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Books

Monograph:

Hegel’s Philosophy of Language (London: Continuum Books, 2007)

Reviews: Norte Dame Philosophical Review: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=11565

                  Philosophy in Review, Vol. 29, No 3 (2009)

Edited Collections:

1. Hegel and Badiou: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity: collection of essays, co-edited with Antonio Calcagno (Lexington Books, 2015).

2. Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts, co-edited with Antonio Calcagno and Steve Lofts (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014).

3. Hegel and Deleuze: Together Again for the First Time, co-edited with Karen Houle (Northwestern University Press, 2013).

Articles/Book Chapters

  1. "Some Questions in Lieu of Conclusions”, in Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts, eds. Antonio Calcagno, Jim Vernon and Steve Lofts (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014), 207-211.

  2. “Deleuze on the Musical Work of Art”, in Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts, eds. Antonio Calcagno, Jim Vernon and Steve Lofts (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014), 55-65.

  3. “Badiou and Hegel on Love and the Family”, Jim Vernon and Antonio Calcagno, eds. Hegel and Badiou: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity (Lexington Books, 2015), 155-176.

  4. “Why We Fight: Hegel’s Struggle For Recognition Revisited”, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 9:2 (2013), 178-197.
  5. “I Am We: Dialectics of Political Will in Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party”, Theory and Event 17:4 (December 2014).
  6. “Hegel, Edward Sanders and Emancipatory History,” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History 41:1 (Fall 2012), 27-52.
  7. "Deleuze and Hegel on the Logic of Relation",' in Hegel and Deleuze (Northwestern University Press, 2013), 115-130.
  8. "Introduction," co-authored with Karen Houle, in Hegel and Deleuze (Northwestern University Press, 2013), xi-xxv.
  9. "Liberation Theology: Hegel on Why Philosophy Takes Sides in Religious Conflict," Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy (forthcoming, Fall 2013).
  10. “Siding with Freedom: Towards a Prescriptive Hegelianism”, Critical Horizons 12:1 (2011), 49-69.
  11. “‘Free Love’: A Hegelian Defense of Same-Sex Marriage Rights” The Southern Journal of Philosophy XLVII:1 (Spring 2009), 69-89.
  12. “Universal Grammar: The Necessity of the Linguistic Judgment,” Owl of Minerva 39: 1-2 (2007-8), 1-24.
  13. “American Antigone: Hegelian Reflections on the Sheehan-Bush Conflict,” Telos 144 (Fall 2008), 180-192.
  14. “The Moral Necessity of Moral Conflict in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit,” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 13:1 (Fall 2008), 67-80.
  15. “Erfahren and Erleben: Technological Experience and its Overcoming in Heidegger’s Beiträge,” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy 12:1 (Spring 2008), 108-125.
  16. “The Realm of Abstraction: The Role of Grammar in Hegel’s Linguistic System,” in Jere Surber, ed. Hegel and Language (SUNY Press, 2006), 165-177.
  17. “Homogeneity and Heterogeneity: Bataille and Hegel,” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review XLII (2004), 317-38.
  18. “The People Have Spoken(?): Derrida, Democracy and Reciprocal Affirmation,” International Studies in Philosophy 34:2 (2002), 115-131. 

Under Review

“Hegel on Language and Freedom”, prepared for Hegel, Freedom and History, edited by Emilia Angelova (University of Toronto Press).

 

Book Reviews

"Hegel, Deleuze and theCritique of Representatoin",Henry Somers-Hall, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviws: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/36172-hegel-deleuze-and-the-critique-of-representation-dialectics-of-negation-and-difference/

“German Philosophy of Language: From Schlegel to Hegel and Beyond”, Michael N. Forster, Philosophy in Review Vol 32, No. 1 (2012), 16-19.

“Postmodern Platos”, by Catharine H. Zuckert, Symposium: Journal of the Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought Vol. 2, no. 1 (1998), 119-121.

Works in Progress

Let's Get Free: A Hegelian History of Hip Hop: Commentary on, and defence of, Hegel's Aesthetics through the history of Hip Hop's first decade.

"A Passion for Justice: Hegel and Martin Luther King, Jr. on World Historical Individuals"

Selected Presentations

  1. “Let’s Get Free: Hiphop as Post-Romantic Ideal”, Hegel and Romantic Art, Bishop’s University, March 2015.

  2. "Compose(rs) Matter!: Deleuze on the Musical Work of Art", Intensities and Lines of Flight, University of Western Ontario, May 2012.
  3. "Hegel on Language and Freedom", Hegel, Freedom and History, Trent University, March/April 2012.
  4. “How to Write Hegelian History”, 50th annual meeting of The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, October 2011.
  5. “Liberation Theology: Why Philosophy Takes Sides in Religious Conflicts”, at Hegel’s Absolute Spirit: Connections between Art, Religion and Philosophy, Duquesne University, March 2010.
  6. “‘Free Love’: Towards a Hegelian Defence of Same-Sex Marriage Rights”, at Thinking Through Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Ryerson University, March 2008
  7. “The Moral Necessity of Moral Conflict”, at Hegel on Conflict, Terror and War, York University, March/April 2007; revised, at the Dept. of Philosophy, York University, October 2007  
  8. “Reply to Chloe Taylor”, at the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture Annual Meeting, York University, May 2006
  9. “Logic, Language and the ‘Common Store of Thoughts’: On The Logic of Hegel’s Logic”, contribution to panel on John Burbidge’s The Logic of Hegel’s Logic, at Hegel’s Science of Logic, McGill University, March 2006
  10. “Is the Future Necessary or Contingent?: A Reply to Burbidge,” at Hegel on Contingency, University of Guelph, April 2003
  11. “The Realm of Abstraction: The Role of Grammar in Hegel’s Linguistic System,” at the Hegel Society of America Biennial Meeting, Pennsylvania State University, October 2002
  12. “The People Have Spoken(?): Derrida, Democracy and Reciprocal Affirmation,” at Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture, SUNY Binghamton, April 2001; revised, at the Canadian Society for Hermeneutics Annual Meeting, Laval University, May 2001
  13. “Against Inner Experience: Hegel, Derrida, Bataille,” at Bataille: Community, Transgression, Excess, Trent University, May 2000

Conference Organizer

Hegel on Conflict, Terror and War, York University, March 30th-April 1st 2007

Speakers: Angelica Nuzzo (CUNY, Brooklyn), John Russon (Guelph), Jim Vernon (York), Jay Lampert (Guelph), Louis Greenspan (McMaster), Victoria Burke (York), David MacGregor (King’s), Howard Adelman (York), Jeffrey Reid (Ottawa), Jennifer Bates (Duquesne), Bruce Gilbert (Bishop’s).