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May 2017

May 29, 2017

How is Classical Philosophy is Like War?

Emmanuel Levinas, the father of personalist-oriented phenomenology, reminds us that war is the model for...

May 26, 2017

Why Does the World’s Leading Philosopher Remain a Catholic?

Catholic triumphalism isn't much in fashion these days, but Jean-Luc Marion bucks the trends.

April 2017

April 14, 2017

It’s a Good Friday to Leave Calypso’s Island

The specter of death haunts Western civilization at its roots like any other civilization. Greek and...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

The Good = Evil + Time

[E]vil is a moment in the temporalized unfolding of the good. --John Panteleimon Manoussakis, The...

December 2016

December 11, 2016

TOP10 Booklist: What Theology, Science & Philosophy Should Be Under Your Christmas Tree?

Theology buffs have more of a Christmas gift dilemma than science and philosophy readers. The...

May 2016

May 11, 2016

Philosopher Martin Heidegger is so Catholic he’s Publishing from Purgatory

The philosopher Martin Heidegger is arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th century. He...

May 07, 2016

Trump Sounds Like Derrida When Talking to Woodward about Lincoln & Nixon

That philosophy died yesterday, since Hegel or Marx, Nietzsche, or Heidegger, and that philosophy should...

April 2016

April 13, 2016

TOP10 Book Challenge: Books About the Meaning of Life for Undergrads

I'm a little sheepish about publishing book lists, even though my readers frequently tell me...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheist: Sartre Eulogizes Merleau-Ponty

The "Famous Atheists" series is devoted to exposing prominent thinkers (Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, Irigaray), artists...

October 15, 2015

Ocean Symphony, Breeze, & a Liturgy: Sam Rocha’s Folk Interview

Sam Rocha is my dear friend. Besides that he is also Assistant Professor of Philosophy...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

A Book to Pick Up, Read, & Survive (Even When You Don’t Thrive)

Justin Tse writes about reading as a survival tactic: Let me finish, then, on a...

September 18, 2015

Anatheism: The Hospitality Before Theism and Atheism

I confess that my post on the White House guest list was a failed experiment...

September 05, 2015

The Phenomenology of a Jim Beam Bourbon Firenado

Life is full of surprises. Surprises, by definition, are one-off events that cannot be anticipated...

August 2015

August 19, 2015

Negative Certainties Trump Scientific Facts Daily

It is easy enough to debunk the mythical origins of science in the Greek and...

August 14, 2015

No Theology, No Phenomenology of the Person?

Thomas Pfau is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English and professor of German at...

August 13, 2015

Threatening Naturalism’s Universal Authority

Thomas Pfau is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English and professor of German at...

June 2015

June 13, 2015

Why Does Continental Philosopher Richard Kearney Remain Catholic?

Richard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and has...

April 2015

April 10, 2015

Mein Kampf Against Hitler: Comparing von Hildebrand to Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was recognized as a hero of World War II Nazi-resistance with the posthumous...

April 07, 2015

Religion is at Once Theoretical and Practical

The difference between theory and practice is fairly clear. It is like the difference between...

March 2015

March 17, 2015

5 Pathbreaking Catholic Titles to Watch from the University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago is no doubt one of the most dynamic academic institutions in...

February 2015

February 05, 2015

Jean-Luc Marion: Does Silencing Love Mean Philosophy is a Misnomer?

The everyday ramifications of reading are a constant preoccupation of mine. I like to believe...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

St. Socrates: Philosophy’s Permanent Ties to Theology

Dominique Janicaud has spent the great part of his academic career attempting to somewhat belligerently...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Christianity Does Not Endeavor to Save Christianity

The Lumen Christi Institute is devoted to promoting the depth and breadth of Catholic culture...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

The Consequences of God’s Maternal Thinking for Theology

The feminist Sara Ruddick must be doing something right if both Alasdair MacIntyre and Janet Martin...

September 2014

September 17, 2014

Hermann, Max, Woody and Falling Out of the Ordo Amoris

Yesterday we discussed Woody Allen as a liminal personality stuck somewhere between belief and disbelief. Being...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

The Call to Being Has Already Exiled You: Sam Rocha’s Late to Love

I've been trying to write about Sam Rocha's album Late to Love all morning long....

August 19, 2014

Phenomenology, the Anxieties of Life, and the Mystery of Hope

It's finally time to write a post here at Patheos. I've kept busy the past...

August 07, 2014

How Husserl Changed Catholic Attitudes Toward Judaism

One of the guiding threads of Gubser's book on the Central European origins of phenomneology...

August 05, 2014

The Central European and Social Heart of Phenomenology

Contemporary philosophical movements are not known for connecting on a practical level with Catholics. Catholics...

May 2014

May 07, 2014

Science Doesn't Think: Neil deGrasse Tyson Busts a Move on Philosophy

There are so many temptations to keep writing my dissertation uninterrupted instead of blogging, but...