Publications and Conference Papers

BOOKS

Editor (with Jason Bell), What is Canadian Philosophy? under consideration at SUNY Press. Editor (with Paul Kirkland, Denise Schaeffer, and Natalie Taylor), Politics, Literature, and Film in Conversation: Essays in Honor of Mary P. Nichols (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020).

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

“Kierkegaard’s Socratic Alternative to Hegel in Fear and Trembling” forthcoming, The Review of Politics.

(with Michael Pallotto) “Joseph Ratzinger’s ‘Kierkegaardian Option’ in Introduction to Christianity” in The International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 80 (4), December 2019, 390-417.

“The Robot Condition: Karel Capek’s R.U.R. and Hannah Arendt’s Critique of Technology,” Perspectives on Political Science 46 (3), February 2017, 108-117.

“Jacques Derrida,” Contemporary Thinkers, July 2015

“Strauss, Kierkegaard, and the ‘Secret of the Art of Helping,’ Idealistic Studies 44 (2&3), Spring 2015, 249-62

“Keeping the old name: Derrida and the deconstructive foundations of democracy,” European Journal of Political Theory 13 (1), January 2014, 61-77.

INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS

“Can Philosophy be ‘something Canadian’ if it is ‘something Greek?’ Reflections on George Grant” in What is Canadian Philosophy. forthcoming.

“Nietzsche Against the Sovereign Individual in the Second Essay of the Genealogy” forthcoming in ed., Ann Ward, Polis, Nation, Global Community: The Philosophic Foundations of Citizenship (Routledge, 2021).

(with Denise Schaeffer), “The Scholarly Achievement of Mary P. Nichols,” introduction to eds. Dinan et. al, Politics, Literature, and Film in Conversation (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020).

“Mastering the Infinite: Mad Men’s Poetic Modernity,” in eds. Sara MacDonald and Andrew Moore, ‘Mad Men:’ The Death and Redemption of American Democracy (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books: 2016): 69-84.

“On Wolves and Dogs: The Eleatic Stranger’s Socratic Turn in Plato’s Sophist” in Socratic Philosophy and Its Others, eds. Christopher Dustin and Denise Schaeffer (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013): 115-140.



Writing in The Hedgehog Review

For a complete listing of my work at THR, click here.

“Aristotle, Literally” on THR Blog  (August 2020). Translated and reprinted in Rujiawang.

“Mind the Gap” in The Hedgehog Review 22.2 (Summer 2020)

“The School of Anxiety” on THR Blog (April 2020)

“Winter” in The Hedgehog Review 22.1 (Spring 2020)

“Irony,” in The Hedgehog Review 21.2 (Summer 2019)

“Be Nice,” in The Hedgehog Review 20.3 (Fall 2018). Anthologized in the 15th Norton Reader