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369Beyond Theodicy: The Divine in Heidegger and TragedyPhilosophy Today 29 (2): 110-120. 1985.The paper explores the way in which we can make sense of the seemingly contradictory presentations of God and the gods in tragic literature by looking to the thought of Martin Heidegger. The duplicity of the gods in tragedy is found to be a function of the uncertainty and questionworthiness of being.
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8Thinking What Is Strange and Dangerous: Heidegger, Tragedy, and Original EthicsComparative and Continental Philosophy 14 (3): 266-280. 2022.This paper returns to one of Heidegger’s pivotal references to ethics – his remarks in the “Letter on Humanism” – and attempts to follow up on a line of thinking in those remarks that Heidegger himself did not expand upon, namely, the link between ethics and Sophoclean tragedy. Reading Heidegger’s analysis of Heraclitus’s Fragment 119 on ἤθος with reference to Sophoclean tragedy and in conjunction with Heidegger’s thinking and his comments elsewhere on ethics and tragedy, the paper seeks to clar…Read more
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11Heidegger, Tragedy, and Ethical ReflectionInternational Studies in Philosophy 21 (1): 33-48. 1989.
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83Fideism or Faith in Doubt?: Meillassoux, Heidegger, and the End of MetaphysicsPhilosophy Today 57 (4): 358-368. 2013.Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency advocates a “speculative materialism” or what has come to be called “speculative realism” over against “correlationism” (his term for [nearly] all post-Kantian philosophy). “Correlationism” is “the idea according to which we only ever have access to the correlation between thinking and being, and never to either term considered apart from the other.” As part of his criticism of “correlationism,” Meillassoux argues tha…Read more
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25From Daimonion to The “Last” GodPhilosophy Today 53 (3): 265-272. 2009.The paper proposes rethinking our understanding of God and divinity by reflecting on Socrates' and Martin Heidegger's understanding of what is divine.
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17Living On (Happily) Ever After: Derrida, Philosophy, and the ComicPhilosophy Today 38 (2): 167-180. 1994.
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6Beyond theism and atheism: Heidegger's significance for religious thinkingDistributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1987.Through an analysis of key themes in Heidegger's work, the book challenges the traditional theological appropriation of Heidegger and the usual characterizations of religious thinking in terms of faith or belief in, or experience of, some ultimate reality. Heidegger, it is argued, offers a unique approach to a variety of issues and problems in contemporary religious thought and philosophy of religion that results in understanding religious thinking as a resolute openness to the holiness and mea…Read more
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20Living on (happily) ever afterPhilosophy Today 38 (2): 167-180. 1994.The paper explores the comic quality and comic strategies employed by Derrida as a way of better understanding the texts of Derrida and their relationship to the philosophical tradition.
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26Between Tradition And Critique: The Gadamer - Habermas DebateAuslegung. A Journal of Philosophy Lawrence, Kans 8 (1): 5-18. 1981.
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5Heidegger, tragedy, and ethical reflectionInternational Studies in Philosophy 21 (1): 33-48. 1989.
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790Knowing, Counting, Being: Meillassoux, Heidegger, and the Possibility of ScienceJournal of Speculative Philosophy 28 (3): 335-345. 2014.In his book After Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux criticizes post-Kantian philosophy for its inability to explain how science is able to describe a world without human beings. This paper addresses that challenge through a consideration of Heidegger’s thought and his thinking about science. It is argued that the disagreement between Meillassoux and Heidegger comes down to a question of first philosophy and the priority of logic or ontology in philosophy. Ultimately, Heidegger’s emphasis on ontolo…Read more
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51Mysticism and Ontology: A Heideggerian Critique of CaputoSouthern Journal of Philosophy 24 (4): 463-478. 2010.The paper is critical of John Caputo's misunderstanding Martin Heidegger's criticism of metaphysics and ontotheology that leads to Caputo's understanding mysticism as a non-metaphysical, non-ontotheological thinking.
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27Danger: Philosophy of ReligionPhilosophy Today 42 (4): 393-401. 1998.The paper explores the practice of philosophy of religion, arguing that, as philosophy about religion and religious philosophy, it challenges the assumptions of both philosophy and religious thinking and belief.
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88Interrupting speculation: The thinking of Heidegger and greek tragedyContinental Philosophy Review 36 (2): 177-194. 2003.Despite his extended readings of parts of the Antigone of Sophocles, Heidegger nowhere explicitly sets about giving us a theory of tragedy or a detailed analysis of the essence of tragedy. The following paper seeks to piece together Heidegger's understanding of tragedy and tragic experience by looking to themes in his thinking – particularly his analyses of early Greek thinking – and connecting them both to his scattered references to tragedy and actual examples from Greek tragedy. What we find …Read more
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206The Inside and the Outside: Religious Experience and Religious ThoughtAuslegung 12 122-133. 1986.Drawing upon the thought of Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger, the paper argues that contemporary discussions of religious experience and religious thought as two separate parts of religious practice and tradition--with religious experience as the "heart" of religion--is erroneous. Instead, it is argued, religious experience and religious thought are woven together in practice, the one implicating the other.
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240Tragedy or Religion? A Question of "Radical Hermeneutics"Philosophy Today 32 (3): 244-255. 1988.The paper criticizes John Caputo's formulation of "radical hermeneutics" and its understanding of both religion and tragedy, arguing that a "tragic theology" would be a truly radical hermeneutic.
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67Different religions, diverse godsInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 49 (1): 33-47. 2001.Traditional approaches to the fact that there are different religions with different characterizations of what is divine---exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism---live in fear of religious diversity and the possibility that what is divine is not one, not many, but diverse, i.e., that there are different gods that are potentially incompatible and conflicting. In this paper, I argue that this alternative--–religious diversity and an acknowledgment of the diversity of the divine--–is a more “rea…Read more
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45Kami and daimōn: A cross-cultural reflection on what is divinePhilosophy East and West 49 (1): 63-74. 1999.The purpose here is to recall the diversity of our experience, particularly the archaic experience, of what is divine, through Motoori Norinaga and Martin Heidegger and their considerations of the archaic notions of kami and daimōn. Using their insights and other sources also becomes a means for reconfiguring our understanding of philosophy of religion as a thinking that enacts what it is about, drawing no hard and fast distinctions between thinking and practice, in the hope of seeing religion a…Read more
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53An Environment Friendly God: Response to Nancy Hudson’s “Divine Immanence” (review)Philosophia 35 (3-4): 357-360. 2007.This paper is a response to Professor Nancy Hudson’s paper “Divine Immanence: Nicholas of Cusa’s Understanding of Theophany and the Retrieval of a ‘New’ Model of God,” (Nancy Hudson, “Divine Immanence: Nicholas of Cusa’s Understanding of Theophany and the Retrieval of a ‘New’ Model of God,” Journal of Theological Studies 56.2 (October 2005): 450–470). Hudson claims that an ecologically promising vision of nature and an environmentally friendly God lies undiscovered withing the mystical theology…Read more
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52Faith in doubt in the endInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 73 (1): 29-38. 2013.At one time or another, most Contemporary Continental philosophers of religion make reference to Nietzsche’s announcement that “God is dead.” However, their interpretation and treatment of that announcement owes nothing to Nietzsche. Instead, they see the death of God as Hegel did, as a moment in a transition to a new way of talking and thinking about God or the Absolute. Their faith in God or the Absolute is not in doubt in the end. We argue that if one hears and thinks Nietzsche’s word “God is…Read more
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