• Nothing
    In Tilottama Rajan & Daniel Whistler (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 343-360. 2023.
    This chapter argues that the return of the question of nothing and negativity in late modernity was in response less to nihilism or existentialism since German Idealism and more to German Idealism itself, and to Hegel especially, where the problems of self-consciousness, freedom, and self-creation remained to be reconciled.
  • The poetics of O (as nothing)
    In Daniel M. Price & Ryan J. Johnson (eds.), The movement of nothingness: trust in the emptiness of time, The Davies Group Publishers. 2013.
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    Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2021.
    How do we talk meaningfully about the sacred in contexts where conventional religious expression has so often lost its power? Inspired by the influential work of David Jasper, this important volume builds on his thinking to identify sacrality in a world where the old religious and secular debates have exhausted themselves and theology struggles for a new language in their wake. Distinguished writers explore here the idea of the sacred as one that exists, paradoxically, in a space that is both po…Read more
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    Hegel and the Art of Negation
    I.B. Tauris. 2013.
    Why is the philosopher Hegel returning as a potent force in contemporary thinking? Why, after a long period when Hegel and his dialectics of history have seemed less compelling than they were for previous generations of philosophers, is study of Hegel again becoming important? Fashionable contemporary theorists like Francis Fukuyama and Slavoj Zizek, as well as radical theologians like Thomas Altizer, have all recently been influenced by Hegel, the philosopher whose philosophy now seems somehow …Read more
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    Auden's O: The Loss of One's Sovereignty in the Making of Nothing
    State University of New York Press. 2013.
    In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary history of ideas, Andrew W. Hass explores the ascendency of the concept of nothing into late modernity. He argues that the rise of the reality of nothing in religion, philosophy, and literature has taken place only against the decline of the concept of One: a shift from a sovereign understanding of the One (unity, universality) toward the “figure of the O”—a cipher figure that, as nonentity, is nevertheless determinant of other realities. The figuring of…Read more
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    This book pursues a formal and critical language of interdisciplinarity. The 'founding' disciplines within the Humanities – theology, philosophy, and literarure – are brought together here in a shared space, but one that reconsitutes the very nature of each and any discipline. In this space, critique and imagination consciously merge, giving way to a new kind of thinking, a new kind of consciousness, a new kind of textuality. Readings alternate between discursive analysis of a critical thinker –…Read more