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317The Right to Be: Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger on Thinking and PoetizingIn Nassima Sahraoui & Florian Grosser (eds.), Heidegger in the Literary World: Variations on Poetic Thinking (New Heidegger Research), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 127-140. 2021.If Martin Heidegger was a philosopher who poetized, Wallace Stevens was a poet who philosophized. In "The Sail of Ulysses," one of his later poems, Stevens speaks enigmatically of a "right to be." The phrase is straightforward, if taken to indicate the right to life. But Stevens is rarely, if ever, straightforward. The poem is much more understandable if we take "being" in a Heideggerian sense, as an understanding of what it means to be.
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118Report to the Treasurer of InjusticeIn Thanos Zartaloudis & Peter Goodrich (eds.), The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws, Routledge. pp. 62-66. 2021.The 21st century, otherwise unremarkable after the Great Climate Change Scare of its early decades was revealed to be a hoax, is remembered for its solution to an age-old problem.
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19Political Action and the Unconscious: Decentering the Subject in Arendt and LacanPolitical Theory 23 (2): 330-352. 1995.
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17Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W. H. Auden (review)Political Theory 32 (6): 881-884. 2004.
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5Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, PoliticsCornell University Press. 1994.What can attempts to articulate what it means to be an American tell us about the nature of political philosophy? Allegories of America explores the metaphysics of American-ness and stops along the way to reflect on John Winthrop, the Constitution, 1950s behavioralist social science, James Merrill, William Burroughs, and Hannah Arendt.
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1Alan D. Schrift, ed., Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections on Drama, Culture, and PoliticsPhilosophy in Review 22 (2): 146-146. 2002.
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16Between Terror and Freedom: Philosophy, Politics, and Fiction Speak of Modernity (edited book)Lexington Books. 2006.In this volume, Simona Goi and Frederick M. Dolan gather stimulating arguments for the indispensability of fiction_including poetry, drama, and film_as irreplaceable sites for wrestling with nature, meaning, shortcomings, and the future of modern politics
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17Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W. H. AudenPhilosophy Today 32 (6): 881-884. 2004.
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1Yannis Stavrakakis, Lacan and the Political Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 20 (4): 293-294. 2000.
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56Book Review: Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War (review)Political Theory 34 (6): 821-824. 2006.
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Alan D. Schrift, ed., Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 22 (2): 145-147. 2002.
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Political Theory and the Critique of Interpretation: Projects and Problems of Post-Nietzschean Political TheoryDissertation, Princeton University. 1987.Objections to the project of a "deconstruction" of political texts center around claims that deconstructive readings are abstract, unhistorical, unpolitical, and above all anti -political because nihilistic. ;The dissertation addresses the advantages, limits, and risks of the deconstruction of political texts by testing the approach against the imagery and textual strategies characteristic of some modern attempts to found a science of politics , placing deconstructive readings in the context of …Read more
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14Representing the Political System: American Political Science in the Age of the World PictureDiacritics 20 (1): 93-108. 1990.
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2149Arendt on philosophy and politicsIn Dana Villa (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Hannah Arendt, Cambridge University Press. pp. 261--276. 2000.Hannah Arendt disavowed the title of “philosopher,” and is known above all as a political theorist. But the relationship between philosophy and politics animates her entire oeuvre. We find her addressing the topic in The Human Condition (1958), in Between Past and Future (a collection of essays written in the early 1960s), and in Men in Dark Times (another collection of essays, this one from the late sixties). It is treated in her Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy, composed during the seve…Read more
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124The paradoxical liberty of bio-power: Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault on modern politicsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (3): 369-380. 2005.For Hannah Arendt, spontaneous, initiatory human action and interaction are suppressed by the normalizing pressures of society once life - that is, sheer life - becomes the primary concern of politics, as it does, she finds, in the modern age. Arendts concept of the social is indebted to Martin Heideggers analysis of everyday Dasein in Being and Time , and contemporary political philosophers inspired by Heidegger, such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Giorgio Agamben, tend …Read more
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