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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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33Riassunto: Il chiasma e la piega. Un’introduzione al concetto filosofico di archeologiaChiasmi International 4 117-118. 2002.
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3Un 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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285 Phenomenology and metaphysics, and chaos: on the fragility of the event in DeleuzeIn Daniel W. Smith & Henry Somers-Hall (eds.), The Cambridge companion to Deleuze, Cambridge University Press. pp. 103. 2012.
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55Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of PhenomenologyIndiana University Press. 2002.Lawlor’s investigations of the work of Jean Cavaillès, Tran-Duc-Thao, and Jean Hyppolite, as well as recent texts by Derrida, reveal the depth of Derrida’s relationship to Husserl’s phenomenology.
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8Institution 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
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17An 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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1The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2014.The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is a reference tool that provides clear and incisive definitions and descriptions of all of Foucault's major terms and influences, including history, knowledge, language, philosophy and power. It also includes entries on philosophers about whom Foucault wrote and who influenced Foucault's thinking, such as Deleuze, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Canguilhem. The entries are written by scholars of Foucault from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, gender studies, p…Read more