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5High AspirationsIn Fritz Allhoff & Stephen E. Schmid (eds.), Climbing ‐ Philosophy for Everyone, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010-09-24.This chapter contains sections titled: Why Do We Climb? Why Should We Climb? Building the Best Person Climbing and Self‐Cultivation The Only Rule Is There Are No Rules (Except the Ones That Matter) Courage Humility Reverence for the Natural World Cultivating Virtue in a Domesticated World Why Climb? Notes.
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1Thinking like a jaguar : carnal hermeneutics, touch, and the limits of languageIn Brian Treanor & James L. Taylor (eds.), Anacarnation and returning to the lived body with Richard Kearney, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2022.
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Introduction: Re-touching philosophy with Richard KearneyIn Brian Treanor & James L. Taylor (eds.), Anacarnation and returning to the lived body with Richard Kearney, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2022.
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Introduction: Re-touching philosophy with Richard KearneyIn Brian Treanor & James L. Taylor (eds.), Anacarnation and returning to the lived body with Richard Kearney, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2022.
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12Anacarnation and returning to the lived body with Richard Kearney (edited book)Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.This edited collection responds to Richard Kearney's recent work on touch, excarnation, and embodiment, as well as his broader work in carnal hermeneutics, which sets the stage for his return to and retrieval of the senses of the lived body. Here, fourteen scholars engage the breadth and depth of Kearney's work to illuminate our experience of the body. The essays collected within take up a wide variety of subjects, from nature to non-human animals to our experience of the sacred and the demonic,…Read more
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Thinking like a jaguar : carnal hermeneutics, touch, and the limits of languageIn Brian Treanor & James L. Taylor (eds.), Anacarnation and returning to the lived body with Richard Kearney, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2022.
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62 Putting Hospitality in Its PlaceIn Richard Kearney & Kascha Semonovitch (eds.), Phenomenologies of the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality, Fordham University Press. pp. 49-66. 2022.
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5Quis ergo Amo cum Deum Meum Amo?In John Panteleimon Manoussakis (ed.), After God: Richard Kearney and the Religious Turn in Continental Philosophy, Fordham University Press. pp. 139-154. 2022.
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40Melancholic Joy: On Life Worth LivingBloomsbury. 2021.See the external link on this entry for a "widget" supplied by Bloomsbury, which will give you access to the first chapter. Today, we find ourselves surrounded by numerous reasons to despair, from loneliness, suffering and death at an individual level to societal alienation, oppression, sectarian conflict and war. No honest assessment of life can take place without facing up to these facts and it is not surprising that more and more people are beginning to suspect that the human story will end i…Read more
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6Mind the GapIn Richard Kearney & Brian Treanor (eds.), Carnal Hermeneutics, Fordham. pp. 57-74. 2015.
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2IntroductionIn Richard Kearney & Brian Treanor (eds.), Carnal Hermeneutics, Fordham. pp. 1-12. 2015.
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16Another World… Inside This OneDiakrisis 1 111-130. 2018.Continental philosophy has long been concerned with the question of transcendence, a fact attributable in part to the historical significance of phenomenology and the legacy of debates surrounding transcendental idealism, the epoche, the status of the world and of other people, and, at least for some philosophers, the question of God. The question takes different forms in Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Levinas, Derrida, Marion, and others working in this tradition, but it remains an …Read more
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31Joy and the Myopia of FinitudeComparative and Continental Philosophy 8 (1): 6-25. 2016.Philosophy, by and large, tends to dwell on what might be called the woeful nature of reality—finitude, suffering, loss, death, and the like. While these topics are no doubt worthy of philosophical concern, undue focus on them tends to obscure other facets of our experience and of reality, giving philosophy a temperament that could justifiably be called melancholic. Without besmirching the value of such inquiry, this paper suggests that philosophers have largely ignored the experience of joy and…Read more
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28Vitality: Carnal, Seraphic BodiesJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 25 (1): 200-220. 2017.This paper reflects on experiences of what i call vitality. Such experiences are neither idiosyncratic nor mere romanticism. Moreover, while some figures in continental philosophy do address the body—as perceiving, as sexed, as political—there has been almost no attention given to the active body of vitality. Drawing from the work of Michel Serres, this paper will uncover some of the significant features of such bodily experiences.
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28Anatheism: Returning to God After GodInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 19 (5). 2011.International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 19, Issue 5, Page 771-777, December 2011
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24The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Less is More—More or Less (review)Environmental Ethics 38 (3): 383-384. 2016.
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103Jill Graper Hernandez, Gabriel Marcel’s Ethic of Hope: Evil, God and VirtueJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 20 (1): 143-146. 2012.Review of Jill Graper Hernandez, Gabriel Marcel's Ethic of Hope: Evil, God, and Virtue.
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6Embodied ears: being in the world and hearing the otherIn Bruce Ellis Benson & Norman Wirzba (eds.), Words of life: new theological turns in French phenomenology, Fordham University Press. pp. 222-232. 2010.
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13Carnal Hermeneutics (edited book)Fordham. 2015.Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern. Carnal Hermeneutics provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Transcending the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, the volume argues that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations. Because interpretation truly goes "all the way down," carnal hermene…Read more
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223Turn Around and Step ForwardEnvironmental Philosophy 7 (1): 27-46. 2010.Insufficiently radical environmentalism is inadequate to the problems that confront us; but overly radical environmentalism risks alienating people with whom, in a democracy, we must find common cause. Building on Paul Ricoeur’s work, which shows how group identity is constituted by the tension between ideology and utopia, this essay asks just how radical effective environmentalism should be. Two “case studies” of environmental agenda—that of Michael Schellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, and that of …Read more
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28God and the Other PersonProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 75 313-324. 2001.One of the most astonishing aspects of Levinas’s philosophy is the assertion that other persons are absolutely other than the self. The difficulties attending a relationship with absolute otherness are ancient, and immediately invoke Meno’s Paradox. How can we encounter that which is not already within us? The traditional reply to Meno (anamnesis) reduces other persons to the role of midwife and thereby, says Levinas, mitigates their alterity. Although Descartes seems to provide a rejoinder to a…Read more
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73Blessed are Those Who Have Not Seen and Yet Believe: Postmodernity and the Return of ReligionAnalecta Hermeneutica 2. 2010.
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56What Tradition, Whose Archive?: Blogs, Googlewashing, and the Digitization of the ArchiveAnalecta Hermeneutica 1 289-302. 2009.One of the central points of Derrida’sArchive Fever is that the nature of the “archive” affects not only what is archived, but also how we relate to and access it. The archive also conditions the process of archiving itself and, indeed, the very nature of what is archivable. Derrida's comments, however, were made in 1995, when the full extent of the Internet boom was only beginning to become evident. The intervening years have reshaped the archive in ways that Derrida could scarcely have foresee…Read more
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92Narrative Environmental Virtue Ethics: Phronesis without a PhronimosEnvironmental Ethics 30 (4): 361-379. 2008.It is increasingly clear that virtue ethics has an important role to play in environmental ethics. However, virtue ethics—which has always been characterized by a degree of ambiguity—is faced with substantial challenges in the contemporary “postmodern” cultural milieu. Among these challenges is the lure of relativism. Most virtue ethics depend upon some view of the good life; however, today there is no unambiguous, easily agreed-upon account of the good life. Rather, we are presented with a bewi…Read more
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29Emplotting Virtue: A Narrative Approach to Environmental Virtue EthicsState University of New York Press. 2014.
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50Aspects of alterity: Levinas, Marcel, and the contemporary debateFordham University Press. 2006."Every other is truly other, but no other is wholly other." This is the claim that Aspects of Alterity defends. Taking up the question of otherness that so fascinates contemporary continental philosophy, this book asks what it means for something or someone to be other than the self. Levinas and those influenced by him point out that the philosophical tradition of the West has generally favored the self at the expense of the other. Such a self-centered perspective never encounters the other qua …Read more
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