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7Panentheism, History and the Problem of EvilJournal for Continental Philosophy of Religion 5 (1): 3-26. 2023.In this paper I consider the thought of two Jewish existentialists from the first half of the 20th century, showing how their critique of pantheistic and panentheistic thinking grounded novel ideas about politics, history and human thought. In place of a concept of history directed towards a teleological redemption of suffering in the future, Lev Shestov (1866–1938) and Benjamin Fondane (1898–1944) abandoned notions of philosophical rationality in order to avow a ‘reversal’ of history according …Read more
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21Kierkegaard as a Thinker of Deleuzian Immanent EthicsSymposium 24 (1): 118-137. 2020.In this article, I present an interpretation of Kierkegaard’s ethics in terms of Gilles Deleuze’s distinction between immanent ethics and transcendent morality. I argue that Kierkegaard’s skepticism towards moral prescription, his emphasis on the single individual as the basis of normative evaluation, and his view of Christianity as somehow “beyond” the scope of moral obligation are all functions of a Deleuzian conception of immanent ethics as a non-moralistic form of normativity. On this basis,…Read more
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8Faith and Repetition in Kierkegaard and DeleuzePhilosophy Today 63 (2): 383-401. 2019.In this paper, I compare Gilles Deleuze’s and Søren Kierkegaard’s concepts of “repetition.” Although Deleuze (and interpreters after him) have argued that Kierkegaard’s use of this concept valorizes the role of unity in selfhood, I claim that, in Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous works, repetition in fact serves as a practical task linked to self-overcoming and rebirth. From this perspective, I argue that Kierkegaard’s conception of repetition as a function of “faith” can helpfully inform an understand…Read more
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30Faith and Repetition in Kierkegaard and DeleuzePhilosophy Today 63 (2): 383-401. 2019.In this paper, I compare Gilles Deleuze’s and Søren Kierkegaard’s concepts of “repetition.” Although Deleuze have argued that Kierkegaard’s use of this concept valorizes the role of unity in selfhood, I claim that, in Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous works, repetition in fact serves as a practical task linked to self-overcoming and rebirth. From this perspective, I argue that Kierkegaard’s conception of repetition as a function of “faith” can helpfully inform an understanding of Deleuze: self-overcomi…Read more
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17Faith and Repetition in Kierkegaard and DeleuzePhilosophy Today 63 (2): 383-401. 2019.In this paper, I compare Gilles Deleuze’s and Søren Kierkegaard’s concepts of “repetition.” Although Deleuze have argued that Kierkegaard’s use of this concept valorizes the role of unity in selfhood, I claim that, in Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous works, repetition in fact serves as a practical task linked to self-overcoming and rebirth. From this perspective, I argue that Kierkegaard’s conception of repetition as a function of “faith” can helpfully inform an understanding of Deleuze: self-overcomi…Read more
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23James Williams (2013) Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press and Henry Somers-Hall (2013) Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (review)Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 9 (2): 257-264. 2015.
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29Totality and Infinity at 50—Ed. Scott Davidson and Diane Perpich (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 52 (4): 498-500. 2012.
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