• Elon University
    Department Of Philosophy
    Assistant Professor
Duquesne University
Department of Philosophy
PhD
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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    In reaction to a particularly scathing review of his Practice in Christianity, Kierkegaard postulated what he called a ‘preacher-machine.’ As we will see, the preacher-machine is only one type of character-machine, for, in Practice in Christianity, there are five other such machines. Starting up these character-machines will allow for an analysis of the repulsion of the God-man, Christ himself. This repulsion is important because Kierkegaard claims that it is the condition for the emergence of f…Read more
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    Nietzsche and Epicurus (edited book)
    Bloomsbury. 2020.
    This volume explores Nietzsche's decisive encounter with the ancient philosopher, Epicurus. The collected essays examine many previously unexplored and underappreciated convergences, and investigate how essential Epicurus was to Nietzsche's philosophical project through two interrelated overarching themes: nature and ethics. Uncovering the nature of Nietzsche's reception of, relation to, and movement beyond Epicurus, contributors provide insights into the relationship between suffering, health a…Read more
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    Este é um conto sobre visão, pensamento e contradição, bem como sobre o papel que desempenham na primeira metade da Ciência da Lógica de Hegel. A Lógica começa com uma descida, nesse caso, uma queda do Ser ao Nada. Posteriormente, aproximadamente na metade de cada texto, há um certo paradoxo em que tudo está em jogo, a categoria da contradição. Nesse exato momento, o pensamento ao mesmo tempo falha e é renovado em um viés especulativo. Nessa seção, nos debruçamos sobre algumas das interpretações…Read more
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    Thinking the Abyss of History: Heidegger’s Critique of Hegelian Metaphysics
    Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 6 51-68. 2016.
  • A thousand antiquities
    In Abraham Jacob Greenstine & Ryan J. Johnson (eds.), Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, Edinburgh University Press. 2017.
  • 15 On the Surface: The Deleuze-Stoicism Encounter
    In Abraham Jacob Greenstine & Ryan J. Johnson (eds.), Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 270-288. 2017.
  • Lucretius and naturalism [1961]
    In Abraham Jacob Greenstine & Ryan J. Johnson (eds.), Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, Edinburgh University Press. 2017.
  • Science regained [1962]
    In Abraham Jacob Greenstine & Ryan J. Johnson (eds.), Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, Edinburgh University Press. 2017.