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    Revolutionary Hope: Essays in Honor of William L. Mcbride (edited book)
    with Matthew Abraham, Joseph Catalano, Thomas Flynn, Lewis Gordon, Leonard Harris, Sonia Kruks, Martin Beck Matustik, Constance Mui, Julien Murphy, Ronald Santoni, Sally Scholz, Calvin Schrag, and Shane Wahl
    Lexington Books. 2013.
    Over the course of the last four decades, William Leon McBride has distinguished himself as one of the most esteemed and accomplished philosophers of his generation. This volume—which celebrates the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday—includes contributions from colleagues, friends, and formers students and pays tribute to McBride’s considerable achievements as a teacher, mentor, and scholar
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    Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene (edited book)
    with Damon Boria
    Rowman and Littlefield. 2023.
    Earthly Engagements brings together scholars who take up Jean-Paul Sartre's thought as a critical and heuristic resource to think through the planetary socio-ecological crisis. The volume advances the ecological voice in Sartre studies and the Sartrean voice in environmental studies, from environmental philosophy to eco-criticism.
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    Reading Catalano's Reading Sartre
    Sartre Studies International 17 (2): 81-88. 2011.
  • This dissertation presents a constructive reading of Jean-Paul Sartre's Morale et histoire, the undelivered 1965 Cornell Lectures. My thesis is that this unpublished and largely unknown investigation of the relationship between morality and history provides significant resources for a novel Sartrean argument for human freedom. This argument begins with concrete moral experience and makes its way toward freedom, thus effecting an illuminating reversal of the conventional logic of philosophical in…Read more
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    Ecologizing Sartre’s Ontology
    Environmental Philosophy 9 (2): 95-121. 2012.
    I argue that Sartre’s philosophy can be both broadened in its aspirations and deepened in its implications through dialogue with the life sciences. Section 1 introduces the philosophical terrain. Section 2 explores Sartre’s evolving understanding of nature and human relations with nature. Section 3 explores Sartre’s perspectives on scientific inquiry, natural history, and dialectical reason. Section 4 outlines recent developments in the life sciences that bear directly on Sartre’s quiet curiosit…Read more
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    Reading Catalano's Reading Sartre
    Sartre Studies International 17 (2): 81-88. 2011.
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    Sartre's Wagers - humanism, solidarity, liberation
    Sartre Studies International 9 (2): 68-76. 2003.
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    Normative inertia, historical momentum and moral invention
    Sartre Studies International 6 (1): 105-115. 2000.
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    Sartre’s Integrative Method: Description, Dialectics, and Praxis
    Sartre Studies International 16 (2): 48-74. 2010.
    This essay revisits the question of Sartre's method with particular emphasis on the posthumously published Notebooks for an Ethics , Critique of Dialectical Reason ( Volume II ), and “Morale et histoire.” I argue that Sartre's method—an ever-evolving though never seamless blend of phenomenological description, dialectical analysis, and logical inference—is at once the seed and fruit of his mature ontology of praxis. Free organic praxis, what Sartre more than once calls “the human act,” is neithe…Read more
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    Sartre's Wagers - Humanism, Solidarity, Liberation
    Sartre Studies International 9 (2): 68-76. 2003.
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    Normative Inertia, Historical Momentum and Moral Invention
    Sartre Studies International 6 (1): 105-115. 2000.
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    Sartre’s Integrative Method: Description, Dialectics, and Praxis
    Sartre Studies International 16 (2): 48-74. 2010.
    This essay revisits the question of Sartre's method with particular emphasis on the posthumously published Notebooks for an Ethics, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and “Morale et histoire.” I argue that Sartre's method—an ever-evolving though never seamless blend of phenomenological description, dialectical analysis, and logical inference—is at once the seed and fruit of his mature ontology of praxis. Free organic praxis, what Sartre more than once calls “the human act,” is neither closed nor in…Read more
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    In this book, Matthew C. Ally explores the changing and increasingly troubled relationship between humankind and planet Earth. Oriented by the seemingly simple example of a woodland pond, he draws together insights from existential philosophy, scientific ecology, and several disciplines in the social sciences and humanities to articulate a strong sense of human belonging in the living Earth community and a binding imperative of participation in the struggle to preserve a habitable planet and bui…Read more
  • Resistance and Resilience Beyond Rambouillet
    Radical Philosophy Review 2 (1): 21-30. 1999.