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3Vernaculars of HomeCritical Philosophy of Race 3 (2): 203-226. 2015.This essay examines James Baldwin's conception of what he calls “black English” and its link to historical and cultural identity. I link Baldwin's defense of black English to his reflections on the sorrow songs and sound, which draws on long-standing accounts of musicality as the foundation of the African-American tradition. In order to demonstrate this relation to the tradition, the essay puts Baldwin's remarks in relation to Frederick Douglass's and W. E. B. Du Bois's description of the sorrow…Read more
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3The Hither-Side of the Living-Present in Levinas and HusserlPhilosophy Today 40 (1): 142-150. 1996.
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3The Enigma of the Cartesian InfiniteStudia Phaenomenologica 6 (n/a): 201-213. 2006.In Levinas’ hands, the problematic of transcendence challenges phenomenological description by positing, as primary, that which is outside intentionality. How, then, to think about this transcendence outside intentionality? This essay explores the possibilities of a description of transcendence through Levinas’ and Marion’s readings of the Cartesian idea of the Infinite. What emerges from these readings of Descartes’ idea of the Infinite is a sense of indication that is fundamentally elliptical,…Read more
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2On 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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11Philosophy 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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K.M. Haney, "Intersubjectivity Revisited: Phenomenology and the Other" (review)Husserl Studies 12 (1): 81-91. 1995.
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4Radical empiricism and phenomenology: Philosophy and the pure stuff of experienceJournal of Speculative Philosophy 7 (3): 226-242. 1993.
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9On 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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3Husserl’s Critique of Empiricism and the Phenomenological Account of ReflectionSouthwest Philosophy Review 9 (1): 91-104. 1993.
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3Donna 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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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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1From peace to liturgyIn Claire Elise Katz & Lara Trout (eds.), Emmanuel Levinas, Routledge. pp. 4--4. 2005.
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9Between 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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13Affect 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