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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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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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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.
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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