Straddling two eras of intellectual history, my research and teaching centers on the legacy of medieval Christianity and its theological categories within modern philosophy and political economy. I am also interested in philosophical archaeology—a concept-metaphor employed by Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, Sylvia Wynter, and Giorgio Agamben—and practices of internal criticism of the Mediterranean literary genre we habitually refer to as 'philosophy.' I am currently writing a monograph on medieval and modern treatments of the idea that 'time is money,' and on the role of Atlantic slavery in the dissociation of indebtedness and unfreedom in ph…

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