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5Inheritance Indifferent to LegitimacyAngelaki 29 (1): 110-120. 2024.This essay seeks to establish the sense in which Derrida’s stated indifference to questions of legitimate descent can function as an ethical or political principle, as he argues in “Marx and Sons.” We track Derrida’s response to accusations of a lack of fealty in texts such as “Marx and Sons,” “Biodegradables: Seven Diary Fragments,” and “Limited Inc a b c … ” alongside his problematization of a certain sense of inheritance or heritage. We argue that Derrida reveals the necessity of troubling es…Read more
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27Jesus and the Genome: The Intersection of Christology and BiologyCambridge University Press. 2024.Is a coherent worldview that embraces both classical Christology and modern evolutionary biology possible? This volume explores this fundamental question through an engaged inquiry into key topics, including the Incarnation, the process of evolution, modes of divine action, the nature of rationality, morality, chance and love, and even the meaning of life. Grounded alike in the history and philosophy of science, Christian theology, and the scientific basis for evolutionary biology and genetics, …Read more
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12Derrida and Inheritance in Environmental Ethics: The Half-Lives of ResponsibilitySpringer Nature Switzerland. 2024.This book argues for the necessity of a re-evaluation of our thinking about responsibly relating to future generations in the context of environmental philosophy. Using long-term nuclear waste disposal as its paradigmatic case, this book makes the case that the predominant mode of thinking the future in terms of continuity and repetition of the present requires a critique informed by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in order to think responsibility adequately. The book begins by surveying cont…Read more
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231Half-Lives of Responsibility: Gramsci, Derrida, and Inheritance in Environmental EthicsDissertation, DePaul University. 2022.This dissertation investigates conceptions of responsibility at work in contemporary intergenerational nuclear waste policy. It argues that articulations of responsibility at work in current policy unduly privileges resemblance to the present as a condition for that responsibility holding as an intergenerational relation. The dissertation begins by arguing that current waste disposal practices depend on a view of responsibility contingent on the presumption that future generations will be minima…Read more
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Decision and Radioactive Principles for the Future: Thinking the Inheritance of Nuclear Waste Repositories with Gramsci and DerridaIn Simone M. Müller & May-Brith Ohman Nielsen (eds.), Toxic Timescapes: Examining Toxicity across Time and Space, Ohio University Press. pp. 308-327. 2022.
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10Responsibility and the Non(bio)degradableIn Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes & David Wood (eds.), Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy, Fordham University Press. 2018.
Michael Peterson
Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Missouri University of Science and TechnologyAssistant Professor
Rolla, MO, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
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Jacques Derrida |
Environmental Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Future Generations |
Engineering Ethics |
20th Century Continental Philosophy |