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    Resistance and Repetition: Freud and Hegel
    Research in Phenomenology 45 (2): 237-266. 2015.
    _ Source: _Volume 45, Issue 2, pp 237 - 266 This essay explores the vicissitudes of resistance as the central concept of both Freud and Hegel. Read through the prism of psychoanalysis, Hegel appears less as a philosopher of inexorable progress than as a thinker of repetition, delay, and stuckness. It is only on this seemingly unpromising basis that the radical potential of both thinkers can be retrieved
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    Mourning work and play
    Research in Phenomenology 23 (1): 105-130. 1993.
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    Adorno avec Sade
    Differences 11 (2): 1-14. 2006.
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    Missed Revolutions
    Idealistic Studies 38 (1-2): 23-40. 2008.
    This essay explores the familiar German ideology according to which a revolution in thought would, in varying proportions, precede, succeed, accommodate, and generally upstage a political revolution whose defining feature was increasingly thought to be its founding violence: the slide from 1789 to 1793. Germany thus sets out to quarantine the political threat of revolution while siphoning off and absorbing the revolution’s intensity and energy for thinking as such. The essay holds that this stru…Read more
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    Mourning sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution
    Stanford University Press. 2011.
    This book explores Hegel's response to the French Revolutionary Terror in relation to contemporary theories of trauma.
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    Interrupting the conversation: notes on Rorty
    Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1986 (69): 119-130. 1986.
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    Missed Revolutions, Non-Revolutions, Revolutions to Come: On Mourning Sickness
    with Joshua Nichols
    Phaenex 7 (1): 309-346. 2012.
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    Adorno avec Sade..
    Symposium 11 (2): 371-382. 2007.
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    Excavating the repressive hypothesis: aporias of liberation in Foucault
    Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1986 (67): 111-119. 1986.
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    Questioning the question: A response to Charles Scott
    Research in Phenomenology 21 (1): 149-158. 1991.
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    Endings: questions of memory in Hegel and Heidegger (edited book)
    Northwestern University Press. 1999.
    Introduction: Transforming Thought John McCumber The Story of Things According to an ancient story which (because of Hegel and Heidegger) we are now able to ...
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    The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940On Walter Benjamin: Critical Essays and Recollections (review)
    with Gershom Scholem, Gary Smith, and Andre Lefevere
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (2): 179. 1991.
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    Hegel and resistance: history, politics and dialectics (edited book)
    Bloomsbury Academic. 2018.
    The concept of resistance has always been central to the reception of Hegel's philosophy. The prevalent image of Hegel's system, which continues to influence the scholarship to this day, is that of an absolutist, monist metaphysics which overcomes all resistance, sublating or assimilating all differences into a single organic 'Whole'. For that reason, the reception of Hegel has always been marked by the question of how to resist Hegel: how to think that which remains outside of or other to the t…Read more
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    Benjamin
    In Simon Critchley & William R. Schroeder (eds.), A Companion to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell. 2017.
    Philosopher, theologian, philologist, urban sociologist, literary critic, collector, archivist, essayist, memoirist, children's author, allegorist, media theorist, hashish connoisseur, closet surrealist, theorist of fascism, professional melancholic – it is by now habitual to begin any account of Walter Benjamin's work with an inventory of the grafts and incongruities traversing his tangled maze of writings. First known through his rather fraught association with Gershom Scholem and Theodor Ador…Read more
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    An argument that what is usually dismissed as the “mystical shell” of Hegel's thought—the concept of absolute knowledge—is actually its most “rational kernel.” This book sets out from a counterintuitive premise: the “mystical shell” of Hegel's system proves to be its most “rational kernel.” Hegel's radicalism is located precisely at the point where his thought seems to regress most. Most current readings try to update Hegel's thought by pruning back his grandiose claims to “absolute knowing.” Co…Read more
  •  5
    Interrupting the Conversation: Notes on Rorty
    Télos 1986 (69): 119-130. 1986.
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    "Beyond" "Aufhebung": Reflections on the Bad Infinite
    Dissertation, University of Toronto (Canada). 1986.
    This thesis explores Heidegger's attempt to move beyond the recuperative powers of the dialectic. Its title announces a certain aporia: the "beyond," of course, is precisely what Hegel claims to have transcended; and he has determined that all attempts to overcome him--refutation, opposition, supersession; reversal , inversion , bisection , dissection , periodization --only confirm the potency of the original system. Heidegger displays an acute self-consciousness concerning such aporias of "over…Read more
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    Tabula Rasa : David's Death of Marat and the trauma of modernity
    In Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Ulrik Houlind Rasmussen & Philipp Stoellger (eds.), Impossible time: past and future in the philosophy of religion, Mohr Siebeck. 2013.
  • The claims of history
    with Ce Scott, Dj Schmidt, Tr Flynn, T. Sheehan, C. Painter, and Sg Crowell
    Research in Phenomenology 29 (1): 1-104. 1999.