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290Violence and difference: Girard, Derrida, and deconstructionUniversity of Illinois Press. 1991.Introduction: Philosophy in Spite of Itself Aristotle defines man as the political and rational animal, but the readings in this book are guided by his ...
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45The Pyrrhus Perplex: A Superficial View of MimesisContagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 1 (1): 31-46. 1994.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Pyrrhus Perplex: A Superficial View of Mimesis Andrew J. McKenna Loyola University Chicago In the interest of knowledge conveyed as experience, a teacher of literature likes to begin with a story: A man sets out to discover a treasure he believes is hidden under a stone; he turns over stone after stone but finds nothing. He grows tired of such futile undertaking but the treasure is too precious for him to give up. So he begins to…Read more
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41Andrew J. McKenna., Violence and Difference: Girard, Derrida, and DeconstructionInternational Studies in Philosophy 26 (4): 149-150. 1994.
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24Does Deconstruction Make Any Difference: Post-Structuralism and the Defense of Poetry in Modern CriticismSubstance 16 (3): 84. 1987.
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21The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of ReadingSubstance 10 (3): 92. 1981.
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19Pierre Bayle and the Red HerringIn Winfried Schröder (ed.), Reading Between the Lines - Leo Strauss and the History of Early Modern Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 193-220. 2015.
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15Faulkner's Novels Past and PresentContagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29 (1): 39-61. 2022.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Faulkner's Novels Past and PresentAndrew J. McKenna (bio)This article contains instances of the N-word. The Editor, Michigan State University Press, and Michigan State University do not condone the use of this word and only after careful consideration have we reprinted it. In this case, the word appears in the context of works by Faulkner.When I first came East I kept thinking You've got to remember to think of some of them as colour…Read more
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14Biblioclasm: Joycing Jesus and BorgesRaid on the Articulate: Comic Eschatology in Jesus and Borges (review)Diacritics 8 (3): 15. 1978.
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13Originary Thinking: Elements of Generative Anthropology (review)Philosophy and Literature 18 (1): 171-172. 1994.
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13Far from being a product of Locke’s philosophical genius, the theory of the divine superaddition of thought to matter is rooted in the discussions about Descartes’ conception of the soul as res cogitans which took place in France and in the Netherlands in the years 1640-1680, from Mersenne to Regius and Bayle. Locke’s historical and theoretical relationship with these sources can be clearly documented, as well as the influence of the superaddition theory in the eighteenth century, mostly in the …Read more
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12Book Review: The Self Between: From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France (review)Philosophy and Literature 19 (1): 191-192. 1995.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Self Between: From Freud to the New Social Psychology of FranceAndrew J. McKennaThe Self Between: From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France, by Eugene Webb; ix & 268 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993, $35.00.That psychology and sociology are one science is the fundamental premise guiding Eugene Webb’s The Self Between, which he defines early on as “a self constituted dynamically and continuousl…Read more
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11La composition de la « logique » de port-RoyalRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 176 (2). 1986.
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11Albert Borgmann., Crossing the Postmodern DivideInternational Studies in Philosophy 26 (4): 109-110. 1994.
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9Monotheism, Intolerance, and the Path to Pluralistic Politics by Christopher A. Haw (review)The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion 70 17-21. 2021.
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8Bernanos: Polemicist and Prophet of Our WorldLogos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 12 (2): 62-79. 2009.
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8Book Review: The Sacred Game: The Role of the Sacred in the Genesis of Modern Literary Fiction (review)Philosophy and Literature 19 (1): 189-191. 1995.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Sacred Game: The Role of the Sacred in the Genesis of Modern Literary FictionAndrew J. McKennaThe Sacred Game: The Role of the Sacred in the Genesis of Modern Literary Fiction, by Cesareo Bandera; 318 pp. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994, $16.50.When we consider the early relations of philosophy and literature, we most often think of Republic X and about degrees of separation between reality …Read more
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6De Pascal à Voltaire: le rôle des Pensées de Pascal dans l'histoire des idées entre 1670 et 1734The Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution. 1990.Cette étude a l'ambition de couvrir à la fois la réception et l'influence des Pensées de Pascal jusqu'en 1734. Elle se fonde sur une analyse des influences philosophiques à l'uvre dans la composition même de l'uvre de Pascal, concluant à la forte influence de Gassendi sur la conception pascalienne du libertinage. Cette orientation de l'apologie est cependant contrariée par le fait que les Pensées sont éditées en 1670 par les théologiens cartésiens de Port-Royal, Arnauld et Nicole. Au-delà de la …Read more
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6Études sur Pierre BayleHonoré Champion éditeur. 2015.Le statut de Pierre Bayle dans l'histoire des idées philosophiques et religieuses de l'époque classique a changé du tout au tout. D'observateur, il est devenu, dans l'historiographie actuelle, un acteur majeur dans les débats philosophiques, religieux et politiques de son époque, dont les écrits nourriront la réflexion des philosophes clandestins qui fondent les Lumières radicales. Ce volume d'études contribue à cette nouvelle interprétation du statut et de la portée du rationalisme de Bayle.
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5Pierre Bayle et le politique (edited book)Honoré Champion éditeur. 2014.Bayle propose une déconstruction philosophique des fondements de la souveraineté politique, qui semble faire fi des souffrances des huguenots dans la conjoncture historique complexe dont ils font l'expérience douloureuse. Son analyse mérite certainement d'être étudiée de nouveau, à la fois dans la perspective de la cohérence propre de sa propre philosophie, dans celle de l'héritage (Machiavel, Naudé, Hobbes, Pascal, Spinoza) et dans celle de la réception (Locke, Leibniz, Montesquieu, l'Encyclopé…Read more
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5Pierre Bayle : le pyrrhonisme et la foiArchives de Philosophie 81 (4): 729-748. 2018.Il s’agit de montrer comment le rapport de Bayle à un scepticisme pyrrhonien ou académique, loin d’être d’adhésion comme le tient l’interprétation courante, évolue et se transforme. Il va en effet de la nécessaire concordance entre foi et raison sur le plan de la morale à l’impossibilité de tout accord entre elles, y compris sur le même plan. C’est que le contexte dans lequel s’inscrit ce rapport pèse dans la manière de le vivre, en particulier quand Bayle doit organiser sa défense contre les at…Read more
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5The ends of violence. Girard and DerridaLebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience 1 112-126. 2011.Jacques Derrida’s critique of philosophical origins, in his essay on Plato and elsewhere, unveils a sacrificial dynamic that René Girard hypothesizes as the origin of human culture. Girard’s latest book, Achever Clausewitz, applies his mimetic theory to history: the Prussian general’s analysis of increasingly violent «reciprocal action» in modern, post-revolutionary warfare exposes the mimetic principle of lethally violent doubles. This «trend to extremes» works to the dissolution of institution…Read more
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5Le sentiment dans les Pensées de Pascal: son origine, ses fonctions, son statutRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (4): 1549-1574. 2024.Pascal founds his interpretation of the Augustinian doctrine of the corruption of human nature on a philosophy of faith inherited from Montaigne: « we are Christians in just the same way as we are Périgordians or Germans » (Essais, II, 12) : this conception of « human faith » is analysed, in turn, by means of concepts drawn from Descartes (passion) and Gassendi (imagination). He thus leads us to a very modern conception of « human faith » – without grace – as being the product of education and h…Read more
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4Pascal et son libertinClassiques Garnier. 2017.L'anthropologie pascalienne de la "misère de l'homme sans Dieu" frappe par sa pertinence : aucun apologiste chrétien n'a exprimé avec tant de justesse le point de vue d'un incroyant sur le monde et sur sa propre nature. C'est le point de départ de son argumentation apologétique, que cet ouvrage suit pas à pas, en précisant ses sources cartésiennes et gassendistes, en examinant le statut du sentiment et en restituant la cohérence de la foi de la "seconde nature". Les Pensées constituent…Read more
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3Philosophie et scepticisme de Montaigne à Hume: mélanges en l'honneur de Gianni Paganini (edited book)Honoré Champion éditeur. 2023.