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9Crossing borders: essays in honour of Ian H. Angus (edited book)ARP Books. 2020.Crossing Borders: Essays In Honour of Ian H. Angus is a collection of original and cutting-edge essays by eighteen outstanding and diverse Canadian and International scholars that engage with Professor Ian Angus's rich contributions to three distinct, albeit overlapping, fields: Canadian Studies, Phenomenology and Critical Theory, and Communication and Media Studies. These contributions are distinct, unique, and have had resonance across the intellectual landscape over the thirty years that Angu…Read more
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Inception of culture from the ontology of labour : the original contribution of Karel Kosík to a Marxian theory of cultureIn Joseph Grim Feinberg, Ivan Landa & Jan Mervart (eds.), Karel Kosík and the Dialectics of the concrete, Brill. 2021.
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13Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, WorldLexington Books. 2021.This original, contemporary synthesis between phenomenology and Marx’s late work begins from Edmund Husserl’s The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology to chart a new program for Socratic phenomenology in the current confrontation between planetary technology and place-based Indigeneity.
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15Susan M. Dodd and Neil G. Robertson (editors). Hegel and Canada (review)Phaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 13 (1). 2019.
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14Husserl and America: Reflections on the Limits of Europe as the Ground of Meaning and Value for PhenomenologyIn Iulian Apostolescu (ed.), The Subject(s) of Phenomenology. Rereading Husserl, Springer. pp. 291-310. 2019.This paper investigates phenomenological philosophy as the critical consciousness of modernity beginning from that point in the Vienna Lecture where Husserl discounts Papuans and Gypsies, and includes America, in defining Europe as the spiritual home of reason. Its meaning is analyzed through the introduction of the concept of institution in Crisis to argue that the historical fact of encounter with America can be seen as an event for reason insofar as the encounter includes elements previously …Read more
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10Logic of Subsumption, Logic of Invention, and Workplace Democracy: Marx, Marcuse, and SimondonPhilosophy and Technology 32 (4): 613-625. 2019.Through a comparison of the logic of socio-economic and technical development in Marx with the logic of technical invention in Simondon, I argue the thesis that worker’s democracy is the forgotten political form that offers a viable alternative to both capitalism and Soviet-style Communism, the dominant political régimes of the Cold War period that have not yet been surpassed. Marx’s detailed account of the capitalist technical logic from handwork through manufacture to industry is a logic of co…Read more
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18An Encounter with Francesco Tava, The Risk of Freedom: Ethics, Phenomenology, and Politics in Jan Patočka (review)PhaenEx 12 (1): 106-112. 2017.
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22Logic of Subsumption, Logic of Invention, and Workplace Democracy: Marx, Marcuse, and SimondonPhilosophy and Technology 32 (4): 613-625. 2019.Through a comparison of the logic of socio-economic and technical development in Marx with the logic of technical invention in Simondon, I argue the thesis that worker’s democracy is the forgotten political form that offers a viable alternative to both capitalism and Soviet-style Communism, the dominant political régimes of the Cold War period that have not yet been surpassed. Marx’s detailed account of the capitalist technical logic from handwork through manufacture to industry is a logic of co…Read more
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4Chapter One. The Intercultural Horizon of Contemporary UnderstandingIn Ming Xie (ed.), The Agon of Interpretations: Towards a Critical Intercultural Hermeneutics, University of Toronto Press. pp. 23-42. 2014.A critique of the application of hermeneutic methods to intercultural understanding and a defence of phenomenological methods.
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35Crisis, Biology, Ecology: A New Starting-Point for Phenomenology?Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 49 (4): 267-279. 2018.ABSTRACTThe crisis of European sciences in Husserl’s late work diagnoses Galilean science as specifically and necessarily losing touch with the intuitive evidence that would legitimate it due to its reliance on a formal-mathematical conceptual apparatus. While the vast majority of Husserl’s late work was focussed on a critique of the formal-mathematical paradigm of the physical science of nature, at several points the possibility of biology as the exemplary science is raised to suggest that the …Read more
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46Galilean Science and the Technological LifeworldSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 21 (2): 133-159. 2017.This analysis of Herbert Marcuse’s appropriation of the argument concerning the “mathematization of nature” in Edmund Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology shows that Marcuse and Husserl both assume that the perception of real, concrete individuals in the lifeworld underlies formal scientific abstractions and that the critique of the latter requires a return to such qualitative perception. In contrast, I argue that no such return is possible and that real, co…Read more
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41Introduction to a Symposium of World HumanitiesJournal of Chinese Philosophy 39 (4): 472-475. 2012.
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422Heideggerian Marxism (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 13 (1): 113-136. 2009.An extended review of the English collection of Marcuse's essays and interviews on Heidegger that addresses the philosophical basis of a synthesis of Marx and Heidegger.
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73The Idea of a NationSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 16 (2): 34-46. 2012.Winthrop Pickard Bell (1884–1965), a Canadian who studied with Husserl in Göttingen from 1911 to 1914, was arrested after the outbreak of World War I and interred at Ruhleben Prison Camp for the duration of the war. In 1915 or 1916 he presented a lecture titled “Canadian Problems and Possibilities” to other internees at the prison camp. This is the first time Bell’s lecture has appeared in print. Even though the lecture was given to a general audience and thusmakes no explicit reference to Husse…Read more
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52Critique of Reason and the Theory of Value: Groundwork of a Phenomenological MarxismHusserl Studies 33 (1): 63-80. 2017.There are three steps in my description of the ground-problem of value: First, Husserl’s analysis of the crisis of reason is based on the systematic loss and phenomenological recovery of the intuitive evidence of the lifeworld. But if letter symbols are essential to formalizing abstraction, as Klein’s de-sedimentation of Vieta’s institution of modern algebra shows, then the ultimate substrates upon which formalization rests cannot be “individuals” in Husserl’s sense. The consequence of the essen…Read more
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22A blank sheet of paper: The phenomenological foundation of comparative media theory (review)Human Studies 17 (1). 1994.
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3Proposes a new theory of communication called "comparative media theory."
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1Dominique Janicaud, On the Human Condition Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 26 (4): 263-265. 2006.
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180The Pathos of a First MeetingSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 16 (1): 179-202. 2012.In this essay, I will outline the positive content of George Grant's conception of "particularity" and clarify it by comparing it to Reiner Schürmann's similar concept of "singularity" as a starting point for an engagement with the positive good to which it refers. In conclusion, a five-step existential logic will he presented, which, I will suggest, can resolve the important aspects of the difference between them.
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