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8The Enigma of SufferingJournal for Continental Philosophy of Religion 5 (2): 143-164. 2023.Phenomenology has attended often to the theme of pain, but less to suffering. Careful study of the latter leads to results that correspond with observations appearing in the philosophy of medicine and in literature. The difference between pain and suffering exposes the fact that in some instances the latter defies conceptions of subjectivity widely accepted in phenomenology. The subject who suffers is a subject who struggles to give meaning to his or her experience, and in some instances loses t…Read more
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21Fragility 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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1Book review: Nigel Zimmermann, Facing the Other: John Paul II, Levinas, and the Body (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 32 (1): 142-144. 2019.
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8The phenomenology of hope: the twenty-first Annual Symposium of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center: lectures (edited book)Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Duquesne University-Gumberg Library. 2004.
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13Levinas 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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3Excess and DesireIn Kevin Hart & Michael A. Singer (eds.), The Exorbitant: Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians, Fordham University Press. pp. 188-200. 2022.
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28 A Response to Jean-Yves LacosteIn Kevin Hart & Barbara Wall (eds.), The Experience of God: A Postmodern Response, Fordham University Press. pp. 104-112. 2022.
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413 Words of WelcomeIn Richard Kearney & Kascha Semonovitch (eds.), Phenomenologies of the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality, Fordham University Press. pp. 232-241. 2022.
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4Christianity and PossibilityIn John Panteleimon Manoussakis (ed.), After God: Richard Kearney and the Religious Turn in Continental Philosophy, Fordham University Press. pp. 127-138. 2022.
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12The Life and Things of Faith. A Partial Reading of Jean-Yves LacosteRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 76 (2-3): 689-704. 2020.
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13Mimesis: 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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26The 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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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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9Book review: Nigel Zimmermann, Facing the Other: John Paul II, Levinas, and the Body (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 32 (1): 142-144. 2019.
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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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7The 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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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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25Three 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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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.
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510. Phenomenology, Catholic Thought, and the University: Lessons from the French DiscussionIn Gregory P. Floyd & Stephanie Rumpza (eds.), The Catholic Reception of Continental Philosophy in North America, University of Toronto Press. pp. 245-263. 2020.
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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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1Towards an Anthropology of Violence: Existential Analyses of Levinas, Girard, FreudIn Nathan Eckstrand & Christopher Yates (eds.), Philosophy and the return of violence: studies from this widening gyre, Continuum International Publishing Group. 2011.
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12Review 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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86The 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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15Radical responsibility and the problem of evilIn Claire Elise Katz & Lara Trout (eds.), Emmanuel Levinas, Routledge. pp. 4--3. 2005.
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9Life and Work of Adriaan T. Peperzak, 2016 Aquinas Medal RecipientProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 21-24
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4Review of Brian Gregor, "A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross: The Cruciform Self" (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 54 (3): 353-354. 2014.