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Sacrifice a cock to Asclepius" : the reception of Socrates in Foucault's final writingsIn Christopher Moore (ed.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates, Brill. 2019.
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The hope for this volume : sympathyIn Andrea J. Pitts & Mark William Westmoreland (eds.), Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, Suny Press. 2019.
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4“A Fuller Consciousness of Edges,” or, The Disequilibrium of Edward S. Casey’s The World on EdgeResearch in Phenomenology 52 (2): 281-292. 2022.
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28The Ultimate Meaning of Counter-Actualisation: On the Ethics of the Univocity of Being in Deleuze's Logic of SenseDeleuze and Guattari Studies 16 (1): 112-135. 2022.As is well known, Deleuze says in Difference and Repetition that ‘the task of contemporary philosophy has been defined: to reverse Platonism’. This task is then continued in Logic of Sense, through its discussion of Stoic logic. Deleuze says there that ‘the Stoics are the first to reverse Platonism’. And, at the same time, in the big Spinoza book, we see Deleuze present Spinoza's ‘anti-Cartesian reaction’. This anti-Cartesian reaction is equivalent to the reversal of Platonism. We can say then t…Read more
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15The Categorical Imperative and Not Being Unworthy of the Event: Ethics in Deleuze's Difference and RepetitionDeleuze and Guattari Studies 14 (1): 109-135. 2020.This essay starts from a consideration of Deleuze's theory of time. It begins with the empty form of time. But the essay's aim is to understand Deleuze's reversal of Platonism in his 1968 Difference and Repetition. There is no question that the stakes of the reversal of Platonism are ontological. But I argue that what is really at stake is a movement of demoralisation. The essay proceeds in three steps. First, we determine what sufficient reason or grounding is, for Deleuze. Sufficient reason is…Read more
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8Power and Intensity: Difference and Repetition, Chapters Four and FiveDeleuze and Guattari Studies 13 (3): 445-453. 2019.
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3PhenomenologyIn Constantin V. Boundas (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 389-401. 2007.
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1Life: An Essay on the Overcoming of MetaphysicsIn Constantin V. Boundas (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 517-530. 2007.
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110. ‘Let Others Be Ends in Themselves’: The Convergence Between Foucault’s Parrhesia and Derrida’s TeleiopoesisIn ChristopherVE Penfield, Vernon W. Cisney & Nicolae Morar (eds.), Between Foucault and Derrida, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 169-186. 2016.
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8From Violence to Speaking Out: Apocalypse and Expression in Foucault, Derrida and DeleuzeEdinburgh University Press. 2016.Drawing on a career-long exploration of 1960s French philosophy, Leonard Lawlor seeks a solution to 'the problem of the worst violence'. The worst violence is the reaction of total apocalypse without remainder; it is the reaction of complete negation and death; it is nihilism. Lawlor argues that it is not just transcendental violence that must be minimised: all violence must itself be reduced to its lowest level. He offers new ways of speaking to best achieve the least violence, which he creativ…Read more
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38Philosophical debates about Derrida and the death penalty: State of the questionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 59 (4): 477-494. 2021.The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 477-494, December 2021.
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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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12Derrida (edited book)Routledge. 2002.The value of these volumes lies not only in the fact that it will make many well-known essays easily available, but also that it will present many essays never before translated into English. The names alone of the authors assembled here indicate the importance of this collection, contributors include: Blanchot, Cixous, deMan, Foucault, Gadamer, Habermas, Irigaray, Levinas, Lyotard and Ricoeur.
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14Philosophical 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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15Being Inclined: Félix Ravaisson’s Philosophy of Habit by Mark SinclairJournal of the History of Philosophy 59 (1): 157-158. 2021.Being Inclined is erudite, clearly written, and well-argued. It is rich in the history of philosophy and in philosophical ideas. It is not an exaggeration when Sinclair says that “philosophy advances, and can only advance, by means of a living dialogue with the past”. This short review cannot do the book justice.Being Inclined is divided into six chapters. From a historical viewpoint, chapters 1 and 2 are revelatory for the Anglophone reader of the last two hundred years of French philosophy. Si…Read more
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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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IntroductionIn Alan D. Schrift (ed.), The History of Continental Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 1-14. 2010.
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3Four Fundamental Aspects of the Reversal of PlatonismIn Babette Babich (ed.), Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science: Introduction, De Gruyter. pp. 357-372. 2017.
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14The Most Difficult TaskStudia Phaenomenologica 19 251-260. 2019.This article attempts to elaborate on the Derridean idea of transcendental violence and his idea of “violence against violence.” It does this by examining the structure of the gift as Derrida presents it in Given Time. The article lays out in detail all of the conditions for the gift Derrida presents across Given Time. More precisely, it examines Derrida’s analysis of the giving of counterfeit money. The conclusion it draws is that the giving of counterfeit money comes closest to the golden mean…Read more
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4La passion noire ou le rêve d’une amitié inusable dans Politiques de l’amitié de DerridaLes Cahiers Philosophiques de Strasbourg 39 165-173. 2016.Cet essai qui porte uniquement sur Politiques de l’amitié de Derrida soutient une thèse à la fois anti-kantienne et hyper-kantienne. D’une part, je montre que l’amitié ou l’amour véritable rompt avec la téléologie d’une « humanisation de l’être humain » qui conçoit l’amitié comme une fin morale. L’amour doit rompre avec la fin morale, car l’amour qui poursuit une fin morale utilise l’aimé comme un moyen en vue d’une fin. Cela rompt avec l’impératif moral de Kant. C’est hyper-kantien et en fait n…Read more
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13The Flipside of Violence, or Beyond the Thought of Good EnoughPhaenEx 8 (2): 80. 2013.This essay attempts to answer three types of question concerning the images of violence found in deconstructive discourse. First, there is the question of confusion between real violence and transcendental violence. Second, there is the question of a lack of vigilance in regard to real violence. And finally, third, there is the question of the need for a moral principle of non-violence. The response to the first type of question lies in the recognition that the violence Derrida attributes to the…Read more
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16Violence and ReactionsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 56 (3): 403-413. 2018.This article has two parts. On the one hand, it summarizes a lot of the work I have done over the last 10 years. The summary starts with three phenomenological insights: into temporalization, into intersubjectivity, and into foundations. It ends with a discussion of ethics based on Kant and Bergson. On the other hand, the article presents my responses to three commentators on my work: Emilia Angelova, Edward S. Casey, and Samir Haddad. All three raise important questions about my work. All three…Read more
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19Difference 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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12Difference 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