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10Apocalyptic claims and the everyday: Tosaka Jun, history, and journalismAsian Philosophy 32 (4): 383-397. 2022.In this paper, drawing upon Tosaka Jun’s response to Interwar debates on historicism and his account of everydayness, I offer an explanation for why contemporary secular apocalyptic claims lack convergence by focusing on the historical dimension of such claims. Everydayness, organized the routines of work and rest, is shown to be the basis for a sense of historical time, and theoretical journalism is outlined as the kind of collective epistemic procedure needed to produce a collective sense of a…Read more
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49The Lebensform as organism: Clarifying the limits of immanent critiquePhilosophy and Social Criticism 47 (9): 1060-1087. 2021.In this article, I argue for the necessary organicism of immanent critique and the resulting limits and applicability of immanent critique as elaborated in Rahel Jaeggi’s account of Lebensformen. Through a historical review of the problem of natural purposiveness between Kant, Schelling and Hegel, I show that the notion of immanent critique that Hegel produced, and Jaeggi adopts, was an intrinsically organic notion. With this conceptual connection, I demonstrate that Jaeggi’s elaboration of Lebe…Read more
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42The Fascist and the Democrat: Crisis of the Political in Dewey and SchmittTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 55 (3): 228-253. 2019.ARRAY
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16Benjamin and Spinoza: Divine Violence and PotentiaEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 3 (2): 75-90. 2019.In this paper, I seek to clarify, criticize, and expand upon the ambiguous-yet-influential concept of divine violence introduced by Walter Benjamin’s “Zur Kritik der Gewalt”. I proceed in three parts: in the first, I outline Benjamin’s argument about the cycle of mythical violence and divine violence’s special role as an interruption of that cycle. Next, I explicate Spinoza’s key concepts of potentia and potestas, which can be used to more clearly define what ought to instead be translated as “d…Read more
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