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Hannah Arendt And Augustine Of Hippo: On The Pleasure Of And Desire For Evil, Antonio Calcagno
Hannah Arendt And Augustine Of Hippo: On The Pleasure Of And Desire For Evil, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
Hannah Arendt wrote two volumes on thinking and willing in The Life of the Mind, but due to her untimely death her work devoted to judgement, especially political judgement, was never completed. We do, however, have a significant amount of writings on this theme as evidenced by her lectures on Kant’s Third Critique. Judgement and thinking are critical in order to prevent what Arendt calls the “banality of evil”. Drawing on Augustine and Arendt’s work on Augustine, this paper seeks to argue that another form of serious evil has its root in what Augustine calls the libido habendi and the …
Introducing… Vittorio Hösle, Pamela Reeve, Antonio Calcagno
Introducing… Vittorio Hösle, Pamela Reeve, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
An interview conducted by Pamela J. Reeve (St. Augustine’s Seminary, Toronto School of Theology) and Antonio Calcagno (King’s University College at UWO, Editor of Symposium)
The Ethics Of Writing, By Carlo Sini, Translated By Silvia Benso With Brian Schroeder, Antonio Calcagno
The Ethics Of Writing, By Carlo Sini, Translated By Silvia Benso With Brian Schroeder, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
No abstract provided.
Alain Badiou: The Event Of Becoming A Political Subject, Antonio Calcagno
Alain Badiou: The Event Of Becoming A Political Subject, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
One of the more poignant claims Badiou makes is that the subject develops an understanding of itself as a political subject only by executing decisive political actions or making decisive political interventions. In this article I will argue that in order to have a fuller philosophical conception of political subjectivity, and therefore political agency, one must also hold that, first, political interventions do not necessarily lead to a definition or a further way of referring to and understanding the subject. In fact, political events and interventions may consciously aim at and result in the de-politicizing, de-subjectivating or dehumanizing of the …
Foucault And Derrida: The Question Of Empowering And Disempowering The Author, Antonio Calcagno
Foucault And Derrida: The Question Of Empowering And Disempowering The Author, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
This article focuses on Michel Foucault’s concepts of authorship and power. Jacques Derrida has often been accused of being more of a literary author than a philosopher or political theorist. Richard Rorty complains that Derrida’s views on politics are not pragmatic enough; he sees Derrida’s later work, including his political work, more as a “private self-fashioning” than concrete political thinking aimed at devising short-term solutions to problems here and now. Employing Foucault’s work around authorship and the origins of power, I show that Derrida is indeed fashioning himself. This self-fashioning is not merely private or fanciful. Rather, I argue that …
Michel Henry's Non-Intentionality Thesis And Husserlian Phenomenology, Antonio Calcagno
Michel Henry's Non-Intentionality Thesis And Husserlian Phenomenology, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
No abstract provided.
Editorial Note / Note Éditoriale, Antonio Calcagno
Editorial Note / Note Éditoriale, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
No abstract provided.
Being, Aevum, And Nothingness: Edith Stein On Death And Dying, Antonio Calcagno
Being, Aevum, And Nothingness: Edith Stein On Death And Dying, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
This article seeks to present for the first time a more systematic account of Edith Stein’s views on death and dying. First, I will argue that death does not necessarily lead us to an understanding of our earthly existence as aevum, that is, an experience of time between eternity and finite temporality. We always bear the mark of our finitude, including our finite temporality, even when we exist within the eternal mind of God. To claim otherwise, is to make identical our eternity with God’s eternity, thereby undermining the traditional Scholastic argument, which Stein holds, that there is no real …
Introduction: Rethinking The One And The Many With Badiou, Antonio Calcagno
Introduction: Rethinking The One And The Many With Badiou, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
No abstract provided.
On The Rates Of Differentiation: Derrida On Political Timing, Antonio Calcagno
On The Rates Of Differentiation: Derrida On Political Timing, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
No abstract provided.
Abolishing Time And History: Lazarus And The Possibility Of Thinking Political Events Outside Time, Antonio Calcagno
Abolishing Time And History: Lazarus And The Possibility Of Thinking Political Events Outside Time, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
No abstract provided.
Can Alain Badiou's Notion Of Time Account For Political Events?, Antonio Calcagno
Can Alain Badiou's Notion Of Time Account For Political Events?, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
No abstract provided.
Jacques Derrida And Alain Badiou: Is There A Relation Between Politics And Time?, Antonio Calcagno
Jacques Derrida And Alain Badiou: Is There A Relation Between Politics And Time?, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
This paper argues that though Derrida is correct to bring to the fore the undecidability that is contained in his political notion of the democracy to come, his account does not extend the aporia of undecidable politics far enough. Derrida himself makes evident this gap. Though politics may be structured with undecidability, there are times when direct, decisive and definitive political interventions are required. In his campaign against capital punishment, the blitzing campaigns in Bosnia and Iraq, and in his call for les villes-refuges, Derrida makes decisive appeals which somehow seem to contradict the undecidability he sees as arch-structuring. Alain …
The Incarnation, Michel Henry, And The Possibility Of An Husserlian-Inspired Transcendental Life, Antonio Calcagno
The Incarnation, Michel Henry, And The Possibility Of An Husserlian-Inspired Transcendental Life, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
No abstract provided.
Edith Stein: Is The State Responsible For The Immortal Soul Of The Person?, Antonio Calcagno
Edith Stein: Is The State Responsible For The Immortal Soul Of The Person?, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
No abstract provided.
Alain Finkielkraut: The Coming Undone Of A Thoughtful Culture?, Antonio Calcagno
Alain Finkielkraut: The Coming Undone Of A Thoughtful Culture?, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
No abstract provided.
Die Fülle Oder Das Nichts?: Martin Heidegger And Edith Stein On The Question Of Being, Antonio Calcagno
Die Fülle Oder Das Nichts?: Martin Heidegger And Edith Stein On The Question Of Being, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
No abstract provided.
Persona Politica: Unity And Difference In Edith Stein’S Political Philosophy, Antonio Calcagno
Persona Politica: Unity And Difference In Edith Stein’S Political Philosophy, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
No abstract provided.
Interface: Modernity And Post-Modernity: The Possibility Of Enthusiasm According To Immanuel Kant And Jean-Francois Lyotard, Antonio Calcagno
Interface: Modernity And Post-Modernity: The Possibility Of Enthusiasm According To Immanuel Kant And Jean-Francois Lyotard, Antonio Calcagno
Antonio Calcagno
No abstract provided.