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8On Becoming God:Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self: Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western SelfFordham University Press. 2012.Some recent version of mysticism -- Empty epiphanies in modernist and postmodernist theory -- The gender of human togetherness -- Histories of modern selfhood -- Meister Eckhart's anthropology -- Becoming God in fourteenth-century Europe -- The makings of the modern self -- Taking leave of Sigmund Freud -- Everyday acknowledgments.
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5Review of Elizabeth Carolyn Miller: Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion (review)Critical Inquiry 50 (1): 192-194. 2023.
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Shared habits : love, time and the Magic mountain in 1925In Andrew Benjamin (ed.), Heidegger and literary studies, Cambridge University Press. 2023.
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8The outward mind: materialist aesthetics in Victorian science and literatureUniversity of Chicago Press. 2017.Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In The Outward Mind, Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an important origin point for current attempts to understand art or beauty using the tools of the sciences. Moving chronologically from natural theology in the early nineteenth century to laboratory psychology in the early twentieth, Morgan draws on little-kno…Read more
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Law in action : Ian McEwan's The Children Act and the limits of the legal practices in Menke's "Law and violence"In Christoph Menke (ed.), Law and Violence: Chirstoph Menke in dialogue, Manchester University Press. 2018.
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5On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western SelfFordham University Press. 2022.Do we have to conceive of ourselves as isolated individuals, inevitably distanced from other people and from whatever we might mean when we use the word God? On Becoming God offers an innovative approach to the history of the modern Western self by looking at human identity as something people do together rather than on their own. Ben Morgan argues that the shared practices of human identity can be understood as ways of managing and keeping at bay the impulses and experiences associated with the…Read more
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20Matthew C. Hunter, Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2013. 352 pp (review)Critical Inquiry 41 (4): 902-903. 2015.
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Benjamin, Heidegger and the anthropology of everyday lifeIn Carolin Duttlinger, Ben Morgan & Tony Phelan (eds.), Walter Benjamins anthropologisches Denken, Rombach. 2012.
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63Giorgio Agamben calls for a playful relation to law as a way to counteract its inherent violence. Such a relation would prevent law from functioning as a means to an end, instead treating it as a pure means. This article evaluates the significance of Agamben's proposal and of the concept of pure means, arguing that both implicitly draw on a Kantian model of aesthetic experience.
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West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |