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16An Institutional Approach to Alterity: Thinking Love in Levinas and HegelJournal of Religious Ethics 50 (3): 462-487. 2022.Emmanuel Levinas's early work inaugurated a tradition of thinking about alterity as at odds with generalized forms of knowledge that characterize political institutions. However, in his later work Levinas broaches but leaves underdeveloped the provocative idea that institutional modes of reasoning can provide a welcome home for alterity if they follow the wisdom of love. Against this backdrop, I argue that reading G. W. F. Hegel's early writings on neighbor love alongside his mature philosophy o…Read more
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169Religion and Reconnecting with Nature: A Deweyian Reading of Leslie Silko's Ceremony, and Vice-VersaWorldviews: Global Religion, Culture, Ecology 19. 2020.
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21Listening to Nature’s Voices: Human and Animal Autonomy in HegelEnvironmental Philosophy 19 (1): 23-44. 2022.This article reconstructs Hegel’s account of nature’s autonomy and argues for its significance for his understanding of human autonomy and the relation between nature and spirit. It argues that Hegel treats the actualization of nature’s autonomy—epitomized by the phenomena of animal voice and birdsong—as a vital component of the actualization of free human spirit. Drawing on this analysis, the article then offers an ecological gloss on Hegel’s interest in the progressive actualization of freedom…Read more
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