• The Possible Present
    State University of New York Press. 2011.
    A practical hermeneutics of time. The Possible Present unfolds from within a freely reinterpreted hermeneutic perspective and provides an original theoretical proposal on the topic of time. In dialogue especially with the philosophies of Husserl and Heidegger, but resorting also to suggestions coming from a theological background (Barth and Bonhoeffer), the work proposes a personal and original theory of time centered on a conception of the present that does not reduce temporality to a successio…Read more
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    Ethics of Writing (edited book)
    State University of New York Press. 2009.
    _First English translation of Sini’s important work on the influence of writing and the alphabet on Western rationality._
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    Set in the context of global philosophy, this volume offers critical, innovative, and productive dialogue between some of the most influential philosophical figures from East and West.
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    Between Nihilism and Politics: The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo (edited book)
    State University of New York Press. 2010.
    Essays describe Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s unique and radical hermeneutic philosophy
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    Leading Italian philosophers engage issues in ethics, politics, and religion
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    Introduction
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 30 (3): 235-241. 2016.
    This special issue brings together some of the highlights from the fifty-fourth annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Emory University hosted the conference on October 8–10, 2015, in Atlanta, Georgia. The articles included in this volume draw out, in plural ways, the trajectories, methodologies, and orientations that run through what we call today Continental philosophy. By mining the affective, imaginary, conceptual, and political dimensions of experience, …Read more
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    Introduction
    with Amy Allen
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 29 (3): 261-264. 2015.
    This is an introduction to a volume of articles containing highlights from the fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) hosted by Loyola University–New Orleans with Tulane University from October 23–25, 2014. Many of the articles included here mine the rich and productive vein of post-Kantian critical philosophy that inspires so much work in Continental philosophy; hence the title of our volume is “Legacies of Critique.” The volume opens with …Read more
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    Introduction
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 31 (3): 313-318. 2017.
    This special issue brings together some of the highlights from the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Utah Valley University hosted the conference on October 20–22, 2016, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The title of this issue, "Placing Transcontinental Philosophy," attempts to capture a sense of the expanding diversity and depth of continental philosophy in the new millennium as it is practiced and advanced by SPEP. The neologism transcontinental ph…Read more
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    How are the teachings of a thirteenth-century master relevant today? Twenty contemporary writers unpack Dogen's words and show how we can still find meaning in his teachings. Engaging Dogen's Zen is a practice oriented study of Shushogi (a canonical distillation of Dogen's thought used as a primer in the Soto School of Zen) and Fukanzazengi (Dogen's essential text on the practice of "just sitting," a text recited daily in the Soto School of Zen). It is also a study of the entire self. Here, the …Read more
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    The Way of Becoming-Imperceptible: Daoism, Deleuze, and Inner Transformation
    Comparative and Continental Philosophy 14 (1): 8-29. 2022.
    This essay brings together the discourses of Daoism and Deleuze and Guattari to elucidate the convergence among them on a fundamental metaphysical level that can open, for the receptive mind, a deeper intuitive insight and understanding of what a person is capable of doing and becoming, and how such a person can enter into a different relation with spacetime beyond the conventional understanding of it. After examining how vital energy (qi 氣) is transformed in internal alchemy (neidan 内丹), the fo…Read more
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    Breaking the Closed Circle
    Dialogue and Universalism 8 (10): 97-106. 1998.
    Levinas' philosophy is in part predicated on a retrieval or recasting of select Platonic motifs, yet his relationship to such thinking is frequently, and necessarily, ambiguous. While refraining from the often hyperbolic language of Nietzsche's reversal or inversion of "Platonism," Levinas' more sober approach effects both a radical tum away from and toward, Plato's teaching on paideia. Echoing Nietzsche's injunction that the teacher is sometimes a "necessary evil," and calling into question the…Read more
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    Bioregionalism and Territorialization
    Call to Earth 1 (1): 10-14. 2000.
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    Hiding Between Basho and Chōra
    Research in Phenomenology 49 (3): 335-361. 2019.
    This essay considers the relation between two fundamentally different notions of place—the Greek concept of χώρα and the Japanese concept of basho 場所—in an effort to address the question of a possible “other beginning” to philosophy by rethinking the relation between nature and the elemental. Taking up a cross-cultural comparative approach, ancient through contemporary Eastern and Western sources are considered. Central to this endeavor is reflection on the concept of the between through an enga…Read more
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    Levinas and the Ancients (edited book)
    Indiana University Press. 2008.
    The relation between the Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions is "the great problem" of Western philosophy, according to Emmanuel Levinas. In this book Brian Schroeder, Silvia Benso, and an international group of philosophers address the relationship between Levinas and the world of ancient thought. In addition to philosophy, themes touching on religion, mythology, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, ethics, and politics are also explored. The volume as a whole provides a unified and extended d…Read more
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    SPEP Co-Director's Address: The Basho of Transcontinental Philosophy
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 31 (3): 319-334. 2017.
    The general topic of my remarks concerns the place, or basho in Japanese, of transcontinental philosophy within the context of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and the philosophical profession in general. I introduced the term transcontinental when as director of the thirty-fifth Collegium Phaenomenologicum in 2010 I formulated the theme of that year's meeting: "Transcontinental Philosophy: Interpreting Philosophy Across Borders and Idioms." Marking what was a historic fi…Read more
  • Violence and the Absolute
    Dissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook. 1990.
    Centered around the work of Emmanuel Levinas, this dissertation reassesses the relation between the concepts of totality and the Absolute in an effort to bypass certain metaphysical and ontological prejudices that have resulted in a history of violent thought and action in Western culture. This study is intended for consideration not only by the philosophical community, but by the disciplines of theology and social and political science as well. ;This dissertation is composed of two movements. F…Read more
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    One of the most pressing concerns for contemporary society is the issue of violence and the factors that promote it. In ____Altared Ground: Levinas, History and Violence__ Brian Schroeder stages an engagement between Emmanuel Levinas, one of the leading figures in 20th century Continental philosophy, and Plato, Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and others in the history of ideas. Not merely an exposition of Levinas' original and complex thinking, Brian Schroeder seeks to re-rea…Read more
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    Evil and the Unconscious (review)
    Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 61 (1): 173-176. 1986.
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    The Inoperative Earth
    Studies in Practical Philosophy 4 (1): 126-145. 2004.
  • Japan : the dilemma of Dôgen
    In David Edward Jones & Ellen R. Klein (eds.), Asian Texts, Asian Contexts: Encounters with Asian Philosophies and Religions, State University of New York Press. 2009.
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    The listening eye: Nietzsche and Levinas
    Research in Phenomenology 31 (1): 188-202. 2001.
    Nietzsche's recognition of existence as an ever-shifting play of surface appearances presages his "revaluation of all values," his response to those who would stabilize becoming by metaphysically reifying it as being. Nietzsche arguably provides Levinas with his deepest ethical challenge. Consequently, Levinas himself undertakes a similar revaluation of the ground of traditional values and of the subject. Both put forth heterodox notions of subjectivity insofar as the subject is constituted by a…Read more
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    Preface
    Studies in Practical Philosophy 4 (2): 1-2. 2004.
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    Levinas and Platonic paideia
    In Claire Elise Katz & Lara Trout (eds.), Emmanuel Levinas, Routledge. pp. 2--10. 2005.
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    Theological Nihilism and Italian Philosophy
    Philosophy Today 49 (4): 355-361. 2005.
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    The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty serves both as a ground and a site of departure for Levinas’ thinking. This essay takes up their relationship, with particular regard to the question of whether Merleau-Ponty’s later shift from phenomenology to ontology brings him under Levinas’ critique of ontology as a totalizing philosophy of power that ultimately either denies or negates the radical alterity of the other. Both thinkers are engaged in reconceiving the intersubjective relation, and focus…Read more