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116Auto‐Affectivity and Michel Henry's Material PhenomenologyPhilosophical Forum 43 (1): 91-100. 2012.This paper provides an introduction and overview of Michel Henry's work, with particular emphasis on his understanding of auto-affectivity. It concludes by pointing to some objections or questions sympathetic phenomenologists may have for his work.
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99Epoché, the Transcendental Ego, and Intersubjectivity in Husserl’s PhenomenologyJournal of Philosophical Research 30 141-156. 2005.This essay is concerned with defending Husserl against the criticism that he is insuffi ciently attentive to intersubjectivity. It has two moments; the fi rst articulates what I take to be a general version of the critique and then turns to a discussion of a version derived from Wittgenstein’s private language argument and the ensuing debate regarding this critique between Suzanne Cunningham and Peter Hutcheson. This discussion concludes by noting a general agreement betweenthe two participants …Read more
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77The Use of Alexander the Great in Augustine’s City of GodAugustinian Studies 39 (1): 113-128. 2008.This paper focuses on the figure of Alexander the Great in Augustine's City of God. It argues that Alexander is used to as a negative exemplar, showing the short coming of Roman virtue. It is easier for Augustine's interlocutors to recognize the flaws in Alexander (a non-Roman) than to recognize flaws in Roman heroes. However, once the flaws in Alexander are identified, the flaws in Rome are easier to discern.
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75The Virtue of Suicide and the Suicide of VirtueEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 14 (1): 95-111. 2009.This paper argues that suicide is very important for Cicero’s articulation and defense of the philosophical life. Happiness, according to Cicero, is dependent upon a willingness to commit suicide. I explain why this is the case through a discussion of On Ends and the Tusculan Disputations. I conclude with some critical remarks about Cicero’s argument, with reference to book XIX of Augustine’s City of God.
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74Epistemology and Eudaimonism in Augustine’s Contra AcademicosAugustinian Studies 37 (2): 247-271. 2006.The paper has two main parts. First, I introduce the eudaimonistic setting of the epistemological discussions in book one and – very briefly – and make a few points about book two. Second, in an analysis of book three, I show how Augustine relieves a tension which was present between the conclusions of books one and two and how the relief of that tension culminates in a critique of the skeptic’s eudaimonistic claims more so than their epistemological ones.
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48Early Phenomenology: Metaphysics, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Religion (edited book)Bloomsbury. 2016.[From the publisher]Taking the term “phenomenologist” in a fairly broad sense, Early Phenomenology focuses on those early exponents of the intellectual discipline, such as Buber, Ortega and Scheler rather than those thinkers that would later eclipse them; indeed the volume precisely means to bring into question what it means to be a phenomenologist, a category that becomes increasingly more fluid the more we distance ourselves from the gravitational pull of philosophical giants Husserl and Heide…Read more
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46The Old and the New Phenomenology of ReligionHeythrop Journal 55 (4): 533-544. 2014.This paper contrasts the 'old' phenomenology of religion, in the form of G. van der Leeuw, with the work of a representative 'new' phenomenologist of religion, M. Henry. The central contrast drawn in the paper is between van der Leeuw's understanding of "life" with that of Michel Henry, but some points about basic methodological differences are made as well.
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45Bergson’s theory of war: A study of libido dominandiPhilosophy and Social Criticism 44 (5): 593-611. 2018.Bergson scholars such as Leonard Lawlor, Alexander Lefebvre, Philip Soulez, and Frederic Worms have recently argued that Bergson “places the phenomenon of war at the center of his analysis” in Two Sources of Morality and Religion. We want to contribute to this line of interpretation. We claim that Bergson’s account of the causes of, and solution to, the problem of war can be effectively understood in light of a central tenet of classical political philosophy, namely, the City of God, both the co…Read more
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33Christopher Watkin: Difficult atheism: post-theological thinking in Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux: Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2011, xiii + 281 pp, $105.00 , $40.00 (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 74 (3): 359-362. 2013.
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27Tauromachia as Counter-Sacrificial Ritual: Insights from Mimetic TheoryContagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 25 (1): 243-263. 2018.Many proponents and opponents of the Corrida de Toros agree in describing the practice as a sacrifice. This surprising agreement is compounded by a further agreement that the sacrificial victim is the bull. In what follows, I contest both points. Beginning with the later, I argue that the victim is not the bull but the torero, especially the matador. Rather than seeing the corrida as the sacrifice of the bull, it is the deferred sacrifice of the torero, and the crowd is on the side of the victim…Read more
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25Object Oriented Ontology and José Ortega y Gasset’s Anti-Idealist Interpretation of PhenomenologySouthwest Philosophy Review 30 (1): 169-175. 2014.This paper is a discussion and critique of G. Harmon's interpretation of Ortega 's work, as set out in Harmon's "Guerrilla Metaphysics." I argue that while Harmon is right to point out Ortega 's critique of idealism, Ortega nevertheless remains a 'philosopher of access.' Ortega 's disagrees with the idealist i claim that we access reality through ideas, but agrees with the more basic point that philosophy ought to give an account of how we access reality
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24Hegel, Husserl and the Phenomenology of Historical Worlds. By Tanja Staehler. Pp. xi, 246, London/NY, Rowman and Littlefield, 2017, $120.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 58 (4): 718-719. 2017.
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24In Praise of Heteronomy: Making Room for Revelation. By Merold Westphal. Pp. xvi, 241, Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2017, $27.09 (review)Heythrop Journal 60 (2): 324-325. 2019.
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22Ontology after Ontotheology: Plurality, Event and Contingency in Contemporary Philosophy. By Gert‐Jan van der Heiden. Pp. ix, 340, Pittsburg, Duquesne University Press, 2014, $30.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 56 (6): 1085-1086. 2015.
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21The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology. Edited by Sebastian Luft and Søren Overgaard . Pp. 716. London/NY, Routledge, 2012, $200.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 55 (4): 720-721. 2014.
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19Metaphysical Speculation and its Applicability to a Mode of LivingBochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 9 (1): 81-92. 2004.This paper argues that Boethius’ De Consolatione Philosophiae presents theoretical metaphysical speculation as having a direct bearing on the life of the metaphysician. Boethius accomplishes this through his depiction of Lady Philosophy’s ‘therapy’ wherein complex metaphysical arguments are utilized to pull Boethius out of his depression, returning him to what she calls his true self. I begin the paper by contextualizing this discussion in terms of the debate as to whether or not the ‘philosophi…Read more
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17Introduction to Existentialism: From Kierkegaard to The Seventh Seal. By Robert L.Wicks. Pp. ix, 225, Londo: Bloomsbury, 2020, £20.69 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 155-156. 2021.
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17Sacred violence in mimetic theory and Levinasian ethicsJournal for Cultural Research 23 (4): 396-410. 2019.Levinas is famously opposed to the sacred and its association with violence. In Totality and Infinity, he writes that he seeks to describe a relationship with the other that is ‘purified of the vio...
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17Subjectivity and Irreligion (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (1): 194-196. 2005.This is a short book review. The 'title' of the piece is the title of the book under review.
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17Book Review: Machiavelli’s Florentine Republic, by Michelle T. Clarke (review)Political Theory 47 (5): 751-756. 2019.
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16Heidegger and the Problem of Consciousness. By Nancy J.Holland. Pp. 132, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2018, $38.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 157-158. 2021.
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14Minimalist Phenomenology and Van der Leeuw’s Phenomenology of ReligionJournal for Continental Philosophy of Religion 3 (1): 49-64. 2021.Beginning with a brief discussion of Dominique Janicaud’s proposal for a minimalist phenomenology, I turn to the work G. van der Leeuw and argue that his work in the phenomenology of religion can be profitably read as a minimalist phenomenology. I do this by focusing mainly on his methodological remarks, but do occasionally refer to his analyses of particular religious phenomena. Finally, the paper closes with some suggestions about how to think of the relationship between minimalist phenomenolo…Read more
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13Heidegger in France. By Dominique Janicaud. Translated by François Raffoul and David Pettigrew. Pp. xv, 540, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2015, $68.31 (review)Heythrop Journal 58 (4): 725-726. 2017.
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13An Avant‐garde Theological Generation: The Nouvelle Théologie and the French Crisis of Modernity. By JonKirwan. Pp. 311, Oxford University Press, 2018, £70.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 193-194. 2021.
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13Heidegger and the Jews: The Black Notebooks. By DonatelladiCesare; translated by Murtha Baca. Pp. x, 310, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2018, £17.22 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (1): 159-159. 2021.
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13Between the Canon and the Messiah: The Structure of Faith in Contemporary Continental Thought. By Colby Dickinson. Pp. 266, London, Bloomsbury, 2013, $39.95 (review)Heythrop Journal 58 (4): 733-734. 2017.
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12The Crisis of Modernity. By Augusto del Noce. Edited and Translated by Carlo Lancellotti. Pp. 312, Montreal, McGills‐Queen's University Press, 2014, $34.95 (review)Heythrop Journal 58 (4): 737-738. 2017.
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