•  175
    Gestalt theory and Merleau-ponty's concept of intentionality
    Man and World 4 (4): 436-459. 1971.
    The intent of the article is to define merleau-ponty's place in the phenomenological tradition and, at the same time, to defend his standpoint, especially on those issues where his thought represents a departure from the tradition. although merleau-ponty espouses a form of the husserlian doctrine of the intentionality of consciousness, his understanding of intentionality differs in several fundamental respects from husserl's. the article attempts to show specifically where merleau-ponty's gestal…Read more
  •  102
    Sex Objects and Sexual Objectification: Erotic Versus Pornographic Depiction
    Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 29 (1): 92-115. 1998.
    If desire is conceived as investment in a sex object, why is sexual objectification regarded as intrinsically degrading? The distinction between the "objectification " of pornographic depiction and the "beauty " of erotic depiction can be understood as a difference in degree between the uni-dimensional enframing of one treatment and the multidimensional enframing of the other. The phenomenon of context includes the anticipations of the participating witnesses: the object of pornographic or eroti…Read more
  •  90
    In this critique of security studies, with insights into the thinking of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas and Arendt, Michael Dillon contributes to the rethinking of some of the fundamentals of international politics developing what might be called a political philosophy of continental thought. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger, Politics of Security establishes the relationship between Heidegger's readical hermeneutical phenomenology and politics and the fundamental link between polit…Read more
  •  54
    Sartre on the phenomenal body and Merleau-ponty's critique
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 5 (2): 144-158. 1974.
    The article tries to show that both resolution of the mind-body problem and adequate description of the phenomenal body depend upon the ontology presupposed in offering such a resolution or description. a detailed analysis of sartre's treatment of the body demonstrates that his failures are a result of his neo-cartesian ontology. both the critique and the resolution proposed toward the end take their departure from merleau- ponty's thesis of the ontological primacy of phenomena.
  •  54
    A Passion for the (Im) possible Jacques Rancière, Equality, Pedagogy and the Messianic
    European Journal of Political Theory 4 (4): 429-452. 2005.
    This article first locates Jacques Rancière’s account of politics in the context of French thinking in the second half of the 20th century. It then summarizes how Rancière defines politics in terms of an originary equality that supports all orders of command and obedience. For Rancière, also, the world as a ‘whole’ does not add up. It is characterized by ‘paradoxical magnitude’. Paradoxical magnitude means that every regime of politics will nonetheless also be a miscount, a ‘wrong’ that will in …Read more
  •  44
    Another Justice
    Political Theory 27 (2): 155-175. 1999.
    But that from which things arise (genesis) also give rise to their passing away (phtora) according to what is necessary (kata to chreon); for things render justice (dike) and pay penalty (tisis) for their injustice (adikias), according to the ordinance of time. The Anaximander Fragment
  •  43
    The Trouper Syndrome: A Train Wreck Waiting to Happen
    Journal of Mass Media Ethics 29 (4): 275-277. 2014.
    In show business lore, a “trouper” perseveres without complaint no matter how arduous or dangerous the circumstances. In the camaraderie-driven, show-must-go-on world of entertainment, the appellat...
  •  36
    Sex, Time and Love: Erotic Temporality
    Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 18 (1-2): 33-48. 1987.
  •  32
    Erotic desire
    Research in Phenomenology 15 (1): 145-163. 1985.
  •  26
    Poststructuralism, Complexity and Poetics
    Theory, Culture and Society 17 (5): 1-26. 2000.
    Poststructuralism and complexity are plural and diverse modes of thought that share a common subscription to the `anteriority of radical relationality'. They nonetheless subscribe to a different ethic of life because they address the anteriority of radical relationality in different ways. Complexity remains strategic in its bid to become a power-knowledge of the laws of becoming. It derives that strategic ethic from its scientific interest in the implicate order of non-linearity that is said to …Read more
  •  25
    This book is the first full length manuscript to draw on the the insights and techniques of deconstruction to analyse international relations. Influenced primarily by Derrida, it critiques the cornerstones of international relations such as modernity, the state, the subject, security and ethics and justice.
  •  25
    The Biopolitical Imaginary of Species-being
    with Luis Lobo-Guerrero
    Theory, Culture and Society 26 (1): 1-23. 2009.
    This article revises Foucault's account of biopolitics in the light of the impact of the molecular and digital revolutions on `the politics of life itself'. The confluence of the molecular and digital revolutions informationalizes life, providing an account of what it is to be a living thing in terms of complex adaptive and continuously emergent, informationally constituted, systems. Also revisiting Foucault's The Order of Things and its interrogation of the modern analytics of finitude, the art…Read more
  •  17
    Inscriptions (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 42 (1): 170-172. 1988.
    This is a book about the between: the place that "does not occupy any space", between phenomenology and structuralism. Silverman writes from this place between Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty, on one side, and de Saussure, Piaget, Levi-Strauss, Lacan, and Barthes, on the other. His writing draws from all of the figures mentioned, yet does not align itself with any one of them. The place between phenomenology and structuralism is both historically and conceptually beyond both tradit…Read more
  •  15
    Foucault on politics, security and war (edited book)
    with Andrew W. Neal
    Palgrave-Macmillan. 2008.
    Foucault on Politics, Society and War interrogates Foucault's controversial genealogy of modern biopolitics. By insisting on 'life' as the key referent of power in the modern age, Foucault argues that politics grounds society in war, specifically race war, in ways that come to threaten the very human existence it is pledged to promote. These essays situate Foucault's arguments, clarify the correlation of sovereign- and bio-power and examine the relation of bios, nomos and race in relation to mod…Read more
  •  14
    A Passion for the (Im)possible
    European Journal of Political Theory 4 (4): 429-452. 2005.
    This article first locates Jacques Rancière’s account of politics in the context of French thinking in the second half of the 20th century. It then summarizes how Rancière defines politics in terms of an originary equality that supports all orders of command and obedience. For Rancière, also, the world as a ‘whole’ does not add up. It is characterized by ‘paradoxical magnitude’. Paradoxical magnitude means that every regime of politics will nonetheless also be a miscount, a ‘wrong’ that will in …Read more
  •  14
    Love in Women in Love: A Phenomenological Analysis
    Philosophy and Literature 2 (2): 190-208. 1978.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:M. C. Dillon LOVE IN WOMEN IN LOVE: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS Despite his sexism, his turgid prose, and his antiquated social conscience, Lawrence is on every bookshelf. This is not merely because of the vicarious erotic entertainment to be found in the saga of John Thomas and Lady Jane, but because Lawrence remains a major guru of romance. We take him seriously, look to him for guidance, measure ourselves against Ursula and Birkin…Read more
  •  14
    Response
    Foucault Studies 2 37-46. 2005.
  •  12
    Sexual Norms and the Burden of Sexual Literacy
    Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 23 (2): 182-197. 1992.
    In this paper, I argue against the kind of "scientific objectivity" that attempts to maintain the facade of value neutrality on the grounds that since objectivity is impossible, the claim to it is necessarily hypocritical. The impossibility stems from the inextricability of sex and sexuality: Sex as a natural phenomenon cannot be separated from sexuality as a matrix of value-laden, historically situated ideas and emotions. It stems also from the fact that the intensity of the pleasure-pain conti…Read more
  •  8
    Culture and Governance
    with Jeremy Valentine
    Cultural Values 6 (1): 5-9. 2002.
    This paper is a discussion of the political agency of Cultural Studies within the contemporary conjuncture. It begins by examining critical polemics around culture and postmodernity and moves on to consider Bennett's Foucauldian approach to cultural criticism. Although critical of Bennett's approach, the paper retains the Foucauldian notion of governmentality as the explanation of governance as a form of rule. The relevance of governance to cultural studies is shown through the argument that the…Read more
  •  7
    Romantic Love (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 20 (1): 117-119. 1988.
  •  4
    Merleau-Ponty and Derrida articulate two overlaping but divergent ways of thinking about differentiation, écart and différance. This volume represents the viewpoints of fifteen leading North American scholars working in the fields of Continental philosophy, phenomenology, and postmodernism. These scholars, in essays written expressly for this volume, address the matrix of thought underlying contemporary responses to postmodernsim at large and deconstructionism in particular: identity and differe…Read more
  •  3
    Excesses (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 18 (1): 93-94. 1986.
  •  2
    Paradosis
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 26 (3): 229-239. 1995.