Alan Schrift, Questioning Authority: Nietzsche’s Gift to Derrida

Brian T. Prosser and Andrew Ward, Kierkegaard’s “Mystery Of Unrighteousness” In The Information Age (via wood’s lot)

Zizek, “The Secret Clauses of the Liberal Utopia”:

The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking

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Table of Contents

The Spirit of The Age and the Fate of Philosophical Thinking — Paul Ashton, Toula Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos
Would Hegel Be A ‘Hegelian’ Today? — H. S. Harris
Hegel, Idealism and God: Philosophy as the Self-Correcting Appropriation of the Norms of Life and Thought — Paul Redding
Hegel, Derrida and the Subject — Simon Lumsden
Hegel’s Science of Logic and the “Sociality of Reason” — Jorge Armando Reyes
The Ego as World: Speculative Justification and the Role of the Thinker in Hegel’s Philosophy — Toula Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos
Hegel Today: Towards a Tragic Conception of Intercultural Conflicts — Karin G de Boer
Sein und Geist: Heidegger’s Confrontation with Hegel’s Phenomenology — Robert Sixto Sinnerbrink
Hegel, Recognition And Rights: ‘Anerkennung’ As A Gridline Of The Philosophy Of Rights — Jürgen Lawrenz
Hegel’s Theory of Moral Action, its Place in his System and the ‘Highest’ Right of the Subject — David Rose
Being and Implication: On Hegel and the Greeks — Andrew Haas
The Relevance of Hegel’s Logic — John W Burbidge
Agamben, Hegel, and the State of Exception — Wendell Kisner
Gathering and Dispersing: The Absolute Spirit in Hegel’s Philosophy — George Vassilacopoulos
Hegel and the Becoming of Essence — David Gray Carlson
Dialectical Reason and Necessary Conflict—Understanding and the Nature of Terror — Angelica Nuzzo
The Spirit (of our Time) is and is not a Bone. — Johan Vandycke
The Beginning Before the Beginning: Hegel and the Activation of Philosophy — Paul Ashton
Kierkegaard’s Ethical Stage In Hegel’s Logical Categories: Actual Possibility, Reality And Necessity — María J. Binetti
El estadio ético de Kierkegaard en las categorías lógicas de Hegel: posibilidad, realidad y necesidad actuales – María J. Binetti

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'The Merchant of Venice' Through the Lens of Continental Philosophy — Oona Eisenstadt, Pomona College.

Shylock After Auschwitz: 'The Merchant of Venice' on the Post-Holocaust Stage–Subversion, Confrontation, and Provocation — Arthur Horowitz, Pomona College.

Reading the 'Merchant of Venice' through Adorno — Zdravko Planinc.

Shylock Between Exception and Emancipation: Shakespeare, Schmitt, Arendt — Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine.

Avoiding Tragedy in the 'Merchant of Venice' — Paul A. Kottman, New School University.

Shylock: The Knight of Faith? — Ken Jackson, Wayne State University.

Heart's Blood: Derrida and Portia on Translation — Oona Eisenstadt, Pomona College.

Unfinished Business: A Response to the Symposium "The Merchant of Venice and Contemporary Theory" –  J. Aaron Kunin, Pomona College.
   

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Naturalistic and Transcendental Moments in Kant’s Moral Philosophy — Author: Paul Guyer

Comments on Guyer — Author: Allen W. Wood

Comments on Guyer — Author: Henry E. Allison

Comments on Guyer — Author: Sebastian Rödl

Response to Critics — Author: Paul Guyer

Knowing at Second Hand — Author: Benjamin McMyler

Kierkegaard, MacIntyre and Narrative Unity - Reply to Lippitt — Author: Anthony Rudd

Being Jewish– Emmanuel Levinas

The welcome wound: emerging from the il y a otherwise — Merold Westphal

The neighbor and the infinite: Marion and Levinas on the encounter between self, human other, and God — Christina M. Gschwandtner

The drama of being: Levinas and the history of philosophy — John Caruana

Adorno vs. Levinas: Evaluating points of contention — Nick Smith

Gestures of work: Levinas and Hegel — Silvia Benso

Ethical alterity and asymmetrical reciprocity: A Levinasian reading of Works of Love — Michael R. Paradiso-Michau

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Editor Charles E. Moore has done us an invaluable service by putting together arguably the most accessible and complete Kierkegaard volume to be published in decades. Here is a book for anyone who takes the search for authenticity seriously.

Divided into six sections, Provocations contains a little of everything from Kierkegaard’s prodigious output, including his wryly humorous attacks on what he calls the “mediocre shell” of conventional Christianity, his brilliantly pithy parables, his amazing insights on the human condition, and his incisive attempts to dig through the fluff of theological jargon and clear a way for the basics: decisiveness, obedience, passion, and recognition of the truth.

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Editorial Introduction: The Inaugural Special Topics Issue On Resurfacing Tragedy: John Duncan

The Soul of Tragedy: Some Basic Principles in Aristotle’s Poetics: John Baxter     

Introduction to Hegel's Theory of Tragedy: Mark W. Roche

Kierkegaard on Abraham's Tragedy: the Loss of Community: Elsebet Jegstrup     

Culture, Tragedy and Pessimism in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy: John Duncan

The Spectacle of Suffering: On Tragedy in Nietzsche’s Daybreak: Thomas Bartscherer

The Tragic Double Bind of Heidegger’s Techne: David Edward Tabachnick    

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The Crowd is Untruth: a Comparison of Kierkegaard and Girard

by Charles K. Bellinger

The purpose of this essay is to provide an introductory comparison of the writings of Søren Kierkegaard and René Girard. To my knowledge, a substantial secondary article or book has not been written on this subject.[1] Girard’s writings themselves contain only a handful of references to Kierkegaard.[2] This deficiency is unfortunate, since, as I hope to show in the following pages, these two authors do share common insights into the psychology of violence.

Girard’s writings usually take the form of a scientific analysis of historical data. He is attempting to frame a theory of culture which takes into account all of the data which he has encountered. It would seem that Kierkegaard’s mode of thought is very different, since he is primarily concerned with the meaning of personal existence before God. But Kierkegaard was in his own way and in his own time a kind of social scientist. He engaged in an extended “anthropological contemplation” (1967-1978, v. 1: #37), in which he attempted to map out the territory of the human spirit. Girard’s thought, for its part, occasionally steps outside of the methodological atheism of the scientific guild to speak in theological terms. Thus in both realms, the scientific and the theological, there is the possibility of fruitful dialogue between these two authors.

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The Paradox of Beginning: Hegel, Kierkegaard and Philosophical Inquiry — Daniel Watts

Getting the Story Straight: Kierkegaard, MacIntyre and Some Problems with Narrative — John Lippitt

Kierkegaard’s Mirrors: The Immediacy of Moral Vision — Patrick Stokes

The Comically Infinite Man — Michelle Grier

On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Reading Heidegger Backwards: White’s Time and Death — Iain Thomson