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6Thinkings 11: Collected Evocations, Interventions, and ReadingsHttps://Www.Jeffnoonan.Org/. 2021.
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5Thinkings 10: Collected Evocations, Interventions, and ReadingsHttps://Www.Jeffnoonan.Org/. 2020.
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Robert Pippin helped revolutionize the interpretation of Hegel in the English-speaking world. Reviving and developing the early American pragmatist treatment of Hegel as a philosopher whose metaphy...
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15Joseph Brodsky and the Aesthetic Origins of EthicsThe European Legacy 28 (8): 837-851. 2023.In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1987, the Russian-born American poet Joseph Brodsky argued that aesthetics is the mother of ethics. However, there is an ambiguity in his use of the term aesthetics. In the first part of this article, I distinguish between Brodsky’s narrow use of aesthetics, which refers to problems of beauty, and the broader sense, which refers to the cognitive function of sensibility and feeling. I then suggest that good sense can be made of the claim about the origins o…Read more
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9Tayor and Feuerbach on the problem of fullness: Must a meaningful life have a transcendent foundation?Constellations. forthcoming.Constellations, EarlyView.
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16Thinking and Talking (review)The European Legacy 28 (1): 114-115. 2022.Thinking and Talking is the fifth volume of the collected papers of Giorgio Baruchello. The volume gathers together nineteen pieces of various styles and lengths—some rewritten formal academic arti...
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4Our Fatal Flaw: “Indifference to the Woes of Other Human Beings” (review)The European Legacy 26 (6): 651-658. 2021.Purportedly liberal countries insist that they are the standard-bearers of all that is good and humane in the world. At the same time, they leave African migrants to drown in the Mediterranean; the...
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31Mettius Fufetius in LivyClassical Antiquity 25 (2): 327-349. 2006.This essay makes the case that Livy's version of the tale of Mettius Fufetius transmits certain facts that relate to inherited ritual practices along with formulas used in early law and diplomacy. Although the author may not be fully aware of the original meaning of all he is handing down because he has simply taken materials from his sources without much critical investigation, the traditional elements are important to him because they seem to authenticate this legend about the reign of Tullus …Read more
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57Luddites, Labor, and Meaningful Lives: Would a World Without Work Really Be Best?Journal of Social Philosophy 51 (3): 441-456. 2020.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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9Historical materialism as mediation between the physical and the meaningfulPhilosophy and Social Criticism 47 (9): 1043-1059. 2020.The article argues that historical materialism is not only a theory of historical change but more generally a mediation between the natural foundations of human life and its meaningful symbolic expressions. The article begins with an interpretation of the general philosophical significance of the basic premises of historical materialism as they are sketched in the German Ideology. I argue that these premises point us in two different directions: down, towards a scientific understanding of the na…Read more
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12Idleness: A Philosophical Essay: by Brian O’Connor, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2018, 203 pp., $24.95/€20.00The European Legacy 25 (7-8): 880-881. 2020.Volume 25, Issue 7-8, November - December 2020, Page 880-881.
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16Art and Posthistory: Conversations on the End of Aesthetics (review)The European Legacy 28 (5): 547-548. 2023.This short collection of conversations between the renowned American philosopher of art Arthur C. Danto and Italian art critic Demetrio Paparoni will serve as an effective introduction to Danto’s w...
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9Embodied Humanism: Toward Solidarity and Sensuous EnjoymentLexington Books. 2022.Jeff Noonan traces the development of humanist values from the ancient philosophies of India, China, and Greece, to contemporary struggles against oppression. Embodied Humanism argues that humanism is a critical social philosophy in which need-satisfaction and life-enjoyment have always been paramount.
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15The paper argues that the future of socialism depends upon the category of use value being grounded in a wider and deeper conception of life value. Only as such can it serve as the regulating principle of a future democratic socialist society. Life value is anchored in an understanding of the human life's space-time continuum understood as a continuum of life requirements. The multiple life crises regularly generated by capitalism are crises of its incapacity to adequately satisfy these life req…Read more
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37The Debate on Immortality: Posthumanist Science vs. Critical PhilosophyThe European Legacy 21 (1): 38-51. 2016.At different times Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse argued that immortality is a condition of overcoming misery and achieving complete human freedom. Their arguments were made before “practical immortality” had become a concrete scientific project. The difference between what was then and what is now scientifically possible alters the ethical and political value of the idea of immortality. Had the first generation of critical theorists occupied the present historical moment, they would have reali…Read more
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Normative Ethics |
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Normative Ethics |
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