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305SYMPHILOSOPHIE 4 (2022) - Cosmic Web: Hemsterhuis Among the German Romantics (edited book)SYMPHILOSOPHIE: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism. 2022.Issue number 4 of "SYMPHILOSOPHIE: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism" is devoted to the Dutch philosopher François Hemsterhuis and 250th anniversary of the birth of the German romantics Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel. This fourth issue of the journal contains nearly 600 pages of new research articles, translations, review-essays, and book reviews. The main section on Hemsterhuis among the German Romantics was guest edited by Daniel Whistler (Royal Holloway, University of London)…Read more
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298This report is the product of the Arts-and-Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities programme. The specific project being undertaken at the University of Liverpool is entitled Philosophy of Religion and Religious Communities: Defining Beliefs and Symbols. The aim of the Liverpool project as a whole is to consider the contribution philosophy of religion can make to recent debates surrounding legal cases alleging religious discrimination. Its orienting question runs, ‘when, if ever, is …Read more
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71Post-Established Harmony: Kant and Analogy ReconsideredSophia 52 (2): 235-258. 2013.This essay is a response to John Milbank’s comparison of Kant and Aquinas’ theories of analogy in ‘A Critique of the Theology of Right’. A critique of Milbank’s essay forms the point of departure for my reconstruction of Kant’s actual theory of analogy. I show that the usual focus on the Prolegomena for this end is insufficient; in fact, the full extent of Kant’s theory of analogy only becomes clear in the Critique of Judgment. I also consider the significance of the Analogies of Experience in t…Read more
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69Kant’s imitatio ChristiInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 67 (1). 2010.This article retrieves Kant's imitatio Christi as a viable alternative to the recent construal of mimesis as a universal human desire, in particular to Ward's reformulation of the imitatio Christi in such terms (in which the human condition is defined by an intrinsic desire for God as other). Kant's writings participate in a very different debate on imitation (one sceptical of its ethical value), and this plays out as a continual ambivalence towards the concept in his work. Kant's imitatio Chris…Read more
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55Purely Practical Reason: Normative Epistemology from Leibniz to MaimonEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 18 (2): 395-419. 2014.In this paper, I contend that a crucial historical precedent for contemporary interest in virtue epistemology is to be found in Leibniz-Wolffian rationalism. For philosophers from Wolff to Lessing, epistemology was thoroughly normative; that is, the task of epistemology was not to describe knowledge, but set rules for the amelioration of knowledge. Such a normative stance was transferred into cognate disciplines, such as aesthetics, as well. I further argue that after Kant’s Copernican revolutio…Read more
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49Purely Practical Reason: Normative Epistemology from Leibniz to MaimonEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (2): 395-419. 2013.In this paper, I contend that a crucial historical precedent for contemporary interest in virtue epistemology is to be found in Leibniz-Wolffian rationalism. For philosophers from Wolff to Lessing, epistemology was thoroughly normative; that is, the task of epistemology was not to describe knowledge, but set rules for the amelioration of knowledge. Such a normative stance was transferred into cognate disciplines, such as aesthetics, as well. I further argue that after Kant’s Copernican revolutio…Read more
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40The New Literalism: Reading After Grant’s SchellingSymposium 19 (1): 125-139. 2015.In the wake of post-hermeneutic refusals of interpretation in recent continental philosophy, this essay returns to Schelling as a means of understanding what such a renewed reading practice of philosophical fundamentalism might look like. I argue that recent impetus for a Schellingian conception of literalism can be found in Grant’s attack on the metaphorizing tendencies of previous Schelling scholarship, and the ground for such literalism is to be located in the concept of tautegory that Schell…Read more
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37Howie’s Between Feminism and Materialism and the Critical History of ReligionsSophia 53 (2): 183-192. 2014.This essay traces the notion of abstraction through the works of Gillian Howie as a means of thinking through the nature of critique within philosophy of religion. In particular, it argues that Howie’s recovery of a more productive conception of abstraction in her late Between Feminism and Materialism is closely linked to the resurgence of real abstraction in recent Marxist theory. From these shifts, one can derive both an enriched conception of religion as real abstraction and a method of criti…Read more
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36Schelling's Theory of Symbolic Language: Forming the System of IdentityOxford University Press. 2013.A reconstruction of F.W.J. Schelling's philosophy of language based on a detailed reading of §73 of Schelling's lectures on the Philosophy of Art
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34Gilles Deleuze and MetaphysicsLexington Books. 2014.This collection examines an aspect of Gilles Deleuze’s thought that has largely been neglected; whether or not Deleuze was a metaphysician. Answering this question may reveal the problematic nature of so-called postmodernism and the critique it leveled at the first philosophy, and it may help readers to better understand philosophy’s fate
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32Religious SymbolsPhilosophy Compass 11 (11): 730-742. 2016.In this essay, I survey the different uses of the concept of the symbol at play in the philosophy of religion. Considering that historically theories of the symbol have frequently had significant religious presuppositions and implications, I suggest that one might expect that the symbol would play a significant role in current research. This is not the case, however, since the very specific metaphysical, linguistic and theological premises that have traditionally informed much theorisation of th…Read more
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31Schelling on IndividuationComparative and Continental Philosophy 8 (3): 329-344. 2016.This paper traces Schelling’s discussions of individuation from the 1799 Erster Entwurf eines Systems der Naturphilosophie to the 1802 dialogue, Bruno. It argues that the Erster Entwurf is unable to solve what Schelling there calls “the highest problem of the philosophy of nature,” because nature as pure productivity necessarily tends to annihilate all individuality. It is only in 1801 and 1802, the years that mark Schelling’s construction of an Identitätssystem, that a solution emerges. This so…Read more
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30Anachronism in Recent Moral PhilosophyPhilosophy and Rhetoric 50 (3): 247-271. 2017.In this article, I examine a distinctive position in moral philosophy that, following Bernard Williams, I label “postanalytic”. In one of his final essays, “What Might Philosophy Become?”, Williams sets out a program for extending moral philosophy beyond its traditional “limits” in a way that will transform it into an embodied, historical, and political form of reflective practice.1 This programmatic intent has been shared by a number of moral philosophers since, some of whom are expressly influ…Read more
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29Francois Hemsterhuis and the Writing of PhilosophyEdinburgh University Press. 2022.Daniel Whistler argues that Hemsterhuis' philosophy matters and that its exclusion from the canon of modern philosophy has been unjust. This is not just because of its influence on later thinkers, but is primarily because Hemsterhuis' philosophy contains a rich assemblage of ideas and philosophical practices.
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27Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs: Essays in Moral and Religious Philosophy (edited book)Continuum International Publishing Group. 2011.Internationally renowned philosophers and up-and-coming researchers explore the intersection of philosophy of religion and moral philosophy.
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24Interrogating Modernity: Debates with Hans Blumenberg (edited book)Palgrave Macmillan. 2020.Interrogating Modernity returns to Hans Blumenberg's epochal The Legitimacy of the Modern Age as a springboard to interrogate questions of modernity, secularisation, technology and political legitimacy in the fields of political theology, history of ideas, political theory, art theory, history of philosophy, theology and sociology. That is, the twelve essays in this volume return to Blumenberg's work to think once more about how and why we should value the modern. Written by a group of leading i…Read more
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23How Speak of Eternity?Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (2): 343-365. 2018.The aim of this essay is to investigate the stylistic idiosyncrasies of Part V of Spinoza’s Ethics by focusing on the experience of the reader encountering this text: what is missed in most accounts, I argue, is the rhetorical effect of Spinoza’s language on a reader approaching the end of the book. The reader experiences hermeneutic anxiety upon encountering a God who loves, rejoices and glories in a relatively traditional manner after the iconoclastic dismantling of the traditional attributes …Read more
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22Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France: Volume 1 - Texts and Materials (edited book)Springer. 2023._Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France_ is a two-volume work that documents the French reception of G. W. F. Hegel and F. W. J. Schelling from 1801 to 1848. It shows that the story of the "French Hegel" didn't begin with Wahl and Kojève by giving readers a solid understanding of the various ways in which German Idealism impacted nineteenth-century French philosophy, as well as providing the first ever English-language translations of excerpts from the most important philosophica…Read more
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22Schelling’s afterlives: introductionInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 80 (1-2): 2-7. 2019.ABSTRACTIn this editorial introduction, we set out the contexts, aims and contents of this special issue on Schelling’s influence on later religious and theological thought, as well as the rationale behind its genesis.
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20The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European ThoughtBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (1): 188-191. 2014.No abstract
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20Naturalism and symbolismAngelaki 21 (4): 91-109. 2016.I argue that Schelling’s construction of symbolic language is to be understood as an application of Naturphilosophie; indeed, more generally, that the concept of the symbol theorised anew in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany was predominantly a naturphilosophische concept, and its transfer into the discourses of aesthetics and ultimately linguistics was one instance of a broader project to understand aesthetic phenomena through the explanatory framework of naturalism. That is…Read more
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20The lever as instrument of reason: technological constructions of knowledge around 1800: by Jocelyn Holland, London, Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 208 + vi, £96.00 (hb), ISBN: 9781501346057British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (4): 851-853. 2020.Volume 28, Issue 4, July 2020, Page 851-853.
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19The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century PhilosophyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (4). 2012.British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 849-852, July 2012
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19L’art de romantiser le monde: La peinture de Caspar David Friedrich et la philosophie romantique de Novalis (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 26 (3): 633-637. 2018.
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18The Schelling of religious existentialismInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 80 (1-2): 178-195. 2019.
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18Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France: Volume 2 - Studies (edited book)Springer. 2023._Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France_ is a two-volume work that documents the French reception of G. W. F. Hegel and F. W. J. Schelling from 1801 to 1848. It shows that the story of the "French Hegel" didn't begin with Wahl and Kojève by giving readers a solid understanding of the various ways in which German Idealism impacted nineteenth-century French philosophy, as well as providing the first ever English-language translations of excerpts from the most important philosophica…Read more
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18The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism (edited book)Palgrave Macmillan. 2023.The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism offers a wide-ranging dialogue between theory and German Idealism, joining up the various lines of influence connecting German Idealist and Romantic philosophies in all their variety to post-'68 European philosophies, from Derrida and Deleuze to Žižek and Malabou. Key features: Provides in-depth reflections on the various conversations between German Idealism and theory, including an expanded canon of Idealist philosophers and a wide…Read more
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18Editorial introduction: Schellingian experiments in speculationAngelaki 21 (4): 1-9. 2016.The naturephilosophical challenge can be posed not merely to postkantian philosophy as an episode in the history of philosophy, but to the postkantianism that remains foundational for contemporary...
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16Kierkegaard on Faith and Love (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (2): 302-303. 2012.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Kierkegaard on Faith and LoveDaniel WhistlerSharon Krishek. Kierkegaard on Faith and Love. Modern European Philosophy. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 201. Cloth, $90.00.Contemporary scholarship on Kierkegaard is frequently confronted by two problems. First, there is the question of Kierkegaard’s worldliness: does Kierkegaard have anything substantial to say about politics, society, and th…Read more
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16Briefwisseling met overige correpondenten, 1746–1789. Hemsterhuisiana (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (1): 224-228. 2019.
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