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Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths, 1990
A PDF of my book. Simply clicking it seems to get a distorted image. Downloading it seems OK> Unf... more A PDF of my book. Simply clicking it seems to get a distorted image. Downloading it seems OK> Unfortunately it is a long file.
Published in Nietzsche and Politicized Identities, eds. Rebecca Bamford and Allison Merrick (Alba... more Published in Nietzsche and Politicized Identities, eds. Rebecca Bamford and Allison Merrick (Albany NY: SUNY Press, 2024), 17 - 35.
An old review of my 1995 book by Will Dudley. A PDF of my book is posted on this site.
Found in the collection: Reinterpreting the Political: Continental Philosophy and Political Theor... more Found in the collection: Reinterpreting the Political: Continental Philosophy and Political Theory, eds. Lenore Langsdorf and Stephen Watson (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998. This essay was the springboard for my book of the same title: A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy: An Experiment in Postmodern Politics (Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1995). A PDF of the book is on my Academia page.
Existentialism has been marked by Sartre’s claim that ‘existence’ precedes ‘essence,’ that concre... more Existentialism has been marked by Sartre’s claim that ‘existence’ precedes ‘essence,’ that concrete life cannot be governed by abstract universals. Traditional philosophy has typically connected essences with concepts, mental constructs that provide grounding knowledge of perceived particulars in experience. The problem is that existentialism, as a philosophy of existence, cannot help but traffic in concepts. So, the question is whether and how existentialism can deploy concepts that are different from everyday and essentialist kind. This chapter will explore the possibility of ‘existential concepts’ found in Heidegger’s notion of formal indication. A treatment of what Heidegger means by formal indication will be followed by a detailed analysis of the concept of care in Being and Time.
In Myths and Fictions, eds. S. Biderman and B. Scharfstein (Leiden:Brill, 1993), 141-160
Chapter Five of my book Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech I
Chapter Four of my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language.
Chapter Three of my book Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech I.
Chapter Two of my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech I
The Preface of my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language
Chapter One of my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language
The Introduction to my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language
Aristotle's Poetics defends the value of tragic poetry, presumably to counter Plato's critique in... more Aristotle's Poetics defends the value of tragic poetry, presumably to counter Plato's critique in the Republic. Can this defense resonate with something larger and rather surprising, that Aristotle's overall philosophy displays a tragic character? I define the tragic as pertaining to indigenous and inescapable limits on life, knowledge, control, achievement, and agency. I explore how such limits figure in Aristotle's physics, metaphysics, and biological works. Accordingly I want to disturb the common account of Aristotle's thought as a neat system of ontological order and metaphysical closure-not to exclude such elements but to place them within a world-view that includes certain limits at the edges of being.
Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, 2016
This is a PDF file of my 1990 book: Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths (Chicago: Open Court... more This is a PDF file of my 1990 book: Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths (Chicago: Open Court, 1990)
Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths, 1990
A PDF of my book. Simply clicking it seems to get a distorted image. Downloading it seems OK> Unf... more A PDF of my book. Simply clicking it seems to get a distorted image. Downloading it seems OK> Unfortunately it is a long file.
Published in Nietzsche and Politicized Identities, eds. Rebecca Bamford and Allison Merrick (Alba... more Published in Nietzsche and Politicized Identities, eds. Rebecca Bamford and Allison Merrick (Albany NY: SUNY Press, 2024), 17 - 35.
An old review of my 1995 book by Will Dudley. A PDF of my book is posted on this site.
Found in the collection: Reinterpreting the Political: Continental Philosophy and Political Theor... more Found in the collection: Reinterpreting the Political: Continental Philosophy and Political Theory, eds. Lenore Langsdorf and Stephen Watson (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998. This essay was the springboard for my book of the same title: A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy: An Experiment in Postmodern Politics (Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1995). A PDF of the book is on my Academia page.
Existentialism has been marked by Sartre’s claim that ‘existence’ precedes ‘essence,’ that concre... more Existentialism has been marked by Sartre’s claim that ‘existence’ precedes ‘essence,’ that concrete life cannot be governed by abstract universals. Traditional philosophy has typically connected essences with concepts, mental constructs that provide grounding knowledge of perceived particulars in experience. The problem is that existentialism, as a philosophy of existence, cannot help but traffic in concepts. So, the question is whether and how existentialism can deploy concepts that are different from everyday and essentialist kind. This chapter will explore the possibility of ‘existential concepts’ found in Heidegger’s notion of formal indication. A treatment of what Heidegger means by formal indication will be followed by a detailed analysis of the concept of care in Being and Time.
In Myths and Fictions, eds. S. Biderman and B. Scharfstein (Leiden:Brill, 1993), 141-160
Chapter Five of my book Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech I
Chapter Four of my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language.
Chapter Three of my book Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech I.
Chapter Two of my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech I
The Preface of my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language
Chapter One of my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language
The Introduction to my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language
Aristotle's Poetics defends the value of tragic poetry, presumably to counter Plato's critique in... more Aristotle's Poetics defends the value of tragic poetry, presumably to counter Plato's critique in the Republic. Can this defense resonate with something larger and rather surprising, that Aristotle's overall philosophy displays a tragic character? I define the tragic as pertaining to indigenous and inescapable limits on life, knowledge, control, achievement, and agency. I explore how such limits figure in Aristotle's physics, metaphysics, and biological works. Accordingly I want to disturb the common account of Aristotle's thought as a neat system of ontological order and metaphysical closure-not to exclude such elements but to place them within a world-view that includes certain limits at the edges of being.
Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, 2016
This is a PDF file of my 1990 book: Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths (Chicago: Open Court... more This is a PDF file of my 1990 book: Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths (Chicago: Open Court, 1990)
Hayden Kee's review of my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language.
My analysis and commentary on Nietzsche's text.
MTNF, Boston, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018
Nietzsche’s thought has been of renewed interest to philosophers in both the Anglo- American and ... more Nietzsche’s thought has been of renewed interest to philosophers in both the Anglo- American and the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions. Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind presents 16 essays from analytic and continental perspectives. Appealing to both international communities of scholars, the volume seeks to deepen the appreciation of Nietzsche’s contribution to our understanding of consciousness and the mind. Over the past decades, a variety of disciplines have engaged with Nietzsche’s thought, including anthropology, biology, history, linguistics, neuroscience, and psychology, to name just a few. His rich and perspicacious treatment of consciousness, mind, and body cannot be reduced to any single discipline, and has the potential to speak to many. And, as several contributors make clear, Nietzsche’s investigations into consciousness and the embodied mind are integral to his wider ethical concerns.
This volume contains contributions by international experts such as Christa Davis Acampora (Emory University), Keith Ansell-Pearson (Warwick University), João Constâncio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Frank Chouraqui (Leiden University), Manuel Dries (The Open University; Oxford University), Christian J. Emden (Rice University), Maria Cristina Fornari (University of Salento), Anthony K. Jensen (Providence College), Helmut Heit (Tongji University), Charlie Huenemann (Utah State University), Vanessa Lemm (Flinders University), Lawrence J. Hatab (Old Dominion University), Mattia Riccardi (University of Porto), Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen (New York University and EGS), and Benedetta Zavatta (CNRS).