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3Charles Darwin’s natural theory of evolution is one of the greatest ideas in history. His theory enabled mankind to partially perceive the patterns in nature. However, the greater pattern has remained undiscovered until now. With the decoding of ancient Greek mythology and philosophy, the pattern of evolution has been fully revealed. In his book On the Origins of Artificial Species, David R. Wood has completed the work begun by the ancient Greeks and progressed by the family Darwin. He has disco…Read more
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125Decoding The MenoIn Wood Stephen Foster (ed.), On the Origin of Artificial Species, Rsg Federal. pp. 230. 2023.
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97Decoding the MenoIn Wood Stephen Foster (ed.), On the Origin of Artificial Species, Rsg Federal. 2023.DECODING THE MENO The truth the dialectic Meno attempts to search for is human excellence or virtue. Part of this process is defining exactly what each concept really means. In truth, however, Plato has given the reader the answer – the greatest human virtue or excellence is imagination. The answer is subtly weaved into the dialogue itself. Plato has subliminally communicated the pattern of excellence.
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8Notes Towards a Deconstructive PhenomenologyJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 30 (1): 97-105. 1999.
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62Beyond Deconstruction?Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 21 175-194. 1987.There are many people who think that deconstruction has run its course, has had its day, and that it is now time to return to the important business of philosophy, or perhaps to serious ethical, social and political questions. Derrida's work, it is said, leads nowhere but a sterile philosophy of difference that in its de-politicized, de-historicized abstractness is a form of conservatism little better than the kinds of identity thinking to which it seems to be so radically opposed. In short, we …Read more
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11The Step Back: Ethics and Politics After DeconstructionState University of New York Press. 2005.Explores the ethical and political possibilities of philosophy after deconstruction
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42Writing the future (edited book)Routledge. 1990.INTRODUCTION EDITING THE FUTURE DAVID WOOD To write is to ride the tiger of time . Philosophers have too long built tiger cages. Philosophy this century has ...
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The actualisation of philosophy and the logic of geist: from avoidance to deploymentIn Of Derrida, Heidegger, and Spirit, Northwestern University Press. pp. 73--81. 1993.
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34Philosophers' poets (edited book)Routledge. 1990.Introduction: Thinking Poetic Writing Ever since Plato banished the poets from his Republic, while he himself continued to write with such artistry, ...
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Following DerridaIn John Sallis (ed.), Deconstruction and philosophy: the texts of Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press. pp. 143--160. 1987.
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67Derrida and Différance (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 1988.A Society of the Friends of Difference would have to include Heraclitus, Nietzsche, Saussure, Freud, Adorno, Heidegger, Levinas, Deleuze, and Lyotard among its most prominent members.
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4The following text provides a conceptual and theoretical introduction to a collection of essays written by members of the multidisciplinary network of scholars, artists and cultural producers named ‘Poetics of Resistance’, which seeks to analyse and encourage discussion of the relationships between creativity, culture and political resistance, in the context of neoliberal globalization. The introduction also provides a critical glossary of a set of loosely interlinking keywords, following Raymon…Read more
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51The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the Other (edited book)Routledge. 1988.There is a growing recognition of Levinas's importance. It can in part be attributed to an increasing concern that twentieth-century continental philosophy seems to have no place for ethics. In making ethics fundamental to philosophy, rather than a problem to which we might one day return, Levinas transforms continental thought. The book brings together some of the most interesting and far-reaching responses to the work of Levinas, in three different areas: contemporary feminism, psychotherapy, …Read more
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18Of Derrida, Heidegger, and Spirit (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 1993.Jacques Derrida's _De l'espirit: Heidegger et la question_ is one of his most interesting and accessible later works. In it, Derrida attempts to come to terms with Heidegger's Nazi connections by way of an extended reflection on Heidegger's use of the term "Geist." In _Of Derrida, Heidegger, and Spirit,_ David Wood presents a variety of powerful and distinctive responses to Derrida's book
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Econstructions : Theory and theology. The preoriginal gift and our response to it / Anne Primavesi ; prometheus redeemed? From autoconstruction to ecopoetics / Kate Rigby ; toward a Deleuze-guattarian micropneumatology of spirit-dust / Luke Higgins ; specters of Derrida : On the way to econstructionIn Laurel Kearns & Catherine Keller (eds.), Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth, Fordham University Press. 2007.
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31Thinking After HeideggerPolity. 2002.In _Thinking After Heidegger_, David Wood takes up the challenge posed by Heidegger - that after the end of philosophy we need to learn to _think_. But what if we read Heidegger with the same respectful irreverence that he brought to reading the Greeks, Kant, Hegel, Husserl and the others? For Wood, it is Derrida's engagements with Heidegger that set the standard here – enacting a repetition through transformation and displacement. But Wood is not content to crown the new king. Instead he sets u…Read more
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22Truth: Engagements Across Philosophical Traditions (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2005.Setting the stage with a selection of readings from important nineteenth century philosophers, this reader on truth puts in conversation some of the main philosophical figures from the twentieth century in the analytic, continental, and pragmatist traditions. Focuses on the value or normativity of truth through exposing the dialogues between different schools of thought Features philosophical figures from the twentieth century in the analytic, continental, and pragmatist traditions Topics addres…Read more
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134On being haunted by the futureResearch in Phenomenology 36 (1): 274-298. 2006.Derrida insists that we understand the 'to-come' not as a real future 'down the road', but rather as a universal structure of immanence. But such a structure is no substitute for the hard work of taking responsibility for what are often entirely predictable and preventable disasters (9/11, the Iraq war, Katrina, global warming). Otherwise "the future can only be anticipated in the form of an absolute danger". Derrida devotes much attention to proposing, imagining, hoping for a 'future' in which …Read more
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19Kierkegaard and Levinas: Ethics, Politics, and Religion (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2008.Recent discussions in the philosophy of religion, ethics, and personal political philosophy have been deeply marked by the influence of two philosophers who are often thought to be in opposition to each other, Søren Kierkegaard and Emmanuel Levinas. Devoted expressly to the relationship between Levinas and Kierkegaard, this volume sets forth a more rigorous comparison and sustained engagement between them. Established and newer scholars representing varied philosophical traditions bring these tw…Read more
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77On Paul Ricoeur: Narrative and Interpretation (edited book)Routledge. 1991.This book examines the later work of Paul Ricoeur, particularly his major work, Time and Narrative. The essays, including three pieces by Ricoeur himself, consider this important study, extending and developing the debate it has inspired. Time and Narrative is the finest example of contemporary philosophical hermeneutics and is one of the most significant works of philosophy published in the late twentieth century. Paul Ricoeur's study of the intertwining of time and narrative proposes and exami…Read more
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22Derrida: a critical reader (edited book)Blackwell. 1992.Jacques Derrida's prolific output has been the delight of philosophers and literary theorists for over twenty years. His influence on the way we read theoretical texts continues to be profound. No serious contemporary thinker can fail to come to terms with deconstruction and there have been a number of monographs devoted to his work. Very few, however, have combined a critical edge with a detailed knowledge of his writing. The contributors to this volume were each asked - in the most positive se…Read more
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26On the Way to EconstructionEnvironmental Philosophy 3 (1): 35-46. 2006.Environmentalism finds itself facing problems and aporiae which deconstruction helps us address. But equally, environmental concerns can embolden deconstruction to embrace a strategic materialism – the essential interruptibility of every idealization. Moreover, deconstruction’s critique of presence opens us to the strange temporalities of environmentalism: needing to act before we have proof, and for the benefit of future humans. The history of the earth is a singular sequence, ideographic – con…Read more
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Vanderbilt UniversityW.Alton Jones Professor Philosophy
Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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Continental Philosophy |
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