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4The (Anarchic) Gift of Gelassenheit_: On an Undeveloped Motif in Derrida's _Donner le temps IIDerrida Today 17 (2): 155-165. 2024.In his recently published Donner le temps II, Derrida raises, but does not develop, the possibility that Heidegger's notion of Gelassenheit (‘releasement’, ‘letting-be’) might escape the economic confines of exchange, debt, and repayment and therefore qualify as a pure gift. In this paper, I explore this possibility, explaining that Gelassenheit would have to be understood, first, not primarily as a human comportment but at the level of being itself, second, beyond appropriation, and third, as ‘…Read more
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The End of Instrumentality? Heidegger on Phronēsis and Calculative ThinkingAustralasian Philosophical Review 6 (3): 255-261. 2022.The aim of Dimitris Vardoulakis’s paper, ‘Toward a Critique of the Ineffectual: Heidegger’s Reading of Aristotle and the Construction of an Action without Ends’, is to provide the foundation for a critique of aimless action by tracing its genesis to Heidegger’s putative misinterpretation of Aristotelian phronēsis (practical wisdom) in the 1920s. Inasmuch as ‘the ineffectual’—the name Vardoulakis gives to action devoid of ends—plays a crucial role in post-Heideggerian continental philosophy, he t…Read more
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13Rethinking Authenticity, Anarchy, and Collective Action: An Interview with Peg BirminghamDiacritics 50 (2): 38-51. 2022.Abstract:Ian Moore speaks with Peg Birmingham about the intellectual and personal relationship between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, and more.
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6Introduction to "‘Only Proteus Can Save Us Now’: On Anarchy and Broken Hegemonies"Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 42 (1): 53-56. 2021.
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7Heidegger, Our Monstrous Site: On Reiner Schürmann’s Reading of the BeiträgeGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 42 (1): 93-114. 2021.
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4“The Pealing of Stillness”Journal of Continental Philosophy 3 (1): 67-85. 2022.Addressing the place of the Austrian poet, Georg Trakl, in the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer, this article turns in particular to Trakl’s poem “A Winter Evening” in order to unfold a sense of language in dialogue with the poet. This engagement equally becomes the occasion for Gadamer to confront Heidegger, whose own reading of Trakl becomes both an inspiration and a challenge.
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25Worlds, WorldingEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (2): 273-295. 2023.Heidegger’s discussion of the concept and the phenomenology of ‘world’ is defined by its dual meaning, referring to both the unity of a single, encompassing whole and a number of different meaning contexts, i.e., ‘worlds’ in the plural. Heidegger’s emphasis on the verbal meaning of world (‘worlding’) and the discussion of problems such as the ‘world entry’ of an entity articulate the tension and dynamic between these two meanings. This contribution develops Heidegger’s account by (i) elucidating…Read more
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5Pain is Beyng ItselfGatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 12 1-38. 2022.Among the many words Heidegger explores in order to elucidate his primary matter for thought, one would not likely expect Schmerz (“pain”) to play a prominent role. And yet, in a selection of notes recently published in a limited German edition under the title Uber den Schmerz (On Pain), Heidegger goes so far as to claim that pain is beyng itself. In this paper I analyze Heidegger’s ontological treatment of pain and his etymology of its Greek counterpart, asking whether he does not ultimately an…Read more
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13Eckhart, Heidegger, and the imperative of releasementSUNY Press, State University of New York Press. 2019.In the late Middle Ages the philosopher and mystic Meister Eckhart preached that to know the truth you must be the truth. But how to be the truth? Eckhart's answer comes in the form of an imperative: release yourself, let be. Only then will you be able to understand that the deepest meaning of being is releasement. Only then will you become who you truly are. This book interprets Eckhart's Latin and Middle High German writings under the banner of an imperative of releasement, and then shows how …Read more
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12Dialogue on the threshold: Heidegger and TraklState University of New York Press. 2022.A reconstruction and critical interpretation of Heidegger's remarkable relationship with to the poet Georg Trakl.
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19Martin Heidegger, “Das Argument gegen den Brauch (für das Ansichsein des Seienden)”: Edited by Dietmar Koch and Michael Ruppert, with emendations and notes byBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (3): 1-16. 2022.Das Argument gegen den Brauch[Brauch: die im Ereignis ereignete Zugehörigkeit des Wesens der Sterblichen in das.]Metaphysisch und das heißt zugleich...
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26Heidegger on deep time and being-in-itself: introductory thoughts on “The Argument against Need”British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (3): 508-518. 2022.The article provides an introduction to Heidegger's manuscript “The Argument against Need”. It comments on the nature of the manuscript, the circumstances of its composition, and its major philosop...
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33Martin Heidegger, “The argument against need (for the being-in-Itself of entities)”British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (3): 519-534. 2022.The argument against need[Need: the belonging of the essence of mortals to, a belonging which is appropriated in the event.]Metaphysically, and t...
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6Husserl und HeideggerIn Michael Bongardt, Holger Burckhart, John-Stewart Gordon & Jürgen Nielsen-Sikora (eds.), Hans Jonas-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung, J.b. Metzler. pp. 172-175. 2021.Hans Jonas’ Vortrag von 1963 über seine Lehrer Edmund Husserl und Martin Heidegger erhebt keinen wissenschaftlichen Anspruch; er ist vielmehr als Geschichte zweier Philosophen und ihrer Beziehung zueinander konzipiert. Jonas thematisiert auch den Zerfall dieser Beziehung sowie grundsätzlich die Herausforderungen in Bezug auf die Möglichkeit zu philosophieren. Im Gegensatz zu seinen anderen Texten über Husserl scheut sich Jonas in diesem Vortrag nicht, Kritik an seinem ehemaligen Lehrer zu üben.
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8On the Manifold Meaning of Letting-Be in Reiner SchürmannJournal of Continental Philosophy 2 (1): 105-130. 2021.
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13Lettre de Jean Wahl à Martin HeideggerJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 29 (1-2): 169-172. 2021.Cette lettre, publiée ici pour la première fois en français, dans sa version originale, a été envoyée par Jean Wahl à Martin Heidegger le 12 décembre 1937. Elle répond à une lettre que Heidegger avait écrite à Wahl une semaine plus tôt au sujet des thèses de Wahl dans la célèbre conférence « Subjectivité et transcendance ». [1] Dans cette conférence, qui a été décrite comme « un tournant dans l’histoire intellectuelle du XXe siècle », [2] Wahl s’interrogeait, entre autres, sur la mesure dans laq…Read more
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13Jean Wahl and Karl Jaspers on Descartes and Kierkegaard: An Epistolary ExchangeJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 29 (1-2): 173-181. 2021.A translation of selected correspondence between Jean Wahl and Karl Jaspers on Descartes and Kierkegaard.
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8On the History and Future of Heidegger’s Literary Estate, with Newly Published Passages on Nazism and Judaism: Klaus Held’s Marbach-Bericht (review)Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 10 222-238. 2020.
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5Review of Ilit Ferber, Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of Language : Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, 190 + xiv pp., $78.00, ISBN: 9780190053864 (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 52 (3): 258-260. 2021.People tend to think of pain as merely destructive, isolating, or incommunicable. Ilit Ferber’s illuminating philosophical study challenges these assumptions by investigating the “essential interco...
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17Heidegger’s Trakl-MarginaliaResearch in Phenomenology 51 (1): 99-122. 2021.In this article, I analyze Heidegger’s marginalia in his personal copy of the 1946 Zurich edition of poems by Georg Trakl, which I discovered several years ago while conducting research in the castle of Heidegger’s hometown of Meßkirch. Although Heidegger’s marginalia in this volume are not extensive, they are significant for three reasons: they provide valuable insight into his reading of the spirit of Trakl’s poetic work and into the place in which Heidegger situates it; they frequently shed l…Read more
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14Review of Ilit Ferber, Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of Language (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 52 (3): 258-260. 2020.People tend to think of pain as merely destructive, isolating, or incommunicable. Ilit Ferber’s illuminating philosophical study challenges these assumptions by investigating the “essential interco...
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21From the Archives: William Richardson’s Questions for Martin Heidegger’s “Preface”Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 9 1-27. 2019.Martin Heidegger wrote one and only one preface for a scholarly work on his thinking, and it was for William J. Richardson’s study Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought, first published in 1963. Ever since, both Heidegger’s Preface and Richardson’s groundbreaking book have played an important role in Heidegger scholarship. Much has been discussed about these texts over the decades, but what has not been available to students and scholars up to this point is Richardson’s original comments a…Read more
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346Tasks of Philosophy in the Present Age RIAS-Lecture, June 9, 1952Philosophy Today 64 (2): 1-8. 2020.Translators’ Abstract: This is a translation of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s recently discovered 1952 Berlin speech. The speech includes several themes that reappear in Truth and Method, as well as in Gadamer’s later writings such as Reason in the Age of Science. For example, Gadamer criticizes positivism, modern philosophy’s orientation toward positivism, and Enlightenment narratives of progress, while presenting his view of philosophy’s tasks in an age of crisis. In addition, he discusses structural p…Read more
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16Introduction to the Exchange between Rudolf Bultmann and Hans Jonas on Hans Jonas’ “Essay on Immortality”Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 40 (2): 491-493. 2019.
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10Introduction to “Neo-Aristotelianism: On the Medieval Renaissance and William of Ockham”Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 40 (2): 315-316. 2019.
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13The "Protofigural" and the "Event"Philosophy Today 61 (1): 29-45. 2017.This article is a translation of the third chapter of Part Four of Günter Seubold’s Kunst als Enteignis, 2nd ed.. It discusses Martin Heidegger’s notes on Paul Klee.