• Adriana Cavarero and Hannah Arendt
    In Silvia Benso & Antonio Calcagno (eds.), Open borders: encounters between Italian philosophy and continental thought, State University of New York Press. pp. 301-321. 2021.
  • Political Affections
    In Tina Chanter & Ewa PŁonowska Ziarek (eds.), Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva’s Polis, Suny Press. pp. 127-145. 2012.
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    Abstract:Ian Moore speaks with Peg Birmingham about the intellectual and personal relationship between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, and more.
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    Note from the Editors
    Philosophy Today 60 (2): 427-427. 2016.
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    Editors’ Introduction
    Philosophy Today 50 (Supplement): 3-11. 2006.
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    Editors’ Introduction
    Philosophy Today 49 (Supplement): 3-12. 2005.
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    Destiny
    Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 10 192-221. 2020.
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    Editorial Note
    Philosophy Today 59 (4): 711-711. 2015.
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    Editors’ Introduction
    Philosophy Today 50 (Supplement): 3-11. 2006.
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    Editors' Introduction
    Philosophy Today 61 (4): 815-816. 2017.
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    Editors’ Introduction
    Philosophy Today 49 (Supplement): 3-12. 2005.
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    This book reflects on the problematic relation of ethics to politics in our 'democratic' era.
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    Topic: Democracy and the idea of citizenship
    with Charles E. Scott, Miguel de Beistegui, Matthias Fritsch, Bernard Flynn, and Dennis J. Schmidt
    Research in Phenomenology 38 (2): 157-173. 2008.
    This paper analyzes the reasons behind what it calls the erosion of democracy under George W. Bush's presidency since September 11, 2001, and claims that they are twofold: first, the erosion in question can be attributed to a crisis of the state and the belief that security is its only genuine function. In other words, the erosion of democracy is an erosion of the very idea of the public sphere beyond security and war. Secondly, the erosion of the ethical sphere goes hand in hand with an extraor…Read more
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    The aporia of rights: explorations in citizenship in the era of human rights (edited book)
    with Anna Yeatman
    Bloomsbury Academic. 2014.
    The Aporia of Rights is an exploration of the perplexities of human rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the idea of citizenship. Written by political theorists and philosophers, essays canvass the complexities involved in any consideration of rights at this time. Yeatman and Birmingham show through this collection of works a space fora vital engagement with the politics of human rights.
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    Editors' Note
    Philosophy Today 66 (4): 829-830. 2022.
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    Edges Give Way: “Being on Edge and Falling Apart”
    Research in Phenomenology 52 (2): 273-280. 2022.
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    12 On Deception
    In Shannon Sullivan & Dennis J. Schmidt (eds.), Difficulties of Ethical Life, Fordham University Press. pp. 195-212. 2008.
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    Philosophy in a Time of Pandemic
    Philosophy Today 64 (4): 813-813. 2020.
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    Editors’ Introduction
    with Lenard Lawlor
    Philosophy Today 53 (Supplement): 3-4. 2009.
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    Editors’ Introduction
    with Lenard Lawlor
    Philosophy Today 53 (Supplement): 3-4. 2009.
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    Deception, Violence and Law: Renewing the Political
    Rowman & Littlefield International. 2015.
    Leading philosopher Peg Birmingham explores the relation between political deception, violence, and law in an attempt to renew the concept of the political.
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    Superfluity and Precarity
    Philosophy Today 62 (2): 319-335. 2018.
    In this essay I take up Butler’s and Arendt’s respective accounts of the production of precarity and superfluity, asking whether they are proximate accounts, as they seem to be, or whether Butler’s turn to precarity misses the radical nature of Arendt’s genealogy of the production of superfluity, a genealogy that begins at the inauguration of modernity, attempts to find a “perfect superfluousness” in the death camps, and continues unabated in the contemporary global world. Reading Arendt against…Read more
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    Introduction
    Philosophy Today 62 (1): 1-1. 2018.
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    On Violence, Politics, and the Law
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 24 (1): 1-20. 2010.
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    Dennis Schmidt and the Origin of the Ethical Life
    Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (1): 53-66. 2017.
    This essay explores Dennis Schmidt’s notion of an “original ethics,” asking how language, freedom and history are at work in this original ethics. The essay first examines Schmidt’s claim that philosophy has traditionally understood ethical and political life as rooted in a subject ruled entirely by what he calls “the law of the common.” The essay specifically looks at how Plato and Hobbes embrace the law of the common, expelling thereby the law of the idiom from their respective ethical and pol…Read more
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    The Subject of Rights
    Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (1): 139-156. 2011.
    It is often pointed out that Agamben’s most profound disagreement with Hannah Arendt is his rejection of anything like a “right to have rights” that would guarantee the belonging to a political space. I want to suggest, however, that the subject of rights in Agamben’s thought is more complicated, arguing in this essay that Agamben’s critique is not with the concept of human rights per se, but with the declaration of modern rights. In other words, this essay will explore how Agamben’s analysis of…Read more