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14The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and DerridaState University of New York Press. 2005.Argues for a closer connection between memories of injustice and promises of justice as a means to overcome violence
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113Deconstructive aporias: quasi-transcendental and normativeContinental Philosophy Review 44 (4): 439-468. 2011.This paper argues that Derrida’s aporetic conclusions regarding moral and political concepts, from hospitality to democracy, can only be understood and accepted if the notion of différance and similar infrastructures are taken into account. This is because it is the infrastructures that expose and commit moral and political practices to a double and conflictual (thus aporetic) future: the conditional future that projects horizonal limits and conditions upon the relation to others, and the uncond…Read more
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15Review of Alex Thomson, Deconstruction and Democracy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (12). 2005.
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40Democracy and Globalization. A Deconstructive ResponseIn William L. McBride (ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy, . pp. 137-144. 2006.
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25The Phenomenology of Religious LifeIndiana University Press. 2004.The Phenomenology of Religious Life presents the text of Heidegger’s important 1920–21 lectures on religion. The volume consists of the famous lecture course Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion, a course on Augustine and Neoplatonism, and notes for a course on The Philosophical Foundations of Medieval Mysticism that was never delivered. Heidegger’s engagements with Aristotle, St. Paul, Augustine, and Luther give readers a sense of what phenomenology would come to mean in the mature exp…Read more
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57Derrida on the death penaltySouthern Journal of Philosophy 50 (s1): 56-73. 2012.Responding to Derrida's Death Penalty Seminar of 1999–2000 and its interpretation by Michael Naas, in this paper I argue that Derrida's deconstruction of the theologico-political concept of the sovereign right over life and death in view of abolishing capital punishment should be understood in terms of the unconditional renunciation of sovereignty that dominates Derrida's later political writings, Rogues (2005) in particular. My reading takes seriously what I call the functional need for a “theo…Read more
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56Democracy and "Globalization"The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 2 137-144. 2006.One of the major political problems the world faces at the moment of its so-called globalization concerns the possibilities of maintaining, transforming, and expanding democracy. Globalization, as the extension of neo-liberal markets, the formation of multi-national, non-democratic economic powers, and the ubiquitous use of teletechnologies, threatens the modus vivendi of older democracies in ways that call for the reinvention of an old idea. Inasmuch as teletechnical globalization transforms sp…Read more
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107Taking Turns: Democracy to Come and Intergenerational JusticeDerrida Today 4 (2): 148-172. 2011.In the face of the ever-growing effect the actions of the present may have upon future people, most conspicuously around climate change, democracy has been accused, with good justification, of a presentist bias: of systemically favouring the presently living. By contrast, this paper will argue that the intimate relation, both quasi-ontological and normative, that Derrida's work establishes between temporality and justice insists upon another, more future-regarding aspect of democracy. We can get…Read more
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25Equality and Singularity in Justification and Application DiscoursesEuropean Journal of Political Theory 9 (3): 328-346. 2010.To respond to the charge of context-insensitivity, discourse ethics distinguishes justification discourses, which only require that we consider what is equally good for all, and subsequent application discourses, in which the perspective of concrete others must be adopted. This article argues that, despite its pragmatic attractiveness, the separation of justification and application neglects the co-constitutive role that applicability plays for the meaning of normativity. Norms that do not, in a…Read more
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131Antagonism and democratic citizenship (Schmitt, Mouffe, Derrida)Research in Phenomenology 38 (2): 174-197. 2008.In the context of the recent proliferation of nationalisms and enemy figures, this paper agrees with the desirability of retaining some of the explanatory and motivational potential of an agonistic account of politics, but gives reasons not to accept too much of Carl Schmitt's account of citizenship. The claim as to the necessarily antagonistic exclusion of concrete others can be supported neither on its own terms nor on Derridian grounds, as Chantal Mouffe, in particular, attempts to do. I then…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Environmental Philosophy |
Environmental Ethics |
Critical Theory |