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4Badiou and Hegel: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity (edited book)Lexington Books. 2015.This book collects the work of leading scholars on Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel, creating a dialogue between, and a critical appraisal of, these two central figures in European philosophy.
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21Hegel and Deleuze: Together Again for the First Time (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2013._Hegel and Deleuze_ cannily examines the various resonances and dissonances between these two major philosophers. The collection represents the best in contemporary international scholarship on G. W. F. Hegel and Gilles Deleuze, and the contributing authors inhabit the as-yet uncharted space between the two thinkers, collectively addressing most of the major tensions and resonances between their ideas and laying a solid ground for future scholarship. The essays are organized thematically into tw…Read more
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59American Antigone: Hegelian Reflections on the Sheehan-Bush ConflictTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2008 (144): 180-192. 2008.Now that she has retired from public life, philosophers can begin to understand the cultural phenomenon that was Cindy Sheehan, the generally recognized (and self-professed) “‘Face’ of the American anti-war movement.”1 Why did the Iraq War produce domestic resistance led by someone whose moral credentials consisted solely in being a mother? Why was the cartoon-cowboy masculinity of the war president opposed by the equally hyperbolic familial femininity of the “eternally grieving mother of Casey …Read more
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45A passion for justicePhilosophy and Social Criticism 43 (2): 187-207. 2017.In this article, I explicate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s account of emancipatory history and activism by examining the influence of G. W. F. Hegel’s account of world-historical individuals on his thought. Both thinkers, I argue, affirm that history’s spiritual destiny works through individuals who are driven by the contingencies of their subjective character and given situation to undertake particular actions, and yet who nevertheless freely and decisively break the new from the old by forsaking s…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
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Philosophical Traditions |
Philosophy, Misc |