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The Community of Those Who Are Going to DieIn Fran?ois Raffoul & David Pettigrew (eds.), Heidegger and Practical Philosophy, State University of New York Press. pp. 237-247. 2002.
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The time of politics : on the relationship between life and law in Plato's StatesmanIn John Sallis (ed.), Plato's Statesman: Dialectic, Myth, and Politics, Suny Series in Contemporary Company. 2017.
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35American Continental Philosophy: A Reader (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2000.American Continental Philosophy is the first anthology to gather a representative selection of the most important and original thinkers from the continental tradition in the U.S. The essays reflect the diverse directions and methodologies that have emerged from this influential field. This state-of-the-art sampler showcases the richness and scope of American continental philosophy and will be of value to the entire philosophical community
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5A Response to Robert Bernasconi's “Heidegger's Destruction of Phronesis”Southern Journal of Philosophy 28 (S1): 149-153. 1990.
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In the wake of Socrates : impossible memoryIn Sean D. Kirkland & Eric Sanday (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Northwestern University Press. 2018.
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17Nancy Tuana and Charles E. Scott, Beyond Philosophy: Nietzsche, Foucault, AnzaldúaPhilosophy Today 66 (2): 411-416. 2022.
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18The Intimate Relationship of Life and Law in Aristotle's PoliticsEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (2): 471-484. 2021.This essay argues that the fundamental premise of Aristotle’s political philosophy is that free citizens are those who rule and are ruled in turn. The virtuous community sustains a mean between these two dimensions of political life, and the decadent regime errs by excess or deficiency from this ideal. Aristotle sees the production and exercise of law as essential to preserve the continuity of the arrangements between citizens. In the production of law, the process of ruling together is best exe…Read more
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5Is Aristotle a Metaphysician?Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 15 (3): 249-261. 1984.
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14Greek Tragedy and the Ethopoietic EventEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (1): 29-38. 2017.In this essay, I attempt to explore Dennis Schmidt’s pervasive claim throughout his work of a deep affinity between aesthetic experience and ethical life. In a discussion of what Schmidt calls the intensification of life, the essay shows how for Schmidt birth and death are moments that have a peculiar capacity to reveal what he calls the idiom of the ethical. At the end of the essay, I turn to Schmidt’s discussion of Greek tragedy as an exemplary site for his unique sense of original ethics.
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72The Central Significance of Suffering in Nietzsche’s ThoughtInternational Studies in Philosophy 20 (2): 53-62. 1988.
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Nature and Man: A Commentary on Heidegger's Interpretation of Aristotle's Physics B, 1Dissertation, Duquesne University. 1981.Purpose. This dissertation aims to open up an avenue for understanding the relation between the thinking of Aristotle and that of Martin Heidegger. This entails a radical re-thinking of Aristotle's thought as the fulfillment of the Greek experience of Being. My thesis wishes to show that Heidegger's "commentary" on Aristotle's Physics, B, 1 reaches beyond this passage and is grounded in a discovery of the fundamental project that governs all of Aristotle's thought--the recovery of the meaning of…Read more
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21Socrates the Doxologist: Sean Kirkland’s Reading of Plato’s Early DialoguesResearch in Phenomenology 46 (1): 148-156. 2016.
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40On Giorgio Agamben’s Naked LifeEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (1): 113-124. 2011.This article attempts to explore why it is that the “state of exception” is so pivotal to Agamben’s analysis of sovereignty and the possibility of a coming community beyond the sovereign state and its power machines. The essay distinguishes between two senses of the state of exception and tries to explain their interconnection. The “zone of indistinction” opens up an irreparable gap between sovereign power and its execution and between “bare life” and citizenship. These are the spaces that both …Read more
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29James Risser's Contemporary Hermeneutics: The Way-Making Community of Those Who Are StrangePhilosophy Today 58 (1): 97-105. 2014.This article is an interpretive analysis of James Risser’s book The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics. I focus on the key elements of Risser’s notion of community and what I call his hermeneutics of the strange and foreign. The article pays particular attention to some of the most important themes in Risser’s book: aesthetics and the flash of beauty; language and the poetic word; the transmission of tradition; the movement of Ruinanz and the circulation of life; weaving. Overall…Read more
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3The Hermeneutic Circle is Broken: On the Circulation of Being in Jean-Luc Nancy’s Hermeneutic PhilosophyInternationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik. 2011.
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1Beyond Logos: Naming Difference in Plato’s TheaetetusInternationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik. 2005.
Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |