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13Derrida (review)International Studies in Philosophy 22 (3): 136-137. 1990.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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19The Life of the Mind (review)Review of Metaphysics 58 (2): 457-458. 2004.This book concerns contemporary debates in the philosophy of mind. Therefore, McCulloch starts with Descartes. On the basis of well-known argumentation, McCulloch develops what he calls “the demonic dilemma”. The dilemma is that we cannot explain or understand intentionality, consciousness being directed at the world, on the basis of “the ontological Real Distinction.” The “ontological Real Distinction” is the belief that there are two independent substances, mind and matter, really distinct fro…Read more
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1Institution and duration : an introduction to Bergson's 'Introduction to metaphysics'In Michael R. Kelly (ed.), Bergson and phenomenology, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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245The end of phenomenology: Expressionism in Deleuze and Merleau-ponty (review)Continental Philosophy Review 31 (1): 15-34. 1998.In this paper I examine how well Merleau-Ponty's philosophy can respond to Deleuze's challenge to phenomenology. The Deleuzian challenge is double, that of immanence and that of difference; in other words, the double challenge is what Deleuze calls the paradox of expression. I bring together, in particular, Deleuze's 1969 The Logic of Sense and Merleau-Ponty's 1945 the Phenomenology of Perception, and am able to discover a lot of similarities mainly centered around the notion of a past that has …Read more
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13Heidegger and Deleuze 'In Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Bloomsbury Academic. 2013.
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12What Immanence? What Transcendence? The Prioritization of Intuition Over Language in BergsonJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 35 (1): 24-41. 2004.
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23Early Twentieth-Century Continental PhilosophyIndiana University Press. 2011.Lawlor discusses major theoretical trends in the work of these philosophers -- immanence, difference, multiplicity, and the overcoming of metaphysics.
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39Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Flesh (edited book)SUNY Press. 2000.Leading scholars explore the later thought of Merleau-Ponty and its central role in the modernism-postmodernism debate.
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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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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.