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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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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.
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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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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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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.