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40Hope as a Moral VirtueIn Janette McDonald & Andrea M. Stephenson (eds.), The Resilience of Hope, Rodopi. pp. 68--17. 2010.
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36Promoting and producing evil (edited book)Rodopi. 2010.The essays in this volume provide rich fodder for reflection on topics that are of urgent interest to all thinking people. Each one suggests new ways to contemplate our own role(s) in the production and promotion of evil.
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27Ingarden and BadiouPolish Journal of Philosophy 4 (2): 49-61. 2010.In its examination of the intersection of ethics and ontology, Roman Ingarden’s philosophy bears a striking resemblance to the thought of the contemporaryFrench philosopher Alain Badiou. Though no formal influence is claimed, this paper explores several ways in which Badiou’s theory of the event and existential agency is foreshadowed in the writings of Ingarden. In so doing, the author suggests the continued importance of this unjustly neglected philosopher for contemporary thinking on questions…Read more
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17Listening to LanguageCultura 4 (2): 187-211. 2007.This essay examines the itinerary of the word in translation. How does the process of translation unfold? When a work is translated, what is lost, what is gained,what is left behind, and what is carried forward? Is there some quality peculiar to poetic language that makes translation more difficult – or easier? In this essay I articulate the stages that I go through when translating a poem. The work is heuristic in part, but rooted in Heidegger’s essays on Hölderlin and Rilke.
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12Overturning Adorno : poetry as a rational response to evilIn Promoting and Producing Evil, Rodopi. pp. 63--131. 2010.
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6Territories of evil (edited book)Rodopi. 2008.Evil is not only an abstract concept to be analyzed intellectually, but a concrete reality that we all experience and wrestle with on an ongoing basis. To truly understand evil we must always approach it from both angles: the intellective and the phenomenological. This same assertion resounds through each of the papers in this volume, in which an interdisciplinary and international group (including nurses, psychologists, philosophers, professors of literature, history, computer studies, and all …Read more
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6Listening to LanguageCultura 4 (2): 187-211. 2007.This essay examines the itinerary of the word in translation. How does the process of translation unfold? When a work is translated, what is lost, what is gained,what is left behind, and what is carried forward? Is there some quality peculiar to poetic language that makes translation more difficult – or easier? In this essay I articulate the stages that I go through when translating a poem. The work is heuristic in part, but rooted in Heidegger’s essays on Hölderlin and Rilke.
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4The Ethics of Silence: An Interdisciplinary Case Analysis ApproachImprint: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017.This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of the modalities, meanings, and practices of silence in contemporary social discourse. How is silence treated in different cultures? In a globalized world, how is silence managed between and across cultures? Co-authored by a philosopher and an economist, the text draws on interviews with scholars and practitioners in fields as diverse as marine biology and African American history. International case studies are presented in operational contexts f…Read more
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Ingarden and BadiouPolish Journal of Philosophy 4 (2): 49-61. 2010.In its examination of the intersection of ethics and ontology, Roman Ingarden’s philosophy bears a striking resemblance to the thought of the contemporaryFrench philosopher Alain Badiou. Though no formal influence is claimed, this paper explores several ways in which Badiou’s theory of the event and existential agency is foreshadowed in the writings of Ingarden. In so doing, the author suggests the continued importance of this unjustly neglected philosopher for contemporary thinking on questions…Read more
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Meta-Ethics |
Continental Philosophy |