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List of Publications

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1. Books authored:

• The Other Bishop Berkeley. An Exercise in Reenchantment, Fordham University Press, New York, 2006, xii+227 pp, ISBN: 082-322-693-X (see blurbs) (see reviews)

• Find it in a library near you: WorldCat

• Purchase it from: Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France, Amazon Japan,  Amazon Germany, Amazon Canada 

• Chapter One translated into Portuguese (by Jaimir Conte) and published as “Berkeley e a tradição platônica” in Jaimir Conte (Ed.), Ensaios sobre Berkeley. Natal (Brazil), Editora da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2009 

• Isaac Bernstein's Diary [creative non-fiction], Nemira Publishing House, Bucharest, 2001, 186 pp., ISBN 973-569-484-0 (see cover) (see reviews) [in Romanian].

  • Book awarded Nemira Prize for the Best Essay in 1999. 

  • Second edition (e-book): Éditions Équivalences (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) & Revista Respiro (New York, USA), 2002. (Download your free copy) 

  • Some excerpts from this book have been published in Revista Respiro, No. 5, December 2001. 

• An Introduction to the History of Romanian Philosophy in the 20-th Century, Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 2000, 264 pp., ISBN 973-577-293-0 (see cover) (see reviews) 

[in Romanian].

• Find it in a library near you: WorldCat

2. Books edited:

3. Special issues edited:

4. Books translated:

• Robert McElroy, Morality and American Foreign Policy. The Role of Ethics in International Affairs, Paideia Publishing House, Bucharest, 1998, 228 pp. [from English into Romanian].

• John H. Hallowell, The Moral Foundation of Democracy, Paideia Publishing House, Bucharest, 1997, 120 pp. [from English into Romanian].

5. Articles (peer-reviewed):

• "'I was a stranger, and ye took me not it.' Deus ludens and Theology of Hospitality in Lars von Trier's Dogville," The Journal of European Studies [forthcoming].

• “Transcendence and History in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blind Chance," East European Politics and Societies, Vol.  22 (May 2008), pp. 425-446. 

• "Philosophy as an Art of Dying," in The European Legacy, 12: 5 (September 2007), pp. 589-605. 

• "Rhetoric of Faith and Patterns of Persuasion in Berkeley's Alciphron," in The Heythrop Journal, Vol. 47: 4 (2006), pp. 544-561.

• "A Time of Crisis - A Crisis of (the Sense of) Time. On the Political Construction of Time in Communism," in East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 19, Issue 2 (May 2005), pp. 260-290. 

• "Alchemists or Ecologists? Some Remarks on the Philosophy of Alchemical Transmutation," in Acta Philosophica. Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia (The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, 

Rome & Instituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, Pisa), Volume 14, Issue 2  (2005), pp. 261-274. 

• "Philosophy as palimpsest," Existentia. An International Journal of Philosophy (Publisher: Societas Philosophia Classica, Frankfurt am Main & Budapest),  Vol. XIV (3-4), pp. 337-344. 

• "'God is dreaming you': Narrative as Imitatio Dei in Miguel de Unamuno," Janus Head –Interdisciplinary Studies in Continental Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts, Volume 7, Issue 2 (Winter 2004), 

pp. 453-467. 

• Dutch translation (by Jan Bauwens): “‘Wij zijn slechts goddelijke droombeelden’: het verhaal als Imitatio Dei bij Miguel de Unamuno.” In Portulaan: driemaandelijks cultureel tijdschrift (Antwerpen, Belgium), 2007.

• Romanian translation (by Daniel Bâlbă): “Dumnezeu te visează. Naraţiunea ca Imitatio Dei la Miguel de Unamuno,” in Adrian Niţă (ed.), Identitate şi îndividuaţie [Identity and individuation], Pelican Press,  Romania [forthcoming]. 

• Portuguese translation (by Jaimir Conte): in Principios. Revista de Filosofia, Vol. 16. No 24 (2008) (Natal, Brazil) [forthcoming].

• Spanish translation (by Vanessa Rodriguez-Garcia): "Narrativa como Imitatio Dei en Miguel de Unamuno," in Enfocarte.com (Gijón, Spain) [forthcoming].

• "Waiting for the Eschaton: Berkeley's 'Bermuda Project' between Earthly Paradise and Educational Utopia", Utopian Studies,Volume 14, Issue 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 36-50. 

• "Berkeley and Liber Mundi" in Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy, Volume 3, November 1999 (University of Limerick, Ireland).

• "The 'Golden Generation' and the Iron Guard" [An Essay on Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran, Eugen Ionesco and their Romanian background], in Studii Culturale ["Cultural Studies"], no. 1, 2000, 

Bucharest, Romania, pp. 84-132 [in Romanian]. 

• "Between Don Quixote and San Juan de la Cruz" [An essay on the Spanish Baroque] in Revista de Filosofie [Romanian Journal of Philosophy], Romanian Academy Publishing House, Vol. XLII, 

nos. 5-6, 1995, pp. 593-599 [in Romanian]. 

• "The Spirit of the Classical Logic and the Beginnings of Patristic Theology" in Revista de Filosofie, Romanian Academy Publishing House, Vol. XLII, no.1, 1995, pp. 105-109 [in Romanian].

6. Book chapters (peer-reviewed): 

            Russia [under contract]

• "Why Do Philosophers Not Agree With Each Other?" in Vasile Morar (ed.), Spirit and History, All-Beck Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, pp. 252-267 [in Romanian].

• "Formal Conditions of Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous" in Marin Diaconu (ed.) Aesthetics and Morality, Crater Publishing House, Bucharest, 1998, pp. 245-256 [in Romanian]. 

• "One Hundred Years of Underground" [An essay on Dostoievsky's Notes from Underground] in Vasile Morar (ed.), Ion Ianosi. A Scholar's Life, All-Beck Publishing House, Bucharest, 1998, 

pp. 231-260 [in Romanian].

7. Dictionary/encyclopedia entries

• “Idealism” in Heather Looy & Heidi Campbell (eds.), The Science and Religion Primer (Grand Rapids, Baker Academic, 2009) [forthcoming]

• Entries in Bruce Murphy (ed.), Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition (New York., Harper Collins, 2008)

• Entries in Denis Huisman, A Dictionary of Major Philosophical Works [the Romanian enlarged version of Dictionnaire des mille oeuvres clés de la philosophie, Éditions Nathan, 

1993] Enciclopedica Publishing House, Bucharest, 2001 [in Romanian]. 

• Entries in Ion Ianosi (ed.), A Dictionary of Romanian Philosophical Works, Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest, 1997 [in Romanian]. 

8. Book reviews

• Review of The Book of Dead Philosophers, by Simon Critchley, in The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, (2009) [forthcoming]

• Review of Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick, and Wong Kar-Wai, by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, in Parallax (2009) [forthcoming] 

• Review of Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition, by Stephen Gersh and Dermot Moran, in Berkeley Studies 19 (2008) [forthcoming]

• Review of Berkeley's Philosophy of Spirit: Consciousness, Ontology and the Elusive Subject, by Talia Mae Bettcher, in Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, Vol. XXVIII (2008), [forthcoming]

• Review of Making Dying Illegal. Architecture against Death: Original to the 21st Century, by Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins, in Parallax, 13 (2008)

• Review of Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City, by Mark Shiel, in Film-Philosophy, Vol. XI (3) (2007), pp. 177-183.

• Review of How to Read Nietzsche, by Keith A. Pearson, in Practical Philosophy, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (Fall 2007), pp. 62-63.

• Review of The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre, by Camelia Elias, in Janus Head – A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Continental Philosophy, Literature, 

Phenomenological Psychology and the Arts, 9.1 (Summer 2006), pp. 280-284

• Review of Humanism and Secularism: From Petrarch to Valla, by Riccardo Fubini, in European Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 9.1 (February 2006), pp. 123-125. 

• Review of The Essence of Truth, by Martin Heidegger, in Practical Philosophy, Vol. 7, Issue 2 (Autumn 2005), pp. 49-50. 

• Review of The Passive Eye: Gaze and Subjectivity in Berkeley (via Beckett), by Branka Arsic, in Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, Vol. XXIV, Issue 4 (August 2004), pp. 237-239.

• Review of Heidegger's Way of Thought, by Theodore Kisiel, in Practical Philosophy, Vol. 7, Issue 1 (Summer 2004), pp. 54-55. 

• Review of Sartre. The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century, by Bernard-Henri Levy, in Metapsychology Online Book Review (April 30, 2004).

• Review of Hermeneutics as Politics, by Stanley Rosen, in Metapsychology Online Book Review (December 17, 2003).

• Review of Our Practices, Our Selves: or, what it means to be human, by Todd May, in Practical Philosophy, Vol. 6, Issue 2 (Autumn 2003), pp. 83-84. 

• Review of Masking the Abject. A Genealogy of Play, by Mechthild Nagel, in Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, Vol. XXIII, Issue 5 (October 2003), pp. 359-360. 

• Review of Cosmopoiesis. The Renaissance Experiment, by Giuseppe Mazzotta, in Philosophy and Literature Vol. 27, Issue 2 (October  2003), pp. 471-475.

• Review of Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds, by Harold Bloom, in Metapsychology Online Book Review (January 20, 2003).

• Review of Anaximander and the Architects : The contribution of Egyptian and Greek architectural technologies to the origins of Greek philosophy, by Robert Hahn, in Philosophy in Review/Comptes 

Rendus Philosophiques, Vol. XXIII, Issue 1 (February 2003), pp. 31-33. 

• Review of Nietzsche. A Philosophical Biography, by Rüdiger Safranski, in Metapsychology Online Book Review (October 24, 2002).

• Review of The Metaphysical Club. A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand, in Metapsychology Online Book Review (May 20, 2002).

• Review of Textual Narratives and a New Metaphysics, by Raymond T. Shorthouse, in Philosophical Writings, 18 (Autumn 2001), pp. 61-63.

• Review of Escape from Freedom, by Erich Fromm, in Adevãrul literar si artistic [ALA henceforth], no. 418 (May 1998) [in Romanian].

• Review of Sous benefice d'inventaire, by Marguerite Yourcenar, in ALA, no. 331 (August 1996) [in Romanian].

• Review of Face à l'extrême, by Tzvetan Todorov, in ALA, no. 329 (July 1996) [in Romanian].

• Review of Du dandysme et de George Brummell, by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, in ALA, no. 320 (May 1996) [in Romanian].

• Review of L'Image interdite: une histoire intellectuelle de l'iconoclasme, by Alain Besançon, in ALA, no 317 (May 1996) [in Romanian].

9. Conference Proceedings

• "Some Remarks on the Ends of the World" in vol. Young Thought on the Threshold of New Century. Material of the International Conference, Volume I, Ministry of Education of Russian Federation, 

Urals State University, Urals Philosophical Society, Yekaterinsburg, 2000, pp. 200-202, ISBN 5-7996-0062-7.

10. Selected guest lectures and presentations:

• “On the very idea of Utopia,” What is Utopia? Genre and Modes of Representation, Universidade Estadual de Campinas SP, Brazil, June 3-5, 2009.

• “On the Varieties of Political Martyrdom,” Political Religions and Freedom in Modern Society – A Liberty Fund Symposium, Stone Mountain Park, GA, 12-15 February, 2009.

• “The Alchemists of the 21-st Century,”Reversible Destiny – Declaration of the Right Not to Die, the Second International Arakawa + Gins: Architecture and Philosophy Conference/Congress, University of 

  Pennsylvania & The Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, 4-6 April, 2008 [press coverage in New York Times]

• "(History of) Philosophy as Palimpsest," Models and Methods of the History of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, the Seminar für Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance & 

  Gesellschaft für Philosophie des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, University of Munich, Germany, October 4-6, 2007 

• “Philosophy as an Art of Dying,” The Center for European Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 27 April, 2007

• “Theology of Hospitality in Lars von Trier’s Dogville,” The Center for Cultural Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2 May, 2007

• "Doing Philosophy Interdisciplinarily," Department of Liberal Studies, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton (CA), 9 February 2006.

• "From Artes Liberales to Cyber-humanities. Teaching Interdisciplinary Humanities in the 21-st Century," The Honors College, Texas Tech University, 27 January 2006. 

•  "The Ideals of Liberal Education," Department of Liberal Studies, Grand Valley State University, Allendale (MI) 22 April, 2005.

• "Notes on Bishop Berkeley's America," America Seen Through Foreign Eyes, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN), 24-27 March, 2005.

• “Time and (post)communism. On the Political Construction of Time,” Russian and East-European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN), 3 November, 2004.

• “‘God is dreaming you:’ On Miguel de Unamuno, Life as a Dream, and Other Divine Tricks,” Department of Philosophy, Miami University, 22 October, 2004

• "A Time of Crisis - A Crisis of (the Sense of) Time," The Role of Ideas in the Postcommunism, 6-10 July, 2004, Miami University European Center, Luxembourg. 

11. Selected conference papers:

• “Dying as Self-expression,” Death in Images and Words: The Case of the Early Modern Hispanic World, Texas Tech University, 23-25 October, 2008.   

• “Bruno’s Enchanted World,” Annual meeting of The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature , and Culture, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Morelia), 17-20 January, 2008 

• “Berkeley and the Cathars,” George Berkeley: Religion and Science in the Age of Enlightenment, Gaeta, Italy, 27-29 September 2007

• "The 'terror of history' in Kieslowski’s Blind Chance," Rediscovering Polish Cinema: History – Ideology – Politics, University of Lodz, Poland, 23-25 September, 2006 

• "Philosophy as an Art of Dying," The Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium 2006, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, 2-3 March, 2006 [in absentia]. 

• "The Book as a Metaphor. George Berkeley's use of the liber mundi," The Book, The Twentieth Annual DeBartolo Conference, University of South Florida, Tampla (FL), 16-18 February, 2006. 

• "'I was a stranger, and ye took me not in.' Deus ludens and theology of hospitality in Lars von Trier's Dogville," Eastern Devision Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, 

New York City (NY), 27-30 December, 2005 [in absentia]

• "Jan Patočka’s Socratic Art of Dying," Thinking in/after Utopia, 27-30 October, 2005, Miami University, Oxford (OH)

• "Between Job and the Grand Inquisitor. Patterns in divine trial in Lars von Trier's Dogville," Sacred Text, Sacred Film? Responsible Interpretations of Scriptures in Film and Popular Media, University 

of Central Florida,  Orlando, 3-5 April, 2005. 

• "Nature and Archetypal Knowledge in George  Berkeley's Siris,"  The Nineteenth Annual DeBartolo Conference, University of South Florida, Tampa, 17-19 February, 2005. 

• "Using Sources and (almost) nothing else," Bâtir de nouveaux ponts: sources, méthodes et interdisciplinarité / Building New Bridges: Sources, Methods and Interdisciplinarity, May 8-9, 2003, University 

of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. 

• “On George Berkeley as a Christian Apologist,” Society of Christian Philosophers, Eastern Regional Meeting, 4-7 December, 2003, Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, USA.

• "Berkeley's Educational Utopia", The Eleventh Quadrennial ISECS Congress on the Enlightenment, 3-10 August, 2003, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (paper awarded a Travel 

Fellowship by the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies). 

• "Platonism and Berkeley's Early Philosophical Writings," George Berkeley International Conference, 3-5 April, 2003, Texas A&M University, USA (see abstract). 

• "Unamuno and Self-Narration as Imitatio Dei," Annual Meeting of The Metaphysical Society of America, 7-8 March 2003, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA. 

• "Philosophy as Palimpsest," Philosophy As… A Conference Exploring the Nature and the State of Philosophy, 28-30 November 2002, University of London, United Kingdom. 

• "Narrative and Personal Authenticity in Miguel de Unamuno," Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy, September 11-14 2002, University College Cork, Cork, Republic of 

Ireland (paper awarded a "Graduate Bursary" by the SEP).

• "Ordering Worlds and Minds: 'The Great Chain of Being' in Berkeley's Siris," Ordering the World in the 18th Century, "5th Conference of the North Western Section of The British Society for 

Eighteenth–Century Studies", September 12-13 2002, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK (paper awarded a "Graduate Bursary" by the BSECS).

• "George Berkeley and the universal language of nature," The Book of Nature. Continuity and Change in European and American Attitudes towards the Natural World, 22-25 May, 2002, University of 

Groningen, The Netherlands. 

• "Lapis Philosophorum seu Medicina Universalis: Medication, Soteriology, and Symbolism in Medieval Alchemy," The 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 3-6 2002, Kalamazoo, 

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, USA (paper awarded a "Congress Travel Award" by the Kalamazoo Medieval Institute).

• "George Berkeley: A Modern Alchemist?," Society Of Christian Philosophers, Central Division Meeting, March 7-9, 2002, Bethel College, St. Paul (MN), USA.

• “The Island: an Ideal Place for Paradisiacal Nostalgias, Educational Utopias and Other Eschatological Enterprises,” The Ninth Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 

November 15-18 2001, Philadelphia, USA [in absentia]

• "Communicating Paradigms," Universities of Durham and Bergen 2001 Philosophy Seminar, 27th-30th September 2001, University of Bergen, Norway.

• "Matter as a Source of Evil in Berkeley and Catharism," Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness. The 2nd Global Conference, March 16 - 21 2001, Anglo-American College, Prague, Czech 

Republic.

• "Some Remarks on the Ends of the World," Young Thought on the Threshold of the New Century, February 27-28, 2000, Urals Philosophical Society (Urals State University), Yekaterinburg, 

Russian Federation [in absentia].

12. Selected pieces in Romanian:

• "A Byzantine story," Revista EVO, 1.2 (November 2006), pp. 3-4. 

• "A Note on the Romanian Exceptionalism,"  Timpul, 7.6 (June 2006), p. 3

• "Ars Moriendi" in Revista Respiro, Vol.12, September, 2003.

• "An Essay on the Art of Plagiarizing" in ALA, no. 383 (August 1997). 

• On the Allergy to Plurality" in Dilema, no. 216 (March 1997).

• "An Essay on the Sophists" in ALA, nos. 348, 349 (December 1996).

• "Schopenhauer, Bergson, and the Mystical Traditions" in ALA, nos. 342, 343, 344 (October-November1996).

• "Pedagogical Scenario of Departure in Nietzsche and Socrates" in ALA, nos. 339, 340, 341 (October 1996).

• "The Other Face of the European Philosophical Modernity" in ALA, no. 326 (July 1996).

• "Nationhood and Sacred Architecture" in Contrafort, Kishinau, (Republic of Moldova), no. 7(21), (July 1996).

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