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Marx's ethical visionOxford University Press. 2024.Between the fall of the Soviet Union and the fall of Lehman Brothers, if the Anglophone academy could be said to have arrived at any consensus about the value of Marxist theory, it would be that Marxism was a quaint historical curio at best and a world-historically hubristic folly at worst. Today, however, well on our way through the first quarter of the twenty-first century, we live in a moment of greatly renewed interest in Marxist ideas. This curiosity is stoked by, among other factors, the w…Read more
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Grace and AlienationPhilosophers' Imprint 20 (16): 1-18. 2020.According to an attractive conception of love as attention, discussed by Iris Murdoch, one strives to see one’s beloved accurately and justly. A puzzle for understanding how to love another in this way emerges in cases where more accurate and just perception of the beloved only reveals his flaws and vices, and where the beloved, in awareness of this, strives to escape the gaze of others - including, or perhaps especially, of his loved ones. Though less attentive forms of love may be able to rend…Read more
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RIGGLE, NICK. On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck. London: Penguin Books, 2017, 224 pp., 2 b&w illus., $20.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 77 (3): 333-336. 2019.
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Religion |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Moral Psychology |
African/Africana Philosophy |