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11A More Skillful IllusionThe Acorn 23 (1): 7-36. 2023.In The Force of Nonviolence, Judith Butler argues that nonviolent movements must replace a dominant neurotic identitarianism with a commitment to preserving relational life. However, Butler also argues that because relationality is volatile, freedom and equality cannot be accomplished through a simple negation of separation. Instead, nonviolence must be directed at moments of relational volatility precisely when violence is compelled. Drawing on Klein’s theory of subjectivity—in which imagining …Read more
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9Politics, Polarity, and Peace (edited book)Brill Rodopi. 2023.Polarization simplifies and deforms language, ideas, and people and reduces social life into an oppositional binary based on harmful “us versus them” narratives. What can we do to bring about a transformation away from polarity to peace? What are the polarities obscuring the path to peace? Is it a question of belief versus belief? Does it make sense to appeal to reason, discourse, and compromise in a polarized climate? What is the difference between harmful and helpful polarities? In the pursuit…Read more
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10A Critique of Liberal Cynicism: Peter Sloterdijk, Judith Butler, and Critical LiberalismLexington Books. 2022.Focusing on the philosophical work of Judith Butler and Peter Sloterdijk, A Critique of Liberal Cynicism diagnoses—and proposes an immanent critique of—a form of cynicism dominant in popular and academic culture.
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16Nonviolence as Manic Rupture of IndividualismThe Acorn 19 (2): 206-213. 2019.Perhaps Butler is too dismissive of the emancipatory potential of the liberal tradition and could do more to show how mania and the “fiction” of a relational self can be mobilized to turn violent self-preservation into nonviolent, collective-self-preservation. Nevertheless, her call to build a radically egalitarian world—based on the commitment to a daily practice of deidentifying with even our deepest convictions if they problematize viewing any life as anything less than incalculably valuable—…Read more
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42The Principle of Non-Contradiction in Plato’s Republic: an Argument for Form. By Lawrence BloomAncient Philosophy 41 (1): 216-220. 2021.
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26Plato and the Invention of Life, by Michael Naas (review)Ancient Philosophy 39 (2): 469-473. 2019.
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