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    Editor’s Introduction
    Philosophy in the Contemporary World 28 (2): 5-8. 2022.
    The Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World maintains a commitment to pluralism in philosophical discourse by encouraging original, unconventional research with regard to contemporary concerns. Often this original and unconventional approach enables urgent and timely discussions to come to the fore. In the special section of this issue, Andrew Fiala’s Tyranny from Plato to Trump (2022) is engaged, not merely as an abstract author-meets-critics discussion, but as a provocative meditation…Read more
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    Book Reviews (review)
    with James Aho, Kevin A. Aho, Zbigniew Białas, Emily Miller Budick, Edmund J. Campion, Victor Castellani, Camelia-Mihaela Cmeciu, Terence Dawson, Richard Findler, Kristian Gerner, Adrian Haddock, Oren Harman, David Harriman, Stefan Höjelid, Irving Louis Horowitz, Suzanne M. Jaeger, Cem Karadeli, A. Robert Lauer, Hugh Lindsay, James M. Lutz, Henry Mcdonald, Usha Menon, Michael Edward Moore, Glenn W. Olsen, Rochelle Rives, Stanley Shostak, Lora Sigler, Lavinia Stan, Barnard Turner, Meredith Veldman, Ann Ward, Henry Wasser, John E. Weakland, Samuel C. Wheeler Iii, and Phillip H. Wiebe
    The European Legacy 16 (2): 247-294. 2011.
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    Introduction: Deleuze and Spinoza
    Deleuze and Guattari Studies 16 (2): 157-158. 2021.
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    The Politics of Desire: Foucault, Deleuze, and Psychoanalysis (edited book)
    with Agustín Colombo, Edward McGushin, and Geoff Pfeifer
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2022.
    This book will gather contributions from international scholars with the aim of exploring the political reflection of Deleuze-Guattari’s and Foucault’s critical encounter with psychoanalytic thought: their possible connections, their divergences and the fields of reflection that this encounter opens, the problems and debates that lead Foucault and Deleuze to engage with psychoanalysis.
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    Phenomenology and the Political (edited book)
    with S. West Gurley and Geoff Pfeifer
    Rowman and Littlefield. 2016.
    This collection of essays looks at the relation between phenomenology and the political from a variety of possible positions both critical and complimentary.
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    Authoritarianism, or the Decline of Democracy in America
    The European Legacy 27 (2): 194-198. 2021.
    If read immediately after the U.S. presidential election of November 4, 2020, which resulted in the decisive victory of Joe Biden and the democratic party, followed by Donald Trump’s refusal to con...
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    Balibar, citizenship, and the return of right populism
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 46 (3): 323-341. 2020.
    Arendt famously pointed out that only citizenship actually confers rights in the modern world. To be a citizen is to be one who has the ‘right to have rights’. Arendt’s analysis emerges out of her recognition that there is a contradiction between this way of conferring rights as tied to the nation-state system and the more philosophical and ethical conceptions of the ‘rights of man’ and notions of ‘human rights’ like those championed by thinkers such as Immanuel Kant who understands rights belon…Read more
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    A Joint-Venture Approach in Teaching Students How to Recognize and Analyze Ethical Scenarios
    with Xavier Jackson, Zachary Jasensky, Vivian Liang, Melvin Moore, Jake Rogers, and Kristen L. Billiar
    Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine 6 (3-4): 197-209. 2015.
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    Doing Philosophy in the Contemporary World
    Philosophy in the Contemporary World 24 (1): 88-97. 2017.
    With all of exciting changes happening with the Journal, we thought a joint interview of one another might be a great way to highlight the vision and mission for Philosophy in the Contemporary World moving forward. This edition is our first edition to be printed fully online, a practice we look forward to ensuring accessibility and worldwide access for subscribers. We also wish to acknowledge our appreciation of the patience of all who follow, read, and subscribe to our journal. Infrastructure c…Read more
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    This dissertation traces the post-Marxist and materialist positions of two leading contemporary European thinkers: Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou. These thinkers, I argue, collectively offer a way between the traditional Hegelian Marxist's overarching meta-narrative of a necessary evolution from worse to better, and the post-modern pessimism of a lack of possibility for such a social evolution. It is this middle path, offered by these two thinkers, that this dissertation seeks to explore and furt…Read more
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    A critique of humanitarian reason: agency, power, and privilege
    with Chioke I'Anson
    Journal of Global Ethics 9 (1): 49-63. 2013.
    This paper offers a critical analysis of the work of western humanitarian NGOs operating in the African continent. We argue that in most cases, NGOs and their supporters are deaf to the actual wants, needs, and desires ? or, in other words, the agency ? of those they are trying to aid. We do this by first offering a series of ways of understanding the ideological commitments that inform the work of many humanitarian NGOs and those who donate to them. In this, we expose the reasons leading to the…Read more
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    Badiou and Theology. By Frederiek Depoortere (review)
    The European Legacy 17 (3). 2012.
    The European Legacy, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 420-422, June 2012
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    Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek, and Graham Harman (eds): The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 1-5 DOI 10.1007/s10746-012-9218-0 Authors Geoff Pfeifer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA Journal Human Studies Online ISSN 1572-851X Print ISSN 0163-8548