation by offering a Husserlian critique of Dreyfus’s objections to Husserl, and then by o…Read more
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Selbstverständnis und Lebenswelt. Grundzüge einer phänomenologischen Hermeneutik im Ausgang von Husserl und Heidegger (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 56 (3). 2002.
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1The Transcendental Force of Money. Social Synthesis in MarxRethinking Marxism 26 (1): 130-139. 2014.
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103Representation or Sensation? A Critique of Deleuze’s Philosophy of PaintingSympsium. Canadian Journal for Continental Philosophy 13 (1): 59-73. 2009.In this paper I shall present an argument against Deleuze’s philosophy of painting. Deleuze’s main thesis in Logic of Sensation is twofold: [1] he claims that painting is based on a non-representational level; and [2] he claims that this level comes out of the materiality of painting. I shall claim that Deleuze’s theses should be rejected for the following reasons: first, the difference between non-intentional life and the representational world is too strict. I submit that the non-intentional r…Read more
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