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8Hegel, Absolute Knowing and EpiphanyInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 1-21. forthcoming.In this paper I raise three questions regarding the status and function of Absolute Knowing in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. First, can Hegel’s Absolute Knowing be understood as an epiphany? Secondly, how does epiphany make sense of the teleological elements that activate and mobilise the movement towards Absolute Knowing? And thirdly, how does such an interpretation shift the focus from a closed reading of Hegel’s text – that views Absolute Knowing as consummately realised – to an open readi…Read more
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4Hegel and Contemporary Continental Philosophy, ed., by Dennis King Keenan (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 38 (3): 329-331. 2007.
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17Bodies in Public Spaces: Questioning the Boundary Between the Public and the PrivateCritical Horizons 23 (4): 346-360. 2022.This paper examines the connection between politics and public space at a time when photography and the new media have put the classical distinction between the public and the private into question. My focus is on the body which, according to Hannah Arendt and the classical philosophers, is the most private thing there is. Drawing on the work of Weimar photojournalist Erich Salomon – who was among the first to infiltrate the spaces where political talks were held and decisions taken – I argue fo…Read more
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Dennis King Keenan, (ed.), Hegel and Contemporary Continental Philosophy (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 38 (3): 329-331. 2007.
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7Anne Norton, Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004 (review)History of European Ideas 31 (4): 518-521. 2005.
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30Is There Such A Thing As Quixotic Virtue?In Garry L. Hagberg (ed.), Fictional Worlds and the Moral Imagination, Palgrave-macmillan. 2021.Quixote is a caricature of a knight errant; steeped into his fictional heroes, he undertakes to revive a tradition long dead, and in the process leaves behind some unforgettable images of knightly virtue turned sour. This caricature, however, is not simply a ploy meant to arouse laughter, but also an occasion to revisit the emphasis on knowledge and good sense with which virtue has been aligned in the Socratic/Platonic tradition. The challenge Quixote represents concerns the relation between rea…Read more
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7Articulations of Nature and Politics in Plato and HegelPalgrave Macmillan. 2020.This book examines nature as a foundational concept for political and constitutional theory, drawing on readings from Plato and Hegel to counter the view that optimal political arrangements are determined by nature. Focussing on the dialectical implications of the word ‘nature’, i.e. how it encompasses a range of meanings stretching up to the opposites of sensuousness and ideality, the book explores the various junctures at which nature and politics interlock in the philosophies of Plato and Heg…Read more
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G. W. F. Hegel |
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