• A Metaphysics of Enchantment or a Case of Immanentizing the Eschaton?
    In Lissa McCullough & Elliot R. Wolfson (eds.), D. G. Leahy and the thinking now occurring, State University of New York Press. pp. 97-108. 2021.
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    Graham McAleer's Erich Przywara and Postmodern Natural Law is the first work to present in an accessible way the thinking of Erich Przywara (1889-1972) for an English-speaking audience. Przywara's work remains little known to a broad Catholic audience, but it had a major impact on many of the most celebrated theologians of the twentieth century, including Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, Edith Stein, and Karl Barth. Przywara's ground-breaking text Analogia Entis (The analogy of being) brough…Read more
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    This first book-length treatment of Thomas Aquinas'stheory of the body presents a Catholic understanding of the body and its implications for social and political philosophy. Making a fundamental contribution to antitotalitarian theory, McAleer argues that a sexual politics reliant upon Aquinas's theory of the body is better than other commonly available theories. He contrasts this theory with those of four other groups of thinkers: the continental tradition represented by Kant, Schopenhauer, Me…Read more
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    Saint Anselm: An Ethics of Caritas for a Relativist Agent?
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 70 163-178. 1996.
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    Old and New: The Body, Subjectivity, and Ethics
    Philosophy Today 38 (3): 259-267. 1994.
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    Why Technoscience Cannot Reproduce Human Desire According to Lacanian Thomism
    Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 24 (2): 279-300. 2019.
    Being born into a family structure—being born of a mother—is key to being human. It is, for Jacques Lacan, essential to the formation of human desire. It is also part of the structure of analogy in the Thomistic thought of Erich Przywara. AI may well increase exponentially in sophistication, and even achieve human-like qualities; but it will only ever form an imaginary mirroring of genuine human persons—an imitation that is in fact morbid and dehumanising. Taking Lacan and Przywara at a point of…Read more
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    Why Technoscience Cannot Reproduce Human Desire According to Lacanian Thomism
    with Christopher Wojtulewicz
    Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 2 (24): 279-300. 2019.
    Being born into a family structure—being born of a mother—is key to being human. It is, for Jacques Lacan, essential to the formation of human desire. It is also part of the structure of analogy in the Thomistic thought of Erich Przywara. AI may well increase exponentially in sophistication, and even achieve human-like qualities; but it will only ever form an imaginary mirroring of genuine human persons—an imitation that is in fact morbid and dehumanising. Taking Lacan and Przywara at a point of…Read more
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    Reason and the Heart: A Prolegomenon to a Critique of Passional Reason (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 50 (4): 927-927. 1997.
    This slim volume, which includes a number of sections that have already appeared in journals or collected editions, treats a too often ignored dimension of rationality--its dependence on affectivity. Wainwright takes his book to demonstrate the need for a "critique of passional reason"; it is a lengthy and detailed study of the "conditions under which passion does and does not enhance reasoning". The book is a prolegomenon, because Wainwright wants to show that one cannot speak adequately about …Read more
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    Was Medical Theory Heterodox in the Latin Middle Ages?
    Recherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales 68 (2): 349-370. 2001.
    All intellectual histories of the Middle Ages note that Greek and Arabic science, medicine, commentary and philosophy had an enormous influence upon the great intellectual achievements of the later Middle Ages in the Latin West. Yet, these same histories also tend to cast the condemnations of 1277 as a watershed moment when the Christian West rejected the science and philosophy of pagans and infidels, and especially the synthesis of the two, the commentaries on Aristotle’s works by Averroes. Rec…Read more
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    Disputing the Unity of the World: The Importance of Res and the Influence of Averroes in Giles of Rome's Critique of T homas Aquinas concerning the Unity of the World G. j. MCALEER 1. INTRODUCTION tILES OF ROME earned, after a decidedly difficult start, the most complete honors open to an academic religious in the Middle Ages. Joining the Hermits of St. Augustine at age 14, he became the first regent master of his order at the University of Paris ; his works were made compul- sory in the educati…Read more
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    Disputing the unity of the world: The importance of
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (1): 29-55. 1998.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Disputing the Unity of the World: The Importance of Res and the Influence of Averroes in Giles of Rome’s Critique of Thomas Aquinas concerning the Unity of the WorldG. J. Mcaleer1. introductiongiles of rome (1243–1316) earned, after a decidedly difficult start, the most complete honors open to an academic religious in the Middle Ages. Joining the Hermits of St. Augustine at age 14, he became the first regent master of his order at th…Read more
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    Old and New: The Body, Subjectivity, and Ethics
    Philosophy Today 38 (3): 259-267. 1994.
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    1277 and the Causality of Damnation in Giles of Rome
    Modern Schoolman 83 (4): 285-300. 2006.
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    Saint Anselm: An Ethics of Caritas for a Relativist Agent?
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 70 163-178. 1996.
  • Craemer-Ruegenberg, Ingrid und Speer, A. , Scientia und Ars im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter (review)
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 57 (3): 574. 1995.
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    Jesuit Sensuality and Feminist Bodies
    Modern Theology 18 (3): 395-405. 2002.
    The stated goal of Donna Haraway's “Cyborg feminism” is to liberate sensuality from violence. In examining her book alongside that of Jesuit Toletus it becomes clear that both argue that sensuality is a place of metaphysical violence. The first two sections of the essay demonstrate this, and, in addition that Toletus' commentary on Aquinas is hardly accurate. This fact will help justify the claim that the Jesuit tradition includes a rather particular theory of sensuality, the origin of which is …Read more
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    Giles of Rome on Political Authority
    Journal of the History of Ideas 60 (1): 21-36. 1999.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Giles of Rome on Political AuthorityGraham McAleerDabo tibi regem in furore meo“I will give you a king in my rage” 1It is a commonplace among historians of medieval political theory that two great systems of thought dominate the period. Augustine’s City of God held the field until Thomas Aquinas absorbed Aristotle’s political thought largely culled from the latter’s Politics and Nicomachean Ethics. Aquinas stands as a watershed, a mo…Read more
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    Saint Anselm: An ethics of caritas for a relativist agent?
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70 163-178. 1996.
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    Contemporary Jesuits! You Have But Two Choices: The Politics of John Paul II or Ultramontanism
    with Jamey Becker
    Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 4 (2 & 3): 283-297. 2000.