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587Slicing Up Eyeballs: The Criminal Underworlds of Nicolas Winding RefnPhilosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence 4 (2): 15-39. 2020.From Buñuel and Dali’s Un Chien Andalou to recent works by Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, the cinematic destruction of the eye has become iconic due to its striking effect upon film spectators’ visceral experiences as well as its ability to influence their symbolic or fetishistic desires. By exploiting the natural discomfort and disgust produced by these types of images and then situating them within an aesthetic and psychoanalytic framework, Refn and other filmmakers provide a visual sh…Read more
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51The Philosophy of Werner Herzog (edited book)Lexington Books. 2020.Legendary director, actor, author, and provocateur Werner Herzog has incalculably influenced contemporary cinema for decades. This essay collection by professional philosophers and film theorists from around the globe offers a diversity of perspectives on how the thinking behind the camera is revealed in the action Herzog captures in front of it.
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518The Business Ethics of Recreational MarijuanaIn Alex Sager (ed.), Business Cases in Ethical Focus, Broadview Press. pp. 32-44. 2020.
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273In the Neutral Zone, A Libertarian's Home Is Their CastleIn Bruce Krajewski & Joshua Heter (eds.), The Man In The High Castle And Philosophy, Open Court. pp. 47-58. 2017.
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426Flow My Tears, Rick Deckard SaidIn Robin Bunce & Trip McCrossin (eds.), Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy, Open Court. pp. 103-110. 2019.
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516Letter of October 24, 1851 “Las Clases Discutidoras”Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence 3 (2): 96-104. 2019.This is the first complete English translation and publication of Donoso’s carta de 24 de octubre, 1851, a letter encapsulating many of his views on revolution and decision. This remarkable letter, sent as a diplomatic missive while he was serving the Spanish crown in Paris, describes how Napoleon III––stuck between the 1848 constitution’s prohibition against his election and his impending coup that will crown him emperor––must gain the support of the liberal bourgeoise middle class if he i…Read more
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634Counterrevolutionary Polemics: Katechon and Crisis in de Maistre, Donoso, and SchmittPhilosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence 3 (2). 2019.For the theorists of crisis, the revolutionary state comes into existence through violence, and due to its inability to provide an authoritative katechon (restrainer) against internal and external violence, it perpetuates violence until it self-destructs. Writing during extreme economic depression and growing social and political violence, the crisis theorists––Joseph de Maistre, Juan Donoso Cortés, and Carl Schmitt––each sought to blame the chaos of their time upon the Janus-faced postrevol…Read more
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2791Personhood and property in Hegel's conception of freedomPólemos (1): 68-91. 2019.For Hegel, personhood is developed primarily through the possession, ownership, and exchange of property. Property is crucial for individuals to experience freedom as persons and for the existence of Sittlichkeit, or ethical life within a community. The free exchange of property serves to develop individual personalities by mediating our intersubjectivity between one another, whereby we share another’s subjective experience of the object by recognizing their will in it and respecting their owner…Read more
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704Behind Zarathustra's Eyes: The Bad, Sad Man Meets Nietzsche's ProphetIn Rocco Gennaro & Casey Harison (eds.), The Who and Philosophy, Lexington Books. 2016.
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California State University, StanislausAssociate Professor
Turlock, CA, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
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Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
19th Century Philosophy |
European Philosophy |