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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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1Ultima 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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101New journals in phenomenology: Annales de phénoménologie, the new yearbook for phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy, phänomenologische forschungen (review)Husserl Studies 20 (2): 167-181. 2004.
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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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8Lucien 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 Historicity of the Eye. A Phenomenological Defense of the Culturalist Conception of PerceptionPhänomenologische Forschungen - Phenomenological Studies - Recherches Phénoménologiques, 2010, Phänomenologische Forschungen - Phenomenological Studies - Recherches Phénoménologiques 107-122. 2010.
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91Depiction and plastic perception. A critique of Husserl’s theory of picture consciousnessContinental Philosophy Review 40 (2): 171-185. 2007.In this paper, I will present an argument against Husserl’s analysis of picture consciousness. Husserl’s analysis of picture consciousness (as it can be found primarily in the recently translated volume Husserliana 23) moves from a theory of depiction in general to a theory of perceptual imagination. Though, I think that Husserl’s thesis that picture consciousness is different from depictive and linguistic consciousness is legitimate, and that Husserl’s phenomenology avoids the errors of linguis…Read more
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Selbstbewußtseinsmodelle. Moderne Kritiken und systematische Entwürfe zur konkreten Subjektivität (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 52 (4). 1998.
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85Action: Phenomenology of wishing and willing in Husserl and HeideggerHusserl Studies 22 (2): 121-135. 2006.The problem of distinguishing between willing and wishing and their significance for both the constitution of our consciousness as well as the constitution of our practical life runs all the way through the history of philosophy. Given the persuasiveness of the problem, it might be helpful to draw a sharp distinction between a metaphysical and a psychological or phenomenological approach to the problem. The first approach may be identified with the positions that Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schope…Read more
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Is Capital a Thing? Remarks on Piketty’s Concept of CapitalCritical Sociology“Is Capital a Thing? Remarks on Piketty’s Concept of Capital 42 (2): 375-183. 2015.
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Lebendige Vernünftigkeit. Zur Vorbereitung eines menschenangemessenen Konzepts (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 53 (4). 1999.
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2Versprechen-Verzeihen, Erinnern-Vergessen Überlegungen zur Konstitution ethischer SubjektivitätStudia Philosophica 60 77-93. 2001.
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20The Capitalist Schema: Time, Money, and the Culture of AbstractionLexington Books. 2014.The Capitalist Schema uses marxist philosophy to explain how money frames all social relations in our capitalist world and how money regulates and conditions social references to past and future social life. Consequently, modern life becomes ever more abstract and leveled, and all human desire becomes channeled towards profit and making money.
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Areas of Specialization
Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Social and Political Philosophy |