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87The face of the Other and the trace of God: essays on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (edited book)Fordham University Press. 2000.The Face of the Other and the Trace of God contain essays on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, and how his philosophy intersects with that of other philosophers, particularly Husserl, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Derrida. This collection is broadly divided into two parts: relations with the other, and the questions of God.
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61Phenomenology in a New Key: Between Analysis and History: Essays in Honor of Richard Cobb-Stevens (edited book)Springer. 2015.This paper distinguishes four senses of naturalism: reductive physicalism; a naturalism that departs from what Thompson calls “natural-historical judgments”; a naturalism that recognizes that physical nature is located within the space of reasons; and a phenomenological naturalism that shifts the focus to the “natural” experiences of subjects who encounter the world. The paper argues for a “phenomenological neo-Aristotelianism” that accounts both for the internal justification of our first-order…Read more
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60The virtue of history: Alasdair maclntyre and the rationality of narrativePhilosophy and Social Criticism 24 (1): 43-61. 1998.Maclntyre's critique of modern moral theory is supported by a theory of narrative in turn premised on a discontinuous reading of history. Thought through to the end, historical discontinuity redefines objectivity according to the rules of the particular context in which it appears. This claim both founds Maclntyre's intervention in moral debate and troubles that intervention from within. Against his opponents, he claims to have the argument most in accord with the rules of our context; Maclntyre…Read more
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42Ruth Abbey, ed., Charles Taylor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Thomas Baldwin, ed., The Cambridge History of Philosophy (1870-1945)(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) (review)Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 25 (1). 2004.
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37James A. Andrews, Hermeneutics and the Church. In Dialogue with Augustine. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. Ankur Barua, The Divine Body in History: A Comparative Study of the Symbolism of Time and Embodiment in St. Augustine and Rāmānuja. Religions and Discourse 45. Oxford et al.: Peter Lang, 2009 (review)Augustinian Studies 44 (1): 203-205. 2013.
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34Justice and MercyPhilosophy Today 62 (1): 137-148. 2018.To act mercifully is to do more than what is required for justice. The act appears as a positive exception to the rule of law, and thus exhibits an intentionality irreducible to consciousness of a social or political order. In this philosophy of Levinas, occasional references to mercy shed some light on the goodness of the good that is otherwise occluded by overt concentration on social or political justice. However, Levinas’s account of the act itself is not entirely convincing, and attempts to…Read more
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31The Principle of the World and the Call to Faith: Philosophical Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7 and Matthew 27Analecta Hermeneutica 4. 2012.
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30Three Reflections on the Margins of Paul Moyaert, “The Death Drive and the Nucleus of the Ego: An Introduction to Freudian Metaphysics”Southern Journal of Philosophy 51 (S1): 120-125. 2013.Paul Moyaert proposes to resolve persistent difficulties in Freud's theory of drive by appealing to a metaphysics of mutually irreducible forces. His argument is persuasive on many points, but raises questions about others. Three of them are mentioned here: one each pertaining to the implications of his position for the body and sexuality, the analytic relation, and ethics
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29Introduction by the Guest EditorContinental Philosophy Review 47 (3-4): 243-248. 2014.It is Heidegger who asks what there is to be thought after the end of metaphysics, and indeed his own work is never far from a response to the question. This is neither to say that there is only one such response, nor even to suppose that Heidegger’s thinking provides only one response. To be sure, the origin of the question is not difficult to identify. Metaphysics, as the grounding of known beings in some anterior or first being, comes to its end as thinking becomes capable of grasping it as a…Read more
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29Review of Daniel Greenspan, The Passion of Infinity: Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the Rebirth of Tragedy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (5). 2010.
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26Levinas’s Existential Analytic: A Commentary on “Totality and Infinity.” (review)Review of Metaphysics 70 (1): 144-145. 2016.
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26Kierkegaard and the Phenomenality of Desire: Existential Phenomenology in the First Edifying DiscourseRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 64 (2/4). 2008.Against expectations, Kierkegaard turns out to have sometimes been a phenomenologist. Specifically in his "Edifying Discourses," though perhaps elsewhere, one finds a style of thinking and the interpretive rigor both close to some features of Husserlian and Heideggerian thought, and more capable of handling religious phenomena. Where is a matter of purity of heart and willing one thing, it is of course a matter of desire. One may read the first of the "Edifying Discourses" as a phenomenological …Read more
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26Christianity and Possibility: On Kearney's the God Who May BeMetaphilosophy 36 (5): 730-740. 2005.This essay interprets and responds to Richard Kearney's metaphysics of possibility and hermeneutics of religion against the background of Nietzsche's proclamation of the death of God and the theodicy problem. Kearney's work is thus read as an interesting but ultimately problematic attempt to preserve or perhaps reinstate religious thought after the modern critique of idols. In addition, his positions are compared and contrasted with some of authors with whom he seems to be in limited agreement (…Read more
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24Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2003.Does religious thinking stand in opposition to postmodernity? Does the existence of God present the ultimate challenge to metaphysics? Strands of continental thought, especially those running from Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger, focus on individual consciousness as the horizon for all meaning and provide modern philosophy of religion with much of its present ferment. In Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics, 11 influential continental philosophers share the conviction that religious thin…Read more
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23Fragility and Transcendence: Essays on the Thought of Jean-Louis Chrétien (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2023.This first-ever collection of original essays devoted to philosopher, theologian, and poet Jean-Louis Chrétien’s work, this interdisciplinary collection includes Chrétien’s collaborators, successors, and Anglophone interpreters and explores themes of temporality, prayer, and religious reading.
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16Mimesis: On Appearing and BeingPeeters. 1997.Mimesis is one of the root words of Ancient Philosophy and again plays an important role in contemporary French thought. In this essay, an original interpretation of mimesis is given which throws new light on art and literature, reading and writing, the mirror and the example, identity and difference, and last but not least on the traditional opposition between reality and illusion, between appearing and being.
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15Radical responsibility and the problem of evilIn Claire Elise Katz & Lara Trout (eds.), Emmanuel Levinas, Routledge. pp. 4--3. 2005.
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15Levinas on the primacy of the ethical: philosophy as prophecyNorthwestern University Press. 2022.Jeffrey Bloechl traces the evolution of Levinas's thought to argue that his conception of God is dependent on his existential phenomenology.
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14The Philosopher on the Road to DamascusPhilosophy and Theology 16 (2): 269-281. 2004.Will St. Paul have been a philosopher no less than an apostle and a believer? The proposal interests Stanislas Breton not so much as an occasion to redefine the relation between faith and reason as perhaps the site of their original emergence, together and at once, from a common source. In the image of Paul—who is Jewish, Greek, and Roman—struck down before the Cross, Breton sees the birth not only of a faith that transcends all particularity but also of a reason that refuses empty universality.
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14Review of E. Jane Doering (ed.), Eric O. Springsted (ed.), The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (7). 2005.
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13The Invention of Christianity: Preambles to a Philosophical Reading of PaulIn Antonio Cimino, George Henry van Kooten & Gert Jan van der Heiden (eds.), Saint Paul and Philosophy: The Consonance of Ancient and Modern Thought, De Gruyter. pp. 47-66. 2017.