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2Introduction to ‘Session Six’ of ‘Donner – le temps’ ( Given Time vol. 2)Derrida Today 17 (2): 126-130. 2024.Click to increase image size.
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8Language by Birth and Nationality by DeathAngelaki 29 (1): 85-96. 2024.Most countries provide some form of nationality or citizenship either by birthright or inheritance. This paper accepts Jacques Derrida’s invitation to imagine nationality or citizenship otherwise, this time by death and burial: you are from where you die or are buried. I read Derrida’s invitation alongside his four studies of Martin Heidegger’s use of “Geschlecht” to argue that we ought to reconsider the relationship between the nation and (its) philosophy. I show that Derrida’s proposed “law of…Read more
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22The Strange and the Stranger (1958): Translated and Introduced by Michael PortalDiacritics 51 (1): 76-101. 2023.Maurice Blanchot’s “The Strange and the Stranger” (1958) is an essential text for understanding Blanchot’s thought, its development, and its enduring importance. He presents an early account of the impersonal “neuter” in subject-less experiences like “alienation,” “alteration,” “dispersion,” “disappearance,” and “absence.” These experiences of strangeness threaten thought, which is only “itself and for-itself its own experience.” Relatedly, they also reveal “the neutrality of being or neutrality…Read more
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11Introduction to Levinas’s “The Asymmetry of the Face”Philosophy Today 67 (2): 465-470. 2023.France Guwy and Emmanuel Levinas discuss the relationship between “the Bible and philosophy.” Levinas explains that he never “experienced” a contradiction between the two, and that they both aim at the same thing: meaning outside of immanence. Such transcendence, Levinas argues, is impossible for the Spinozist.
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14The Spiritual Essence of Antisemitism (according to Jacques Maritain)Levinas Studies 15 1-7. 2021.The following is an early, previously untranslated essay by Emmanuel Levinas concerning “the metaphysics of antisemitism.” This essay, published originally in 1938 for Paix et Droit, concerns the shared history and destiny of Jews and Christians, religious groups who maintain a relation of essential “foreignness” to, and so “do not belong” to, the “pagan” world. Levinas distinguishes between the long history of Jewish-Christian antagonism and the newer Nazi-style antisemitism, a particularly ins…Read more
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13Response to “Critical Commodities: Adorno on Beethoven and Jazz”Southwest Philosophy Review 38 (2): 55-57. 2022.
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30Emmanuel Levinas’s “The Spiritual Essence of Antisemitism (according to Jacques Maritain)”Levinas Studies 15 1-7. 2021.The following is an early, previously untranslated essay by Emmanuel Levinas concerning “the metaphysics of antisemitism.” This essay, published originally in 1938 for Paix et Droit, concerns the shared history and destiny of Jews and Christians, religious groups who maintain a relation of essential “foreignness” to, and so “do not belong” to, the “pagan” world. Levinas distinguishes between the long history of Jewish-Christian antagonism and the newer Nazi-style antisemitism, a particularly ins…Read more
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13Gerundive thinking in Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback’s Time in ExileComparative and Continental Philosophy 13 (3): 291-296. 2021.ABSTRACT Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback’s Time in Exile illuminates being in “gerundive time.” The gerundive tense (which is similar to the infinitive tense in English) captures how our being is always already “suspended” between worlds and meanings—how our being is a “non-final verb.” Schuback considers such existence in the work of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, and Clarice Lispector. Of the three thinkers, Lispector’s writing best reveals how existence (especially existence in exile) is a…Read more
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