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43Unbecoming subjects: Judith Butler, moral philosophy, and critical responsibilityFordham University Press. 2008.Introduction -- Part one : Challenges to the subject -- Subjects in subjection : bodies, desires, and the psychic life of norms -- Moral subjects and agents of morality -- Part two : Responsibility -- Responsibility as response : Levinas and responsibility for others -- Ambivalent desires of responsibility : Laplanche and psychoanalytic translations -- Part three : Critique -- The aporia of critique and the future of moral philosophy -- Critique and political ethics : justice as a question.
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36Specters of Sin and SalvationIdealistic Studies 40 (1-2): 117-138. 2010.This article examines the relationship between theology and ethics through the critique of original sin that the German-Jewish thinker Hermann Cohen advances. The concept of original sin has tacit normative consequences through conceiving the human condition as constitutively imperfect and prone to moral evil. Cohen criticizes the consequent theological ethics that privileges salvation from this world over justice in this world. Through Cohen this article argues that rather than focusing on expl…Read more
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32Herta Nagl-Docekal and Cornelia Klinger (Hg.): Re-Reading the Canon in German: Continental Philosophy in Feminist PerspectiveDie Philosophin 13 (25): 125-128. 2002.
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11Theological-Political Ruins: Walter Benjamin, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Skeletal EschatologyLaw and Critique 24 (3): 295-315. 2013.Drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin, this essay argues—largely against Carl Schmitt—that political theology as a critical analytic should examine the ‘afterlife’ of theological tropes with respect to the sense of time and history that they compel. Benjamin’s The Origin of German Tragic Drama argues that sovereignty as a political concept gains prominence as a response in the wake of the erosion of the concept of salvation history in the Baroque. The consequence of this rise of sovereignty as …Read more
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24Beyond Bad Conscience: Marcuse and Affects of Religion after SecularismTélos 2013 (165): 23-48. 2013.At first blush, it may seem odd to discuss religion in connection with the work of Herbert Marcuse. Religion, after all, is not a topic that runs strongly through Marcuse's work. Marcuse does not consider religion as a crucial ally for the Left, nor does he seem to regard religion as a social force that requires any special critical effort. In many ways, Marcuse's work bespeaks a general acceptance of the secularization thesis as a historical principle, assuming that the waning of organized reli…Read more
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28Schmittian Shadows and Contemporary Theological-Political ConstellationsSocial Research: An International Quarterly 80 (1): 1-32. 2013.
Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |