SELECTED PHILOSOPHY ESSAYS
Below are some links to selected essays. For links to more essays see my page on academia.edu. For a complete list of publications, see my CV.
“Bad Mothers,” revision-in-progress of “Nihil est in imagine vivum” in Andrew Benjamin and Mario Telò, eds. Niobes: Antiquities -Modernity - Critical Theory (Ohio State University Press, 2024)
“On Gaps – or, Is there a Politics of Absolute Knowing?,” invited article (with Frank Ruda) on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Hegel-Bulletin, forthcoming 2024
“Bibliophobia,” essay to accompany republication of my translation of Flaubert’s “Biblomania” (to be published by espresso books)
“Deadlines (literally)” published as an electronic pamphlet as the Inaugural Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, London, UK, 2021
“Senile Dialectic,” in Eva Ruda, ed., Beckett and Dialectic (Bloomsbury, 2020)
“Hegel’s Shadow Theatre” Slovenian trans. in Problemi International vol. 3, 2019. Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana, issue on Hegel’s Aesthetics,
“Testament of the Revolution” in Inheritance in Psychoanalysis, ed. Jamie Godley (SUNY Press, 2017) (slightly expanded version of essay in Mosaic, special dossier on my work (July 2017); “Revolutionary Inheritance,” in Mads Peter Carlsen, Og teologi: Festskrift til Carsten Pallesen (Copenhagen: Eksistensen, 2016)
“Hypochondria and its Discontents: The Geriatric Sublime,” in Critique and Crisis, special issue on Melancholia and Politics, edited by Justin Clemens
“Resistance and repetition: Hegel and Freud,” Research in Phenomenology (fall, 2015)
“Defaced Statues: Iconoclasm and Idealism in Hegel’s Aesthetics,” October 149 (2014)
“Paradoxes of Lament,” in Ilit Ferber and Paula Schwebel, eds., Lament in Jewish Thought, in Perspectives in Jewish Texts and Contexts, ed. Vivian Liska (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014)
“The Actuality of Anachronism: Absolute-Freedom-and-Terror Today” (response to Cutrofello and McCumber on Mourning Sickness), forthcoming in Emilia Angelova, ed., Hegel on History and Freedom (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming)
“Proust’s Remains,” in October 144 (spring 2013). Translated into Turkish by Zeynep Baransel, “Proust’tan Arta Kalanlar,”
“Hegel’s Last Words: Mourning and Melancholia at the end of the Phenomenology,” in Joshua Nichols and Amy Swiffen, eds., The Ends of History (NY: Routledge, 2012)
“Tabula Rasa: revolutionary erasure in David’s Death of Marat,” in Marius Mjaaland and Ulrik Rasmussen, eds., Impossible Time: Past and Future in the Philosophy of Religion (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 2012)
“Krapp and other Matters,” in T. J. Morres, Atom Egoyan: Interviews (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2010), reprint of article in Lost in the Archives
“Proust, Photography, Trauma,” in Laurence Rickels, ed., “On the Genealogy of Media,” special issue of Discourse (2009), pp. 86-105.
“Transmission, Translation, Trauma,” in Idealistic Studies (2008), special issue on philosophy of history, ed. Jeffrey Bernstein
“Adorno avec Sade,” in differences, special edition on critical theory and gender, ed Wendy Brown (2006), pp. 1-14, reprinted in Symposium (2007); translated Zenia Yébenes Escardó in En-claves del pensomiento 32 (2022); also trans. in Sánchez, L. & David Giraldo, J.S. (Eds.). Ensayos sobre la teoría crítica de la sociedad. A 100 años del Instituto de Investigación Social de Frankfurt. Ennegativo Ediciones (2023), 851-864
“The sickness of tradition” in Andrew Benjamin and Beatrice Hanssen, eds., Benjamin’s Philosophy of History, Walter Benjamin Studies (2006), pp 88-110; Spanish trans. “Entre La Melancolía Y El Fetichismo: Las Pérdidas De Walter Benjamin, » in “Los Sentimientos Morales,” special issue of Cuaderno Gris, ed. Pura Sánchez Zamorano, vol 3 (Madrid, 2003)
“Materialist Mutations of the Bilderverbot,” in Andrew Benjamin and Beatrice Hanssen, eds., Benjamin and Art, Walter Benjamin Studies (2006), pp 32-59; earlier versions in David Michael Levin, ed., Sites of Vision (Cambridge: MIT, 1997) and in Public 15, issue on “Idols and Icons” (1997); Portuguese trans “Mutações materialistas da Bilderverbot,” Alessandra A. Martins Parente, Cadernos Benjaminianos, v. 15 (2019), p. 281-322,
“Dead Right: Hegel and the Terror,” in South Atlantic Quarterly, special issue on human rights, ed by Eduardo Cadava and Ian Balfour, spring/summer 2004, pp. 375-398
"Benjamin and the Ambiguities of Romanticism" in Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin, ed. David Ferris (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 134-151
“The Ethics of Witness,” interview (with Ian Balfour) with Geoffrey Hartman, in Comay, ed, Lost in the Archives (2002), pp 490-509
"La mélancolie et le fétishisme à l’ère de la mémoire de masse," Actes du colloque Art et Psychanalyse, ed. Hervé Bouchereau and Chantal Pontbriand (Montréal: Parachute, 2002)
"Adorno's Siren Song," New German Critique, special issue on Dialectic of Enlightenment (spring 2001), repub. in Feminist Readings of Theodor Adorno, ed. Renée Heberle (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006)
“Perverse History: Fetishism and Dialectic in Walter Benjamin,” Research in Phenomenology 2000; Spanish translation “Historia perversa: fetishismo y dialecto en Walter Benjamin,” in Leandro Sánchez Marín and J. Sebastian David Giraldo, eds., Interpretaciones benjaminianas (Medellin: Ennegativa Ediciones, 2025)
Entry on Walter Benjamin commissioned for Blackwell Companion to Continental Philosophy, ed. Simon Critchley (Blackwell, 1997), pp. 349-61
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"Facing History/Memories of Resistance: Boltanski, Benjamin, and the Aura of Fascist Architecture," in special double issue of Alphabet City 4/5 (1995) on "Fascism and its Ghosts,” pp. 24-49
"Facies Hippocratica," in Adriaan Peperzak, ed., Ethics as First Philosophy: The Thought of Emmanuel Levinas (New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 223-234
"Mourning Work and Play," Research in Philosophy 23 (1993), pp. 105-130
"Benjamin's Endgame," in Andrew Benjamin and Peter Osborne, eds., Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience (Routledge, 1993), pp. 251-291 ; Portuguese trans. by Maria Luiza de A. Borges. “O fim de partida de Benjamin.” In A filosofia de Walter Benjamin. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 1997
"Almost Nothing: Heidegger and Mies," in Detlef Mertins, ed., The Presence of Mies van der Rohe (Princeton Architectural Press, 1994), pp. 179-189
"Framing Redemption: Aura, Origin, Technology in Benjamin and Heidegger," Charles Scott and Arleen Dallery, eds., Ethics and Danger: Currents in Continental Thought (SUNY Press, 1992), pp. 139-167. Spanish translation: Enmarcando la redención: aura, origen, tecnología en Benjamin y Heidegger in Alejandra Uslenghi, ed., Walter Benjamin: Culturas de la imagen (Buenos Aires: Eterna Cadencia, 2010)
"Geopolitics of Translation: Derrida in America," Stanford French Review 15 (1991), special issue on "France-Amérique," ed. Thomas Pavel, pp. 47-79
"Gifts without Presents: Economies of 'Experience' in Bataille and Heidegger," Yale French Studies 78 (1990), special issue on Bataille, ed. Allan Stoekl, pp. 66-89
"Redeeming Revenge: Nietzsche, Benjamin, Heidegger and the Politics of Memory," in Clayton Koelb, ed., Nietzsche as Post‑Modernist ( SUNY Press, 1989); revised version in Babette Babich, ed., Habermas, Nietzsche, and the Future of Critical Theory (New York: Prometheus, 2004)