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3Punishment and Shame: A Philosophical StudyLexington Books. 2010.Punishment and Shame: A Philosophical Study reveals the economic and religious underpinnings to modern notions of crime and punishment. Contra Michel Foucault's claim that modern penal practices witness a revolution in Western moral sensibilities, awakened by Enlightenment ideals, Hamblet shows that punishment practices in the West grew out of Protestant moralizations, capitalist greed, and the need for a cheap labor pool
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Alienation and wholeness: Spinoza, Hans Jonas, and the human genome project on the push and shove of mortal beingAnalecta Husserliana 91 57-65. 2006.
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45Order: Divine Principle of Excellence or Perfect Death for Living Beings?Kritike 3 (1): 61-71. 2009.Order is a value highly treasured and deeply embedded in the Westernworldview. Since the archaic Greeks gazed up at the night sky andnoted the reliable, stable movements of the heavens, order hasremained a cherished commodity in the lives of gods and humans. This paper traces the history of that beloved value and then places in question the worth of its rigorous, changeless solidity in the lives of living beings.
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6A Tragic Ethos: The Irresponsibility of the Host in Martin Heidegger's ‘the Ister’Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 35 (2): 157-167. 2004.
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23Mark L. McPherran, ed. , Plato's Republic: A Critical Guide . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 32 (1): 40-41. 2012.
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Eric R. Wolf, Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 21 (5): 386-388. 2001.
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5The Sacred Monstrous: A Reflection on Violence in Human CommunitiesLexington Books. 2003.In The Sacred Monstrous author Wendy Hamblet traces the historical and social fact of violence through the work of Girard, Bloch, Lorenz and Burket. She takes up the charge advanced by social theorists, anthropologists and others that violence is steeped in our being; it pervades our generations and is imbedded in the ethos of our modern institutions. Hamblet's discussion of human history re-frames our understanding of how violence works in history and society. The Sacred Monstrous is a salient …Read more
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4Swans, Ravens, Death and Tyranny: On the Mythology of FreedomPhilosophical Frontiers: A Journal of Emerging Thought 4 (2). 2009.
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46A Masocritical Engagement with Marco Abel's Theory of Violent AffectTheory and Event 12 (2). 2009.
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On Sovereignty And Trespass: The Moral Failure Of Levinas’ Phenomenological EthicsMinerva 8 20-33. 2004.Mortal being is not being pure and simple, not posit-ive being alone, as the lived experiencesuggests it to be. Living being is always a living of mortal flesh, a living taunted by death as “thenothingness that wearies it.” This taunting doggedly pursues the living being and turns it inward inwhat Levinas terms “inter-esse.” In living its mortality, essence is always inter-esse — inside ofitself — in the for-itself of self-interest.This paper attempts to track the opening of essence from its “in…Read more
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