DIFFERENCE THINKERS
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MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF DIFFERENCE
DANIEL ATHEARN
Full Member SSD
Areas of interest:
Inquiry into the prospects for a recovery of natural philosophy, the centrality of difference to thought, to physical science and to ontology; sameness or identity (of being) within and as difference; difference as key to a post-classical physical ontology; process of transition; epistemology and philosophy of science.
Main difference-related publications:
Fruits of Time: Nature and the Unfolding of Difference(Universal Publishers, 2003).
Scientific Nihilism: On the Loss and Recovery of Physical Explanation (SUNY Press, Albany, 1994).
Articles:
'Whitehead as Natural Philosopher: Anachronism or Visionary?' Process Studies, (volume 26/3-4, 1997).
‘Prospects for Physical Ontology: A Philosopher’s Assessment’, Physics Essays, (volume 10 number 4, December,1997).
JEFFREY BELL
Full Member SSD
For additional information visit bell-homepagel
Areas of interest:
Deleuze, Nietzsche, philosophy of creativity/becoming, and intellectual history especially the Scottish Enlightenment.
Main difference-related publications:
Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference (Toronto: TUP, 2006).
"Immanence/Transcendence: Deleuze and Voegelin on the Conditions for Political Order" in Eric Voegelin's Dialogue with the Postmoderns: Searching for Foundations, edited by Peter A. Petrakis and Cecil Eubanks (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004), pp. 93-120.
The Problem of Difference (University of Toronto Press, 1998).
Articles:
"Philosophizing the Double-Bind: Deleuze reads Nietzsche" (1995) Philosophy Today, Volume 39(4).
CONSTANTIN BOUNDAS
Honorary Member SSD
For additional information visit: boundas-homepage
Areas of interest:
With respect to the dissemination and discussion of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy in North America, he is considered to be one of the few pioneers. 20th century philosophy.
Main difference-related publications:
The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophies, General Editor. (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming, Summer 2007).
Deleuze and Philosophy, ed. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006).
Theatrum Philosophicum. A Collection of Critical Essays on Gilles Deleuze. With Dorothea Olkowski (eds.) ( New York and London: Routledge, 1994).
The Deleuze Reader, ed. with an introduction. (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1993).
Articles:
“Gilles Deleuze: Experimenting with Intensities”. Special Issue on Gilles Deleuze. Guest Editor. Symposium 10: 1 (Spring 2006).
“An Ontology of Intensities,” Epoche, 7:1 (Fall 2002).
“Gift, Theft, Apology.” Guest Editor. Angelaki. Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 6:3
(August 2001).
“Rhizomatics, Genealogy, Deconstruction”. Guest Editor.Angelaki. Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 5:2 (August 2000).
“Deleuze on Time and Memory”, Antithesis 8:2 (1997).
Memorial Issue on Gilles Deleuze. Guest Editor. Man and World, 29:3 (July 1996).
Essays:
“Unfolding the Deleuzian Fold,” Gilles Deleuze’s Fold: A Critical Reader ed. Darren Ambrose and Siobhan McKeown, London: Palgrave, forthcoming
“Lignes de fuite and Holzwegen,” Graham Jones and Jon Roffe. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming
“Gilles Deleuze: A Touch of Decisionism and an Excess of Out-Worldliness,” Review Essay. The Deleuze Studies, 1: 2, June 2007, forthcoming.
“Les stratégies différentielles de la pensée deleuzienne” dans une ouvrage collaborative dirigée par Alain Beaulieu. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2006.
Review Essay: “Arnaud Villani and Robert Sasso eds. Le Vocabulaire de Gilles Deleuze; François Zourabichvili, Le vocabulaire de Deleuze; Charles Stivale, ed. Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts” Symposium Fall 2005.
“The Art of begetting Monsters: The Unnatural Nuptials of Deleuze and Kant,” Current Continental Theory and Modern Philosophy, ed. Stephen H. Daniel. Evanston: Nortwestern University Press, 2006, 254-80.
“Intensity,” “Individuation,” “Spinoza and Ethics of Joy,” “Virtual/Virtuality,” The Deleuze Dictionary, Adrian Parr, ed. Edingburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005
“Deleuze-Bergson: An Ontology of the Virtual”, Gilles Deleuze: Critical Reader, ed. by Paul Patton. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996, pp. 51-77.
“Foreclosure of the Other: From Sartre to Deleuze”, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Special Issue on Gilles Deleuze. Ed. by C.V. Boundas. pp. 32- 43. Reprinted in Sartre and Existentialism, ed. by William L. McBride. New York: Garland, 1996, vol. 8, 338-49.
Conferences:
“Gilles Deleuze and the Problem of Freedom,” Guest Speaker, Plenary Session, International Conference “Text and Image,” University of South Carolina, April 5-8, 2007.
International Conference, “Gilles Deleuze:Experimenting with Intensities/L’Expérience aux intensités.” Trent University. May 2004. Organizer.
International Conference on “Rhizomatics, Genealogy and Deconstruction”, Trent University, May 1999. Organizer.
Panel organizer, chair and discussant: “The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, October 10-13, 1997. Lexington, Kentucky.
“After Deleuze”, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, October 10, 1996.
“Gadamer’s and Deleuze’s To and Fro: The Concept of Play”, Dorothy Korchok Colloquium, Brock University, November 1993.
International Conference on “Gilles Deleuze. Pluralism: Theory and Practice”. Trent University, May 1992. Organizer.
“Spinoza’s Influence on Deleuze”, British Society for Phenomenology, Oxford, England, April 12-14, 1991. “Gilles Deleuze’s Theory of Difference and the Seventh Hypothesis of Plato’s Parmenides”. Philosophy Department, University of Toronto, January 1986.
JOHN CAPUTO
Honorary Member SSD
for additional information visit: caputo-homepage
Areas of interest:
Radical hermeneutics, the radical affirmation of an unforeseeable ethical and political future and of the possibility of being otherwise, the space between deconstruction and religion.
Main difference-related publications:
God, the Gift and Postmodernism, eds. John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999)
Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, (Edited with a Commentary by John D. Caputo), (New York: Fordham Unviersity Press, 1997).
God, the Gift and Postmodernism, (eds. John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon), (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999).
The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997).
Foucault and the Critique of Institutions (with Mark Yount) (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993).
Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, Deconstruction and the Hermeneutic Project, Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).
COSTAS CONSTANTINOU
Full Member SSD
for additional information visit: constantinou-homepage
Areas of interest:
Diplomacy and mediation; politics of language; ethno-religious hybridities; history of social and political thought.
Main difference-related publications:
States of Political Discourse: Words, Regimes, Seditions (Routledge: New International Relations series, 2004)
On the Way to Diplomacy (Minnesota University Press: Borderlines series, 1996).
Articles:
"Poetics of Security", Alternatives (25:3, July-Sept 2000).
MARK CURRIE
Full Member SSD
For additional information visit: currie-homepage
Areas of interest:
Difference, cultural geography and postmodernism; equivalence and universality; deconstruction and critical authority.
Main difference-related publications:
Difference, The New Critical Idiom. (London and New York, Routledge, 2004).
Postmodern Narrative Theory, Transitions. (London, Macmillan/Palgrave, 1998).
MIGUEL DE BEISTEGUI
Full Member SSD
Areas of interest:
Heideggerian ontico-ontological difference as the 'matter' of philosophy, to its Derridian response, to the way in which Deleuze takes it up, extends it, and provides a new interpretation of it; difference as the pivotal concept around which philosophy can be constructed as a non-dogmatic, non-representational ontology; Bergson and the later Merleau-Ponty.
Main difference-related publications:
Truth and Genesis: Philosophy As Differential Ontology (Studies in Continental Thought).(Indiana University Press, 2004).
Thinking with Heidegger: Displacements, (Indiana University Press, 2003).
Articles:
'Toward a Phenomenology of Difference?', Research in Phenomenology xxx, 2000.
JESUS DE GARAY SUAREZ-LLANOS
Full member SSD
Areas of interest:
Difference in Aristotle and in other ancient and medieval thinkers (Philo, Plotin, Eckhart) in addition to Heidegger and others (for example Vattimo, Foucault or Blumenberg); difference between cultures, especially the difference between the three main cultures of the medieval West (Islam, Judaism and latin Christianism); research focusing on the several interpretations on the aristotelian dialectics and rhetoric.
Main difference-related publications:
El juego (The Play) (Madrid, 1994).
Diferencia y libertad (Differecne and Freedom) (Rialp, 1992).
Los sentidos de la forma en Aristóteles (The Several Senses of Form in Aristotle) (Eunsa, 1987).
MARTIN DILLON
Full Member SSD - passed away March 10, 2005
Areas of interest:
Difference and deconstruction, Merleau Ponty. Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, Philosophy and Literature, History of Philosophy.
The Merleau-Ponty Circle.
Main difference-related publications:
Semiological Reductionism: A Critique of the Deconstructionist Movement in Postmodern Thought, (State University of New York Press, 1995).
Ecart and Différance: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on Seing and Writing, (Humanity Books, 1997).
Merleau-Ponty's Ontology, (Northwestern University Press, 1997).
DOUGLAS DONKEL
The Society for the Study of Difference co-Founder withPanayotis Zamaros!
Areas of interest:
The Society for the Study of Difference.
Contemporary continental philosophy (Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze); theory of difference; continental philosophy and theology; philosophical theology.
Editor, SUNY Series in Theology and Continental Thought.
Main difference-related publications:
The Theory of Difference, (State University of New York Press, 2001).
The Understanding of Difference in Heidegger and Derrida, (Peter Lang, 1992).
Articles:
"Deleuze's Challenge: Thinking Internal Difference",Philosophy Today, 46(3), Fall 2002.
"Formal Contamination: A Reading of Derrida's Argument",Philosophy Today, 40(2) Summer 1996.
ROLAND FABER
Full Member SSD.
For additional information visit: faber homepage
Areas of interest:
Poststructuralism (Gilles Deleuze); Interreligious Discourse (epistemological conditions, ontology), especially regarding Christianity/Buddhism; Systematic Theology (Doctrine of God and Creation, Christology and Eschatology); Process Thought and Process Theology;Comparative Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy, Theology, Spirituality, and Cosmology of the Renaissance; Mysticism (Meister Eckhart, Nicolas of Cusa, Giordano Bruno).
Roland Faber's interests led to the formulation of Theopoetics, a third space approach to post-structuralist and process theology, which by a critique of dualistic (or holistic) formulations of the relationship of Philosophy, Religion and Science, addresses the liberating necessity of multiplicity and diversity, combined with a post-colonial critique of theopolitical synergies of power.
Main difference-related publications:
Secrets of Becoming: Negotiating Whitehead, Deleuze and Butler (ed. with Andrea Stephenson, Fordham) [in publication].
God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theologies (Louisville: WJK, 2008).
Articles:
"Indra’ Ear – God’s Absence of Listening" in: I. Dalferth, ed.,Presence and Absence of God [in production].
“Bodies of the Void: Polyphilia and Theoplicity,” in: C. Keller, ed., Apophatic Bodies [in production].
“’O bitches of impossibility!’--Programmatic Dysfunction in the Chaosmos of Deleuze and Whitehead,” in: K. Robinson, ed., Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson: Rhizomatic Connections(Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
“The Crisis of Becoming: Reflections on a Whiteheadian Spirituality,” in Creative Transformation (Spring 2007) 2-10.
„’Insistenz’ – Zum „Nicht-Sein“ Gottes bei Levinas, Deleuze und Whitehead“, in: Y. B. Raynova and S. Moser, eds., Das integrale und das gebrochene Gesetz. Zum 100. Geburtstag von Leo Gabriel. Philosophy, Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik der Werte 2 (Frankfurt a.M., 2005), 131-155
“God’s Advent/ure: The End of Evil and the Origin of Time,”in: J. Bracken, ed., World Without End: Christian Eschatology from Process Perspective (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005), 91-112
“De-Ontologizing God: Levinas, Deleuze and Whitehead,” in: C. Keller and A. Daniels, eds., Difference and Process. Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernism.University of New York Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought (New York: SUNY, 2002), 209-234.
“’The Infinite Movement of Evanescence’—The Pythagorean Puzzle in Plato, Deleuze, and Whitehead,” in: American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 21/1 (2000): 171-199
Lectures:
Surrationality: A More Deleuzeian View of Whitehead(Salzburg, Austria, July 2006).
Creation as Differentiation: Toward a Third Space-Concept of Creation as “Self- Differentiating In/Difference” in Dialogue with Mystical and Process Theology (Drew University, New Jersey, September 2001).
"The Infinite Movement of Evanescence" - A Relativist Analysis of the Pythagorean Puzzle in Deleuze, Whitehead, and Plato (Memorial University, St. John's, Kanada 1999; Los Angeles, Kalifornien 2000)
De-Ontologizing God: Levinas, Deleuze, and Whitehead(Claremont School of Theology, Los Angeles 1998)
ANDREW GARNAR
Full Member SSD
Areas of interest:
American philosophy, philosophy of science and technology; continental philosophy, global ethics, and interdisciplinary studies.
Main difference-related publications:
Global Ethics with Wyatt Galusky, Harlan Miller, Jean Miller (eds) (Kendal/Hunt, 2002).
“An Unnecessary Divide: Neural Models in Psychiatry” with Valerie Hardcastle in The Philosophy of Psychiatry, edited by Jennifer Radden. (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Papers:
“Images of science, subjectivity” Virginia Tech, Department of Science and Technology Studies Seminar Series, Blacksburg, VA (March 2004)
Power, action, signs: Between Peirce and Foucault” at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy conference, Indianapolis, IN (March 2000)
“Reconstructing the fragmented self: The genetics of schizophrenia as a technology of the soul” at the Humanities and Technology Association conference, Charlottesville, VA (September 2000)
MARGRET GREBOWICZ
Full member SSD
Areas of interest:
Feminist epistemology, difference and questions of justice, dissent in the production of scientific knowledge, responsibility and knowledge; poetics and translation.
Main difference-related publications:
(edited) Gender After Lyotard (SUNY Press, in press)
Still Seeking an Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan, ed. Valerie Kinloch and Margret Grebowicz (Lexington Books, 2004)
Articles:
"Consensus, Dissensus, and Democracy: What is at Stake in Feminist Science Studies?" Philosophy of Science 72(Proceedings of the PSA) (forthcoming 2005)
"Splitting The Origin: Writing and Responsibility," in The Origins of Deconstruction, ed. Martin McQuillan and Ika Willis (Northwestern University Press, Philosophy, Literature, Culture series, in press)
"Feyerabend's Postmodernism," Studies in Practical Philosophy vol 5:1, (2005)
"Between Betrayal and Betrayal: Epistemology and Ethics in Derrida's Debt to Levinas," in Addressing Levinas, ed. Eric Nelson, Antje Kapust, and Kent Still, (Northwestern University Press, 2005)
"Outer Spaces: Lyotard and Feminist Epistemology,"Philosophy Today vol 46:5 (SPEP Supplement 2002)
Poetry:
Translations of poetry from Polish, in: Poetry International vol 10 (2005) (forthcoming) Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, and Translation, vol 4, "Poetry and Politics" (2005) Janus Head: An Interdisciplinary Journal vol 7: 2 (2004) AGNI vol 58 (2003) Literary Imagination vol 5:1 (2003) Quarterly West vol 55 (2002-03)
FUAT KEYMAN
Full Member SSD
Areas of interest:
Relation difference has to do with the questions of globalization, democratization, alternative modernities, international relations theory and social theory.
Main difference-related publications:
Remaking Turkey: Globalization,Alternative Modernities and Democracy, (Lexington: Oxford, forthcoming, October, 2006).
Globalization, State, and Identity/Difference: A Critical Social Theory of International Relations,(Humanities Press: New Jersey, 1997).
Turkey in Global-Local Nexus, (Alfa: Istanbul, 2000). (with A.Yaşar Sarıbay, in Turkish).
Orientalism, Hegemony, Cultural Difference, (edited with M. Mutman and M. Yeğenoğlu. İletişim: Istanbul, two editions, 1999 and 1996. (in Turkish).
Articles:
“Modernity, Secularism and Islam in Turkey”, Theory Culture & Society, 2006.
"Community, Identity and Difference: Ethical Considerations on Turkish Modernity", in Resurrecting the Phoenix, D. Durst and M. Dimitrova (eds), EOS Publishing, Sofia.
"Resisting Difference in International Relations Theory" inOrientalism, Hegemony, Cultural Difference, (eds.) F. Keyman, M. Mutman and M. Yeğenoğlu. (in Turkish)
"Understanding Politics in the Shrinking and Fragmenting World", Science and Society, (no.70, 1995). (In Turkish)
"Articulating Difference: The Question of the Other in International Political Economy", The Review of International Political Economy, (vol.2 no.1, 1995).
LEONARD LAWLOR
Full Member SSD
Areas of interest:
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy (Bergson, Derrida, Ricoeur, Deleuze, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Lyotard, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Nietzsche, Lévinas); Social and Political Philosophy, Aesthetics.
Main difference-related publications:
The Merleau-Ponty Reader (Co-editor with Ted Toadvine) -forthcoming.
Thinking through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003).
Derrida: Critical Assessments (London: Routledge, 2002).
Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty’s Notion of the Flesh. (Albany: The SUNY Press, 2000).
Imagination and Chance: The Difference between the Thought of Ricoeur and Derrida. (Albany: The SUNY Press, 1992)
Articles:
“Eschatology and Positivism: The Critique of Phenomenology in Derrida and Foucault,” in Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de la Langue Française, volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2004: 22-42.
“A Nearly Total Affinity: The Derridean Trace versus the Deleuzian Virtual Image,” in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Special Issue: Rhizomatics, Genealogy, Deconstruction, edited by Constantine Boundas, volume 5, number 2 (August 2000): 59-72.
"Dialectic and Iterability: The Confrontation between Paul Ricoeur and Jacques
Derrida," Philosophy Today, 32, 3 (1988): 181-194.
"Event and Repeatability: Ricoeur and Derrida in Debate," inPretext (Fall/Winter, 1983): 317-334.
MATT LEE
Full Member SSD
for additional information visit: lee-homepage
Areas of interest:
Deleuzian transcendental structures, empiricism and its metaphysics, mysticism and philosophy of mind/consciousness.
Articles:
'What is chaos majik?', Razorsmile journal, Issue 2, May 2003.
'Memories of a sorcerer: notes on Gilles Deleuze-Felix Guattari, Austin Osman Spare', The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, Issue 1, 2003.
'Aporregma#1', Razorsmile journal, Issue 1, October 2002.
TODD MAY
Full Member SSD
Areas of interest:
Twentieth Century continental philosophy: phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, political philosophy, ethics and metaethics.
Main difference-related publications:
Reconsidering Difference: Nancy, Derrida, Levinas and Deleuze, (Penn State Press, 1997).
Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy: A Reader,(edited collection with introduction), (Prentice-Hall, 1997).
The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism, (Penn State Press, 1994).
MARY BETH MADER
Full Member SSD
Areas of Interest
Continentral philosphy and in particular Luce Irigaray and sexual difference, Foucault, Heidegger and existentialism.
Main difference-related publications:
Edited volume: Existentialism: An Anthology for the Twenty-First Century, Edited by Robert Bernasconi and Mary Beth Mader. Contract approved for manuscript submission date of January 2009.
Chapters 4 and 5 of The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger in The Theory of Difference: Readings in Contemporary Continental Thought, Ed. Douglas L. Donkel, SUNY Press, 2001, pp. 317-337. (Reprint)
Articles:
“Levinas’ ‘Etre Juif’” Invited essay for Continental Philosophy Review.
“Comments on Alison Stone’s Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference.” Part of “Critical Exchange Section” with Penelope Deutscher and Alison Stone. Comments and response from Author’s Book Session Panel at Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Meeting in Chicago, November 9, 2008. Forthcoming in differences, 19.3, Fall 2008, pp.126-138. Eds. Ellen Rooney and Elizabeth Weed.
Review of Between Deleuze and Derrida, Eds. Paul Patton and John Protevi, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 42:4 October, 2004, pp. 507-508.
“The Disappearing Button: Heidegger, Foucault and Superautomated Spaces,” Philosophy Today, Eds. Stephen Crowell and Margaret A. Simons, SPEP Supplement 2003, Volume 28, pp. 97-104.
“The Forgetting of Feeding: Luce Irigaray’s Critique of Martin Heidegger,” in Between the Psyche and the Social, Eds. S. Edwin and K. Oliver, Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, pp. 29- 46.
“Suffering Contradiction: Kofman on Nietzsche’s Critique of Logic,” in Enigmas: A Collection of Essays on Sarah Kofman, Eds. P. Deutscher, K. Oliver, Cornell University Press, April 1999, pp. 87-96.
Conferences:
(Scheduled) Paper, “The Depths of Life: The Ontology of Intensity in Deleuze’s Biological Philosophy,” for invited panel on “Continental Philosophy and Biology,” Society for Existential and Phenomenological Philosophy annual meeting, Arlington, VA, October 29-31, 2009.
(Scheduled) Invited Speaker, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Brunel University, UK, June 5, 2009.
(Scheduled) Invited speaker, “Levinas’ Time and the Otherand “Being Jewish” Conference, Florida State University, November 17, 2008.
(Scheduled) Invited speaker, “The Difference of Intensity,” The Society for the Study of Difference, panel session at Society for Existential and Phenomenological Philosophy annual meeting, Pittsburgh, October 16, 2008.
Invited respondent to panel devoted to “Antigone’s Line” atYear of Antigones Conference, Chicago, DePaul University, May 18-20, 2008.
Invited speaker, Roundtable on Feminism and Activism,PhiloSOPHIA Conference, Decatur, March 22, 2008.
Invited commentator, “Comments on Alison Stone’s Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference.” Book Session: Alison Stone’s Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, November 9, 2007.
“Luce Irigaray and Anthropological Thought,” Irigaray Circle Meeting, September 7-9, 2007, Stony Brook Manhattan Campus.
“Luce Irigaray and Anthropological Thought,” French Feminism Circle, Inaugural Meeting, 17-10 May 2007, Monteagle, TN.
“Statistical Panopticism,” Foucault Circle Annual Meeting. Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. March 8-10, 2007.
“Deleuze, et cetera: Sexuality and the Ontology of Repetition,” Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in the Profession. Topic: Continental Philosophy and the Discourse of Sexuality. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, December 30, 2004.
“Antigone and the Ethics of Kinship,” Conference: Luce Irigaray and the Greeks: Genealogies of Re-writing, Columbia University, October 3, 2004.
Commentator on Tina Chanter’s “The Unconscious Racism of Feminism” and Penelope Deutscher’s “The Sex of Knowing,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, Society for the Philosophy of History, April 23, 2004.
“Trauma and Sexual Difference in the Thought of Luce Irigaray,” Conference on Trauma, Millsaps College, April 3-5, 2003.
“The Forgetting of Feeding: Luce Irigaray’s Critique of Martin Heidegger,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July 13, 2001.
JEFFREY NEALON
Full Member SSD
for more information visit nealon-homepage
Areas of interest:
Derrida and Deleuze, deconstruction, politics power and Foucault, difference.
Main diffrence-related publications:
Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power and Its Intensifications Since 1984 (Stanford University Press, 2007).
The Theory Toolbox: Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences with Susan Searls-Giroux.(Rowman-Littlefield, 2003).
“Beyond Hermeneutics: Deleuze, Derrida, and Cultural Studies.” Between Deleuze and Derrida, ed. Paul Patton and John Protevi. (Continuum, 2003).
Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity. (Duke University Press, 1998).
Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction.(Cornell University Press, 1993, 1996). Named a Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Book."
Articles:
“Post-Deconstructive? Derrida, Negri, and the Present State of Theory.” Forthcoming in Symploké.
“A Random Walk Down Las Vegas Boulevard: Empire of the Intensities.” Parallax 8.1 (2002): 78-91.
“The Cash Value of Paradox: Zizek’s Rhetoric.” JAC 21.3 (2001): 599-606.
“Refraining, Becoming-Black: Repetition and Difference in Amiri Baraka’s Blues People.” Symploké 6.1-2 (1999): 83-95.
"The Ethics of Dialogue: Bakhtin and Levinas." College English 59.2 (1997).
"Between Emergence and Possibility: Foucault, Derrida and Judith Butler on Performative Identity." Philosophy Today40.3-4 (Fall 1996): 430-39.
"Exteriority and Appropriation: Foucault, Derrida, and the Discipline of Literary Criticism." Cultural Critique 21 (1992): 97-120.
Papers:
“The Derridean Futures Market.” Invited lecture, Comparative Literature, U-Mass Amherst. 16 February 2006.
“Discouraging Deconstruction: Negri on Derrida.” Delivered at the American Comparative Literature Association, 11 March 2005.
“Deleuze and Finance Capital; or Against Excess” Delivered at the Deleuze: Experimenting with Intensities conference, University of Trent, Ontario, 14 May 2004.
“From Discipline to Control: Deleuze, Foucault, and Globalization’s Vision.” Rethinking Marxism Conference, UMass-Amherst, 22 September 2000.
“Differance and Repetition: Derrida and Deleuze on Performative Force.” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, SUNY-Stony Brook, 11 May 2000.
“Seeing and Saying: Deleuze, The Visual, and Globalization.” Northeast MLA, Buffalo, 7 April 2000.
"Between Possibility and Emergence: Foucault, Derrida, Butler." Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Seattle, 30 September 1994.
SCOTT NELSON
Full member SSD
Areas of interest:
International organization; sovereignty; liberalism; the Enlightenment; global terms of trade and income inequalities; critical theory; language and representation.
Articles:
“Kant, Foucault and the Problem of 'Globalization'"Alternatives Vol. 30; No. 2, 2006.
“Sovereignty, Ethics, Community,” Philosophy and Social Criticism (November,2004).
Papers:
Writing and Desire: Language, Power, Globalization, paper presented at the Western Political Science Association meetings, Portland, 10-12 March 2004.
Agency, Freedom, Cosmopolitanism: Theorizing Citizenship in a post-National World, paper presented at the Association for Political Theory conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 17-19 October 2003
JOHN PROTEVI
Full Member SSD
For additional information visit: protevi-homepage
Areas of interest:
Working on the intersection of Greek philosophy (Plato, Aristotle), classical German philosophy (Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger), and contemporary French philosophy (Derrida, Deleuze), especially as all those fields intersect questions provoked by contemporary science; currently working on a book on "political physiology."
Main difference-related publications:
Deleuze and Geophilosophy: A Guide and Glossary. With Mark Bonta. (Edinburgh University Press, 2004).
“Love,” in Between Deleuze and Derrida, ed. Paul Patton and John Protevi. (Continuum, 2003).
Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body Politic.(London: Athlone Press, 2001).
Time and Exteriority: Aristotle, Heidegger, Derrida.(Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1994).
Articles:
"Derrida and Hegel: Différance and Unterschied,"International Studies in Philosophy, 25.3 (1993), 59-74; reprinted in Jacques Derrida (4 volumes), eds. Christopher Norris and David Roden. Volume 1: Metaphysics. (London: Sage, 2002).
“The Organism as the Judgment of God: Aristotle, Kant and Deleuze on Nature (that is, on Biology, Theology and Politics),” in Deleuze and Religion, ed. Mary Bryden (Routledge, 2001).
"The 'Sense' of 'Sight': Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty on the Meaning of Bodily and Existential Sight," Research in Phenomenology, 28 (1998), 211-23.
"Derrida's Political Physics," in Phenomenology, Interpretation, and Community, ed. Lenore Langsdorf and Stephen H. Watson (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996).
"Avoiding a Superficial Reading: Derrida's Reading of 'The Anaximander Fragment,'" Philosophy Today, 38.1 (Spring 1994), 88-97
"Repeating the Parricide: Levinas and the Question of Closure," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology,23.1 (January 1992), 21-32.
"The Sinnsfrage and the Seinsfrage," Philosophy Today, 34.4 (December 1990), 321-333
JACK REYNOLDS
Full Member SSD
For more information visit: reynolds-homepage
Areas of interest:
Embodiment and the Other; Relationships and Alterity in Phenomenology and Deconstruction.
Main difference-related publications:
Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts, co-edited with Rosalyn Diprose, (Chesham, UK: Acumen Publishing, 2008)
Understanding Existentialism, (Chesham, UK: Acumen Publishing, 2005)
Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity, (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004)
Understanding Derrida, co-edited with Jonathan Roffe (50/50), (London: Continuum Publishing, 2004)
Articles:
“Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty: Immanence, Univocity, and Phenomenology”, co-authored with Jonathan Roffe (50/50),The Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology, October, 2006.
“Derrida and Deleuze on Time and the Future”, Borderlands: New Spaces in the Humanities, Vol. 3, No. 1, May 2004
“Possible and Impossible, Self and Other, and the Reversibility of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida”, Philosophy Today, Issue 1, Vol. 48, 2004
“Habituality and Undecidability: A Comparison of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on the Decision”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 10, No 4, November 2002
“Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and the Alterity of the Other” inSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Volume 6, No 1, 2002
“Kirby, ‘Corporeography’ and the Question of an Embodied Deconstruction” in Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy, Issue 3, 2002
“The Other of Derridean Deconstruction: Levinas, Phenomenology and the Question of Responsibility”, Minerva, Issue 5, 2001
AVITAL RONELL
Full Member SSD
For additional information visit: ronell-homepage
Areas of interest:
Difference, materiality of language, breaking with a tradition that values mastery and certitude, radical singularity.
Main difference-related publications:
Stupidity. (University of Illinois Press, 2001).
Finitude's Score : Essays for the End of the Millennium(Texts and Contexts, Vol 8, University of Nebraska Press, 1998).
GILMAN SANDER
Honorary Member SSD
Areas of interest:
Social and psychological history of difference.
Main difference-related publications:
Fat Boys: A Slim Book (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).
Jurek Becker: Die Biographie (Berlin: Ullstein, 2002). Jurek Becker • A Life in Five Worlds (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003) - a version of the biography for the Anglophone world.
Jewish Frontiers: Essays on Bodies, Histories, and Identities(New York: Palgrave / Macmillan, 2003).
Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery (Princeton: Princeton University Press; Doubleday Select Bookclubs, 1999).
Love + Marriage = Death and Other Essays Representing Difference (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998) - Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book of 1998, Gustavus Meyer Center.
L'Autre et le Moi: Stéréotypes occidentaux de la race, de la sexualité et de la maladie (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1996).
Smart Jews: The Construction of the Idea of Jewish Superior Intelligence at the Other End of the Bell Curve(The Inaugural Abraham Lincoln Lectures) (Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 1996)
Jews in Today's German Culture • The Schwartz Lectures (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
Health and Illness: Images of Difference (London: Reaktion Books, 1995).
Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Difference (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1995).
Franz Kafka: The Jewish Patient (New York: Routledge, 1995).
The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siècle (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993; paperback, 1994).
Freud, Race, and Gender (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
Hysteria: A New History (Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1993) (with Helen King, Roy Porter, George Rousseau, and Elaine Showalter).
The Visibility of the Jew in the Diaspora: Body Imagery and Its Cultural Context. The B.G. Rudolph Lecture for 1992 (Program in Jewish Studies: Syracuse University, 1992).
Rasse, Sexualität, Seuche: Stereotype aus der Innenwelt der westlichen Kultur (Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1992).
Inscribing the Other (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991).
The Jew's Body (New York: Routledge, 1991; Tokyo: Seido Sha, 1997) - selected as one of the ten best academic books of 1992 by Choice magazine.
Sexuality: An Illustrated History (New York: John Wiley, 1989; Moscow: International Center for Human Values, forthcoming; Tokyo: Seido Sha, 1997).
Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988).
Goethe's Touch: Touching, Seeing, and Sexuality. The Andrew W. Mellon Lecture for 1988 (New Orleans: Tulane University, 1988).
Oscar Wilde's London (New York: Doubleday, 1987) (with Wolf Von Eckardt and J. E. Chamberlin).
Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986)
Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and Madness (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985).
On Blackness without Blacks: Essays on the Image of the Black in Germany. Yale Afro- American Studies (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982).
Seeing the Insane: A Cultural History of Psychiatric Illustration (New York: Wiley Interscience, 1982).
Wahnsinn, Text und Kontext: Die historischen Wechselbeziehungen der Literatur, Kunst und Psychiatrie. Literatur und Psychologie, 8, ed. Wolfram Mauser (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1981).
The Face of Madness: Hugh W. Diamond and the Rise of Psychiatric Photography (New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1976).
HUGH J. SILVERMAN
Honorary Member SSD
For more information visit: silverman-homepage
Areas of interest:
Continental philosophy and the postmodern; cultures and politics of difference; deconstruction in philosophy and in literary, film, and art theory; aesthetics and art criticism.
Executive director: The international association for philosophy and literature
Main difference-related publications:
Uber Zizek, co-ed (Vienna:Turia + Kant, 2004).
Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics, and the Sublime, ed. (New York and London: Routledge, 2002).
"Jacques Derrida" in Postmodernism: The Key Figures, edited by Hans Bertens and Joseph Natoli (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002), pp. 110-118.
Derrida und die Politiken der Freundschaft, co-ed. (Vienna:Turia + Kant, 2002).
"Andy Warhol: Chiasmatic Visibilities" in Impossible Presence, ed. Terry Smith ( Sydney: Power Publications and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), pp. 193-207.
"Is Merleau-Ponty Inside or Outside the History of Philosophy?" in Chiasms: Merleau- Ponty's Notion of Flesh, eds. Fred Evans and Leonard Lawlor (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000),
pp. 131-143.
Philosophy and Desire, ed. (New York and London: Routledge, 2000).
Textualities: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction(New York and London: Routledge, 1994), in German (1997), in Italian (2004).
Inscriptions: After Phenomenology and Structuralism, 2nd ed. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997).
Philosophy and Non-Philosophy since Merleau-Ponty, ed. (Evanston: Northwestern, 1997).
Cultural Semiosis: Tracing the Signifier, ed. (New York and London: Routledge, 1997).
Textualitaeten der Philosophie / Philosophie und Literatur, co-ed. (Munich and Vienna: Oldenburg, 1994).
Texts and Dialogues: Merleau-Ponty on Philosophy, Politics, and Culture, co-ed. (Amherst: Humanity Books, 1992/1996).
Writing the Politics of Difference, ed. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991).
The Textual Sublime: Deconstruction and its Differences, co-ed. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990).
AUD SISSEL HOEL
Full member SSD
For additional information visit sissel-hoel-homepage
Areas of interest:
Theories of perception, instrumental uses of images and visual technologies.
In the ongoing project, 'Technics of Thinking,' she endeavours to develop a nonrepresentational theory of symbolic mediation. She is also conducting a parallel project, 'Photographic Difference,' which does the same thing while focusing on one particular case, namely, photographic instrumental portraits (mugshots, composite portraits, etc.).
Difference-related publications:
Technics of Thinking: Investigations into the Multidimensional Space of Meaning (forthcoming 2009)
Form and Technic: Reading Ernst Cassirer from the Present(edited) (fothcoming 2008)
Photographic Difference (forthcoming 2009)
Ernst Cassirer: Form og teknikk – utvalgte tekster (edited), 2006, Oslo: Cappelen. No. 54 in Cappelen’s unpopular writings series, 198 pages. ISBN 978-82-02-26405-5. Edited by Ingvild Folkvord and Aud Sissel Hoel, translation by Folkvord and introduction by Hoel.
Articles:
”Fotografisk mening og makt: En fremstillingsfilosofisk kritikk av postmodernistisk fototeori.” 2005, Norsk medietidsskrift, Vol. 12, No. 4.
“Cassirer’s Dynamic Conception of Form.” In: Gunnar Foss and Eivind Kasa (eds.), 2002, Forms of Knowledge and Sensibility. Ernst Cassirer and the Human Sciences. Oslo: Norwegian Academic Press
Papers:
”Reframing the Image.” The Visible and the Audible, Nordic conference organized by the Nordic network The Bodily Turn in Aesthetics. Lysebu, Norway, August 13-15, 2007.
“Photographic Difference.” Who’s Afraid of Photons? A Symposium on the History of Photography, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, USA, April 20, 2007.
“Thinking ’Difference’ Differently: Cassirer’s Theory of Mediation.” Form and Technics: Reading Ernst Cassirer from the Present, international Conference, NTNU. Trondheim, Norway, December 7-8, 2006.
“The Spectacle of Deviancy: Reflections on a 19th Century Police Album”. The Human and Its Others, international conference organized by the American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton University. Princeton, United States, March 23-24, 2006.
“Rethinking the Crisis of Perception, Visuality, and the Image.” Modes of Seeing, international conference organized by the project Aesthetic Technologies, NTNU. Trondheim, Norway, November 6-8, 2003.
DANIEL SMITH
Full Member SSD
Areas of interest:
19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy; Aesthetics; Nietzsche; Kant; 17th- Century Rationalism; Social and Political Philosophy.
Main difference-related publications:
“The Theory of Immanent Ideas,” in Deleuze and Philosophy, ed. Constantin V. Boundas (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2006).
“Deleuze’s Philosophy of Mathematics,” in Virtual Mathematics: The Logic of Difference, ed. Simon Duffy (Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2005).
“Deleuze on Leibniz: Difference, Continuity, and the Calculus,” in Current Continental Theory and Modern Philosophy, ed. Stephen H. Daniel (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2005)
“Badiou on the Ontology of Mathematics,” Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy, ed. Peter Hallward (London: Continuum, 2004), pp. 77-93
“Deleuze and Derrida, Immanence and Transcendence: Two Directions in Recent French Thought,” in Between Deleuze and Derrida, ed. John Protevi and Paul Patton (New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 46-66.
“The Doctrine of Univocity: Deleuze’s Ontology of Immanence,” in Deleuze and Religion, ed. Mary Bryden (London: Routledge, 2001).
Translated Articles:
Michel Foucault, “The West and the Truth of Sex” and “The Death of Lacan,” in Christopher Lane and Tim Dean, eds.,Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
Gilles Deleuze, “The Idea of Genesis in Kant’s Aesthetics,” inAngelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Dec. 2000).
With Arnold I. Davidson: Gilles Deleuze, “The Conditions of the Question: What is Philosophy?” Critical Inquiry 17/3 (Spring 1991), pp. 471-478
Papers:
“Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Toward an Immanent Theory of Ethics,” invited speaker in the “Ethics and Recent Critical Theory” series, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 30 November 2005.
“Ereignis and Event: Martin Heidegger and Gilles Deleuze,” conference at Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro, 4-7 November 2004.
“Deleuze and the Theory of Immanent Ideas,” The Gryphon Gallery, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia, 16 June 2004; and School Seminar Series, School of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 2 June 2004.
“Mathematics and the Theory of Multiplicities: Badiou and Deleuze Revisited,” conference on “Ethics and Politics: The Thought of Alain Badiou,” 24-25 May 2002, organized by Neil Badmington and Jean-Jacques Lecercle, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales.
“Deleuze and Derrida: Convergences and Divergences,” annual meeting, International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL), State University of New York, Stony Brook, 5-9 May 2000.
“The Question of Difference in Leibniz: Singularities, Continuity, and the Calculus,” Departmental Seminar Series, Department of Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, 11 September 1998; and the Philosophy Department at Macquarie University, Sydney, 16 September 1998.
“The Principle of Difference in Post-Kantian Thought,” annual meeting, Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association (APA), 3-6 April 1996, Seattle, Washington.
“Difference in Contemporary French Thought,” Fellow’s Workshop, Chicago Humanities Institute, University of Chicago, 20 February 1995.
IOANNIS STIVACHTIS
Full Member SSD.
Areas of interest:
Imagined communities; identity construction; nationalism and difference; culture and difference; religion and difference. Difference and perception/misperception in International Politics; difference, threat perception and security dilemmas; difference and securitisation.
Main difference-related publications:
On Boundaries and Entries: Readings on the Expansion of International Society (London: Palgrave) - forthcoming.
Europe and the Growth of International Society: Anarchy more than Culture, Global Dialogue, vol. 6, no. 3, Summer 2004.
Understanding European Union’s Enlargement: The Approach of the English School of International Relations, The United States and Europe: Policy Imperatives in a Globalizing World(in Howard Hensel, ed.) (London: Ashgate, 2002).
European Union’s Enlargement, The English School of International Relations and the Expansion of Regional International Societies, European Union’s Mediterranean Enlargement: The English School and the Expansion of Regional International Societies (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002) ( with Andrea Riemer).
Violent Conflict, Security and Development, Multi-National Policy Studies Towards World Peace (in Stuart Nagel, ed.) (New York: Marcel Dekker, 2002).
Co-operative Security and Non-Offensive Defence in the Zone of War: The Greek-Turkish and the Arab-Israeli Cases (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2001).
Living With Dilemmas: Greek-Turkish Relations at the Rise of the 21st Century, Austrian Yearbook of International Security Policy 2000 (in Erich Reiter, ed.) (Berlin: Mittler & Sohn, 2000).
Building Security in the Middle East: Approaches and Recent Developments, Reducing Risk - Building Security (in Pericles Gasparini Alves, ed.) (Geneva: United Nations Publications, 1999).
The Enlargement of International Society: Culture versus Anarchy and Greece’s Entry into International Society(London: Macmillan, 1998).
TORKILD THANEM
Full Member SSD.
Areas of interest:
Organisation and Deleuze in particular the application of the Body without Organs and Desire in Organizational life; death and complexity.
Main difference-related publications:
'The Body without Organs: ‘Nonorganizational Desire in Organizational Life’ (2004), Culture and Organization 10(3): 203-217.
‘The Ghost in the Organism’ (2002), Organization Studies23(5): 817-839 (with Stephen Cummings).
‘Processing the Body: A Comment on Cooper’ (2001),ephemera: critical dialogues on organization 1(4): 348-366.
‘Death, Organisation and Complexity’ (1999), in Walter Baets (ed.) A Collection of Essays in Complexity and Management, pp. 315-327. London: World Scientific.
ELIZABETH THEILER
Full member SSD.
Areas of interest:
Emotions and their dynamics within new subjective processes; difference and pleasure; difference and death.
Main difference-related publications:
Futures Consultant for Designer Babies (Documentary Film: Cousins, S., Director) (shown on SBS Australian Television, Sept. 2004).
Articles:
'Difference As A Way of Life: Journey Within a Health, Art and Philosophy Project', Peyvan, (1997) Bicultural Journal, 1 (5), 4-7.
'When I am Dead, Lets Not Agree on What I Think.: (Key Performance) Stories from the Field', (1995), Nursing and Methodologies, Sydney: 28-30 Sept.
Arts:
Spontaneous [painting] exhibited at the Celebration of International Women’s Day (1997), Gold Coast Showgrounds, Gold Coast, 7-9 March (with Fehr, E., Kuperman, M., Magennis, K., Ong, F., Vaziri, N., Weeks, M.)
Manifestation by a group of Non-English speaking background women living on the Gold Coast. [Painting] Exhibited at the Ethnic Art Group Tropicarnival, Gold Coast City Council, Oct. 12, (with E., Fehr, E., Kuperman, M., Baoying, L., Magennis, K., Ong, F., Vaziri, N., Weeks, M.)
BRIAN TREANOR
Full Member SSD
For more information visit: treanor-homepage
Areas of interest:
Issues of 'otherness', hermeneutics, phenomenology and existentialism; ongoing dialogues with deconstruction and pragmatism.
Main difference-related publications:
Aspects of Alterity: Levinas, Marcel and the Contemporary Debate Press, forthcoming fall 2006).(New York: Fordham University.
Articles:
“Judging the Other: Beyond Toleration” in the Experience of Tolerance, ed. Rodrigo Ferradas (Lima, Peru: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú/Fondo Editorial, 2006).
“Constellations: Gabriel Marcel’s Philosophy of Relative Otherness.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 79, no. 2, 2005.
“Plus de Secret: The Paradox of Prayer” in The Phenomenology of Prayer, Bruce Benson and Norman Wirzba eds. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005)
“God and the Other Person: Levinas’s Appropriation of Kierkegaard’s Encounter with Otherness.”Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. 75, 2001.
“Merleau-Ponty on the Signifying Power of Painting and Language.” Kinesis, vol. 28 (1),
2002.
“Marcel and Levinas: Disponibilité and Responsibility.”Dialogue, vol. 41(1), 1999.
Papers:
“Wagers and Leaps: Knowledge, Belief and Faith in James and Derrida.” WECSOR (Western Commission on the Study of Religion, the West Coast Meeting of the American Academy of Religion). March 21-22, 2004, Whittier, CA.
“Judging the Other: Beyond Toleration.” XV Inter-American Congress of Philosophy. January 12-16, 2004, Lima, Peru.
“Divine Others and Human Others: An Inquiry into the Influence of Søren Kierkegaard on Emmanuel Levinas.” American Catholic Philosophical Association. November 9-11, 2001 Albany, NY.
“Situating Levinas within the Intersubjective Dialogue.” Addressing Levinas: Ethics, Phenomenology, and the Judaic Tradition. October 15-17, 1999, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
“Otherness, Obligation and Intersubjectivity.” Boston College Philosophy Forum, November 1998.
OWEN WARE
Full Member SSD
Areas of interest:
20th-century Continental Philosophy (especially Merleau-Ponty and Derrida), phenomenology, theology, ethics.
Articles:
"Love Speech", Critical Inquiry 34:3 (Spring 2008): 491-508.
"Rudolph Otto's Idea of the Holy: A Reappraisal", The Heythrop Journal: A Bi-Monthly Review of Philosophy and Theology 47:1 (Winter 2007): 48-60.
"Universality and Historicity: On the Sources of Religion",Research in Phenomenology 36:4 (Winter 2006): 238-254.
“Ontology, Otherness, and Self-Alterity: The Problem of Intersubjectivity For Sartre and Merleau-Ponty,” Forthcoming in Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy 10:2 (Fall 2006).
“Alterity and the Numinous: Theistic and Non-Theistic Elements in Rudolph Otto’s Thought,” (Forthcoming inHeythrop Journal: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy and Theology)
“Impossible Passions: Derrida and Negative Theology,”Philosophy Today 49:2 (Summer 2005): 171-183.
“Dialectic of the Past / Disjuncture of the Future: Derrida and Benjamin on the Concept of Messianism,” Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory 5:2 (Spring 2004): 99- 114. http://www.jcrt.org/archives/06.2/
NATHAN WIDDER
NATHAN WIDDER
Full Member SSD
For additional information visit: widder-homepage
Areas of interest:
History of political thought and philosophy; contemporary continental philosophy; feminist political theory; difference, pluralism, power, identity, and knowledge.
Main difference-related publications:
Reflections on Time and Politics (Pennsylvania State Univesrsity Press, 2008).
Geneologies of Difference (University of Illinois Press, 2002).
Articles:
'Deleuzean Surface Sense', Issues in Contemporary Culture and Aesthetics, 13, 2004, forthcoming.
'The Relevance of Nietzsche to Democratic Theory: Micropolitics and the Affirmation of Difference',Contemporary Political Theory, 3, 2, 2004.
'In Search of Lost Becomings', Parallax, 13, 1999.
'Singularly Aristotle', Theory & Event, I, 3, 1997.
JULIAN WOLFREYS
Full Member SSD
For additional information visit: wolfreys-homepage
Areas of interest:
The uncanny, difference and deconstruction, literary and critical theory.
Main difference-related publications:
Thinking Difference: Critics in Conversation (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, No. 35) (Fordham University Press, 2004).
Introducing Criticism at the 21st Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2002).
The French Connections of Jacques Derrida (co-edited with John Brannigan, Ruth Robbins) (State University of New York Press, 1999).
Deconstruction: Derrida (Palgrave, 1998).
The Rhetoric of Affirmative Resistance: Dissonant Identities from Carroll to Derrida (St. Martin's Press, 1997).
STEPHEN WORCHEL
Full Member SSD
Areas of interest:
Intergroup conflict resolution, identity/difference issues.
Main diffrence-related publications:
'It takes two to tango: Relating group identity to individual identity within the framework of group development.' In M. Brewer & M. Hewstone (eds.), Self and social identity. (Malden, MS: Blackwell, 2004).
The psychology of ethnic and cultural conflict: Global perspectives. (Westport, CN: Praeger Press, 200) (with Lee, Y-T, McCauley, C., Moghaddam, F., (eds.)).
Social Identity: International Perspectives, (London: Sage Publications, 1998) (with ., Morales, J., Paez, D., & Deschamps, J. (eds.)).
'Multidisciplinary perspectives on conflict.' In S. Worchel & J. Simpson (eds.) Conflict Between People and Groups. (Chicago: Nelson-Hall. 1994)
'The nature of conflict and conflict resolution'. In K. Duffy, J. Grosh, & P. Olezcak (eds.), Issues in Community Mediation: A Handbook for Practitioners and Researchers. (New York: Guilford Press, 1991).
The Psychology of Intergroup Relations. (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1986.) (with Austin, W.G)
Personal Adjustment and Interpersonal Relations. (New York: Random House, 1981)
The Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations. (Monterey, California: Brooks/Cole, 1979).
Articles:
'A multidimensional model of identity: Relating individual and group identity to intergroup behavior.' In R. Brown & D. Capozza (eds.), Recent Developments in Social Identity
Research. (London: Blackwell, 2000).
'Improving intergroup relations: Comparative effects of anticipated cooperation and helping on attraction for an aid-giver'. Social Psychology Quarterly, 52, 213-220. (with Wong, F., & Skeltema, K).
'The effect of perceived environmental conditions during cooperation on intergroup attraction.' Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 38, 746-772.
Papers:
Promoting positive relationships between enduring groups. Institute of Work Psychology, University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland (April 16, 2005).
Promoting peaceful co-existence between ethnic and cultural groups. (Invited address) International Graduate School, Jena Germany (May 23, 2005).
Sowing the seeds of peace in ethnic conflict: The potential of interactive camps for reducing and preventing ethnic violence. International Committee of the Red Cross/ European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Geneva, Switzerland (September 9-11, 2004).
Perspectives on intergroup relations: Expanding the focus. Western Psychological Association, Maui, Hawai’i, May 4, 2001.
Individualism, collectivism and their effects. Spanish Congress of Psychology, San Sebastian, Spain, September 29, 1997.
Dissecting national identity. International Society of Political Psychology, Washington, D.C., July 5-7, 1995.
The importance of conflict for group identity. 23rd International Congress of Applied Psychology, Madrid, Spain, July, 1994.
SANTIAGO ZABALA
Full Member SSD
For more information visit: zabala-homepage
Areas of interest:
Conversational Philosophy (in which human beings wish only to live up to one another), Hermeneutics, Pragmatism, and Weak Thought.
Main difference-related publications:
The Remains of Being. by Santiago Zabala. Forthcoming at Columbia University Press, New York, 2008.
Tugendhat: The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy, by Santiago Zabala. Tugendhat. Columbia University Press, New York, 2007.
Weakening Philosophy. Essays in Honour of Gianni Vattimo, edited by Santiago Zabala. McGill-Queen's University Press 2007. [In translation in Italian by Garzanti Publisher and in Spanish by Anthropos Publisher].
The Future of Religion, by Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo; edited by Santiago Zabala, Columbia University Press, New York 2005. [Translated in German (Suhrkamp), French (Bayard), Spanish (Paidos), Italian (Garzanti), Czechoslovakian (Charles University in Prague), Dutch (Klement Uitgeverij), Portuguese (Angelus Novus), Brasilian (Relume Dumará), Bulgarian (Critique & Humanism), Turkish (Ayrinti Yayinlari), Danish (Aarhus University Press)].
Articles:
'Pharmakons of Onto-theology. Deconstruction, Semantics, and Interpretation,' by
Santiago Zabala. Forthcoming inAquinas in 2006.
'Ending the Rationality of Faith through Interpretation. Why ?Blessed are those who believe without seeing', Sensus Communis, vol. 5 (2004), N. 4 (September-December), Issue 14, pp. 422-447
Le conseguenze della differenza ontologica. Dialogo con Gianni Vattimo, Teoria. Rivista di Filosofia, Pisa, Edizioni ETS, N. 2, 2004, pp. 169-177.
'Weak Thought' and the reduction of violence'. A Dialogue with Gianni Vattimo, Common Knowledge, volume 8, Issue 3, fall 2002, Duke University Press, pp. 425-463.
'De la justice du Droit au droit à la Justice'. Entretien à Gianni Vattimo, Le Magazine littéraire, N. 402, Octobre 2001, pp. 98-102.
Other:
Filosofare con Ernst Tugendhat. Il carattere ermeneutico della filosofia analitica, by Santiago Zabala. This book contains a foreword by Gianni Vattimo and a dialogue with Ernst Tugendhat. Franco Angeli Editore, Milan, 2004.
Nihilism and emancipation. Ethics, Politics, and Law, by Gianni Vattimo. Edited by Santiago Zabala. Forward by Richard Rorty and translated by William McCuaig, Columbia University Press 2004. [Translated in Danish (Aarhus University Press), Spanish (Paidos) and Italian (Garzanti)]
PANAYOTIS (PANOS) ZAMAROS
The Difference site founder!
The Society for the Study of Difference co-Founder withDouglas Donkel!
For additional information visit zamaros-homepage
Areas of interest:
Finitude, difference and pure absence (apousia), hesitation and in-betweenness, organizational (management) and difference philosophy.
The Difference Site; The Society for the Study of Difference.
Main difference-related publications:
Myth as a Logical Description of Experience (CreateSpace, 2012).
The Faces of Parmenidis (CreateSpace, 2011)
From Apousia to Apousia: Difference (CreateSpace 2007)
Rhyming Difference (Lausanne, 2004).
Articles:
'An Interview in Difference', The Diffrence Site, online publication 2004.
Vignettes:
Demarcating the Artistic (Neuchâtel, October 2008).
The Power of If (Lausanne, January 2006).
Whenever Humanism is Stated (Lausanne, November 2005).
This Humanism: Today's Challenge, (Lausanne, September 2005).
SSD ASSOCIATES' PAGE
DEVARAKONDA BALA GANAPTHI interest in difference, symbolism in cultures and identities, diversity of symbolism in India, globalisation.
MEGAN BEADLE interest in difference in language, semiotics and epistemology.
NATHANIEL BOBBITT interest in Deleuze and fractal differenciation; for more information visit: bobbitt-homepage
JOHN DEW interest in difference as related to communication and visual language through semiotics and locative media.
KRISTINA LEBEDEVA interest in Heidegger, techne, and the body.
LUCA GORI interest in difference and language, and continental philosophy particularly Deleuze.
RICHARD HARTMAN interest in difference, indifference and linking Tillich with Deleuze, Irigary and Lacan.
KAMMEL GENEVIEVE interest in religious studies and difference.
ARSALAN MEMON interest in existentialism and phenomenology with Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, especially issues concerning the 'body', deconstruction with Derrida and psychoanalysis with Lacan and Freud.
PATRICK O'CONNOR interest in continenetal philosophy-Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, Nancy, phenomenology and deconstruction, difference as a condtion of community in deconstruction.
JUDITH VAN RAALTEN interest in ethnic identity and difference, inter-group relations, ethnic conflict, philosophy with children, critical thinking, history of philosophy
APHINANT TANTIWATANA (Henry) interest in de Saussure and linguistics, difference and language differentials, linguistics and linearity.
BRENDAN TRIFFET interest in the relation between unity and difference and space and time, ethics and "pure difference"; for more information visit: triffet-homepage
MONICA VILHAUER interest in dialogue and Nietzschean ethics.
ERIC WEBER interest in difference in conceptual construction across varied societies.
GREG WILLMOTT interest in difference, progress, and epistemology.
NON-MEMBERS
FRANCOISE DASTUR
for additional information visit: dastur-homepage
Areas of interest:
Difference and its evolution, Heidegger, questions of time, and phenomenology.
Main difference-related publications:
Philosophie et différence (Les Editions de la Transparence, 2004).
Heidegger and the Question of Time (New-Jersey, Humanities Press, 1998).
JULIANA DE NOOY
for additional information visit: de nooy-homepage
Areas of interest:
Questions of identity and difference in literary theory, in cross-cultural communication, and in narrative genres.
Main difference-related publications:
Derrida, Kristeva, and the Dividing Line: An Articulation of Two Theories of
Difference (New York, London: Garland, 1998).
Articles:
'From Revolution to Revolt: Kristevan Contestation for the Nineties' (1997) Southern Review, 30 (2), 146-58.
'The Double Scission: Dällenbach, Dolezel and Derrida on Doubles' (1991) Style, 25 (1), 19-27.
'Double Jeopardy: A Reading of Kristeva’s ‘Le texte clos’' (1988) Southern Review, 21 (2), 150-68.
ALLAN JOHNSON
for additional information visit: johnson-homepage
Areas of interest:
Issues of privilege, oppression, and social inequality
Main difference-related publications:
The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchical Legacy(Temple University Press, 1997)
Privilege, Power, and Difference (McGraw-Hill, 2001).
MICHELE LAMONT
for additional information visit: lamont-homepage
Areas of interest:
Racial and class boundaries and comparative anti-racism.
Main difference-related publications:
The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class and Immigration (Cambridge: Harvard University Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002).
The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and While Boundaries(Chicago: University of Chicago Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999).
Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality, (co-edited with Marcel Fournier), (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).
GIANNI VATTIMO
for additional information visit: vattimo-homepage
Areas of interest:
Difference philosophy, Heidegger, Nietzsche, democratic practice and ethics.
Main difference-related publications:
The Adventure of Difference (traduz. di Le avventure della differenza) (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988), (The John Hopkins University Press, 1995)
Dialettica, differenza, pensiero debole contenuto, AA.VV., Il pensiero debole a cura di G. Vattimo e P. A. Rovatti (Milano: Feltrinelli, 1983 - 12-28)
Le avventure della differenza. Che cosa significa pensare dopo Nietzsche e Heidegger (Milano: Garzanti, 1980).
Articles:
'Identità, differenza, con-fusione', Casabella, 519 (1985) - 42-43
'Dialectics, Difference, and Weak Thought', Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 10 (1984) - 151-63, translated by T. Harrison
'Difference and Interference: On the Reduction of Hermeneutics to Anthropology', in Res, 4 (1982) - 85-91, translated by T. Harrison
'Dialectique et différence', Exercises de patience, 3-4 (1982) - 125-44, translated by J. Rolland
'Le avventure della differenza', Verifiche, 8 (1979) - 63-80
'Nitzsche e la differenza', Nuova Corrente, 68-69 (1976) - 681-702
JAMES WILLIAMS
for additional information visit: williams-homepage
Areas of interest:
Difference philosophy, postmodernism.
Main difference-related publications:
Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: a Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2003).
Lyotard and the Political (Routledge, 2000).
Lyotard: Towards a Postmodern Philosophy (Polity, 1998).
Others
SEYLA BENHABIB
WALTER BROGAN
DANIEL DENETT
PHILIP GOODCHILD
NAEEM INAYATULLAH
HILLIS MILLER
ARKADY PLOTNITSKY
NICHOLAS ROYLE
GREGORY ULMER
DAVID WOOD
FRANCOIS LARUELLE