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8Freedom and Creation in Schelling (edited book)Frommann-Holzboog. 2022.This volume is dedicated to the exploration of the connection between freedom and creation in Schelling’s late philosophy. It contains contributions of internationally renowned and younger Schelling scholars from several countries. The scholarly interest in Schelling’s late philosophy has considerably increased during the last decades. Together with the rising number of available primary texts and translations, this has led, among other things, to a received scholarly view of Schelling’s Erlange…Read more
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4Past and Present Political Theology: Expanding the Canon (edited book)Routledge. 2020.This book demonstrates how discussions of Political Theology have been a constant feature throughout philosophical modernity and that they continue to impact contemporary political debates. By tracing the historical roots and detailing the contemporary outworking of Political Theology in Europe, it contends that this growing field requires a broader "canon" in order for it to mature. Political Theology is shown here to be about the diversity of relationships between religious beliefs and politic…Read more
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9The Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer’s PessimismRoutledge. 2017.This book connects Schopenhauer’s philosophy with transcendental idealism by exploring the distinctly Kantian roots of his pessimism. By clearly discerning four types of coming to knowledge, it demonstrates how Schopenhauer’s epistemology can enlighten this connection with other areas of his philosophy. The individual chapters in this book discuss how these knowledge types—immediate or mediate, representational or non-representational—relate to Schopenhauer’s metaphysics, ethics and action, phil…Read more
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6Schopenhauer’s Fourfold Root (edited book)Routledge. 2016.This volume collects 12 essays by various contributors on the subject of the importance and influence of Schopenhauer’s doctoral dissertation for both Schopenhauer’s more well-known philosophy and the ongoing discussion of the subject of the principle of sufficient reason. The contributions deal with the historical context of Schopenhauer’s reflections, their relationship to idealism, the insights they hold for Schopenhauer’s views of consciousness and sensation, and how they illuminate Schopenh…Read more
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9Pessimism in Kant's Ethics and Rational ReligionLexington Books. 2018.Dennis Vanden Auweele explores Kant’s moral and religious philosophy and shows that a pessimistic undercurrent pervades them. This provides a new vantage point not only to comprehensively assess Kantian philosophy, but also to provide much needed context and reading assistance to the general premises of Kant's philosophy and rationality.
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4William Desmond: The Intimate Strangeness of BeingPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 65 (3): 298-300. 2012.
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7William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics (edited book)Palgrave Macmillan. 2018.This volume collects seventeen new essays by well-established and junior scholars on the philosophical relevance of metaxological philosophy and its main proponent, William Desmond. The volume mines metaxological thought for its salience in contemporary discussions in Continental philosophy, specifically in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and aesthetics. Among others, topics under discussion include the goodness of being, the existence and nature of God, and the aesthe…Read more
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26The Poverty of PhilosophyAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87 (3): 411-432. 2013.Recently, William Desmond’s metaxological philosophy has been gaining popularity since it proposes a powerful counterweight to the dominance of deconstruction in certain areas of contemporary philosophy of religion. This paper serves to introduce Desmond’s philosophy and confront it with one specific form of Postmodern theology, namely John Caputo’s “weak theology.” Since Desmond’s philosophy is—while thought-provoking and refreshing—not well known, a substantial part of this paper is devoted to…Read more
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51The Later Schelling on Philosophical Religion and ChristianityIdealistic Studies 48 (1): 69-92. 2018.Schelling’s later philosophy was historically received as a disappointment: the once brazen Romantic and pantheist becomes a pious Christian in his old age. Indeed, Schelling’s Berlin lectures on revelation and mythology culminate in a suspicious level of Christian orthodoxy. In the last few years, a number of scholars have offered a different reading of Schelling’s Spätphilosophie, particularly by pointing out his rethinking of nature, revelation, and Christianity. In this paper, I offer a syst…Read more
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16Erratum to: The lutheran influence on Kant’s depraved willInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 73 (2): 135-135. 2013.Contemporary Kant-scholarship has a tendency to allign Kant’s understanding of depravity closer to Erasmus than Luther in their famous debate on the freedom of the will. While, at face value, some paragraphs do warrant such a claim, I will argue that Kant’s understanding of the radical evil will draws closer to Luther than Erasmus in a number of elements. These elements are the intervention of the Wille for progress towards the good, a positive choice for evil, the inscrutability of moral progre…Read more
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5Sandra Shapshay, Reconstructing Schopenhauer’s Ethics: Hope, Compassion, and Animal Welfare Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019 Pp. 248 ISBN 9780190906801 (hbk), $74.00 (review)Kantian Review 25 (1): 158-163. 2020.
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19Schopenhauer, Pessimism and SuicideTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 76 (2): 307-330. 2014.Schopenhauer’s argument against suicide is typically received negatively in the scholarly literature, insofar that it appears to be one of the numerous inconsistencies that haunt his philosophical system. Thus, after elaborating upon the unique characteristics of Schopenhauer’s argument against suicide, I will discuss the well-known objection to it. By offering a fresh outlook on Schopenhauer’s ethics, I will suggest a new way of appreciating Schopenhauer’s argument so as to rehabilitate his und…Read more
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Silence, Excess, and AutonomyIn William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 195-207. 2018.Continuing on the value of givenness, Dennis Vanden Auweele argues that a modern project for absolutized autonomy cannot do but dread silence, which signals a hiccup or momentary lapse in the project of logos. And yet, Vanden Auweele shows that silence can be a convalescence that renders human beings receptive to something in excess of finite determination, which can in turn inspire self-determination to new heights.
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4Schopenhauer and the later Schelling in Dialogue on Mythology and ReligionJournal of Religion 97 (4): 451-474. 2017.
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59Schopenhauer and the Paradox of GeniusEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (1): 149-168. 2015.Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy proved more palpable to artists of the nineteenth century than to philosophers as such. Ironically, Schopenhauer’s aesthetical theory is particularly paradoxical on a variety of fronts. One troubling paradox is how Schopenhauer subscribes both to the elitist nature of the genius artist and a naturalist metaphysics. How can a singular being have radically distinct abilities if s/he cannot principally differ from the rest of existence? I address this paradox in thi…Read more
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5Robert Pippin : Introductions to NietzschePhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 65 (2): 133-135. 2012.
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13William Desmond: The Intimate Strangeness of Being (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 65 (3): 298-300. 2012.
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10Review of Oliver Sensen (Ed.): Kant on Moral Autonomy (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 66 (3): 326-329. 2013.
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23Review of Joel Madore: Difficult Freedom and Radical Evil in Kant (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (4): 365-368. 2011.
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9Review of James J. DiCenso: Kant, Religion, and Politics (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (3): 304-307. 2011.
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6Review of Christopher Ben Simpson: The William Desmond Reader (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 66 (1): 38-40. 2013.
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3Review of Allen Wood and Songsuk Susan Hahn (Eds.): The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790-1870) (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 66 (3): 322-325. 2013.
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29Review of Arthur Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings edited by Cartwright, Erdmann, Janaway (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 66 (2): 206-208. 2013.
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13Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation: Volume 1. Edited and Translated by Judith Norman, Alistair Welchman and Christopher Janaway (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (3): 302-303. 2011.
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14Reconciliation, Incarnation, and Headless HegelianismFaith and Philosophy 34 (2): 201-222. 2017.A number of contemporary authors (e.g., Catherine Malabou, Slavoj Žižek, and John Caputo) claim that Hegel’s Religionsphilosophie provides important insights for contemporary philosophy of religion. John Caputo argues that Hegel’s notion of incarnation as radical kenosis is a powerful tool for postmodern Radical Theology. In this essay, I scrutinize this claim by balancing Hegel’s notion of incarnation with his notion of recognition—the latter of which Caputo removes from a “headless Hegelianism…Read more
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32Noble lies and tragedy in Nietzsche's ZarathustraInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 74 (2): 127-143. 2013.To date authors are unsure about Nietzsche's self-critical attitude regarding his Thus Spoke Zarathustra. While few doubt that the narrative reaches a dramatic climax at the end of its third part, the largely satirical fourth part invites to take this climax cum grano salis. I provide an interpretation of the dramatic structure of Thus Spoke Zarathustra by focusing on the tragic nature of Nietzsche's ideal of the Übermensch and the comical relief provided by part four. Accordingly, the completio…Read more
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12Metaphysics and the Catholic viewInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 75 (3): 265-283. 2014.Contemporary philosophy of religion almost allergically reacts to metaphysics. They do so because of the various critiques of the potential reach of reason, which each in their own way argue that God cannot be appropriately approached via autonomous reason. In this article, I argue, on the one hand, that these critiques are furtively inspired by a certain outlook on transcendence, which I call the ‘Protestant view’ and, on the other hand, that numerous contemporary philosophers of religion are s…Read more
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25Liberal Democracy Needs Religion: Kant on the Ethical CommunityKantian Review 27 (2): 299-314. 2022.Liberal democracy has been experiencing a crisis of representation over the last decade, as a disconnect has emerged from some of the foundational principles of liberalism such as personal freedom and equality. In this article, I argue that in the third part of Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason we can find resources to better understand and counteract this crisis of liberal democracy. Kant gives a powerful argument to include an invisible ethical community under a political co…Read more
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9Joel Madore: Difficult Freedom and Radical Evil in KantPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (4): 365-368. 2011.