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16Philosophy 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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24Review 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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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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5The 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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22Stefano 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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William Desmond, Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art (review)Philosophy in Review 24 (6): 402-404. 2004.
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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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William Desmond, Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (6): 402-404. 2004.
Michael Funk Deckard
Lenoir-Rhyne University
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Lenoir-Rhyne UniversityAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Film |
Philosophy of Literature |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
History of Aesthetics |