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    Addressing both the humanities and the social sciences, this volume aims to explore the enduring significance of the work of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) in the field of cultural theory. It assembles a variety of articles by internationally renowned scholars from different academic disciplines and traditions. Contrary to recent commemorative publications on Derrida¿s oeuvre, this volume proposes to critically evaluate and rethink key concepts in Derrida¿s work within the present state of affairs …Read more
  • Het raadsel Socrates
    ISVW Uitgevers. 2021.
    In de?Hal van de acht wijzen? in de Sankeientuin (Yokohama, Japan) staan de standbeelden van grote leraren van de mensheid: Boeddha, Confucius, Jezus en enkele Zenleraren. Onder hen is ook het beeld van Socrates. Voor Kenzo Adachi, die de hal bouwde, was Socrates vooral een spirituele leider, een levensgids, een voorbeeld van deugd, wijsheid en geluk.0Bij welke filosofische traditie je ook te rade gaat, overal kom je Socrates tegen. Sommigen noemen hem de vader van de filosofie, anderen zien hem…Read more
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    Towards a science of ideas: an inquiry into the emergence, evolution and expansion of ideas and their translation into action (edited book)
    with Guido Enthoven and Seweryn Rudnicki
    Vernon Art and Science. 2022.
    Ideas are the basic building blocks that construct the world we live in. Yet despite the abundance of literature on creativity and innovation, there has been little reflection on ideas as such, their nature and their working mechanisms. This book provides foundations for a reflection focused specifically on ideas - what they are, how they emerge, develop, interact, gain acceptance and become translated into actions. In doing so the book moves beyond the mainstream approaches, offering new, promi…Read more
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    Boekbesprekingen
    with P. C. Beentjes, Theo de Kruijf, P. W. van der Horst, Paul van Geest, M. E. Brinkman, Marcel Poorthuis, A. H. C. van Eijk, J. -J. Suurmond, Olav Boelens, Walter Van Herck, and M. van den Berk
    Bijdragen 62 (4): 469-488. 2001.
  • Hegels godsdienstfilosofie en de monotheïstische religies: een actuele confrontatie (edited book)
    with Barend Christoffel Labuschagne and Timo Slootweg
    Garant. 2014.
    Dit boek biedt een kritische inleiding in de godsdienstfilosofie, aan de hand van een confrontatie tussen enerzijds G.W.F. Hegels filosofie van de monotheïstische religies en anderzijds godsdienstwetenschappelijke inzichten in en vanuit de godsdiensten zelf. Het doel is te komen tot een wijsgerige verheldering van wat deze religies kenmerkt. Wat kan een filosofische benadering van de verschillende godsdiensten, zoals die van Hegel, bijdragen aan een beter begrip ervan? Hoe zou de godsdienstfilos…Read more
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    Benjamin's figures: dialogues on the vocation of the humanities (edited book)
    with Madeleine Kasten and Gerard Visser
    Verlag Traugott Bautz. 2018.
    DIALETICS AT A STANDSTILL: BENJAMIN'S "DENKBILDER":0Benjamin's Thougt-Images in Einbahnstraße - Gustan Asselbergs; 0Sichtlich sich verbergend: Die Autor-Figur des Passagen-Werks - Wolfram Malte Fues; 0LIMINAL FIGURES: CHILD AND FLANEUR:0The Child at the Threshold: Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um 1900 - Corina Stan; 0The Flâneur and the Socio-Economic Critique - Nassima Sahraoui; 0UNSIGHTLY FIGURES: 0Walter Benjamin's Figures of De-Figuration: The Barbarian, the Destructive Character, and …Read more
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    This book explores the notion of the human psyche ('soul') and its continuing usefulness in the background of the ongoing and always accelerating techno-scientific revolution. The main argument here follows the assumption that this revolution, while not necessarily being a threat to humankind, is often blind or ignorant as to its subject, the 'human being'. In the first chapters, the reader is invited to reflect on the notion of 'thinking' as a phenomenon of consciousness that transcends merely …Read more
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    In this article, I will shed some light on the phenomenon of suicide terrorism from the perspective of Marcel. It turns out that, without being contemporaneous to this phenomenon, Marcel to some extent illuminates it by developing several highly significant notions and analyses. I am referring to notions such as “mystery,” “evil,” “problem,” “presence,” and “intersubjectivity.” Based on Marcel’s thinking, I would like to suggest that suicide terror exemplifies a state of precipitated, albeit fla…Read more
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    This is the first recent translation of a crucial text by the German philosopher of life, Ludwig Klages. Klages was a philosopher of experience-beyond-the-subject, in other words, of ec...
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    Faith in Democracy. Justice, Politics and Transcendence (edited book)
    with Mahmoud Masaeli, Nikolaos Asproulis, and Timo Slootweg
    Gompel&Svacina. 2020.
    This book explores the spiritual potential of faith, mysticism and transcendence in answer to the dangers of a mythologised state and the sacro-sanctification of (liberal) democracy and its rule of law. It searches for a curative for the pathological transformation of these institutions into--so called--political religions. Along this line, it explores the importance of spirituality and transcendence for political legitimacy, democratic participation and international cooperation, law and politi…Read more
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    Kierkegaard on Socrates’ daimonion
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 81 (1): 87-100. 2019.
    In this article, I argue that Kierkegaard’s interpretation of Socrates’ daimonion in The Concept of Irony should be read in light of his notion of the demonic in The Concept of Anxiety, and vice ve...
  • Ethics and Spirituality in Global Ethics (edited book)
    . forthcoming.
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    Ludwig Klages and the philosophy of life: a vitalist toolkit (review)
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (3): 663-666. 2019.
    Volume 27, Issue 3, May 2019, Page 663-666.
  • Lexikon der Ethik
    with J. P. Wils and Chr Hubenthal
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (4): 779. 2007.
  • Review (review)
    Revue Philosophique De Louvain 97 715-716. 1999.
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    Claude Royon, Dieu, l'homme et la croix. Stanislas Breton et Eberhard Jüngel
    Revue Philosophique De Louvain 97 (3-4): 715-716. 1999.
  • Seele, Katrin," Das bist du!"
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 70 (1): 171. 2008.
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    Hermeneutics and the Humanities: Dialogues with Hans-Georg Gadamer (edited book)
    with Madeleine Kasten and Herman Paul
    Amsterdam University Press. 2012.
    Published in 1960, Hans-Georg Gadamer’s _Truth and Method_ is one of the most influential books on interpretation to have appeared in the past half century. Scholars across the humanities have applied, discussed, and criticized its insights. This volume aims to continue this conversation between hermeneutics and the humanities and tries to map Gadamer’s influence on the humanities, while identifying the possibilities for further interaction between his ideas and contemporary scholarship. This bi…Read more
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    Ethiek en mystiek en erotiek. Over Levinas
    Wijsgerig Perspectief 46 (1): 15-24. 2006.
    ‘Het Goede als het Oneindige heeft geen ander ; niet omdat het zelf alles zou zijn, maar omdat het het Goede is en omdat niets aan zijn goedheid ontsnapt’ .In dit artikel wordt nagegaan hoe zich bij Levinas ethiek tot mystiek verhoudt. Anders dan de apert antimystieke uitspraken van Levinas suggereren, is deze verhouding complexer dan op het eerste gezicht lijkt
  • Unter Mitarbeit von Th. Kupper und T. Skrandies, Benjamin-Handbuch
    with B. Lindner
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (4): 777. 2007.
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    Incarnation as a prerequisite: Marion and Derrida
    Bijdragen 65 (1): 38-54. 2004.
    “God beyond Being”: the vertigo of Marion’s famous phrase entails serious questions. Aiming at piety and respect as to God’s alterity, it seems to end in a hazardous neglect of incarnation. Is it ‘Jewish’ thinking that has to remind a ‘Christian’ thinker of incarnational necessity? First, attention is drawn towards Marion’s critique of Heidegger and his rejection of the Heideggerian condition imposed upon divine Revelation: the condition of having to give in to ontological difference. Next, Mari…Read more