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My publications in the area of Philosophy of Religion
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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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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. 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, 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.
"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.
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).
"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].
4. Book chapters (peer-reviewed):
“Martyrdom and Philosophy. A Czechoslovakian Case: Jan Patočka,” in Costica Bradatan & Serguei Oushakine (Eds.), In Marx's Shadow. Power, Knowledge and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia [under contract]
"Notes on Bishop Berkeley's New World," in Aurelian Craiutu & Jeffrey Issac (Eds.), America Through European Eyes (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press), 2009, pp. 45-69.
“‘Terror historii’ w Przypadku Krzysztofa Kieślowskiego” [“The ‘terror of history’ in Kieslowski’s Blind Chance”] in Ewelina Nurczynska-Fidelska & Konrad Klejsa (Eds.) Kino Polskie: Reinterpretacje. Historia – Ideologia – Polityka, Translated into Polish by Tomasz Kłys, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego, Lodz, 2008, pp. 177-196.
"'One is All, and All is One.' The Great Chain of Being in Berkeley's Siris" in Frank O'Gorman & Diana Donald (eds.), Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century [Studies in Modern History Series], Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2005, pp. 63-82.
"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].
"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].
5. Introductions
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
6. Book reviews & review essays
Review of Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition, by Stephen Gersh and Dermot Moran, in Berkeley Studies, 19 (2008), pp. 40-43.
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 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 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 Hermeneutics as Politics, by Stanley Rosen, in Metapsychology Online Book Review (December 17, 2003).
Review of Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds, by Harold Bloom, in Metapsychology Online Book Review (January 20, 2003).
Review of Textual Narratives and a New Metaphysics, by Raymond T. Shorthouse, in Philosophical Writings, 18 (Autumn 2001), pp. 61-63.
Review of L'Image interdite: une histoire intellectuelle de l'iconoclasme, by Alain Besançon, in ALA, no 317 (May 1996) [in Romanian].
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. Conference Proceedings (non peer-reviewed)
"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.
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.
“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.
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.
“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.
“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
"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).
"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].
"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].
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