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    Second Order Desires and the Devaluation of Humanity
    Ethics, Policy and Environment 15 (2). 2012.
    Ethics, Policy & Environment, Volume 15, Issue 2, Page 248-251, June 2012
  •  15
    Adorno, Experience, and the Possibility of Practical Reason
    Idealistic Studies 44 (1): 31-49. 2014.
    In order to understand the normative aspect of Adorno’s thinking, one must understand his conception of experience as it relates to both the bodily aversion to suffering and the history of concepts as deployed by the species. In order to understand experience in this way, I briefly explicate the concepts of Erfahrung and Erlebnis as both Benjamin and Adorno used them. Then, I connect these concepts to the immediacy of suffering. Arguing that the immediacy of suffering is not sufficient to unders…Read more
  •  12
    Thinking Politics Together: Arendt and Adorno? (review)
    Radical Philosophy Review 16 (3): 821-825. 2013.
  •  11
    Suffering and the Messianic (review)
    Radical Philosophy Review 20 (2): 391-396. 2017.
  •  7
    Adorno on the Possibility of Nature
    Environmental Philosophy 20 (1): 55-71. 2023.
    I present an interpretation of Adorno’s concept of nature that prompts a confrontation with both the domination of nature and the romanticization of nature. This interpretation would situate a normative stance toward human engagement with nature not in the idealization of a pre-social or pre-human nature, but in the (missed) possibilities of past human engagements with non-human nature. Experience of art, such as Edward Burtynsky’s photography, can push us toward such a stance. This stance force…Read more
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    Rethinking the Normative Basis of Environmental Thought
    Radical Philosophy Review 19 (2): 535-540. 2016.