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    The aim of this paper is to raise the question of aging as an ontological question. In critical dialogue with Heidegger’s exploration of the question of being, the first half of the paper argues that fundamental ontology, due to the way it relies on a methodological operationalization of the ontological difference, will remain blind to the ontological generativity of the differences that aging makes. I introduce the term gerontological difference as a name for this kind of difference. The second…Read more
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    When Experience Turns Critical: the Anarcheological Reduction as Methodological Device in Critical Phenomenology
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 55 (1): 77-93. 2023.
    Building on a phenomenological analysis of the Tunisian Revolution, this article puts forward the concept of critical experience as a type of experience in which the very experiential structures prove subversive of otherwise established orders (e.g. political, ethical, technological, epistemological etc.). In order to trace the anarchic, but generative impulses of such critical experience, the article develops a variation of the phenomenological reduction called an anarcheological reduction. In …Read more
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    1 The Question of ‘Moral Engines’ Introducing a Philosophical Anthropological Dialogue
    with Cheryl Mattingly and Maria Louw
    In Cheryl Mattingly, Rasmus Dyring, Maria Louw & Thomas Schwarz Wentzer (eds.), Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life, Berghahn Books. pp. 9-36. 2017.
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    Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life (edited book)
    with Cheryl Mattingly, Maria Louw, and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer
    Berghahn Books. 2017.
    In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life includes essays from some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary conversations between anthropologists and philosophe…Read more
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    6 The Provocation of Freedom
    In Cheryl Mattingly, Rasmus Dyring, Maria Louw & Thomas Schwarz Wentzer (eds.), Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life, Berghahn Books. pp. 116-134. 2017.
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    In this essay, I undertake a critical phenomenological exposition of the conditions of ethical community as they present themselves in the light of the Anthropocene. I begin by approaching the present human condition by following Arendt in her considerations of what more recently has been termed the Anthropocene. I will take her notion of the process character of action as a lodestar in a so-called anarcheological reading of Aristotle that opens for a thinking of unbounded possibility and unboun…Read more
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