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11Heidegger's RaceIn Ingo Farin & Jeff Malpas (eds.), Heidegger and the human, State University of New York Press. pp. 227-257. 2022.
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6Postmodernity's transcending: devaluing GodUniversity of Notre Dame Press. 2005.In Postmodernity's Transcending: Devaluing God, Laurence Paul Hemming grapples with the philosophical weakness that characterizes postmodern theory, its privileging of the visual, and its reductive description of the self. He offers a profound challenge to many theologians and philosophers currently articulating questions concerning God, value, and the supposed "nihilism" of the postmodern situation. He does this by examining the origin and trajectory of the aesthetic sublime, beloved of postmod…Read more
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Restoring faith in reason: with a new translation of the Encyclical letter, Faith and reason of Pope John Paul II: together with a commentary and discussion (edited book)University of Notre Dame. 2002.
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34Heidegger and Marx: a productive dialogue over the language of humanismNorthwestern University Press. 2013.Introduction: there is no justice in Heidegger or for Marx -- Interpretations of Heidegger and Marx -- The history of Marx and Heidegger -- The history and negation of metaphysics -- Logic and dialectic -- Metaphysics of the human state -- The situation of Germany -- The ideology of Germany -- Nazism, liberalism, humanism -- The Jewish question -- Speaking of the essence of man -- Production-previously this was called God -- The end of humanism -- Between men and gods -- Conclusion.
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9Redeeming truth: considering faith and reason (edited book)University of Notre Dame Press. 2007."Redeeming Truth has as its overarching theme the redemption of truth looked at philosophically and theologically. This collection is notable in that it embraces a variety of approaches to its theme, from traditional forays to those that engage postmodernism and those that consider feminist theology. As many of the essays respond directly to other contributions, the volume reflects the vigor of the debate."--Jacket.
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Postmodernity's Transcending, Devaluing GodInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 61 (2): 123-125. 2007.
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10More Than Just a Ticklish Subject: History, Postmodernity and GodHeythrop Journal 42 (2): 192-204. 2001.The paper begins by tracing the development of the understanding of truth as adjunct to the self in postmodernity. It then proceeds to ask what history is in postmodernity in the light of the reconfiguration of truth, and what kinds of response Christianity, and especially Catholic Christianity might develop to the postmodern situation. Using a critique of Habermas’ speech “Modernity – an incomplete project” it develops a notion of postmodernity as an extreme interpretation of modernity, solely …Read more
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38More than just a ticklish subject: History, postmodernity and GodHeythrop Journal 42 (2). 2001.The paper begins by tracing the development of the understanding of truth as adjunct to the self in postmodernity. It then proceeds to ask what history is in postmodernity in the light of the reconfiguration of truth, and what kinds of response Christianity, and especially Catholic Christianity might develop to the postmodern situation. Using a critique of Habermas’ speech “Modernity – an incomplete project” it develops a notion of postmodernity as an extreme interpretation of modernity, solely …Read more
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30John Paul II's Call for a Renewed Theology of Being: Just What Did He Mean, and How Can We Respond?Studies in Christian Ethics 21 (2): 194-218. 2008.In this article I explore the contemporary relationship of theology to philosophy through the call for a `renewed philosophy of being' by Pope John Paul II. I argue that in fact three understandings of being appear in this call: the first, phenomenological, appears as the bringing to description of the situation of contemporary nihilism, exemplified by Nietzsche both in his published works and his Nachlaß; the second, metaphysical, can be understood as the moralistic voice taken up by contempora…Read more
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30The Undoing of Sex: The Proper Enjoyment of Divine CommandStudies in Christian Ethics 23 (1): 59-72. 2010.This paper examines the way in which divine law and divine command have in cases been commandeered for the purposes of demonstrating fidelity to religious orthodoxy. It takes the example of one theologian’s investigation into the tradition and asks whether, in the very name of producing an orthodox theology of sexual difference, the debate does not end up being cast in contemporary, sexualised terms. It then takes the example of how contemporary understandings of sexual difference can be read ba…Read more
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67Speaking out of turn: Martin Heidegger and die kehreInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 6 (3). 1998.' Speaking out of Turn : Martin Heidegger and die Kehre ' examines the difference between Heidegger's own understanding of 'the turning' and that understanding which originated with Karl Lowith and was later presented to English-speaking readers by William Richardson in Martin Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought . The study focuses on Heidegger's own introduction to Richardson's book, and argues that, far from confirming Richardson's view that there is a 'Heidegger I' and 'Heidegger II' …Read more
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38Rewritten Theology: Aquinas After His Readers. By Mark D. JordanHeythrop Journal 50 (4): 727-729. 2009.
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14A Transcendental Hangover: Lévinas, Heidegger and the Ethics of AlterityStudies in Christian Ethics 18 (2): 45-65. 2005.This paper examines two claims currently made of Heidegger and Lévinas: that Heidegger, work and man, had no adequate ethics; and that Lévinas draws attention to this both in his own work and in the ground for ethics that he sought to give through the assertion of an explicitly Platonic ethics of transcendence to the ‘Good beyond Being’. The paper takes as a statement of Lévinas ethics his text ‘Alterity and Transcendence’ and shows, by relating what he says to Plato, Aristotle and Heidegger, th…Read more
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14After Heidegger: TransubstantiationHeythrop Journal 41 (2): 170-186. 2000.Recent debate over transubstantiation has concentrated either on transubstantiation as a kind of embarrassment in consequence of modern physics, or on the extent to which it is both a doctrine elaborated in the light of metaphysics and recoverable in consequence of metaphysics having been overcome. In this sense the tension between Aquinas' apparently metaphysical formulation of the doctrine and the less overtly metaphysical formula adopted by the Council of Trent has indicated a way of ‘rescuin…Read more
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Just forces: Heidegger, Arendt and antiquityIn Aaron Turner (ed.), Reconciling ancient and modern philosophies of history, De Gruyter. 2020.
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Heidegger's raceIn Ingo Farin & Jeff Malpas (eds.), Heidegger and the human, State University of New York Press. 2022.
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2This title was first published in 2003. This book develops a moral ontology for a theistic ethic that engages the work of contemporary moral and political philosophers, and reaffirms the relevance of a theistic tradition of God's relation to the world reflected in the fundamental teachings of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Drawing on recent thought in the non-religious fields of psychology and political and moral philosophy, which build around the concept of human flourishing in community, Kir…Read more
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1Radical Orthodoxy?: A Catholic EnquiryAshgate Publishing. 2000.Heythrop College is part of the University of London. These essays reflect the debates that have taken place there on the nature of radical orthodoxy and the search for a deeper understanding of truth.
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31Divinising experience: essays in the history of religious experience from Origen to Ricœur (edited book)Peeters. 2004.. reh S.ni a Paul Rieoeur. hfFerem ï penenee i in ree PEE TERS.LEI \ IN PEETERS.
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6Heidegger and MarxNorthwestern University Press. 2013.Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx remain two of the most influential thinkers in philosophy, in political science and other social sciences, and in the humanities. Yet there has never been a full-length study in English of the relationship between their ideas, and there has only been one study in German (from 1966). A Productive Dialogue fills this gap and contradicts the widely held assumption that Heidegger had no significant engagement with Marx. Hemming focuses on four related areas of inquiry—…Read more
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40After Heidegger: TransubstantiationHeythrop Journal 41 (2). 2000.Recent debate over transubstantiation has concentrated either on transubstantiation as a kind of embarrassment in consequence of modern physics, or on the extent to which it is both a doctrine elaborated in the light of metaphysics and recoverable in consequence of metaphysics having been overcome. In this sense the tension between Aquinas' apparently metaphysical formulation of the doctrine and the less overtly metaphysical formula adopted by the Council of Trent has indicated a way of ‘rescuin…Read more
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8The Worker – Dominion and FormNorthwestern University Press. 2017.Written in 1932, just before the fall of the Weimar Republic and on the eve of the Nazi accession to power, Ernst Jünger’s The Worker: Dominion and Form articulates a trenchant critique of bourgeois liberalism and seeks to identify the form characteristic of the modern age. Jünger’s analyses, written in critical dialogue with Marx, are inspired by a profound intuition of the movement of history and an insightful interpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy. Martin Heidegger considered Jünger “the on…Read more
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26Heidegger's "Productive Dialogue with Marxism"Philosophy Today 58 (2): 179-195. 2014.This paper takes the theme of Heidegger’s phrase “a productive dialogue with Marxism” from the “Letter on Humanism” and examines what Heidegger could have meant by it by referring to a number of his works and commentary in other places, and the backdrop of European, Western, and global history in the twentieth century. The paper touches on Heidegger’s relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre, Kostas Axelos and Jean Beaufret. It looks at a key section of the 1969 television interview Heidegger conducte…Read more
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483Heidegger's Atheism: The Refusal of a Theological VoiceNotre Dame University Press. 2002.This work traces the development of Heidegger's explanation of philosophy as a methodological atheism, relating it to his reading of Aristotle, Aquinas and Nietzsche. A predominant issue throughout this study is Heidegger's pursuit of an answer to the question: How did God get into philosophy?
Areas of Specialization
Martin Heidegger |
European Philosophy |
G. W. F. Hegel |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
European Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |