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14The Politics of Positionality: Distinguishing between Post-, Anti-, and De-colonial MethodsCulture, Theory, and Critique 60 1-15. 2020.This essay works at the intersection of two trends, one longstanding and one relatively more recent. First, it takes place against the background of the overwhelming influence that the category of ‘identity’ exercises on both contemporary knowledge production and political practice. Second, it responds to what has been called the ‘decolonial turn’ in theory. We compare the work of Gayatri Spivak, Aijaz Ahmad, and Walter Mignolo in terms of the following question: What kind of reflexive method do…Read more
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Pragmatic Saintliness: Toward a Criticism and Celebration of CommunityContemporary Pragmatism 1 (18): 72-94. 2021.This essay responds to John McDermott’s diagnosis of politics and religious life in the U.S.: “[B]oth traditional political and religious institutions are no longer an adequate let alone rich resource for a celebratory language.” I present a new celebratory language by reading William James’s description of saintliness in Varieties of Religious Experience. James gives me the resources to naturalize and democratize saintliness. Distinguished not by her transcendent miracles but by her this-worldl…Read more
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44Responsibilities of the IntellectualInter-American Journal of Philosophy 2 (11): 35-48. 2020.In this essay, I link Pragmatism and the philosophy of liberation by making a comparison between John Dewey’s concept of the public and Enrique Dussel’s concept of the pueblo. I am specifically interested in how these concepts set up the relationship between intellectuals and their constituency—the community from which their thought emerges and to which they take themselves to be responsible. Reading the public and the pueblo together, I emphasize the need for intellectuals to consider further h…Read more
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University of VermontUndergraduate
Burlington, Vermont, United States of America
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |