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My publications in the area of Philosophy and Literature
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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)
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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.
Some excerpts from this book have been published in Revista Respiro, No. 5, December 2001.
2. Books edited:
(with Serguei Oushakine), In Marx's Shadow. Power, Knowledge and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia [under contract with Lexington Books]
3. Special issues edited:
The Unbearable Charm of Frailty. Philosophizing in/on Eastern Europe [a special issue of Angelaki. The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities], London: Routledge
Philosophy as Literature [special issue of The European Legacy], London: Routledge, 14.4 (2009)
4. Articles (peer-reviewed):
(Co-authored with Simon Critchley, Giuseppe Mazzotta and Alexander Nehamas), “Of poets and Thinkers. A Conversation on Philosophy, Literature, and the Rebuilding of the World.”
The European Legacy (London: Routledge), 14.5 (2009), pp. 519-534.
"'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, 39:1 (March, 2009), pp. 58-78.
“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.
"'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.
Spanish translation (by Vanessa Rodriguez-Garcia): “’Dios te está soñando’: La narración como Imitatio Dei en Miguel de Unamuno," in Enfocarte.com (September, 2009) (Gijón, Spain).
Portuguese translation (by Jaimir Conte): "'Deus está sonhando você’: Narrativa como Imitatio Dei em Miguel de Unamuno," in Principios. Revista de Filosofia, Vol. 15. No 24 (2008) (Natal, Brazil), pp. 249-265.
Romanian translation (by Daniel Bâlbă): “Dumnezeu te visează. Naraţiunea ca Imitatio Dei la Miguel de Unamuno,” in The Annals of the University of Craiova (Craiova, Romania), 20.2 (2007), pp. 14-31 .
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), Vol. 1, pp. 17-26 & Vol. 2, pp. 14-22 (2007).
"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].
5. Book chapters (peer-reviewed):
"George Berkeley's 'Universal Language of Nature'" in Klaas van Berkel & Arjo Vanderjagt (eds.), The Book of Nature in Early Modern and Modern History, Peeters Publishers, Leuven, 2006, pp. 69-82.
"Liber mundi: The History of a Metaphor" in Cahiers of History of Philosophy and Philosophy of Culture, Paideia Publishing House, Bucharest, 2001, pp. 161-175 [in Romanian].
"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. Introductions
(with Serguei Oushakine), Introduction to In Marx’s Shadow. Knowledge, Power and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia [under contract with Lexington Books]
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]
"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
7. Dictionary/encyclopedia entries
“Idealism” in Heather Looy & Heidi Campbell (eds.), A Science and Religion Primer (Grand Rapids, Baker Academic, 2009), pp. 121-123.
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 essays
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.
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.
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 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 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 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 Sous benefice d'inventaire, by Marguerite Yourcenar, in ALA, no. 331 (August 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. Selected guest lectures and presentations:
“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.
“On the very idea of Utopia,” What is Utopia? Genre and Modes of Representation, Universidade Estadual de Campinas SP, Brazil, June 3-5, 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.
“‘God is dreaming you:’ On Miguel de Unamuno, Life as a Dream, and Other Divine Tricks,” Department of Philosophy, Miami University, 22 October, 2004
10. Selected conference papers:
“Scapegoats, Martyrs, Founding Figures,” Explosive Past, Radiant Future – An International Colloquium, The Center for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Canada, 18-20 March, 2010.
“Dying as Self-expression,” Death in Images and Words: The Case of the Early Modern Hispanic World, Texas Tech University, 23-25 October, 2008.
"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), USA
"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.
"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).
"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).
"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.
“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.
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