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Derrida with Heidegger: poetic language, animality, worldIn Jean-Michel Rabaté (ed.), Understanding Derrida, understanding modernism, Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
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18On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to LifeOxford University Press. 2020.On Being and Becoming offers a new approach to existentialist philosophy and literature, as responding to competing demands for universal truth and the defense of the irreducible singularity of the individual. On Being and Becoming traces the heterogeneity of existentialist thinking beyond the popular wartime philosophers of the Parisian Left Bank, demonstrating their critical dependence on sources from the nineteenth century and their complements in modernist works across the European continent…Read more
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The Phenomenology of Religious LifeInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 59 (1): 73-76. 2004.
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7Nietzsche and Cognitive EcologyIn Juliana Albuquerque & Gert Hofmann (eds.), Anti/Idealism: Re-Interpreting a German Discourse, De Gruyter. pp. 209-226. 2019.
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23The Phenomenology of Religious LifeIndiana University Press. 2004.The Phenomenology of Religious Life presents the text of Heidegger’s important 1920–21 lectures on religion. The volume consists of the famous lecture course Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion, a course on Augustine and Neoplatonism, and notes for a course on The Philosophical Foundations of Medieval Mysticism that was never delivered. Heidegger’s engagements with Aristotle, St. Paul, Augustine, and Luther give readers a sense of what phenomenology would come to mean in the mature exp…Read more
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101The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the WorldColumbia University Press. 2018.Imagination allows us to step out of the ordinary but also to transform it through our sense of wonder and play, artistic inspiration and innovation, or the eureka moment of a scientific breakthrough. In this book, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei offers a groundbreaking new understanding of its place in everyday experience as well as the heights of creative achievement. The Life of Imagination delivers a new conception of imagination that places it at the heart of our engagement with the world—th…Read more
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21The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and LiteraturePennsylvania State University Press. 2007.While phenomenology grounds this study (through Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Bachelard), what makes this book more than a treatise on phenomenological aesthetics is the way in which modernity itself is examined in its relation to ...
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26Immanent Transcendence in Rilke and StevensThe German Quarterly 83 (3): 275-296. 2010.The present study of the philosophical orientation within the poetics of Rilke and Stevens aims to show that in the context of modern poetry, transcendence, or “crossing beyond,” must be understood in two distinct senses, as vertical and horizontal projections. The usurpation of one by the other or the transfer between them distinguishes the poetry of Rilke and Stevens and makes a comparative reading particularly illuminating. The fact that Rilke and Stevens are two of the most widely invoked p…Read more
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25Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle (review)Review of Metaphysics 57 (3): 619-620. 2004.What is factical life, and what sort of philosophical approach is needed to grasp it? Life is for Heidegger a basic phenomenon. Because factical life is immensely rich, evasive, manifold, fluid, and dynamic, one cannot hope to grasp it in static definitions which aim to exhaust its object, to take it as an immediate given. The importance of tailoring one’s mode of access to the subject matter is certainly an Aristotlelian insight, but Heidegger conceives it as a question of phenomenological auth…Read more
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33The Mimetic Dimension: Literature between Neuroscience and PhenomenologyBritish Journal of Aesthetics 54 (4): 425-448. 2014.When we are most immersed in literary reading, and when that immersion is most significant, we may experience a literary work as constitutive of a ‘world’. With reference to the phenomenological tradition, it can be shown how this world is both a novel creation and serves to disclose, not least by shifting our perspective from, the world of ordinary experience. In this light, it will be shown how the problem of mimesis poses a challenge for recent neuroscientific approaches to literature. At the…Read more
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25Exotic Spaces in German ModernismOxford University Press. 2011.Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei demonstrates that the exotic, as reflected in major works of German literature and in the philosophy and art that inspires it,..
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The poetics of thinkingIn David Rudrum (ed.), Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to Contemporary Debates, Palgrave-macmillan. 2006.
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26Foucault and Classical Antiquity: Power, Ethics, and Knowledge (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 46 (1): 118-120. 2006.
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22The Aesthetic and the Poetic Image: Beyond Ekphrasic Aesthetics with Rilke and CézannePhilosophy Today 47 (Supplement): 107-117. 2003.
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67The world and image of poetic language: Heidegger and BlanchotContinental Philosophy Review 45 (2): 189-212. 2012.This essay engages ways in which the manifestation of ‘world’ occurs in poetry specifically through images, and how we can conceive of the imagination in this regard without reducing the imagination to a mimetic faculty of consciousness subordinate to cognition. Continental thought in the last century offers rich resources for this study. The notion of a ‘world’ is related to the poetic image in ways fundamental to the Heidegger’s theory of language, and may be seen in Continental poetics follow…Read more
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90Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the subject of poetic language: toward a new poetics of daseinFordham University Press. 2004.Heidegger's interpretations of the poetry of Hölderlin are central to Heidegger's later philosophy and have determined the mainstream reception of Hölderlin's poetry. Gosetti-Ferencei argues that Heidegger has overlooked central elements in Hölderlin's poetics, such as a Kantian understanding of aesthetic subjectivity and a commitment to Enlightenment ideals. These elements, she argues, resist the more politically distressing aspects of Heidegger's interpretations, including Heidegger's national…Read more
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Johns Hopkins UniversityDepartment of German and Romance Languages and Literatures
Department of PhilosophyProfessor
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Continental Philosophy |
Literary Interpretation |
Aesthetics |
Literary Imagination |
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