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Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation: Hermeneutics, Deconstruction, PluralismDissertation, Purdue University. 1983.In emphasizing the interpretive nature of perception and knowledge, proponents of a hermeneutic approach are faced with a basic difficulty: how to avoid the dogmatic positing of a single correct interpretation without lapsing into an unmitigated relativism which, rejecting "correctness" as the interpretive telos, is unable to adjudicate between competing interpretations. The premise of this study is that this dilemma has animated the various controversies within the hermeneutic tradition and the…Read more
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Julian Bourg, From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French ThoughtPhilosophy in Review 28 (2): 86. 2008.
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IndexIn Why Nietzsche Still?: Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, University of California Press. pp. 297-311. 2000.
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ContributorsIn Why Nietzsche Still?: Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, University of California Press. pp. 293-296. 2000.
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2Introduction: Why Nietzsche Still?In Why Nietzsche Still?: Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, University of California Press. pp. 1-12. 2000.
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211. Nietzsche's Contest: Nietzsche and the Culture WarsIn Why Nietzsche Still?: Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, University of California Press. pp. 184-202. 2000.
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13Editors’ IntroductionJournal of Speculative Philosophy 37 (3): 237-242. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Editors' IntroductionAlan D. Schrift and Shannon SullivanThe articles in this special issue of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy were selected from revised versions of papers that were originally presented at the sixtieth annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas October 13–15, 2022.Michael Hardt of Duke University and Patricia Pisters of th…Read more
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8Discipline and PunishIn Christopher Falzon, Timothy O'Leary & Jana Sawicki (eds.), A Companion to Foucault, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.Michel Foucault's Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison or Discipline and Punish was his first work since his election to the Chair in the History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de France. Soon after his inaugural address, he announced the formation of the organization Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (GIP). Due to Foucault's visibility as a social activist for prison reform, Discipline and Punish was received not just as a socio‐historical or philosophical analysis but as a work…Read more
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7Between Perspectivism and Philology: Genealogy as HermeneuticIn Mazzino Montinari, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Heinz Wenzel, Günter Abel & Werner Stegmaier (eds.), 1987, De Gruyter. pp. 91-111. 1986.
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2Nietzsche for Democracy?In Mazzino Montinari, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Heinz Wenzel, Günter Abel & Werner Stegmaier (eds.), 2000, De Gruyter. pp. 220-233. 2000.
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14Editors’ IntroductionJournal of Speculative Philosophy 36 (2). 2022.The articles in this special issue of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy were selected from revised versions of papers that were originally presented at the fifty-ninth annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in September 2021. This virtual conference took place on September 17–18 and 23–26 after the cancellation of the 2020 conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Bonnie Honig and Mel Y. Chen gave the SPEP 2021 Plenary Addresses and we are grateful to be abl…Read more
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10A Agrégation de Philosophie e a emergência do nietzschianismo filosófico francêsCadernos Nietzsche 41 (2): 117-144. 2020.Resumo Embora se acredite amplamente que a atenção francesa a Nietzsche nos anos 1960 era uma resposta à publicação das lições de Heidegger sobre Nietzsche em 1961, defendo que o aparecimento de Nietzsche na lista de leitura do exame de agrégation de philosophie fornece a melhor explicação para a emergência do chamado “New Nietzsche” em sua associação com o pós-estruturalismo francês. Após uma breve explicação de como a agrégation funciona na cultura acadêmica francesa e sua influência nas ativi…Read more
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4Nietzsche's Psycho-Genealogy: A Ludic Alternative to Heidegger's Reading of NietzscheJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 14 (3): 283-303. 1983.
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2The New French Philosophy by Ian James (review)History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 35 (3): 484--485. 2013.
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28Transforming the Hermeneutic Context: From Nietzsche to Nancy (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1989.The essays presented here offer contemporary analyses of interpretation by prominent figures in philosophy and literary criticism, including Foucault, Kristeva, and Derrida.
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8Daniel W. Conway, Nietzsche's Dangerous Game: Philosophy in the Twilight of the Idols Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 18 (4): 246-248. 1998.
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16Why Nietzsche Still?: Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics (edited book)University of California Press. 2000.These essays suggest a number of answers to the question: Why Nietzsche still? They show that Nietzsche still has a great deal to say to those who read him with an eye toward developing critical responses to the present and the future that will follow.
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18Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and ThinkersWiley-Blackwell. 2005.This unique book addresses trends such as vitalism, neo-Kantianism, existentialism, Marxism and feminism, and provides concise biographies of the influential philosophers who shaped these movements, including entries on over ninety thinkers. Offers discussion and cross-referencing of ideas and figures Provides Appendix on the distinctive nature of French academic culture
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46The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity (edited book)Routledge. 1997.First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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110The effects of the agrégation de philosophie on twentieth-century French philosophyJournal of the History of Philosophy 46 (3). 2008.In this paper, I discuss the Agrégation de Philosophie—the French national examination that certifies philosophy teachers for both lycée and university instruction—in terms of the role it has played in the intellectual formation of all French philosophers and, as a corollary, its impact on developments in 20th-century French philosophy. Following a recounting of the history and structure of the examination, I discuss how the examination reveals that a thorough grounding in the history of philoso…Read more
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5Transvaluations: Nietzsche in France, 1872-1972 (review) (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (3): 477-479. 1998.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Transvaluations: Nietzsche in France, 1872–1972 by Douglas SmithAlan D. SchriftDouglas Smith. Transvaluations: Nietzsche in France, 1872–1972. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii + 250. Cloth, $67.00.In a letter to his friend Heinrich Köselitz, Nietzsche described himself as “a battlefield more than a human being.” Douglas Smith appropriately frames his survey of Nietzsche’s reception in France with this image…Read more
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24The History of Continental Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2010.This major work of reference is an indispensable resource for anyone conducting research or teaching in philosophy. An international team of over 100 leading scholars has been brought together under the general editorship of Alan Schrift and the volume editors to provide authoritative analyses of the continental tradition of philosophy from Kant to the present day. Divided, chronologically, into eight volumes, "The History of Continental Philosophy" is designed to be accessible to a wide range o…Read more
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