DePaul University

Faculty Member, Philosophy

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I work primarily in the area of ancient Greek philosophy, interpreting the texts of Aristotle, Plato, and the Pre-Socratics phenomenologically and hermeneutically. My understanding of this project, its demands, methods, and aims, is influenced by Nietzsche and his approach to the Greeks and to the history of philosophy in general, as well as by the twentieth century thinkers that I take to be laboring in Nietzsche's wake, specifically Heidegger, Bataille, Blanchot, Foucault, and Derrida.

For me, a philosophical engagement with the history of philosophy does not in any way contravene, but in fact requires, an engagement with those recent or contemporary thinkers who articulate the living questions and issues that characterize the historical present in which we find ourselves situated. Moreover, by being read in this way, the texts that belong even to our tradition's most distant epoch can become powerfully pertinent to and illuminating of the issues that call forth thinking today.

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