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William Desmond, Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art (review)Philosophy in Review 24 (6): 402-404. 2004.
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James Kirwan, The Aesthetic in Kant: A Critique (review)Philosophy in Review 25 (5): 259-360. 2005.
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William Desmond, Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (6): 402-404. 2004.
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1James Kirwan, The Aesthetic in Kant: A Critique Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (5): 359-361. 2005.
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14The miracle of memory: Working-through Ricoeur on Freud’s NachträglichkeitIn Azadeh Thiriez-Arjangi, Geoffrey Dierckxsens, Michael Funk Deckard & Andrés Bruzzone (eds.), Le mal et la symbolique: Ricœur lecteur de Freud, De Gruyter. pp. 203-224. 2022.
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9Holy Saturday Between the Sublime and Beautiful: Fantastic Realism in Kristeva and Desmond's Dostoevskian IdealLabyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 23 (1): 122-139. 2021.This article examines Dostoevsky's "fantastic realism," which challenges the explanation of rationalism or empiricism in the need for determinate categories fixed in nature. His use of paintings by Hans Holbein, Claude Lorrain, and Raphael in terms of the sublime and beautiful exemplify an understanding of Holy Saturday and its status between death and resurrection. Julia Kristeva's reading of Dostoevsky's melancholy as exemplifying a religious ideal and William Desmond's metaxological philosoph…Read more
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27Stefano Marino and Pietro Terzi (eds.), Kant’s ‘Critique of Aesthetic Judgment’ in the 20th Century: A Companion to its Main Interpretations, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021Journal of Early Modern Studies 10 (1): 122-125. 2021.
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17Of the Beard of a Wild Oat: Hooke and Cavendish on the Senses of PlantsJournal of Early Modern Studies 9 (2): 85-107. 2020.In 1665–1666, both Margaret Cavendish and Robert Hooke wrote about the beard of a wild oat. After looking through the microscope at the wild oat, Hooke describes the nature of what he is seeing in terms of a “small black or brown bristle” and believes that the microscope can improve the human senses. Cavendish responds to him regarding the seeing of the texture of a wild oat through the microscope and critiques his mechanistic explanation. This paper takes up the controversy between Cavendish an…Read more
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Victoria Kahn, Neil Saccamano, and Daniela Coli, eds. Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850 (review)Philosophy in Review 28 (4): 272-274. 2008.
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14Le mal et la symbolique: Ricœur lecteur de Freud (edited book)De Gruyter. 2022.The contributions in this book address the relation between evil, symbolism and psychoanalysisc by focusing on the two works of Riœur in which these topics play the most prominent role: The Symbolism of Evil and Freud and Philosophy. Furthermore, the bilingual book includes contributions that examine the relation between evil, symbolism and psychoanalysis in Ricœur’s work in a more general fashion, by investigating his philosophy as a whole. It brings together both French and English chapters fr…Read more
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Beauty in Disability: An Aesthetics for Dance and for LifeIn Karen Bond (ed.), Dance and Quality of Life, Social Indicators Research Series, Vol. 73. pp. 185-206. 2019.To what extent does dance contribute to an ideal of beauty that can enrich human quality of life? To what extent are standards of beauty predicated on an ideal human body that has no disability? In this chapter, we show how conceptions of proportionality, perfection, and ethereality from the Ancient Greeks through the 19th century can still be seen today in some kinds of dance, particularly in ballet. Disability studies and disability-inclusive dance companies, however, have started to change th…Read more
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24Of the Memory of the Past: Philosophy of History in Spiritual Crisis in the early Patočka and RicoeurMeta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy 9 (2): 560-583. 2017.This paper argues that Jan Patočka and Paul Ricoeur endured their own cognitive-spiritual crisis, particularly during the development and outbreak of war in the 1930s. Their philosophies of history are thus, on the one hand, born of a rethinking of modern philosophy from the time of Galileo and Descartes, and on the other, a suffering of crisis that Europe itself was suffering. Stemming from the historical and philosophical context of Husserl’s epistemology in the Krisis, both Ricoeur and Patočk…Read more
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10DORAN, ROBERT. The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant. Cambridge University Press, 2015, xiii + 313 pp., $99.99 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75 (1): 84-86. 2017.
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3Mark R. Wynn, Emotional Experience and Religious Understanding: Integrating Perception, Conception and Feeling Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 27 (4): 308-309. 2007.
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6Review of Hume's Social Philosophy: Human Nature and Commercial Sociability in A Treatise of Human Nature (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (4): 881-884. 2009.
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43A sudden surprise of the soul: The passion of wonder in Hobbes and DescartesHeythrop Journal 49 (6): 948-963. 2008.Philosophy begins in wonder, according to Plato and Aristotle. However, they did not expand a great deal on what precisely wonder is. Does this fact alone not raise curiosity in us as to why this passion is important? What is its role in our thinking except to end as soon as one begins conceptually delimiting its nature? The thinkers Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes both expanded upon earlier brief articulations of wonder in natural, supernatural and practical ways. By means of an historical and…Read more
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3The Science of Sensibility. Reading Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry (edited book)Springer. 2012.Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking. This edited volume will take the 250th anniversary of the Philosophical Enquiry as an occasion to reassess Burke’s prominence in the history of ideas. Situated on the threshold between early modern philosophy and the Enlightenment, Burke’s oeuvre combines reflections on aesthetics, politics and the sciences. This collect…Read more
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85Burke and Kant on Fear of God and the SublimeBijdragen 68 (1): 3-25. 2007.In the Critique of the Power of Judgment , Kant mentions transcendental and physiological judgments in their relationship to the sublime. He further mentions that for the best physiological treatment, one must look to Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful . Whereas for Burke, the feeling of the sublime “is based on the impulse toward self-preservation and on fear,” for Kant it is the mind that “is not merely attracted by the object, but …Read more
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23Philosophy Begins in Wonder: An Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy, Theology, and Science (edited book)Pickwick. 2010.Philosophy begins with wonder, according to Plato and Aristotle. Yet Plato and Aristotle did not expand a great deal on what precisely wonder is. Does this fact alone not raise curiosity in us as to why this passion or concept is important? What is wonder
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25Review of Hume's Social Philosophy: Human Nature and Commercial Sociability in A Treatise of Human Nature (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (4): 881-884. 2009.This Article does not have an abstract
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22Imitation and Society: The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 46 (3): 326-327. 2006.
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Aesthetics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |