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17Nietzsche and the Self-Overcoming of Historical ConsciousnessResearch in Phenomenology 52 (3): 333-351. 2022.This paper addresses the self-overcoming of historical consciousness in Nietzsche’s “The Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life” and contemporaneous texts. I argue that Nietzsche’s particular historical awareness, which conditions his treatment of historiography [Historie], is indebted to the lineage of German Idealism it also overtly contests. That contestation reaches its apex in Nietzsche’s valorization of appearance and the redirection of poietic power, which enables him to affirm an art…Read more
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21Wonder and the Elemental: Suffering Beyond EthicsComparative and Continental Philosophy 5 (1): 9-18. 2013.This paper approaches the experience of wonder phenomenologically. The account is descriptive. I suggest that in addition to the familiar treatments of wonder as constituted through a break with everyday involvement, on the one hand, and an awareness of the sheer fact of existence, on the other, the experience of wonder involves an intensification of the primary contact by which the world is given. That contact is prior to and presupposed by both our involvement with objects as implements of med…Read more
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17National Unity and Potlatch: Genealogical Observations Pertaining to North America’s Accursed ShareComparative and Continental Philosophy 9 (3): 218-229. 2017.This paper offers a genealogy of national unity in the United States approached through practices of consumption and punishment. Drawing on the work of Foucault, Mauss, and Bataille, the analysis shows how these practices are mutually determining, how they demonstrate an economy of excess as opposed to one of utility or conservation, and how they depend on and reinforce specific patterns of discursive and emotional coding. The Thanksgiving holiday serves as a privileged site for locating the ele…Read more
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17The Expiation of AuthorityEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (1): 175-195. 2005.This paper examines Bataille’s role in the formation of the question of community, as developed by Nancy and Blanchot. The paper aims to situate the problematic status of Bataille’s influence—as both formative but ultimately insufficient—in his relation to Nietzsche and what Bataille understands as the experience of an irrecoverable loss. What it would mean to share such loss, what is at stake in bringing that experience to articulation, and what happens to those who endeavor to do so constitute…Read more
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30The Obsessions of Georges Bataille: Community and Communication (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2009._Considers Bataille’s work from an explicitly philosophical perspective._
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Abysses: Writing and Transformation in Nietzsche and HeideggerDissertation, Vanderbilt University. 2001.Abysses: Writing and Transformation in Nietzsche and Heidegger is an attempt to determine the question of philosophical discourse in the work of these two thinkers as abyssal. That is, it argues that Nietzsche's and Heidegger's philosophical writings are best understood in terms of movements away from traditional grounds of philosophical discourse, such as the subject, truth, and being. These movements require of each thinker new strategies, questions, and difficulties, which eventually lead the…Read more
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18No More Beautiful DaysEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (1): 79-92. 2011.This paper aims to situate Agamben’s treatment of the issue of community. It shows how Agamben departs from and supplements the French discourse on community through a critique of negativity; how the significance of community is measured against the society of the spectacle; and how the alienation from our linguistic being, which the spectacle effects, conditions a politics opposed to the State apparatus. Agamben’s coming community appropriates the dispossession and impropriety of contemporary h…Read more
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24Fragments—Of the Philosophy of HistoryIdealistic Studies 38 (1-2): 123-136. 2008.This paper investigates the fragmentation required of the philosophy of history in light of three key moments in its formation: German Idealism’s desire to see freedom realized in the world, the death of God, and the disasters of the twentieth century. I argue that Walter Benjamin and Maurice Blanchot respond to these threads of the philosophy of history with revolutionary imperatives that belong to no program or project, imperatives that both reorganize and destructure the work of education, af…Read more
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17Before the Subject: Rereading The Birth of TragedyJournal of Nietzsche Studies 25 (1): 58-77. 2003.
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1The contestation of communityIn Andrew J. Mitchell & Jason Kemp Winfree (eds.), The Obsessions of Georges Bataille: Community and Communication, State University of New York Press. 2009.
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23Caring for indifference: Living with indifferenceResearch in Phenomenology 38 (1): 134-141. 2008.
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46On the lineage of oblivion: Heidegger, Blanchot, and the fragmentation of truthResearch in Phenomenology 35 (1): 249-269. 2005.This paper traces the (de)formative force of Heidegger's thought on Blanchot's writing. In the paper, I attempt to show how the question of nihilism and the question of truth in the work of Heidegger impose on Blanchot what he calls the exigency of the fragment. This exigency arises more specifically from an affinity and attunement in Blanchot's work to Heidegger's sense of Aus-setzen, on the one hand, and a resistance in Blanchot's work to Heidegger's sense of Ent-wurf, on the other. Fragmentat…Read more
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23Concealing difference: Derrida and Heidegger's thinking of becomingResearch in Phenomenology 29 (1): 161-181. 1999.
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19th Century Philosophy |
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