publications
Selected Articles:
“Heidegger's Nietzsche and the Origin of the Work of Art,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 36 (3): 290-300.
“Invitations to Multiplicity: Revisiting Travel in Response to Mariana Ortega’s In Between,” Philosophy Today, 65 (2): 433-440.
“…And the Whole Music Box Repeats Eternally Its Tune,” Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, 7 (2017): 103-123.
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Chapters: "It is there in the beginning: Melancholia, Time, and Death” Invited Contribution to Philosophy in the Films of Lars Von Trier, Eds. Bill Koch & José Haro (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Book Reviews: Invited Review of After Heidegger? Edited by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt, Rowman & Littlefield (2017). In Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, 9 (2019): 215-225. |
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Works in Progress:
Monograph, Nietzsche's Heidegger
Filling a lacuna in the scholarship, I develop the politics of Heidegger’s Auseinandersetzung with Nietzsche. Animated by a psychoanalytically leaning hermeneutic of suspicion, I argue that the early interest in Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence seduces Heidegger to an intellectual intimacy that is prolific. His star is on the rise. But when the time comes to reckon with the failure of the National Socialist project, Heidegger distances himself from his affiliation therewith by recourse to Nietzsche. What he initially regarded as the potential vehicle for his philosophy he identifies with Nietzsche’s will to power. This scapegoating of Nietzsche therefore not only enables Heidegger to portray him as the consummate metaphysician who bears responsibility for the dominion of planetary technology, it also positions Heidegger as the one to overcome it, inaugurating a new beginning for philosophy. Thus Nietzsche is revealed to be the figure upon which so much depends: the turn in Heidegger’s thinking, the complex source of his fascist desire, the transition to the “other inception,” and the promise of an alternative in liminal metaphysics.
Translations:
“No God, No Caesar, No Tribune! Cornelius Castoriadis Interviewed by Daniel Mermet.” Translated with Gabriel Rockhill and the Villanova French Translation Workshop. Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy. 15:1 Fall 2010. 1-12.
Full Access to Papers, Presentations, and Supporting Research is available on academia.edu
Monograph, Nietzsche's Heidegger
Filling a lacuna in the scholarship, I develop the politics of Heidegger’s Auseinandersetzung with Nietzsche. Animated by a psychoanalytically leaning hermeneutic of suspicion, I argue that the early interest in Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence seduces Heidegger to an intellectual intimacy that is prolific. His star is on the rise. But when the time comes to reckon with the failure of the National Socialist project, Heidegger distances himself from his affiliation therewith by recourse to Nietzsche. What he initially regarded as the potential vehicle for his philosophy he identifies with Nietzsche’s will to power. This scapegoating of Nietzsche therefore not only enables Heidegger to portray him as the consummate metaphysician who bears responsibility for the dominion of planetary technology, it also positions Heidegger as the one to overcome it, inaugurating a new beginning for philosophy. Thus Nietzsche is revealed to be the figure upon which so much depends: the turn in Heidegger’s thinking, the complex source of his fascist desire, the transition to the “other inception,” and the promise of an alternative in liminal metaphysics.
Translations:
“No God, No Caesar, No Tribune! Cornelius Castoriadis Interviewed by Daniel Mermet.” Translated with Gabriel Rockhill and the Villanova French Translation Workshop. Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy. 15:1 Fall 2010. 1-12.
Full Access to Papers, Presentations, and Supporting Research is available on academia.edu