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Budd Boetticher’s Transcendental Westerns, or, Schrader, Bazin, Sartre, and Neville Walk into a SaloonIn Walter B. Gulick & Gary Slater (eds.), American aesthetics: theory and practice, State University of New York Press. pp. 321-335. 2020.
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6The Egalitarian Sublime: A Process PhilosophyAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 43 (2-3): 185-190. 2022.
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22The First Lady of German Philosophy: Husserl’s Rebellious Student Hedwig Conrad-Martius (review)Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 6 (1): 122-125. 2022.Preview:/Review: James G. Hart, Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Ontological Phenomenology, ed. Rodney K.B Parker, 284 pages./ James Hart is an important phenomenological scholar and thinker who is the author of several books and many articles on Husserl, Husserl’s Utopian Poetics, and the phenomenological movement. This book is Hart’s dissertation written at the University of Chicago between 1969 and 1972. The book has an appendix of the opening sections of Conrad-Martius’s Metaphysics of the Earthly tra…Read more
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27Review of Phenomenology and Eschatology: Not Yet and the Now , edited by Neal DeRoo and John Panteleimon Manoussakis Content Type Journal Article Pages 503-504 DOI 10.1007/s11841-011-0252-6 Authors James M. McLachlan, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USA Journal Sophia Online ISSN 1873-930X Print ISSN 0038-1527 Journal Volume Volume 50 Journal Issue Volume 50, Number 3
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5From Platonism and the Farnese Hercules to Steve Reeves and the Peplum Hercules via a Radical Ohio Hegelian and his Socialist German AcrobatsEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 5 (4): 113-122. 2021.Preview: In Jane Campion’s recent film version of Thomas Savage’s Power of the Dog, young Peter comes across his, and his mother’s tormentor, Phil’s secret hiding place. There he discovers in a lean-to the cowboy homophobic Phil’s copies of Physical Culture. As he leafs through the magazines, he sees the famous pictures of Eugen Sandow and his fig leaf posed as the Farnese Hercules. The scene does not appear in Savage’s novel. Flash backward or forwards a few years depending on whether you place…Read more
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3Bergson's Challenge to Phenomenology, Ontology and Ethics (review)Janus Head 8 (1): 361-366. 2005.
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26Mythology and Freedom: Nicholas Berdyaev's Uses of Jacob Boehme's Ungrund MythPhilosophy Today 40 (4): 474-485. 1996.
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22The Mystery of Evil and FreedomPhilosophy and Theology 12 (2): 377-396. 2000.In 1971 the French publishing house Aubier-Montaigne published Gabriel Marcel’s previously unpublished 1909 study “The Metaphysical Ideas of Coleridge and their Connection with the Philosophy of Schelling” under the title, Coleridge et Schelling. Marcel’s interest in Schelling is a neglected but very important part of Marcel’s philosophical development. There are several striking similarities between Marcel and Schelling, but I will confine the major thrust of this paper to one issue: the unique…Read more
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11The Theological Character of Sartre’s Atheology in Being and NothingnessEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 5 (1-2): 71-96. 1997.
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6Persons, Institutions, and Trust: Essays in Honor of Thomas O. Buford (edited book)Vernon Press. 2016.The papers presented in this volume honor Thomas O. Buford. Buford is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at Furman University where he taught for over 40 years. Many of the papers in this volume are from former students. But Professor Buford is also a pre-eminent voice of forth generation Personalism, and Boston Personalism in particular. Personalism is a school of philosophical and theological thought which holds that the ideas of “person” and “personality” are indispensable both to an adequate u…Read more
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13From Mythology to Ethics: Seeking an Escape from Ontology in the Eschatologies of Berdyaev and LévinasEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 2 (1): 24-39. 2018.The radical reformulation of Western philosophy proposed by Emmanuel Lévinas is the move beyond knowledge and being to ethics as metaphysics. For Lévinas this is accomplished as an escape, an evasion of being. Lévinas saw the story of Western philosophy as a tale that Being emanated, created, etc. an illusory pluralism that it will eventually overcome in total unity. “The adventure of the world,” to borrow a phrase from Whitehead, is an accident that does not affect the perfection of Being. Bein…Read more
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18Translation of Levinas’s Review of Lev Shestov’s Kierkegaard and the Existential PhilosophyLevinas Studies 11 (1): 237-243. 2016.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Translation of Levinas’s Review of Lev Shestov’s Kierkegaard and the Existential PhilosophyJames McLachlan (bio)In 1937, Emmanuel Levinas published a review of Lev Shestov’s Kierkegaard and the Existential Philosophy.1 In one of the first studies in English on Levinas, Edith Wyschogrod claims: “What Levinas writes of Shestov’s analysis of Kierkegaard might well be taken as a program for his own future work.”2 The review of Shestov’s …Read more
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19The Il y a and the Ungrund: Levinas and the Russian Existentialists Berdyaev and ShestovLevinas Studies 11 (1): 213-235. 2016.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Il y a and the UngrundLevinas and the Russian Existentialists Berdyaev and ShestovJames McLachlan (bio)Western philosophy coincides with the disclosure of the other where the other, in manifesting itself as a being, loses its alterity. From its infancy philosophy has been struck with a horror of the other than remains other — with an insurmountable allergy. It is for this reason that it is essentially a philosophy of being, that …Read more
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7Translation of Levinas’s Review of Lev Shestov’s Kierkegaard and the Existential PhilosophyLevinas Studies 11 (1): 237-243. 2016.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Translation of Levinas’s Review of Lev Shestov’s Kierkegaard and the Existential PhilosophyJames McLachlan (bio)In 1937, Emmanuel Levinas published a review of Lev Shestov’s Kierkegaard and the Existential Philosophy.1 In one of the first studies in English on Levinas, Edith Wyschogrod claims: “What Levinas writes of Shestov’s analysis of Kierkegaard might well be taken as a program for his own future work.”2 The review of Shestov’s …Read more
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6The Il y a and the Ungrund: Levinas and the Russian Existentialists Berdyaev and ShestovLevinas Studies 11 (1): 213-235. 2016.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Il y a and the UngrundLevinas and the Russian Existentialists Berdyaev and ShestovJames McLachlan (bio)Western philosophy coincides with the disclosure of the other where the other, in manifesting itself as a being, loses its alterity. From its infancy philosophy has been struck with a horror of the other than remains other — with an insurmountable allergy. It is for this reason that it is essentially a philosophy of being, that …Read more
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39George Holmes Howison’s “The City of God and the True God as Its Head”The Personalist Forum 15 (1): 5-27. 1999.
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62Beyond the Self, Beyond Ontology: Levinas' Reading of Shestov's Reading of KierkegaardComparative and Continental Philosophy 2 (2): 179-196. 2010.In 1937, Emmanuel Levinas published a review of Lev Shestov’s Kierkegaard et la philosophie existentielle in the journal Revue des Études Juives. This essay includes a translation of his review as well as an introductory essay that contextualizes it. In her Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics (1972), Edith Wyschogrod contended that Levinas’ short review contains what “might well be taken as the program of his own future work.” Both seek a way out of ontology, but Shestov seeks h…Read more
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23The Desire to be God: Freedom and the Other in Sartre and BerdyaevPeter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. 1992.Jean-Paul Sartre and Nicholas Berdyaev were contemporaries in the Paris of the thirties and forties. Sartre became the most famous existentialist author and was also a politically active Marxist. Berdyaev had been a Marxist and political activist but converted to Christianity and became one of the inspirations of the French personalist movement and a key exponent of religious existentialism. This study focuses on the central concern of both philosophers: the question of freedom. Sartre argued in…Read more
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297George Holmes howison: "The city of God" and personal idealismJournal of Speculative Philosophy 20 (3): 224-242. 2006.
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35Kevin Schilbrack on Defining Religion and the Field of the Study of ReligionsSophia 53 (3): 379-382. 2014.Kevin Schilbrack’s manifesto Philosophy and the Study of Religions is an important foundational work for two fields: philosophy of religion and religious studies. The philosophers of religion sometimes appear to better fit Donald Wiebe’s characterization of religionists as crypto-theologians. They seem only really concerned with Christian theology or at the most theism, despite the fact that Christianity only accounts for about a third of what we could call religious people on the planet and the…Read more
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6Book Reviews (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 76 (2): 229-233. 2014.Jacob Taubes, Occidental Eschatology. Translated with a Preface by David Ratmoko; Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2009, xxiii + 215 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper)Jacob Taubes, To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections. Translated by Keith Tribe with an introduction by Mike Grimshaw; Columbia University Press, New York, 2013, $18.50 (cloth)Since 2004, there has been a minor publishing explosion of works by Jacob Taubes translated into English. Taubes did not leave a large body of work. T…Read more
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