Publications

books

+  Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other. Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

This book places Levinas’ work on difference and the ethical in conversation with postcolonial engagements with the same. Through readings of Spivak, Bhabha, Glissant, Marcos, and others, I argue that Levinas’ work is too dependent upon his idea of Europe. As well, I argue that notions of subalternity, hybridity, entanglement, and rhizome all imply a certain relation to the ethical that, through a decolonization of his thought, one can retrieve in Levinas’ work.

+  Godard Between Identity and Difference. Continuum, 2008.

This book situates a handful of Godard’s films from the late sixties and seventies within the debate between Levinas and Derrida. In particular, it asks how Godard’s conception and practice of cinematic language might intervene in the paradox of difference: that alterity must be brought to presence, even when that presence is a betrayal of difference.

+  Sensibility and Singularity: The Problem of Phenomenology in Levinas. SUNY Press, 2001.

This book argues that the central influence and site of legitimation in Levinas’ work is Husserl’s phenomenology. Through close readings of Levinas’ work, I demonstrate how Husserlian phenomenology functions as the horizon in which Levinas’ work works, which in turn gives Levinas a language for legitimating what are, on first glance, a series of speculative assertions.

edited book

+  Between Levinas and Heidegger, ed. John Drabinski and Eric Nelson. SUNY Press, 2011.

Contributors: Silvia Benso, Robert Bernasconi, Simon Critchley, Françoise Dastur, John Drabinski, Didier Franck, Peter Gordon, Emilia Angleova, Ann Murphy, Eric Nelson, François Raffoul, Krzysztof Ziarek.

edited journal issues

+  “Special Issue on The Work of Édouard Glissant” The C.L.R. James Journal (forthcoming 2011)

Contributors: Celia Britton, John Drabinski, Clevis Headley, Adlai Murdoch, Nick Nesbitt, Seanna Sumalee Oakley, Marisa Parham, Neil Roberts, Hanetha Vété-Congolo.

+  “Special Issue on Godard and Philosophy” Journal of French Philosophy (forthcoming 2010)

Contributors: Nora Alter, Burlin Barr, Jonathan Dronsfield, Timothy Murray, Gabriel Rockhill, David Sterritt, Maureen Turim, Michael Walsh, David Wills.

chapters in edited books

+  “Home and Elsewhere,” Between Heidegger and Levinas, eds. J. Drabinski and E. Nelson. (Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming)

+  “Beginning’s Abyss,” ‘After the Death of a Certain God’: On Nietzsche and Levinas, eds. B. Bergo and J. Stauffer. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009)

+  “The Everyday Miracle of the Occasional Community,” Philosophy and Popular Culture VII, ed. Steven Gimbel. (Chicago: Open Court, 2007)

+  “Wealth and Justice in a U-topian Context,” Addressing Levinas, eds. Antje Kapust, Eric Nelson, and Kent Still. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2005).

+  “The Problem of Sinngebung in Levinas and Marion,” Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments, Volume Two, ed. Claire Katz. (New York: Routledge, 2005).

Reprinted from Conflicts and Convergences, eds. Merold Westphal and Linda Alcoff. Special Issue of Philosophy Today, (Supplement 1999): 31-46.

+  “The Possibility of an Ethical Politics: From Peace to Liturgy,” Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments, Volume Four, ed. Claire Katz. (New York: Routledge, 2005).

Reprinted from Philosophy and Social Criticism 26, no. 4 (2000): 49-73.

articles

“Creolizing Césaire and Lamming: Glissant’s Historical Retrieval,”

The C.L.R. James Journal (forthcoming)

“What is Trauma to the Future? On Glissant’s Poetics,”

Qui Parle xxx (2010): 31-47.

“Who are his poor? Reading Levinas with Rancière,”

International Studies in Philosophy xxx (2009): 31-47.

“Separation, Difference, and Time in Godard’s Ici et ailleurs,”

SubStance 115, vol. 37, no. 1 (2008): 148-158.

“Reconsidering Adorno,”

Klesis: Revue Phenomenologique (Avril 2008): 105-116.

“Subjectivity and the Problem of Political Debt,”

Levinas Studies: An Annual Review (2008)

“The Enigma of the Cartesian Infinite,”

Studia Phaenomenologica VI (2006): 210-226.

“From Representation to Materiality,”

International Studies in Philosophy XXX, vol. 4 (1998): 23-38.

“Experience as Flesh: On Merleau-Ponty and James,”

Phenomenological Inquiry 21 (1998): 137-155.

“The Hither-Side of the Living-Present in Levinas and Husserl,”

Phenomenology and Beyond, eds. Lenore Langsdorf and John Caputo.

Special Issue of Philosophy Today, (Supplement 1996): 142-150.

“The Status of the Transcendental in Levinas’ Thought,”

Philosophy Today 38, no. 3 (1994): 123-136.

“Radical Empiricism and Phenomenology: Philosophy and the Pure Stuff of Experience,”

Journal of Speculative Philosophy 7, no. 3 (1993): 226-242.

“Husserl’s Critique of Empiricism and the Phenomenological Account of Reflection,”

Southwestern Philosophy Review 9, no. 1 (January 1993): 91-104.

“Between Representation and Being,”

Skepteon 1, no. 1 (1993): 57-72.

reviews

“Alfred Schutz: Bibliography of Secondary Sources,” Alfred Schutz’s Theory of Social Science, ed. Lester Embree. (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2000.)

“Review Essay: Richard A. Cohen, Elevations: Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas,” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 16, no. 1 (Fall 1997): 157-160.

“Review Essay: Kathleen Haney, Intersubjectivity Revisited: Phenomenology and the Other,” Husserl Studies 12, no. 1 (1995): 81-91.