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(with Serguei Oushakine), Introduction to In Marx’s Shadow. Knowledge, Power and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia [under contract with Lexington Books]
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Introduction to The Unbearable Charm of Frailty. Philosophizing in/on Eastern Europe [special journal issue], Angelaki. The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (London: Routledge) [forthcoming]
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"Unorthodox Remarks on Philosophy as Literature." Introduction to Philosophy as Literature [special journal issue], The European Legacy (London: Routledge), 14.5 (2009), pp. 513-518.Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Library of Essential Reading Series (New York: Barnes & Noble Books), 2007, pp. vii-xvi
Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, Library of Essential Reading Series (New York: Barnes & Noble Books), 2006, pp. vii-xv
Introduction to George Berkeley’s Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Library of Essential Reading Series (New York: Barnes & Noble Books), 2006, pp. vii-xv
7. Dictionary/encyclopedia entries
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“Idealism” in Heather Looy & Heidi Campbell (eds.), A Science and Religion Primer (Grand Rapids, Baker Academic, 2009), pp. 121-123.
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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].
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Entries in Ion Ianosi (ed.), A Dictionary of Romanian Philosophical Works, Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest, 1997 [in Romanian].
8. Book reviews & review essays
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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, 15: 3 (August 2009), pp. 126-129.
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Review of Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition, by Stephen Gersh and Dermot Moran, in Berkeley Studies, 19 (2008), pp. 40-43. -
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), pp. 9-11. -
Review of Making Dying Illegal. Architecture against Death: Original to the 21st Century, by Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins, in Parallax, 14.4 (November 2008), pp. 122-125. -
Review of Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City, by Mark Shiel, in Film-Philosophy, Vol. XI (3) (2007), pp. 177-183.
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Review of How to Read Nietzsche, by Keith A. Pearson, in Practical Philosophy, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (Fall 2007), pp. 62-63.
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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
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Review of The Essence of Truth, by Martin Heidegger, in Practical Philosophy, Vol. 7, Issue 2 (Autumn 2005), pp. 49-50.
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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.
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Review of Heidegger's Way of Thought, by Theodore Kisiel, in Practical Philosophy, Vol. 7, Issue 1 (Summer 2004), pp. 54-55.
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Review of Sartre. The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century, by Bernard-Henri Levy, in Metapsychology Online Book Review (April 30, 2004).
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Review of Hermeneutics as Politics, by Stanley Rosen, in Metapsychology Online Book Review (December 17, 2003).
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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.
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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.
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Review of Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds, by Harold Bloom, in Metapsychology Online Book Review (January 20, 2003).
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Review of Nietzsche. A Philosophical Biography, by Rüdiger Safranski, in Metapsychology Online Book Review (October 24, 2002).
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Review of The Metaphysical Club. A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand, in Metapsychology Online Book Review (May 20, 2002).
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Review of Textual Narratives and a New Metaphysics, by Raymond T. Shorthouse, in Philosophical Writings, 18 (Autumn 2001), pp. 61-63.
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Review of Escape from Freedom, by Erich Fromm, in Adevãrul literar si artistic [ALA henceforth], no. 418 (May 1998) [in Romanian].
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Review of Sous benefice d'inventaire, by Marguerite Yourcenar, in ALA, no. 331 (August 1996) [in Romanian].
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Review of Face à l'extrême, by Tzvetan Todorov, in ALA, no. 329 (July 1996) [in Romanian].
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Review of Du dandysme et de George Brummell, by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, in ALA, no. 320 (May 1996) [in Romanian].
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Review of L'Image interdite: une histoire intellectuelle de l'iconoclasme, by Alain Besançon, in ALA, no 317 (May 1996) [in Romanian].
9. Selected guest lectures and presentations:
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“Dying to Tell the Story,” The 2009-2010 Brackenridge Philosophy Symposium, Department of Philosophy & Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio (TX), 22-23 February, 2010.
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“On the very idea of Utopia,” What is Utopia? Genre and Modes of Representation, Universidade Estadual de Campinas SP, Brazil, June 3-5, 2009.
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“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.
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“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
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“Theology of Hospitality in Lars von Trier’s Dogville,” The Center for Cultural Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2 May, 2007
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"Doing Philosophy Interdisciplinarily," Department of Liberal Studies, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton (CA), 9 February 2006.
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"From Artes Liberales to Cyber-humanities. Teaching Interdisciplinary Humanities in the 21-st Century," The Honors College, Texas Tech University, 27 January 2006.
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"The Ideals of Liberal Education," Department of Liberal Studies, Grand Valley State University, Allendale (MI) 22 April, 2005.
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"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.
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“‘God is dreaming you:’ On Miguel de Unamuno, Life as a Dream, and Other Divine Tricks,” Department of Philosophy, Miami University, 22 October, 2004
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"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.
10. Selected conference papers:
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“Scapegoats, Martyrs, Founding Figures,” Explosive Past, Radiant Future – An International Colloquium, The Center for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Canada, 18-20 March, 2010. -
“Giordano Bruno’s Re-enchantment of Nature in La Cena delle ceneri,” The Annual Meeting of the North Texas Philosophical Association, University of North Texas, Denton, March 26-28, 2009.
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“Dying as Self-expression,” Death in Images and Words: The Case of the Early Modern Hispanic World, Texas Tech University, 23-25 October, 2008.
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“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
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"The 'terror of history' in Kieslowski’s Blind Chance," Rediscovering Polish Cinema: History – Ideology – Politics, University of Lodz, Poland, 23-25 September, 2006
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"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.
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"'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]
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"Jan Patočka’s Socratic Art of Dying," Thinking in/after Utopia, 27-30 October, 2005, Miami University, Oxford (OH)
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"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
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"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.
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"Platonism and Berkeley's Early Philosophical Writings," George Berkeley International Conference, 3-5 April, 2003, Texas A&M University, USA (see abstract).
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"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.
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"Philosophy as Palimpsest," Philosophy As… A Conference Exploring the Nature and the State of Philosophy, 28-30 November 2002, University of London, United Kingdom.
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"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).
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"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).
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“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].
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"Communicating Paradigms," Universities of Durham and Bergen 2001 Philosophy Seminar, 27th-30th September 2001, University of Bergen, Norway.
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"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.
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