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In This Issue Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Jennifer Liu, Jason M. Wirth
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Beyond the Doubleday Myth Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-03-15 David Jones
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Biopolítica y liberación: La noción de vida humana en Agamben y Dussel Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Rafael Vizcaíno
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Leah Kalmanson
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing: The Respiratory Primacy of Being Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Vedant Srinivas
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Explicating the conception of political obligation embedded in Martin Heidegger’s early treatises Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-02-16 William J. Wallace, Jim Jose
The concept of political obligation has not attracted much attention within Heideggerian scholarship. In this paper, we identify and explicate Heidegger’s conception of political obligation embedde...
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Adorno, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Critical Theory: Negative Dialectics and Non-identity Thinking Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Sunny Dhillon
This paper explores the relationship between the thought of Theodor W. Adorno and Jiddu Krishnamurti. It focuses upon how both thinkers employ a determinately negative epistemology and revise Hegel...
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Does Philosophy Have More Than One Method? On Intercultural Comparison, Hegel, and Universality Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Timo Ennen
This essay takes issue with two possible stances in comparative and intercultural philosophy. First, there is the idea of ascertaining a method or conditions of possibility before engaging in inter...
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Moral and Criminal Responsibilities for Free Choice between Good and Evil in the Philosophy of Chŏng Yakyong, With Reference to Matteo Ricci Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Yi Jongwoo
Humans must take moral and criminal responsibility for making a free choice between good and evil, according to Chŏng Yakyong, and this view was influenced by Matteo Ricci. Choosing to commit an ev...
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Nietzsche, Nishitani, and Laruelle on the Apostle Paul: tradition and the affirmation of life Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Matthew C. Kruger
This article offers two further philosophical engagements with the writings of the Apostle Paul. The recent work of Francois Laruelle on Paul in his turn to Christian non-theology is placed in dial...
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Tetsugaku Companion to Nishida Kitarō Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Rika Dunlap
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Pregnancy as a Cipher for Nietzsche’s Project of Self-Overcoming: The Case of Pascal Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Katia Hay, Jamie Parr
This paper focuses on the relations among critique, destruction and negation, on the one hand, and creation, affirmation, love, and care on the other, in Nietzsche’s writings from Daybreak to Zarat...
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Henry Corbin and D.T. Suzuki: On Theophanic Imagination as Imaginatio vera Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Shun Miyajima
This paper analyses the concept of the Imagination of Henry Corbin (1903–1978) in relation to Daisetsu T. Suzuki (1870–1966). Besides being a renowned orientalist and scholar of Islamic thought, Co...
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Translation, Mastery, and Ground; or, Overcoming Some Hermeneutic Fictions Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Timothy H. Engström
Comparative philosophy is dependent upon translation, often translations that will help preserve some fundamental commitments: to linguistic mastery, to the recovery or preservation of an original,...
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana: School of Philosophy – Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Luis Fernando Cardona
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Vol. 15, No. 1-2, 2023)
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In This Issue Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Jennifer Liu, Jason M. Wirth
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Vol. 15, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Being Without World: A Phenomenological Reading of the Findings on Torture in the Colombian Truth Commission’s Final Report Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Gustavo Gómez Pérez
ABSTRACT This paper explores the theme of torture in the Colombian Truth Commission’s Final Report, focusing on its characterization of torture as a way of annulling a person’s identity. Drawing on Jean Améry’s approach, I argue that torture destroys the victim’s world and explore the further implications of this assertion. I begin by highlighting how the history of torture distorts legal and medical
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The Claim of Ethics: Language and the Other(ness) of the Subject in Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Lacan Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Ian Tan
This essay performs a comparative reading of the themes of language, otherness and subjectivity in the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Lacan. Their focuses on the place and role of an ethical ...
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The Sea Both Giveth and Taketh Away: Hölderlin and Coetzee on the Philosophical Essence of the Refugee Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Arun Iyer
Arguing that the seafarers in Hölderlin’s late hymn “Remembrance” are ambiguous, as they keep slipping between the figure of the merchant and the refugee, this paper juxtaposes how the ambiguous se...
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Augusto Salazar Bondy on Latin American Philosophy: The “Culture of Domination” Thesis Reconsidered Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Renzo Llorente
One influential explanation for the apparent shortcomings of Latin American philosophy is the “culture of domination” thesis, defended by Augusto Salazar Bondy (1926–1974). According to Salazar Bon...
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Saving Cormac McCarthy? Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Amanda K. Parris
A review of Patrick O’Connor’s Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned. O’Connor argues that McCarthy is a literary philosopher of tragic ontology. While acknowledging that tragic...
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Dynamis: Ontology of the Incommensurable Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Michael J. Ardoline
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Vol. 15, No. 1-2, 2023)
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The Empty-Sublime: Considering Robert Rauschenberg in a Comparative Context Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Christopher C. Huck
ABSTRACT The sublime has been a baffling concept since its introduction by Longinus nearly two thousand years ago. What do we mean when we say something is sublime? This paper will attempt to answer that question by proposing a radical new theory of the sublime, examining the aesthetic experience called the sublime through the lens of the Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical view of emptiness (Skt. śūnyatā)
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Charlie’s Reading Room: Comparative Philosophy as Just Philosophy Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-04-05 David Jones
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2022)
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The Phenomenology of AdventureSimmel, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Jankélévitch Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Simon Gusman
ABSTRACT This article is concerned with the philosophical question of what it is like to experience an adventure. It draws from four works that discuss this question, namely Georg Simmel’s “The Adventure,” Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Nausea,” de Beauvoir’s “Ethics of Ambiguity,” and Vladimir Jankélévitch’s “Adventure, Boredom, Seriousness.” From these works, three characteristics of adventurous experiences
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Making the Difference: Eternal Return, Simulacrum, and Ontico-Ontological Unity in Deleuze’s Engagement with Nietzsche and Plato Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-15 James Bahoh
ABSTRACT This article argues for a new interpretation of the relation between Deleuze’s engagements with Nietzsche and Plato in the first chapter of Différence et répétition (1968). It (a) argues scholarship has overlooked important features of this relation, (b) reconstructs the text’s motivating problem of the reduction of difference to identity, (c) rethinks Deleuze’s use of “faire la différence”
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In This Issue 14.3 Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Jennifer Liu, Jason M. Wirth
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2022)
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Peace as Awakening to the Other: A Comparative Hermeneutics of Levinasian Face and Qisong’s Chan Buddhist Notion of Inherent Nature (Xing 性) Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Diana Arghirescu
ABSTRACT This essay presents an analysis of Levinas’ and Qisong’s perceptions of the peace as an awakening to the other and its context. Based on an analysis of their views, it suggests that we as a society need to develop an ethical sensitivity, and also to base it otherwise than on an ethically neutral ontology. The first section examines Levinas’ perception of the Western ideal of peace and presents
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Zhuangzi and Simone Weil on Decreating the Self Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Ryan Harte
ABSTRACT This essay thinks through Nanguo Ziqi’s famous “I lost myself” (wu sang wo 吾喪我) remark in the Qiwulun 齊物論 in light of Weil’s notion of decreation. The desire to undo the self is paradoxical, and most philosophical interpretations of the Zhuangzi passage try to avoid the paradox of “I lost myself” by positing various levels of self. Weil’s decreation embraces the paradox, and thereby helps
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The Fractal Self: Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Human Cooperation Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Jennifer Liu
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2022)
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Tetralemma and Trinity: An Essay on Buddhist and Christian Ontologies Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Rafal K. Stepien
ABSTRACT This is an essay in comparative philosophy and philosophy of religion building on the ontological claims espoused by two major thinkers in the Buddhist and Christian philosophical traditions: Nāgārjuna (c. 150–250) and Hegel (1770–1831). I use Nāgārjuna’s fourfold tetralemma (catuṣkoṭi) and Hegel’s threefold dialectic (Dialektik) to propose a novel understanding of the ontological status of
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Reform or Replace? The Category of Faith and Global Philosophy of Religion Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Timothy D. Knepper
ABSTRACT Among the chief challenges for a “global” philosophy of religion is not merely that of including a more diverse array of religio-philosophies, but also that of interrogating and recalibrating its foundational categories of inquiry. Asian Philosophies and the Idea of Religion responds to both challenges, the former with respect to a variety of non-western, Greco-Roman, and Western-wisdom religio-philosophies
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Author Meets Readers: On Rein Raud’s Being in Flux Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Jason M. Wirth, Jennifer Liu, Rein Raud
ABSTRACT This is the first of an ongoing series of review essays in which the authors of significant new works of philosophy engage their readers. These inaugural two readings discuss Rein Raud’s important new reassessment of contemporary ontology, Being in Flux: A Post-Anthropocentric Ontology of the Self. They consider its accomplishments, both on its own terms and with reference to its East Asian
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Becoming and Negation, Protagoras and Nāgārjuna Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Robin Reames
ABSTRACT This essay explores a curious point of intersection in the historical pairing of becoming and negation, between two thinkers and two traditions: the Sophist Protagoras of fifth-century BCE Greece and the second-century CE South Asian Buddhist thinker Nāgārjuna. I offer a speculative account of how becoming and negation are linked in Protagoras—speculative because only so much can be deduced
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Ereignis and the Grounding of Interpretation: Toward a Heideggerian Reading of Translation and Translatability as Appropriative Event Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Ian Tan
ABSTRACT In his lecture course on Hölderlin's hymn “The Ister,” Heidegger makes a striking claim about translation which implies that the paradigm of translation can never be encapsulated by a passive substitution of one linguistic signifier for another, for what is involved is no less than the stance the translator takes within his original language as unconcealment, and how he ex-sists toward the
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Thinking What Is Strange and Dangerous: Heidegger, Tragedy, and Original Ethics Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Robert Gall
ABSTRACT This paper returns to one of Heidegger’s pivotal references to ethics – his remarks in the “Letter on Humanism” – and attempts to follow up on a line of thinking in those remarks that Heidegger himself did not expand upon, namely, the link between ethics and Sophoclean tragedy. Reading Heidegger’s analysis of Heraclitus’s Fragment 119 on ἤθος with reference to Sophoclean tragedy and in conjunction
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Meister Eckhart’s Mysticism in Comparison with Zen Buddhism Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Ueda Shizuteru Translated by Gregory S. Moss
ABSTRACT “Meister Eckhart’s Mysticism in Comparison with Zen Buddhism” originally appeared as the concluding section of Ueda Shizuteru’s first book, Die Gottesgeburt in der Seele und der Durchbruch zur Gottheit: Die mystische Anthropologie Meister Eckharts und ihre Konfrontation mit der Mystik des Zen-Buddhismus. It was first published in 1965 as an expanded version of Ueda’s doctoral dissertation
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Kenosis, Nature, and Anthropocentrism: A Response to Fulvi Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Paolo Diego Bubbio
ABSTRACT In this paper I address the issues raised by Daniele Fulvi, by focusing on the alleged anthropocentrism of my approach to kenotic thought. I defend ontological anthropocentrism (as opposed to ethical anthropocentrism), arguing that a qualified ontological anthropocentrism is not only inevitable, but also more appropriate in order to think of nature in the context of kenotic thought. Subsequently
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Editor’s Preface Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-10-26 David Jones
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2022)
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Ueda Shizuteru’s Zen Philosophy of Dialogue: The Free Exchange of Host and Guest Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Bret W. Davis
ABSTRACT This essay seeks to understand the nature of both interpersonal and intercultural dialogue from the perspective of Zen Buddhism as it has been interpreted, in dialogue with Western philosophy and religion, by the central figure of the third generation of the Kyoto School: Ueda Shizuteru (1926–2019). It examines how Ueda develops a philosophy of interpersonal dialogue on the basis of Zen teachings
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The Legacy of Ueda Shizuteru: A Zen Life of Dialogue in a Twofold World Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Bret W. Davis
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2022)
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Alternative Configurations of Alterity in Dialogue with Ueda Shizuteru Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-09-24 John C. Maraldo
ABSTRACT Alterity, the difference that being-other makes, is not an overt theme in the writing of Ueda Shizuteru, and yet by bringing alterity to the fore we are able to connect and examine several themes that Ueda does engage explicitly. It will turn out that several models of alterity are discernable in Ueda’s philosophy, and their common ground opens a mode of being-other that offers an alternative
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Ueda Shizuteru and the Between Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Jason M. Wirth
ABSTRACT These are short reflections on Ueda Shizuteru’s collection of essays, written in German, called Wer und was bin ich? Zur Phänomenologie des Selbst im Zen-Buddhismus. I read and respond to them as a way of paying my respects to this great thinker by locating the space of transformative philosophical encounter that his writing enacts and invites.
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Ueda Shizuteru’s Philosophy of the Twofold Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-09-20 John W.M. Krummel
ABSTRACT In this paper, I explicate Ueda Shizuteru’s philosophy of the twofold being-in-the-world and the ethics he draws from it. Ueda provides an original reading of Nishida’s concept of pure experience and develops it together with an understanding of Nishida’s concept of place by combining it with the phenomenological notion of the horizon. This leads him to understand the world, or place wherein
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Defacing Eternal Re-Coming Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-09-20 David Jones
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Vol. 14, No. 1, 2022)
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In This Issue 14.1 Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-07-31 Jennifer Luo-Liu, Jason M. Wirth
Published in Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Vol. 14, No. 1, 2022)
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The “Beautiful Soul” and “Religious Consciousness”: Deleuze and Nishida Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Russell J. Duvernoy
ABSTRACT A well-known term in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, the “beautiful soul” (die schöne Seele) has resurfaced in recent years. Deleuze refers to the beautiful soul’s “religiosity” and argues that aggressive “selection” is necessary as its antidote. However, in volatile contexts of social destabilization, such selection risks recoiling into reactionary violence. After first developing
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On Nothingness in the Heart of the Empire and the Wartime Politics of the Kyoto School Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-06-30 John W.M. Krummel
ABSTRACT In this review essay of Harumi Osaki’s book, Nothingness in the Heart of the Empire, about the Kyoto School’s wartime political philosophy, I examine the arguments and claims behind Osaki’s thesis that the Kyoto School tends to align itself with nationalist and imperialist formations that lead to political concerns. I focus on some of the concrete problems with her arguments, including the
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The Eye is in Things: On Deleuze and Speculative Realism Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Pablo Pachilla
ABSTRACT Speculative realists have directed a radical critique towards what they call “correlationism,” the stance according to which we only have access to the correlation between thinking and being, and never to either term considered apart from the other. Both Quentin Meillassoux and Ray Brassier have used Gilles Deleuze’s ontology as a paradigmatic example of correlationism. Instead of defending
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Relational Autonomy in Spinoza. Freedom and Joint Action Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Claudia Aguilar
Over the last years, some of Spinoza studies have shifted to a consideration of the relational character of his ethics by focusing on the notion of autonomy. This concept is foreign to Spinoza's vo...
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Nothingness without Reserve: Fred Moten contra Heidegger, Sartre, and Schelling Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-06-24 King-Ho Leung
Contemporary critical theory and black studies have witnessed a surge in theoretical accounts of “blackness” as “nothingness”. Drawing on the work of the poet and cultural theorist Fred Moten, this...
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The Poetics of Hope: Treanor’s Invitation to the Mystery of Being Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-05-29 Christopher Yates
ABSTRACT A study of the strain and striving in the heart of human finitude, Brian Treanor’s case for melancholic joy uses the resources of hermeneutic philosophy and the arts to galvanize a hopeful counterweight to despair. Though evil and suffering are tragically ingrained in the tissue of lived experience, and entropy and loss buffet our projects and aspirations, there remains in the landscape of
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Kenosis and Nature: Critical Notes on Vattimo’s and Bubbio’s Notion of Kenotic Sacrifice Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Daniele Fulvi
ABSTRACT In this paper, I focus on Gianni Vattimo’s and Paolo Diego Bubbio’s notion of kenosis showing that (1) they both understand kenotic sacrifice in a strongly hermeneutical sense, and connect it with a perspectival account of truth and knowledge; (2) they both emphasize that kenotic sacrifice has a fundamentally ethical aspect; and (3) they both maintain that kenotic sacrifice is an “un-natural”
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Philosophy—More than Ever Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-03-17 David Jones
(2022). Philosophy—More than Ever. Comparative and Continental Philosophy. Ahead of Print.
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In this issue 13.3 Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Jason M. Wirth, Jennifer Liu
(2022). In this issue 13.3. Comparative and Continental Philosophy. Ahead of Print.
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Sylvia Wynter’s New Science of the Word and the Autopoetics of the Flesh Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Rafael Vizcaíno
ABSTRACT This essay proposes that the work of Sylvia Wynter, a canonical figure in Afro-Caribbean philosophy, demonstrates other ways of doing philosophy, a comparative philosophy carried out as a cross-cultural exercise. Sylvia Wynter has argued for a “New Science of the Word” by drawing from the contributions of Frantz Fanon (sociogeny), Aimé Césaire (poetic knowledge), and the field of cybernetics
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Gerundive thinking in Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback’s Time in Exile Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Michael Portal
ABSTRACT Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback’s Time in Exile illuminates being in “gerundive time.” The gerundive tense (which is similar to the infinitive tense in English) captures how our being is always already “suspended” between worlds and meanings—how our being is a “non-final verb.” Schuback considers such existence in the work of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, and Clarice Lispector. Of the
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Konchalovsky, Frankl, Freedom: Reconsidering Runaway Train Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Morgan Rempel
Abstract One of several life-affirming themes in Viktor Frankl’s classic Man’s Search for Meaning is the inviolate character of human freedom. Contrasting what he calls “inner freedom” with the dire external restrictions he experienced as a prisoner at Auschwitz and other concentration camps, Frankl insists that no matter how restrictive and dehumanizing one’s situation, the exercise of this internal
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Overcoming the Anthropocene: An E-Co-Affective Intervention Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Josh Hayes
ABSTRACT As a welcome contribution to the burgeoning literature addressing the promising intersection between biology and ontology in contemporary continental philosophy, Marjolein Oele's E-Co-Affectivity: Exploring Pathos at Life's Material Interfaces investigates the themes of affectivity and life in their multiple and divergent forms: photosynthesis and growth in plants, touch and trauma in bird
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Critique as virtue: Buddhism, Foucault, and the ethics of critique Comparative and Continental Philosophy Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Saul Tobias
ABSTRACT This article examines Michel Foucault’s views concerning the ethical salience of critique and compares those views to the Buddhist Madhyamaka tradition. As a critic of the Enlightenment, Foucault’s approach to ethics vacillated between deconstructing moral concepts such as “self” and “freedom,” and affirming them as the basis of an ethics conceived as “self-fashioning.” Madhyamaka thought