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38On Jean Améry: Philosophy of CatastropheLexington Books. 2011.This volume offers the first English language collection of academic essays on the post-Holocaust thought of Jean Améry, a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. Comprehensive in scope and multi-disciplinary in orientation, contributors explore central aspects of Améry's philosophical and ethical position, including dignity, responsibility, resentment, and forgiveness
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8Michel Foucault’s Rhetorical Practice: The 1961 Preface to History and MadnessPhilosophy and Rhetoric 56 (2): 142-167. 2023.ABSTRACT This article examines Foucault as a rhetorician rather than as a historian of parrhesia and rhetoric. It explores what we can learn about his philosophy by examining it through the lens of his rhetorical practices. Focusing on his famous 1961 preface to History and Madness, it suggests that Foucault’s model of philosophy entails a rhetoric of conversion or transformation.
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5The Politics of Compassion (edited book)Routledge. 2013.This book provides a critical overview of the role of the emotions in politics. Compassion is a politically charged virtue, and yet we know surprisingly little about the uses (and abuses) of compassion in political environments.Covering sociology, political theory and psychology, and with contributions from Martha Nussbaum and Andrew Linklater amongst others, the book gives a succinct overview of the main theories of political compassion and the emotions in politics. It covers key concepts such …Read more
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51The Politics of Mercy, Forgiveness and Love: A Nietzschean AppraisalSouth African Journal of Philosophy 26 (1): 55-68. 2007.This paper critically examines Hannah Arendt's claim that we should conceive forgiveness as a specifically political or worldly virtue. According to Arendt, the virtue of forgiveness is necessary if we are to halt the reactive rancour that always threatens to destroy the space of politics. This paper suggests that in building her case for the politics of forgiveness Arendt confusingly intermingles three conceptual threads - mercy, Christian forgiveness and forgiveness driven by eros. Drawing on …Read more
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12Nietzsche's the Gay Science: An IntroductionCambridge University Press. 2019.Nietzsche's The Gay Science is a deeply personal book, yet also an important work of philosophy. Nietzsche conceives it as a philosophical autobiography, a record of his own self-transformation. In beautifully composed aphorisms he communicates his central experience of overcoming pessimism and recovering the capacity to affirm joyfully the tragedy of life. On the basis of his experiments in living, Nietzsche articulates his most famous philosophical concepts and images: the death of God, the ex…Read more
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20Arendt’s ApologyPhilosophy Today 62 (2): 419-446. 2018.In 1967, Hannah Arendt published an essay with the deceptively simple title “Truth and Politics”. Most scholarly discussions of her essay consider her distinction between a traditional political art of limited, deliberate, strategic lying and modern, organised, global lying and self-deception and then evaluate her qualified defence of the virtues of mendacity. This article suggests, however, that her essay has a much broader ambit: viz., to defend the political value of truth-telling. The main p…Read more
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10Arendt’s ApologyPhilosophy Today 62 (2): 419-446. 2018.In 1967, Hannah Arendt published an essay with the deceptively simple title “Truth and Politics” (1967). Most scholarly discussions of her essay consider her distinction between a traditional political art of limited, deliberate, strategic lying and modern, organised, global lying and self-deception and then evaluate her qualified defence of the virtues of mendacity. This article suggests, however, that her essay has a much broader ambit: viz., to defend the political value of truth-telling. The…Read more
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12Senecan Moods: Foucault and Nietzsche on the Art of the SelfFoucault Studies 4 19-52. 2007.This paper examines Foucault's history of the ancient practices of the self. It suggests that his historical reconstruction usefully distinguishes quite different models of self-cultivation in antiquity, and in doing so helps us to identify and understand the parameters and ambitions of much nineteenth-century German philosophy, especially the ethics of self-cultivation Nietzsche formulates in his middle works. However, it also shows how FoucaultÕs casual formulation of an 'aesthetic of existenc…Read more
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5Nietzsche's Free Spirit Trilogy and Stoic Therapy: NietzscheFriedrich Wilhelm,.1844-1900Journal of Nietzsche Studies 38 (1): 60-84. 2009.This article examines Nietzsche's engagement with Stoic philosophical therapy in the free spirit trilogy. I suggest that Nietzsche first turned to Stoicism in the late 1870s in his attempt to develop a philosophical therapy that might treat the injuries human beings suffer through fate or chance without recourse to the metaphysical theodicies discredited by Enlightenment skepticism and positivism. I argue that in HH and D Nietzsche adopts a conventional form of Stoic therapy. The article then sh…Read more
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49Nietzsche's SchadenfreudeJournal of Nietzsche Studies 44 (1): 25-48. 2013.ABSTRACT Recent scholarship shows that in the late 1870s and early 1880s Nietzsche attempted to make contemporary naturalism, especially various strands of evolutionary biology, the basis of a new method of historical inquiry and a new style of moral criticism and experimentation. This scholarship demonstrates that nineteenth-century evolutionary thought was crucial to Nietzsche's formulation of his moral and political project. In this article I claim that Nietzsche did not simply draw on and ap…Read more
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44Nietzsche's Therapy: Self-Cultivation in the Middle WorksLexington Books. 2008.Nietzsche's Therapy explores the ethics of self-cultivation that Nietzsche forged in his middle works
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6Post-Traumatic Societies: On Reconciliation, Justice and the EmotionsEuropean Journal of Social Theory 11 (3): 283-297. 2008.
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28Stoic Comedians. Nietzsche and Freud on the Art of Arranging One’s HumoursNietzsche Studien 34 (1): 186-216. 2005.
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64Nietzsche's free spirit trilogy and Stoic therapyJournal of Nietzsche Studies 38 (1): 60-84. 2009.This article examines Nietzsche's engagement with Stoic philosophical therapy in the free spirit trilogy. I suggest that Nietzsche first turned to Stoicism in the late 1870s in his attempt to develop a philosophical therapy that might treat the injuries human beings suffer through fate or chance without recourse to the metaphysical theodicies discredited by Enlightenment skepticism and positivism. I argue that in HH and D Nietzsche adopts a conventional form of Stoic therapy. The article then sh…Read more
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16Review of: Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality by J.Hatab (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies. 2011.
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15Editorial introductionCritical Horizons 1 (2): 169-173. 2000.There has always been a tension between a critique of ‘real existing conditions’ and meta-theoretical paradigms through which the tasks of critique can both be anchored and images of humankind explored.
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4Stoic Comedians. Nietzsche and Freud on the Art of Arranging One’s HumoursNietzsche Studien 34 186-216. 2005.
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18Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morality": An Introduction (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 41 (1): 121-125. 2011.
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165Review of: Refractions of violence, Martin Jay, Routledge, 2003 (review)Thesis Eleven 85 (1): 125-130. 2006.
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131The Irony of Pity: Nietzsche contra Schopenhauer and RousseauJournal of Nietzsche Studies 32 (1): 68-91. 2006.