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12Being Equal to the Moment: Form as Historical PraxisPhilosophy and Literature 38 (2): 395-415. 2014.This essay argues that Walter Benjamin’s One-Way Street offers readers a way of being historical that resists and redirects the meaning and significance of dominant symbols and personal experiences. In the interaction among its entries, it also tries to stimulate the growth of those capacities required by projects of social transformation. In Benjamin’s text, “form” is thus less a matter of literary organization than a potentially exemplary mode of political action.
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9To schizophreniaIn Abraham Rudnick (ed.), Recovery of People with Mental Illness: Philosophical and Related Perspectives, Oxford University Press. pp. 166. 2012.
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8After EmersonIndiana University Press. 2017.Where do we find ourselves? -- Not with syllables but men -- Essaying America -- Living multiplicity: a matter of course -- Emerson, race, and the conduct of life -- Reforming ethical life -- Emerson and the case of philosophy -- Abbreviations for Emerson's works.
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6You Must Change Your Life: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Birth of SensePennsylvania State University Press. 2008.Some poems can change our lives; they lead us to look at the world through new eyes. In this book, inspired by Martin Heidegger—who found in poetry the most fundamental insights into the human condition—John Lysaker develops a concept of ur-poetry to explore philosophically how poetic language creates fresh meaning in our world and transforms the way in which we choose to live in it. Not limited to a single poem or collection of poems, ur-poetry arises when, in the interaction of an author's pri…Read more
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4Rorty and Pragmatism (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 24 (75): 6-7. 1996.
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3Like a Bird on a Wire: Freedom to Be FreeJournal of Speculative Philosophy 36 (4): 476-490. 2022.ABSTRACT Against a Kantian notion of freedom as autonomy, this article defends a conception of freedom that is relational, dependent, and experimental, and that operates without anything like a will. In the author’s view, freedom is a characteristic of a relation between a person and the world that allows for the predictable realization of specified ends, that is, a mode of power.
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2Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of ThoughtUniversity of Chicago Press. 2018.Gambits and gambles -- Iron filings -- Pardon the interruption -- Content and form -- Form and content -- In the beginning was the deed -- Reworking making -- Deliberate writing -- Mistaking instrumental reason -- Fits and starts -- A cultivar -- Quotation beyond quotas -- For examples -- In nuce -- Irony -- Message in a bottle -- The hour of the wolf -- It's the gesture that counts -- Furnishing the space of reasons -- A struggle with ourselves -- Who's on first -- Every one is everybody -- The…Read more
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A liberal sense of alterityIn Steven Shankman & Massimo Lollini (eds.), Who, Exactly, is the Other ?: Western and Transcultural Perspectives: A Collection of Essays, University of Oregon Books/university of Oregon Humanities Center. 2002.
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