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- Speculative Realism: Problems and Prospects.Peter Gratton -2014 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.Problems and Prospects Peter Gratton. uncoveredness of entities that serves as the basis for a true assertion is dependent upon dasein's understanding of being, which lets these entities manifest themselves. hence, as heidegger will say, ...
- Spinoza and the biopolitical roots of modernity.Peter Gratton -2013 -Angelaki 18 (3):91-102.Much has been written about biopolitical sovereignty in the wake of Agamben's work, which relies, at least in the first volume of Homo Sacer, on Carl Schmitt's transcendental account of sovereignty. This article argues, however, that Foucault and Arendt rightly identify what Derrida once called the “changing shape and place of sovereignty” in modernity, which for them is horizontal and disseminated within a presupposed nation. For this reason, we will look to the source of modern philosophical immanentism, Spinoza, to show (...) that he is not extrinsic to this modern biopolitics, and demonstrates how the sovereign exception and its nationalized version work hand-in-glove in the era of which he was a part – and thus is part of all thinking that would take this to form a new communitas. In this way, we argue that it is Spinoza's political theology, not Schmitt's, that is the better pass-key to what Foucault and Arendt identify as biopolitical. By doing so, we put in tension two trends in recent Continental philosophy: philosophical vitalism and the critique of biopolitics at the heart at any contemporary thinking of community. (shrink)
- The Meillassoux Dictionary.Peter Gratton &Paul John Ennis -2014 - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.The first dictionary dedicated to Quentin Meillassoux and the controversies surrounding his thought Perfect for philosophers just starting to read his work and for those looking to deepen their engagement, this dictionary defines all of the major terms of Meillassoux's work, prefaced by an introduction explaining his importance for the Continental philosophy scene. A-Z entries explain the influence of key figures, from Kant to Heidegger to Derrida, and define the complex terms that Meillassoux uses. The entries are written by the (...) top scholars in the field of speculative realism, often by those that highlight their own disagreements with him. This is more than a dictionary; this is your invitation into one of the liveliest debates in current philosophy. (shrink)
- The Bloomsbury companion to Arendt.Peter Gratton &Yasemin Sari (eds.) -2020 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.Hannah Arendt's (1906-1975) writings, both in public magazines and in her important books, are still widely studied today. She made original contributions in political thinking that still astound readers and critics alike. The subject of several films and numerous books, colloquia, and newspaper articles, Arendt remains a touchstone in innumerable debates about the use of violence in politics, the responsibility one has under dictatorships and totalitarianism, and how to combat the repetition of the horrors of the past. The Bloomsbury Companion (...) to Arendt offers the definitive guide to her writings and ideas, her influences and commentators, as well as the reasons for her lasting significance, with 66 original essays taking up in accessible terms the myriad ways in which one can take up her work and her continuing importance. These essays, written by an international set of her best readers and commentators, provides a comprehensive coverage of her life and the contexts in which her works were written. Special sections take up chapters on each of her key writings, the reception of her work, and key ways she interpreted those who influenced her. If one has come to Arendt from one of her essays on freedom, or from yet another bombastic account of her writings on Adolph Eichmann, or as as student or professor working in the field of Arendt studies, this book provides the ideal tool for thinking with and rediscovering one of the most important intellectuals of the past century. But just as importantly, contributors advance the study of Arendt into neglected areas, such as on science and ecology, to demonstrate her importance not just to debates in which she was well known, but those touched off only after her death. Arendt's approaches as well as her concrete claims about the political have much to offer given the current ecological and refugee crises, among others. In sum, then, the Companion provides a tool for thinking with Arendt, but also for showing just where those thinking with her can take her work today. (shrink)
- The Speculative Challenge and Nancy’s Post-Deconstructive Realism.Peter Gratton -2012 - In Peter Gratton & Marie-Eve Morin,Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, Ontology, Politics, and Sense. State University of New York Press. pp. 109-125.No categories
- Philosophy in Denial: Derrida, the Undeniably Real, and the Death Penalty.Peter Gratton -2016 -Derrida Today 9 (1):68-84.This essay describes Derrida's later articulations of the logical; of the ‘undeniable’ and its constant denial. Against anti-realist readings of Derrida as some sort of textual idealist, I show how Derrida's thinking of the undeniable informs his deconstruction of the death penalty in the recently published 1999–2001 lecture courses, as well as the considerations of mortality and finitude that inform all of his writings.
- The State of Sovereignty: Lessons From the Political Fictions of Modernity.Peter Gratton -2012 - State University of New York Press.Considers the problems of sovereignty through the work of Rousseau, Arendt, Foucault, Agamben, and Derrida.
- A 'Retro‐version' of Power: Agamben via Foucault on Sovereignty.Peter Gratton -2006 -Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (3):445-459.(2006). A ‘Retro‐version’ of Power: Agamben via Foucault on Sovereignty. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 445-459.
- Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction.Peter Gratton -2010 -Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 14 (2):214-218.
- Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics.Peter Gratton -2010 -Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 14 (2):206-210.
- Derrida and the Limits of Sovereign Reason: Freedom, Equality, but not Fraternity.Peter Gratton -2009 -Télos 2009 (148):141-159.“What must be thought,” Jacques Derrida writes in the closing pages of Rogues, “is this inconceivable and unknowable thing, a freedom that would no longer be the power of a subject, a freedom without autonomy, a heteronomy without servitude, in short, something like a passive decision.”1 To certain readers of Derrida, this passage, coming near the end of Rogues, written some two years before he passed away, would mark the fundamental failure of his thought. “What must be thought …”: an (...) exhortation, an ethical injunction, but seemingly also a final plea at the end of a long career that, many…. (shrink)
- Interviews: Graham Harman, Jane Bennett, Tim Morton, Ian Bogost, Levi Bryant and Paul Ennis.Peter Gratton,Graham Harman,Jane Bennett,Tim Morton,Levi Bryant &Paul Ennis -2010 -Speculations 1 (1):84-134.The context for these interviews was a seminar [Peter Gratton] conducted on speculative realism in the Spring 2010. There has been great interest in speculative realism and one reason Gratton surmise[s] is not just the arguments offered, though [Gratton doesn't] want to take away from them; each of these scholars are vivid writers and great pedagogues, many of whom are in constant contact with their readers via their weblogs. Thus these interviews provided an opportunity to forward student questions about their (...) respective works. Though each were conducted on different occasions, the interviews stand as a collected work, tying together the most classical questions about “realism” to ancillary movements about the non-human in politics, ecology, aesthetics, and video gaming—all to point to future movements in this philosophical area. (shrink)Export citation
Bookmark - The Nancy Dictionary.Marie-Eve Morin &Peter Gratton (eds.) -2015 - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.The first dictionary dedicated to the work of Jean-Luc Nancy.Jean-Luc Nancy is a key figure in the contemporary intellectual landscape. This dictionary will, for the first time, consider the full scope of his writing and will provide insights into the philosophical and theoretical background to his focus on community and aesthetics.Drawing on an internationally recognised expertise of a multidisciplinary team of contributors, the 70 entries explain all of his main concepts, contextualising these within his work as a whole and relating (...) him to his contemporaries. It will appeal to students and scholars alike.Key Features:* comprehensive definitions which are contextualised* fully cross-referenced throughout* extensive list of secondary readingKeywords: politics, democracy, freedom, morality, aesthetics. (shrink)
- John Russon's Achievement: The Impossible Experience of Adulthood.Peter Gratton -2023 -Symposium 27 (2):20-45.My hypothesis is that achieving adulthood has been Russon’s aim from the beginning—in life, yes, as perhaps with the rest of us—but also in and as his philosophical development. To set up this claim, I show how philosophy has traditionally conjoined its own development with narratives of adulthood. I turn to important moments in Plato, Descartes, and Kant to set out the outlines of a given structure of maturation as found in the Western tradition, all to bring home how Russon’s (...) writing tries to achieve something of an event beyond maturity as it’s been envisaged previously in these works. (shrink)No categories
- The Murderer, the Journalist, and the Responsibility between Us.Peter Gratton -2016 - In Donald A. Landes,Between philosophy and non-philosophy: the thought and legacy of Hugh J. Silverman. Albany: SUNY Press. pp. 143-155.No categories
- Introduction.Peter Gratton -2023 -Symposium 27 (2):1-19.No categories
- Post-Deconstrcuctive Realism: It's About Time.Peter Gratton -2013 -Speculations (IV):84-90.
- Sweatshops and Respect for Persons.Peter Gratton -2005 -Journal of Philosophical Research 30 (9999):165-188.Most shoppers like bargains. Do bargains come at the expense of workers in sweatshops around the world? The authors argue that many large multinational corporations are running the moral equivalents of sweatshops and are not properly respecting the rights of persons. They list a set of minimum standards of safety and decency that they claim all corporations should meet (and that many are not). Finally, they defend their call for improved working conditions by replying to objections that meeting improved conditions (...) will cause greater harm than good, even to the workers themselves. They consider many specifi c corporations and name names and point the finger at various forms of disrespect for persons, along the way. (shrink)
- Simon Critchley'sInfinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance.Peter Gratton -2007 -PhaenEx 2 (2):320-328.
- After the Subject: Meillassoux's Ontology of 'What May Be'.Peter Gratton -2009 -Pli (20):55-80.Export citation Bookmark
- Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy.Mireille Fanon-Mendès France,Anna Carastathis,Nigel C. Gibson,Lewis R. Gordon,Peter Gratton,Ferit Güven,Mireille Fanon Mendès-France,Marilyn Nissim-Sabat,Olúfémi Táíwò,Mohammad H. Tamdgidi,Chloë Taylor &Sokthan Yeng -2010 - Lexington Books.The essays in Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy all trace different aspects of the mutually supporting histories of philosophical thought and colonial politics in order to suggest ways that we might decolonize our thinking. From psychology to education, to economic and legal structures, the contributors interrogate the interrelation of colonization and philosophy in order to articulate a Fanon-inspired vision of social justice. This project is endorsed by his daughter, Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, in the book's preface.
- An Extreme Example? Using Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem in the Business Ethics Classroom.Peter Gratton -2005 -Essays in Philosophy 6 (2):357-365.With Eichmann in Jerusalem, we have, I would admit, a most unlikely case study for use in a business ethics classroom. The story of Eichmann is already some sixty years old, and his activities in his career as a Nazi were far beyond the pale of even the most egregious cases found in the typical business ethics case books. No doubt, there is some truth to the fact that introducing Eichmann’s story into an applied ethics class would inevitably depict an (...) unseemly analogy between the practices of latter day corporations and the bureaucracy of the Nazi era. My argument here, though, is that the story of Adolf Eichmann, as depicted in Hannah Arendt’s well-known Eichmann in Jerusalem, offers a philosophically cogent account of judgment and ethical decision-making that future business managers and employees would do well to heed. Indeed, Eichmann in Jerusalem, originally a series of press accounts for New Yorker magazine, deserves consideration alongside the Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, and other classic ethics texts in a business ethics syllabus. This is not to say that Arendt’s work is uncontroversial; there are serious questions to be raised about both her depiction of Eichmann and her conclusions about “the banality of evil.” Nevertheless, her account of ethics, which, with its account of ethical duties and its case study of Eichmann’s character, shows both its Aristotelian and Kantian influences, is a warning to readers who would conflate morality with state laws and their duties with the needs of superiors. In short, I argue that, despite her well-known critique of modern large scale economies and her general avoidance of discussions of post-industrial corporations, Arendt may be a business ethicist of the first order. (shrink)
- Beyond Hermeneutics: Derrida's Semiology as a Temporal Metaphysics of Communication.Peter Gratton -2012 -Analecta Hermeneutica 4.No categories
- Chapter Thirty-Six Interview with Jane Bennett.Peter Gratton -2021 - In Giovanni Aloi & Susan McHugh,Posthumanism in art and science: a reader. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 214-217.No categories
- Change We Can’t Believe In: Adrian Johnston on Badiou, Žižek, & Political Transformation.Peter Gratton -2010 -International Journal of Žižek Studies 4 (3).Export citation Bookmark
- Editors’ Introduction.Peter Gratton -2010 -Radical Philosophy Review 13 (2):5-9.
- Foucault’s Last Decade.Peter Gratton -2016 -Symposium 20 (2):181-211.At the time of his death in 1984, Foucault’s late career forays into Stoicism and other sets of ancient texts were often little understood, except as part of a larger project on the history of sexuality. Indeed, outside of France and outside of an incipient queer theory, Foucault was often taken up in terms of debates over post-structuralism and postmodernism—themes all but absent from his writings. More than thirty years later, after the publication of all of his lecture courses at (...) the Collège de France from 1970-1984 as well as his collected writings, we have gained a better understanding of the deep continuities in his set of concerns from Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique to the third volume of his history of sexuality series, Le Souci de soi. Yet many Foucault scholars continue to see momentous shifts in his writings, e.g., from knowledge to power to ethics, and the almost bewildering range of texts he covered in the years after finishing the first volume of his history of sexuality series, La Volonté de savoir, lead to very different interpretations concerning what Foucault was attempting to do and how much his rendering of ancient texts differed from his own claims. Stuart Elden’s Foucault’s Last Decade steps into this breach, using archival work to fill in many of the details of this period, from when and on what Foucault was lecturing to listing those with him in that amusing late photo of a beaming Foucault in an ill-fitting cowboy hat. The publication of Elden’s book marks a good time to assess this often misunderstood period in Foucault’s work, and we have gathered Stuart Elden and two more of Foucault’s best interpreters, Eduardo Mendieta and Dianna Taylor, to do so. (shrink)
- Graham Harman, Heidegger Explained: From Phenomenon to Thing Reviewed by.Peter Gratton -2008 -Philosophy in Review 28 (1):24-26.Export citation Bookmark
- Hasana Sharp in Conversation with Peter Gratton.Peter Gratton -2012 -PhaenEx 7 (2):269-275.
- Introduction.Peter Gratton -2004 -Philosophia Africana 7 (1):1-2.
- Introduction.Peter Gratton &Marie-Eve Morin -2012 - In Peter Gratton & Marie-Eve Morin,Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, Ontology, Politics, and Sense. State University of New York Press. pp. 1-10.No categories
- Introduction: The miracle of imagining.Peter Gratton &John Panteleimon Manoussakis -2007 - In Peter Gratton & John Panteleimon Manoussakis,Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things Reviewed by.Peter Gratton -2010 -Philosophy in Review 30 (3):158-160.
- Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, Ontology, Politics, and Sense.Peter Gratton &Marie-Eve Morin (eds.) -2012 - State University of New York Press.Wide-ranging essays on Jean-Luc Nancy’s thought.
- Meillassoux's Speculative Politics: Time and the Divinity to Come.Peter Gratton -2012 -Analecta Hermeneutica 4:1-14.
- Nancy on Trial: thinking philosophy and the jurisdictional.Peter Gratton -2021 -Angelaki 26 (3-4):32-41.This paper looks at the thread throughout Nancy’s work on the notion of the decision and judgment. In a period when we must rethink not only the sovereign decision but all manner of traditional jurisprudential and ethical modes of thinking the decision, Nancy’s considerations of freedom help us reflect on thinking the decision otherwise and thus could prove revolutionary for how we think crime and punishment and calculating with the incalculable of each and every trauma we dub a crime. At (...) a time when the geographies of the prison–industrial complex overtake the West, perhaps no other thinking is more central to undoing its practices and sovereignty. (shrink)No categories
- 14. Philosophy on Trial: The Crisis of Deciding Between Foucault and Derrida.Peter Gratton -2016 - In ChristopherVE Penfield, Vernon W. Cisney & Nicolae Morar,Between Foucault and Derrida. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 251-262.
- Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume 1: The Outcome of Recent French Philosophy by Adrian Johnston.Peter Gratton -2014 -Symposium 18 (1):236-244.
- Questioning Freedom in the Later Work of Derrida.Peter Gratton -2006 -Philosophy Today 50 (Supplement):133-138.
- Sovereign Violence, Racial Violence.Peter Gratton -2010 - In Elizabeth Anne Hoppe & Tracey Nicholls,Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy. Lexington (Rowman & Littlefield). pp. 103.
- The Creation of the World or Globalization.Peter Gratton -2008 -Symposium 12 (1):175-178.
- 9 The Realist Challenge: Thinking the Reality of Language after Deconstruction.Peter Gratton -2017 - In Marie-Eve Morin,Continental Realism and its Discontents. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 175-187.No categories
- Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge.Peter Gratton &John Panteleimon Manoussakis (eds.) -2007 - Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press.In recent years, Richard Kearney has emerged as a leading figure in the field of continental philosophy, widely recognized for his work in the areas of philosophical and religious hermeneutics, theory and practice of the imagination, and political thought. This much-anticipated--and long overdue--study is the first to reflect the full range and impact of Kearney's extensive contributions to contemporary philosophy. The book opens with Kearney's own "prelude" in which he traces his intellectual itinerary as it traverses the three imaginaries explored (...) in the volume: the dialogical, the political, and the narrative. The interviews that follow the first section allow readers to listen in on conversations between Kearney and some of the most interesting and respected thinkers of our time--Noam Chomsky, Charles Taylor, Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricouer, and Martha Nussbaum--as they reveal new and unexpected aspects of their thought on stories and mourning, ethics and narrative, terror and religion, intellectuals and ideology. The next section, on the political imaginary, looks at Kearney's distinctive contribution to the political situation in Ireland and in Europe more generally; and in the last, on narrative, writers including David Wood, Terry Eagleton, and Mark Dooley focus on Kearney's novels as instances of narrative theory put into literary practice. Concluding with Kearney's postscript, an essay on "Traversals and Epiphanies in Joyce and Proust," the volume comes full circle, encompassing the full extent of Richard Kearney's engagement and offerings as a philosopher. (shrink)
- The Truth of Democracy.Peter Gratton -2011 -Symposium 15 (1):252-256.
- What's in a name? African philosophy in the making.Peter M. Gratton -2003 -Philosophia Africana 6 (2):61-80.
- What More Is There to Say? Revisiting Agamben's Depiction of Homo Sacer.Peter Gratton -2011 -The European Legacy 16 (5):599-613.This article argues that Agamben's “paradigmatic method” leads to particular choices in his depiction of the figure of the homo sacer. Reviewing this project also suggests that there's more to history—the example given is the story of homo sacer—than Agamben's method would ever leave us to say. In other words, there are still resources in the tradition for something new, and thus there is much more left to say about its legacies.
- Tim Morton, The Ecological Thought. [REVIEW]Peter Gratton -2010 -Speculations 1 (1):192-199.Export citation Bookmark
- Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency. [REVIEW]Peter Gratton -2009 -Philosophy in Review 29 (6):427-430.Export citation Bookmark
- Review of Bernard stiegler,Taking Care of Youth and the Generations. [REVIEW]Peter Gratton -2010 -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (8).
- Jean-Luc Nancy, The Truth of Democracy. [REVIEW]Peter Gratton -2011 -Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 15 (1):252-256.
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