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37Shorelines: In Memory of Édouard GlissantJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 19 (1): 1-10. 2011.Édouard Glissant passed away on 4 February 2011 at the age of 82. A few words of memory. As a person and thinker, Glissant lived through, then reflected with meditative patience and profundity upon some of the most critical years in the black Atlantic: the aesthetics and politics of anti-colonial struggle, the civil rights movement in the United States, postcolonial cultural anxiety and explosion, the vicissitudes of an emerging cultural globalism, and all of the accompanying intellectual moveme…Read more
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5Theorizing Glissant: Sites and Citations (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield International. 2015.This edited collection gathers together leading commentators on the work of Édouard Glissant in order to theorize the philosophical significance of his work
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20Sensibility and Singularity: The Problem of Phenomenology in LevinasState University of New York Press. 2001.Establishes the importance of Husserl's phenomenology for Levinas's ethics
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31The possibility of an ethical politics: From peace to liturgyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 26 (4): 49-73. 2000.This essay examines the possibility of developing an ethical politics out of the work of Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas' own work does not accomplish this kind of politics. He opts instead for a politics of peace, which, as this essay argues, falls short of the demands of the ethical. Thus, this essay both provides an account of Levinas' own politics and develops resources from within Levinas' own work for thinking beyond that politics. An alternative, liturgical politics is sketched out. In a liturg…Read more
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K.M. Haney, "Intersubjectivity Revisited: Phenomenology and the Other" (review)Husserl Studies 12 (1): 81-91. 1995.
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61Radical empiricism and phenomenology: Philosophy and the pure stuff of experienceJournal of Speculative Philosophy 7 (3): 226-242. 1993.
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32On Subjectivity and Political DebtLevinas Studies 3 101-115. 2008.Much of the work on Levinas and political philosophy is content to note two things: the resistance of the ethical to politics and the messianic dimension of Levinas’s thought. The task, then, has largely been to identify (usually formal) points of resistance and/or to trace out the figures of messianism in the various functions of the prophetic word. Themes of singularity and eschatology therefore dominate the discussion. While both of these aspects of his work are important and can pay interest…Read more
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8On Subjectivity and Political DebtLevinas Studies 3 101-115. 2008.Much of the work on Levinas and political philosophy is content to note two things: the resistance of the ethical to politics and the messianic dimension of Levinas’s thought. The task, then, has largely been to identify (usually formal) points of resistance and/or to trace out the figures of messianism in the various functions of the prophetic word. Themes of singularity and eschatology therefore dominate the discussion. While both of these aspects of his work are important and can pay interest…Read more
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70Philosophy as a Kind of Cinema: Introducing Godard and PhilosophyJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 18 (2): 1-8. 2010."Jean-Luc Godard is nothing if not an enigma. His image has a life of its own, especially in its younger form: cigarette, sunglasses, smirk, rambling revolutionary slogans, and important books. It wasn’t just an image, we all know, for it reflected perfectly in iconic image the more substantial revolutionary recklessness with the camera we see from Breathless forward. Filmmaking is never the same after Godard. Images and their sequencing – Godard cloaked them in sunglasses and made them smirk. H…Read more
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9Husserl’s Critique of Empiricism and the Phenomenological Account of ReflectionSouthwest Philosophy Review 9 (1): 91-104. 1993.
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Future Interva l: On Levinas and GlissantIn Scott Davidson & Diane Perpich (eds.), Totality and infinity at 50, Duquesne University Press. 2012.
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3From peace to liturgyIn Claire Elise Katz & Lara Trout (eds.), Emmanuel Levinas, Routledge. pp. 4--4. 2005.
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56Donna V. Jones, The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and ModernityJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 19 (2): 180-188. 2011.An extended discussion of Donna V. Jones, The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), 217 pp
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15Between Levinas and Heidegger (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2014._Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophy’s most pressing issues._
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56Affect and Revolution: On Baldwin and FanonPhaenEx 7 (2): 124-158. 2012.This essay explores a philosophical encounter between Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin framed by the problem of the affect of shame. In particular, this essay asks how the affect of shame functions simultaneously as the accomplishment of regimes of anti-black racism and the site of transformative, revolutionary consciousness. Shame threatens the formation of subjectivity, as well as, and as an extension of, senses of home and belonging. How are we to imagine another subjectivity, another relation …Read more