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Part II: Un-Masking Marauders à la Augustine and Foucault
In his book, Discipline and Punish, Foucault discusses at great length how modern scientific discourses (and their attendant practices) are employed to further a rhetoric of progress and to mask new...
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Loïc Wacquant on the Causes of American Anti-intellectualism: Mammon-worship,...
French sociologist Loïc Wacquant, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, traces four causes of present-day American anti-intellectualism. Not surprisingly, topping the list...
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Notes from Discipline and Punish: How Intentional Tactics Become...
Foucault is well-known for his ability to draw out and bring into full view the double-sidedness of discourses, institutions, historical events, and socio-cultural practices. This is precisely what he...
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Invitation to My Dissertation Lecture, August 29th
To all in the D/FW area interested in the topic, I would like to extend an invitation to participate in my dissertation lecture. My dissertation is entitled, “Constructed Subjectivities and a ‘Thick’...
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Part I: Dialectic of Enlightenment and How Demythologizing Gives Birth to New...
In their book, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer and Adorno argue, on the one hand, that enlightenment emerges from myth, and on the other hand, that enlightenment can (and does) return back to...
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Part II: Dialectic of Enlightenment and How Demythologizing Gives Birth to...
In Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer and Adorno make an interesting and somewhat unexpected connection between the structure of Kantian philosophy and culture industry. According to Kant, the...
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Adorno and Attali on Music as a Sociopolitical Force
I am currently working on a small but fascinating writing project, sketching various dimensions and expressions of the philosophy of music. Two twentieth-century theorists, Theodor Adorno and Jacques...
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Négritude’s Role in Reforming Marxism and the Relevance of the “Race”...
Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), engaging in deconstruction before deconstruction began, calls Western Enlightenment to account for its uncivilized practices and its inability to deal with the concrete,...
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Resistance Through Re-narration Available Online at African Identities:...
For those interested, my essay, “Resistance Through Re-narration: Fanon on De-constructing Racialized Subjectivities,” African Identities: Journal of Economics, Culture, and Society 9:4 (Dec. 2011):...
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Foucault: A Postmodern Kantian or Parodic Nietzschean?
Under the pseudonym Maurice Florence, Foucault writes that if it is possible for him to find a “home in the philosophical tradition,” then his at least semi-comfortable dwelling place is “within the...
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Foucauldian Strategies for the “Non-Purist” Contemporary Augustinian with...
I recently finished an essay on Augustine and Foucault that brings both thinkers into critical dialogue. Although in the essay itself I highlight strengths and weaknesses of both Foucault and...
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The Unfolding Penal Drama or How Pell Grant Funding for Postsecondary...
Drawing upon and extending Emile Durkheim’s communicative theory of penality, Joshua Page shows how popular narratives—including racialized narratives—disseminated via mass media and employed by...
View Article“Hearing the Other’s Voice” in Otherness, Essays and Studies 4.1
For those interested, a revised version of my formerly (unpublished) essay on Gadamer has now been published in the open access journal, Otherness, Essays and Studies. You can access my essay for free...
View ArticleFoucault and Rethinking Episteme Change via Musical Metaphors in ROTPP Vol. 2.1
The latest issue of Radical Orthodoxy: Theology, Philosophy, Politics (Vol. 2, No. 1) has been published and contains my article, Foucault’s Polyphonic Genealogies and Rethinking Episteme Change via...
View ArticleAn Encounter with Simone Weil: A Film by Julia Haslett
Recently I was gifted with a director’s cut DVD of Julia Haslett’s new film, An Encounter with Simone Weil. Weil was a philosopher, labor activist, teacher, factory worker, journalist, and mystic known...
View ArticleJazz as an Example of MacIntyre’s Notion of Practice
In his work, After Virtue, MacIntyre provides a multifaceted definition of practice as well as a helpful discussion of a practice’s internal and external goods. As he explains, a practice is any...
View ArticleBook Plug: Merleau-Ponty and Theology by Christopher Ben Simpson
Christopher Ben Simpson’s recent book, Merleau-Ponty and Theology, is the first book-length study bringing Merleau-Ponty’s thought into conversation with Christian theology. Simpson’s claim is that...
View ArticleLiberation Theology Blog Series, Post #6: Is Liberation Theology Ideology...
Silas Morgan brings us the sixth post in Percaritatem’s Liberation Theology Blog Series, which focuses on the work of Juan Luis Segundo. Morgan’s post will continue with a second post in which he...
View ArticleBook Plug: Biblical Knowing. A Scriptural Epistemology of Error by Dru Johnson
Dr. Dru Johnson’s new manuscript, Biblical Knowing. A Scriptural Epistemology of Error, is a careful and thoughtful study that brings what he calls, “biblical knowing,” into fruitful conversation with...
View ArticlePart I: Gadamer on Play, the Play of Art, and the Reality of the Work in its...
Gadamer, of course, is not the first thinker to highlight play as basic to human experience. Johan Huizinga in his famous work, Homo Ludens, attempts to show how play permeates all aspects of culture:...
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