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2The Historicity of the EyePhänomenologische Forschungen 2009 79-94. 2009.Against a stream of culturally oriented scholars some scholars in aesthetics, such as Arthur Danto and Noel Carroll, have maintained that there is a sense of “seeing” and visual recognition that does not depend upon historical and cultural practices. This essay shows that Danto’s assumption of a difference between a “core” and an “extended” form of perception and visual recognition should be rejected. The underlying argument of my considerations in this essay is the following: the distinction be…Read more
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1Marx contra NegriIn Antonio Calcagno (ed.), Contemporary Italian Political Philosophy, State University of New York Press. pp. 217-242. 2015.
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8Movements or Events?In Silvia Benso & Antonio Calcagno (eds.), Open borders: encounters between Italian philosophy and continental thought, State University of New York Press. pp. 231-252. 2021.
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Ultima Ratio Decisions and Absolute InteriorityIn Elodie Boublil & Antonio Calcagno (eds.), Rethinking interiority: phenomenological approaches, State University of New York Press. pp. 143-157. 2023.
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9Reading Continental philosophy and the history of thought (edited book)Lexington Books. 2023.This volume explores of the history of figures, issues, and debates in Continental philosophy to re-frame our understanding of how modern and recent philosophy has unfolded, especially through the investigation of understudied ideas and thinkers.
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68 Against Essentialist Conceptions of Love: Toward a Social-Material TheoryIn Antonio Calcagno & Diane Enns (eds.), Thinking about Love: Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Penn State University Press. pp. 131-148. 2015.
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5Subjektivität, Verantwortung, Wahrheit: neue Aspekte der Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls (edited book)P. Lang. 2002.Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge von Philosophen und Philosophinnen innerhalb der phänomenologischen Forschung, speziell derjenigen Husserls. Die Beiträge zeichnen sich durch ihre innovative Kraft aus, da sie Neuland betreten und der phänomenologischen Forschung neue Wege eröffnen. Die Beiträge repräsentieren den gegenwärtigen Forschungsstand auf internationalem Niveau. Forscher und Forscherinnen aus Österreich, Deutschland, Dänemark, Japan, Taiwan, Italien und den USA sind versammelt. D…Read more
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7Lucien Goldmann redivivusMetodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 9 (2): 241-272. 2021.In this paper, I first argue that Lucien Goldmann’s attempt to confront Heidegger and Lukács, though it deserves to be revitalized, remains ultimately insuficient. Second, I propose that a more fruitful reading of Heidegger and Lukács should be based on three aspects: first, Lukács’ concept of social totality should be related to Heidegger’s concept of world. Second, the more meaningful way to confront Lukács and Heidegger on the level of praxis is not the everyday dealings with ready-to-hand th…Read more
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4Marx and classical studies - (c.) deglau, (p.) reinard (edd.) Aus dem tempel und dem ewigen genuß Des geistes verstoßen? Karl Marx und sein einfluss auf die altertums- und geschichtswissenschaften. (Philippika 126.) Pp. VI + 449, ills. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020. Cased, €124. Isbn: 978-3-447-11098-3 (review)The Classical Review 72 (1): 331-334. 2022.
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3Im Bilde sein. Husserls Phänomenologie des BildbewusstseinsIn Roman Veressov & Simone Neuber (eds.), Das Bild als Denkfigur: Funktionen des Bildbegriffs in der Philosophiegeschichte von Platon bis Nancy, Wilhelm Fink. 2010.
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23Bonefeld on Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy (review)Radical Philosophy Review 18 (2): 337-342. 2015.
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41Truth in Husserl, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt School: Critical Retrieval by Lambert ZuidervaartJournal of the History of Philosophy 56 (2): 379-380. 2018.In his new book, Lambert Zuidervaart argues that the concept of propositional truth remains one-dimensional and needs to be extended by and embedded in several versions of what the author calls “existential truth,” which he discusses in relation to phenomenology and critical theory. Zuidervaart focuses on key figures of twentieth-century German philosophy, such as Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Jürgen Habermas, and Max Horkheimer. According to the author, his book “does not in…Read more
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30Marx’s Inferno: The political theory of capitalContemporary Political Theory 17 (S3): 139-142. 2017.
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16Distant PresenceSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 16 (1): 86-111. 2012.In this essay, I offer thoughts on the constitution of images in art, especially as they are constituted in painting and in photography. Utilizing ideas from Gadamer, Derrida and Adorno, I shall argue that representation should be conceived as a performative concept and as an act of formation; i.e., as a process rather thanas something "fixed." My reflections will be carried out in connection with a careful analysis of Gerhard Richter's painting Reader (1994), which is a painting of a photograph…Read more
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14Representation or Sensation?Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 13 (1): 59-72. 2009.In this paper, I shall present an argument against Deleuze’s philosophy of painting. Deleuze’s main thesis in Logic of Sensation is twofold: [1] he claims that painting is based on a non-representational level; and [2] he claims that this level comes out of the materiality of painting. I shall claim that Deleuze’s theses should be rejected for the following reasons: first, the difference between non-intentional life and the representational world is too strict. I submit that the nonintentional r…Read more
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The Photographic Attitude: Barthes for PhenomenologistsIn Pol Vandevelde & Sebastian Luft (eds.), Epistemology, Archaeology, Ethics: Current Investigations of Husserl's Corpus, Continuum. 2010.
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10Distant Presence: Representation, Painting and Photography in Gerhard Richter’s ReaderPainting and Photography in Gerhard Richter’s Reader,” Symposium. Canadian Journal for Continental Philosophy 16 (1): 87-111. 2012.An essay concerning the representation of images in art, photography, and painting concerning analysis of Gerhard Richter's painting reader. It offers a debate that representation should be regarded as an act of formation and a performative concept. The author presents analysis of painting which leads the reader into the problem of painted images, such as the constitution of an image by a complex relationship among memory, reading, and blindness.
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16Sehnsüchtiges SeinFichte-Studien 22 155-169. 2003.Es ist bekannt, daß Husserl Fichtes theoretischer Philosophie keine gute Seite abgewinnen konnte. In den 1917 vor Kriegsheimkehrern gehaltenen und 1918 wiederholten Vorträgen über Fichte spricht Husserl von »abstrusen Konstruktionen«, die in der Wissenschaftslehre Fichtes zu finden seien. Nichtsdestotrotz kann man sehen, daß beide Ansätze mehr als bloße Strukturanalogien aufweisen. Es wurde - wenn auch nicht häufig - darauf hingewiesen, daß sachliche Verweise beider Ansätze aufeinander möglich s…Read more
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13Cognitivism and Practical IntentionalityInternational Philosophical Quarterly 47 (2): 153-166. 2007.Hubert L. Dreyfus has worked out a critique of what he calls “representationalism” and “cognitivism,” one proponent of which, according to Dreyfus, is Husserl. But I think that Dreyfus misunderstands the Husserlian conception of practical intentionality and that his characterization of Husserl as a “representationalist” or as a “cognitivist” is thereby wrongheaded. In this paper I examine Dreyfus’s interpretation by offering a Husserlian critique of Dreyfus’s objections to Husserl, and then by o…Read more
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2Reification through Commodity Form or Technology? From Honneth back to Heidegger and MarxRethinking Marxism 25 (2): 184-200. 2013.
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9Recollection, mourning, and the absolute past: On Husserl, Freud, and DerridaThe New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 4 121-141. 2004.
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7Scholarship in Heideggerian philosophy can be broadly differentiated into three groups, which evolved in the European and Anglo-American discourses after WWII, namely, first a transcendental (idealist Kantian) approach; second, an Aristotelian approach; and third, a Christian approach to Heidegger’s analytic of Dasein and his fundamental ontology. All of these basic positions are a result of Heidegger’s philosophy on his way to Being and Time (1927) which he developed both in his broad ranging a…Read more
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2XVIII. Deutscher Kongreß für Philosophie "Die Zukunft des Wissens" 4.-8.10.1999 an der Universität KonstanzZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 54 (1). 2000.
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6From affectivity to subjectivity: Husserl's phenomenology revisitedPalgrave-Macmillan. 2007.Christian Lotz shows in this book that Husserl's Phenomenology and its key concept--subjectivity--is based on a concrete anthropological structure, such as self-affection and the bodily experience of the other. The analysis of the sensual sphere and the lived Body forces Husserl to an ongoing correction of his strong methodological assumptions. Subjectivity turns out to be an ambivalent phenomenon, as the subject is unable to fully present itself to itself, and therefore is forced to allow for a…Read more
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17The events of morality and forgiveness: From Kant to DerridaResearch in Phenomenology 36 (1): 255-273. 2006.In this paper, I will perform a "step back" by showing how Derrida's analysis of forgiveness is rooted in Kantian moral philosophy and in Derrida's interpretation of Kierkegaard's concept of decision. This will require a discussion of the distinction that Kant draws in his Groundwork between price (the economic) and dignity (the incomparable), as well as a discussion of the underlying notion of singularity in Kant's text. In addition, Derrida universalizes Kierkegaard's concept of the agent so t…Read more
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