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40Vulnerability and Violence: On the Poverty of the RemainderJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 49 (3): 217-228. 2018.This article tries to show the irreducible connection between vulnerability and violence. This connection leads us back to the ethical level of experience. If vulnerability makes violence irreducible, then at least two reactions to violence are possible. On the one hand, a reaction is possible in which one attempts to negate vulnerability in order to close down the very thing within us that allows violence to enter. This negative reaction is actually the worst violence. On the other hand, a reac…Read more
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6Four Fundamental Aspects of the Reversal of PlatonismIn Babette E. Babich (ed.), Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science, De Gruyter. pp. 357-372. 2017.
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7Neither Violent nor Tranquil: How to Reconceive the Animal-Human Relation on the Basis of Foucault's History of MadnessJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 43 (1): 6-21. 2012.
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36For the Creation Waits with Eager Longing for the RevelationEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (2): 359-377. 2006.Blindness has been a pervasive theme throughout Derrida’s career. But Derrida uses the word “blindness” only once in the title of one his works. This text is, ofcourse, Memoirs of the Blind, Mémoires d’aveugle, an essay he wrote for the catalogue for an exhibition he organized at the Louvre in 1990. I argue that Memoirs of the Blind is more than just a phase in Derrida’s deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence. Instead, it opens a larger, more ambitious project that we can call “the decons…Read more
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11Dialectic and Iterability: The Confrontation between Paul Ricoeur and Jacques DerridaPhilosophy Today 32 (3): 181-194. 1988.
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35Three Ways of Speaking: Deleuze's Way, or Death and FlightDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 10 (1): 70-84. 2016.In this essay, I examine the ‘Postulates of Linguistics’ chapter of A Thousand Plateaus. In regard to this chapter, I aim to demonstrate something that has remained unrecognised about minor language in Deleuze and Guattari. I aim to show not only the characteristics of Deleuzian speaking in tongues that overlap with Foucaultian speaking-freely and with Derridean speaking-distantly, but also and more importantly, I hope to show how it is possible for us to make a language speak in tongues. Derrid…Read more
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33A nearly total affinity - the deleuzi an virtual image versus the derridean traceAngelaki 5 (2). 2000.This Article does not have an abstract
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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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Phenomenology: responses and developmentsIn Alan D. Schrift (ed.), The History of Continental Philosophy, University of Chicago Press. 2010.After Husserl, the study of phenomenology took off in different directions. The ambiguity inherent in phenomenology - between conscious experience and structural conditions - lent itself to a range of interpretations. Many existentialists developed phenomenology as conscious experience to analyse ethics and religion. Other phenomenologists developed notions of structural conditions to explore questions of science, mathematics, and conceptualization. "Phenomenology: Responses and Developments" co…Read more
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19Distorting Phenomenology: Derrida's Interpretation of HusserlPhilosophy Today 42 (2): 185-193. 1998.
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74The sensible universe seconded…: Comments on Mauro Carbone’s an unprecedented deformation: Proust and the sensible ideas: The SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 2010, ISBN: 1438430205, p 122, $23.95 (review)Continental Philosophy Review 45 (4): 569-578. 2012.
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25This is Not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in DerridaCambridge University Press. 2007.Derrida wrote extensively on "the question of the animal." In particular, he challenged Heidegger's, Husserl's, and other philosophers' work on the subject, questioning their phenomenological criteria for distinguishing humans from animals. Examining a range of Derrida's writings, including his most recent _L'animal que donc je suis_, as well as _Aporias_, _Of Spirit_, _Rams_, and _Rogues_, Leonard Lawlor reconstructs a portrait of Derrida's views on animality and their intimate connection to hi…Read more
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24Un Ecart Infime (Part III): The blind spot in FoucaultPhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (5-6): 665-685. 2005.This article is the third part of a trilogy investigating the relation between Merleau-Ponty and Foucault. All three essays are inspired by Foucault’s diagnosis of our epoch in terms of biopower. They therefore aim at the creation of a new concept of life. In ‘Un Ecart Infime (Part III)’, I lay out Foucault’s analysis, from the first chapter of The Order of Things, of Velázquez’s painting, Las Meninas. By stressing what Foucault says about the ‘sagittal lines’ exiting the painting, one can show …Read more
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15On the love of the neighbour in Levinas and BergsonIn Claire Elise Katz & Lara Trout (eds.), Emmanuel Levinas, Routledge. pp. 2--175. 2005.
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A new possibility of life: The experience of powerlessness as a solution to the problem of the worstStudia Philosophica 1. 2008.This essay is part of an attempt to determine a new mode of existence, an ethics, for humans. It consists in reversing the idea of the worst, which is unconditional “impassage”: “don’t let anyone in; don’t let anyone out!” As a reversal, the new mode of existence turns us into friends of passage, a people who love the world so much that they will let everyone without exception enter and let everyone without exception exit. They say, “Let’s tear down all the wall and open all the doors!” The reve…Read more
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18The Epoche as the Derridean Absolute: Final Comments on the Evans-Kates-Lawlor DebatePhilosophy Today 42 (2): 207-210. 1998.
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39Anachronism and Powerlessness: An Essay on PostmodernismIn S. Campbell & P. Bruno (eds.), The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 141. 2013.
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54Temporality and spatiality: A note to a footnote in Jacques Derrida's writing and differenceResearch in Phenomenology 12 (1): 149-165. 1982.
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60From the trace to the law: Derridean politicsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 15 (1): 1-15. 1989.