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    _ Source: _Volume 46, Issue 1, pp 70 - 97 In 1946 Heidegger suffered a mental breakdown and received treatment by Dr. Viktor Emil Freiherr von Gebsattel. I explore the themes of health and help in Heidegger’s work before and after his treatment. I begin with Heidegger’s views on health while Rector in 1933–34 and his abandonment of these views by war’s end. A short while later, Heidegger’s breakdown occurs and the treatment under Gebsattel begins. Soon after his treatment, Heidegger lauds what h…Read more
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    The Fourfold
    In Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 297. 2013.
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    Four Seminars (edited book)
    Indiana University Press. 2012.
    In Four Seminars, Heidegger reviews the entire trajectory of his thought and offers unique perspectives on fundamental aspects of his work. First published in French in 1976, these seminars were translated into German with Heidegger’s approval and reissued in 1986 as part of his Gesamtausgabe, volume 15. Topics considered include the Greek understanding of presence, the ontological difference, the notion of system in German Idealism, the power of naming, the problem of technology, danger, and th…Read more
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    The bremen lectures
    In Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 243. 2013.
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    The “letter on humanism”: Ek-sistence, being, and language
    In Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 237. 2013.
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    Entering the World of Pain: Heidegger
    Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2010 (150): 83-96. 2010.
    To give oneself over to the essence of pain is to give oneself over to the world. Pain is a fact of the world and in accepting this fact, in entering that world, we break with the tradition of metaphysical subjectivity that dates back to the Greek determination of the human as zôon logon echon. For Heidegger, pain is the surest sign that we wholly belong to this world; in fact, pain is nothing other than our contact with the world and our “openness” to it. In what follows I will first present th…Read more
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    Friendship Amongst the Self-Sufficient: Epicurus
    Essays in Philosophy 2 (2): 99-107. 2001.
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    The coming of history: Heidegger and Nietzsche against the present (review)
    Continental Philosophy Review 46 (3): 395-411. 2013.
    Heidegger’s 1938–1939 seminar on Nietzsche ’s On the Utility and Liability of History for Life continues Heidegger’s grand interpretation of Nietzsche as a metaphysical thinker of presence. Nietzsche ’s conceptions forgetting, memory, and even life itself, according to Heidegger, are all complicit in the privileging of presence. Simultaneous with his seminar, Heidegger is also compiling the notebook, Die Geschichte des Seyns, 1938–1940, wherein he sketches his own conception of history. Examinin…Read more
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    Rethinking Thinking
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 38 (1): 115-129. 2017.
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    Guilty, by Georges Bataille (review)
    Comparative and Continental Philosophy 4 (1): 162-163. 2012.
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    Heidegger’s Later Thinking of Animality
    Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 1 74-85. 2011.
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    The Exposure of Grace: Dimensionality in Late Heidegger
    Research in Phenomenology 40 (3): 309-330. 2010.
    Heidegger's reflections on grace culminate in the years 1949-54 where grace names a figure for the ineluctable exposure of existence. Heidegger rethinks the relationship between what exists and the world in which it is found as one that is always open to grace. For Heidegger, this world is what he terms the “dimension” between earth and sky. The relationship is only possible where existence is no longer construed as a self-contained presence but instead is thought as something between presence a…Read more
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    The Botany of Romanticism: Plants and the Exposition of Life
    Comparative and Continental Philosophy 8 (3): 315-328. 2016.
    German Romanticism is a thinking of life as exposed. Philosophical conceptions of botanical life are paradigmatic of this. Goethe, Schelling, and Hegel each address the plant in their respective philosophies of nature. This article traces the connections and divergences in their thinking of plants, focusing on the role of love, lack, and exposure in order to present the plant as a peculiarly apt figure for considerations of life as exposed.