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11Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2001.Combining Maurice Merleau-Ponty's 1960 course notes on Edmund Husserl's "The Origin of Geometry," his course summary, related texts, and critical essays, this collection offers a unique and welcome glimpse into both Merleau-Ponty's nuanced reading of Husserl's famed late writings and his persistent effort to track the very genesis of truth through the incarnate idealization of language.
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11DeconstructionIn Zeynep Direk & Leonard Lawlor (eds.), A Companion to Derrida, Wiley. 2014.Deconstructive critique targets the illusion of presence, that is, the idea that being is simply present and available before our eyes. For Derrida, the idea of presence implies self‐givenness, simplicity, purity, identity, and stasis. Therefore, deconstruction aims to demonstrate that presence is never given as such, never simple, never pure, never self‐identical, and never static; it is always given as something other, complex, impure, differentiated, and generated. The aim of deconstruction i…Read more
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10Verendlichung (finitization): The overcoming of metaphysics with lifePhilosophy Today 48 (4): 399-412. 2004.
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10Dialectic and Iterability: The Confrontation between Paul Ricoeur and Jacques DerridaPhilosophy Today 32 (3): 181-194. 1988.
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10Difference and Dependency, Violence and SublimationPhilosophy Today 62 (2): 607-617. 2018.This essay assesses Kelly Oliver’s long publication career by focusing on two novel ideas we find in her work. Both are ideas belonging to the new kind of ethics Oliver envisions. On the one hand, there is the idea of dependency. Through dependency, she aims to ground an obligation to care for the ones who provide the care to the dependents. The second idea is sublimation. Through her studies of psychoanalysis, Oliver shows that sublimation allows the subject to distance herself from the violenc…Read more
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10Jacques Derrida (edited book)Routledge. 2002.These three volumes assemble the most important essays written on Jacques Derrida's philosophy since he became established in 1967. These volumes make well-known essays easily available and also present many essays never translated in English.
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10Philosophical Debates About Derrida and the Death Penalty: State of the QuestionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 59 (4): 477-494. 2021.In this essay, I examine Derrida’s deconstruction (or critique) of the death penalty in his first set of lectures (The Death Penalty, Volume 1). The essay has two parts. First, I reconstruct this deconstruction. I show that the deconstruction depends on the difference between the calculable instant and the incalculable instant. Then, in the second part I show how this difference is based on the deconstruction of temporalization Derrida produced in his 1967 Voice and Phenomenon. The deconstructio…Read more
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9Logic and Existence (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1997._This first English translation illuminates Hegelianism's most obscure dialectical synthesis: the relation between the phenomenology and the logic. This book is essential for understanding the development of French thought in this century._
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9Is it Happening? or, The Implications of ImmanenceResearch in Phenomenology 44 (3): 347-361. 2014.The most basic idea behind this essay is the reversal of Platonism in which the difference between the real world and this world becomes blurred. The reversal results in time being conceived as without beginning and without end. In other words, the blurred world is equivalent to what Husserl calls temporalization. According to Husserl, the structure of temporalization implies the limit between temporal phases cannot be determined. Therefore, the limit cannot be closed, and the temporal phases ne…Read more
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8The event of deconstruction: A response to a responseJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 27 (3): 317-319. 1996.
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8Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson (edited book)SUNY Press. 2019.Examines Bergson’s work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America. Building upon recent interest in Henri Bergson’s social and political philosophy, this volume offers a series of fresh and novel perspectives on Bergson’s writings through the lenses of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory. Contributors place Bergson’s work in conversation with theorists fr…Read more
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8What Happened? What Is Going to Happen? An Essay on the Experience of the EventIn Amy Swiffen & Joshua Nichols (eds.), The ends of history: questioning the stakes of historical reason, Routledge. pp. 179. 2013.
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8“Verstellung“: Completions of ImmanenceJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 36 (2): 220-229. 2005.
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7Jacques Derrida: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (edited book)Taylor & Francis US. 2002.These three volumes assemble the most important essays written on Jacques Derrida's philosophy since he became established in 1967. These volumes make well-known essays easily available and also present many essays never translated in English.
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7Mark Sinclair, BergsonPhilosophical Quarterly 70 (281): 874-876. 2020.Mark Sinclair, Bergson. London: Routledge, 2020. $33.95 PB.
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7Power and Intensity: Difference and Repetition, Chapters Four and FiveDeleuze and Guattari Studies 13 (3): 445-453. 2019.
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7Institution and Passivity: Course Notes From the College de France (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2010.Institution and Passivity is based on course notes for classes taught at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris. Philosophically, this collection connects the issue of passive constitution of meaning with the dimension of history, furthering discussions and completing arguments started in The Visible and the Invisible and Signs. Leonard Lawlor and Heath Massey’s translation makes available to an English-speaking readership a critical transitional text in the history of phenomenology