Robert L. Bernasconi is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 at the University of Memphis

University of Memphis

The University of Memphis is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee and is the flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system....

. He is well known as a reader of Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."...

 and Emmanuel Levinas

Emmanuel Lévinas

Emmanuel Levinas was a Lithuanian-born French Jewish philosopher and Talmudic commentator.-Life:Emanuelis Levinas received a traditional Jewish education in Lithuania...

, and for his work on the concept of race. In the fall of 2009 he moved from Memphis to the philosophy department at Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...

.

Career

Bernasconi received his doctorate from Sussex University. He taught at the University of Essex

University of Essex

The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...

 for thirteen years before taking up a position at the University of Memphis

University of Memphis

The University of Memphis is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee and is the flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system....

.
Robert come from a Academic family born in Newcastle United Kingdom, his brother John is the Director of Fine arts at the University of Hull. The family come are of Swiss background north of Milano

Interests

In addition to extensive work on Heidegger and Levinas, Bernasconi has written on Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....

, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.Hegel developed a comprehensive...

, Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt was a German American political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact...

, Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method .-Life:...

, Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary...

, Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon was a Martiniquo-Algerian psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose work is influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism...

, Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...

, and numerous others.

In the early 1990s Bernasconi began to develop an interest in the concepts of race and racism

Racism

Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...

, particularly in relation to the history of philosophy. In addition to writing many articles on race, racism, slavery

Slavery

Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation...

, African philosophy

African philosophy

African philosophy is used in different ways by different philosophers. Although African philosophers spend their time doing work in many different areas, such as metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy, a great deal of the literature is taken up with a debate...

 and related topics, he has also edited and published an enormous amount of primary material relating to these themes.

Books authored

• How to Read Sartre (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007).
• Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1993).
• The Question of Language in Heidegger's History of Being (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1985).

Books edited

• Race, Hybridity
  Hybridity
  Hybridity refers in its most basic sense to mixture. The term originates from biology and was subsequently employed in linguistics and in racial theory in the nineteenth century. Its contemporary uses are scattered across numerous academic disciplines and is salient in popular culture...
  
  , and Miscegenation
  Miscegenation
  Miscegenation is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, and procreation....
  
  (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2005). With Kristie Dotson.
• Race and Anthropology (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2003).
• Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003). With Sybol Cook.
• American Theories of Polygenesis
  Polygenism
  Polygenism is a theory of human origins positing that the human races are of different lineages . This is opposite to the idea of monogenism, which posits a single origin of humanity.- Origins :...
  
  (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2002).
• The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). With Simon Critchley
  Simon Critchley
  Simon Critchley is an English philosopher currently teaching at The New School. He works in continental philosophy. Critchley argues that philosophy commences in disappointment, either religious or political...
  
  .
• Concepts of Race in the Eighteenth Century (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2001).
• Race (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001).
• In Proximity: Emmanuel Levinas and the Eighteenth Century (Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2001). With Melvin New & Richard A. Cohen.
• The Idea of Race (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2000). With Tommy Lee Lott.
• Re-Reading Levinas (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991). With Simon Critchley.
• The Provocation of Levinas (New York: Routledge, 1988). With David Wood
  David Wood (philosopher)
  David Wood is a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University.- Career and interests :Wood has taught philosophy in Europe and the United States for over thirty years and has published 16 books. In addition to teaching at Vanderbilt University, where he is Centennial Professor of Philosophy,...
  
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• Derrida and Différance (Warwick: Parousia Press, 1985; Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1988 [United States]). With David Wood.
• Time and Metaphysics (Coventry: Parousia Press, 1982). With David Wood.

Selected articles

• "The Policing of Race Mixing: The Place of Biopower within the History of Racisms," Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 7 (2010): 205–16.
• "Race and Earth in Heidegger's Thinking During the Late 1930s," Southern Journal of Philosophy 48 (2010): 49–66.
• "Must We Avoid Speaking of Religion? The Truths of Religions," Research in Phenomenology 39 (2009): 204–23.
• "'Our Duty to Conserve': W. E. B. Du Bois's Philosophy of History in Context," South Atlantic Quarterly 108 (2009): 519–40.
• "A Haitian in Paris: Anténor Firmin
  Anténor Firmin
  Joseph Auguste Anténor Firmin , better known as simply Anténor Firmin, was a Haitian anthropologist, journalist, and politician. Firmin is best known for his book De l'Égalité des Races Humaines , which was published as a rebuttal to French writer Count Arthur de Gobineau's work Essai sur...
  
   as a philosopher against racism," Patterns of Prejudice 42 (2008): 365–83.
• "Can Race be Thought in Terms of Facticity: A Reconsideration of Sartre's and Fanon's Existential Theories of Race," in François Raffoul & Eric Sean Nelson, Rethinking Facticity (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008).
• "Black Skin, White Skulls: The Nineteenth Century Debate over the Racial Identity of the Ancient Egyptians," Parallax 13 (2007): 6–20.
• "'Y'all don't hear me now': On Lorenzo Simpson's The Unfinished Project," Philosophy and Social Criticism 33 (2007): 289–99.
• "Sartre's Response to Merleau-Ponty's Charge of Subjectivism," Philosophy Today 50 (2006): 113–125.
• "What are Prophets for? Negotiating the Teratological Hypocrisy of Judeo-Hellenic Europe," Revista portuguesa de filosofía 62 (2006): 441–55.
• "The Contradictions of Racism: Locke
  John Locke
  John Locke FRS , widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social...
  
  , Slavery, and the Two Treatises
  Two Treatises of Government
  The Two Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke...
  
  ," in Andrew Valls (ed.), Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005): 89–107. With Anika Maaza Mann.
• "Levinas and the Struggle for Existence," in Eric Sean Nelson, Antje Kapust & Kent Still (eds.), Addressing Levinas (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2005).
• "Lévy-Bruhl among the Phenomenologists: Exoticisation and the Logic of ‘the Primitive’," Social Identities 11 (2005): 229–45.
• "Identity and Agency in Frantz Fanon," Sartre Studies International 10, 2 (2004): 106–9.
• "No Exit: Levinas’ Aporetic Account of Transcendence," Research in Phenomenology 35 (2005): 101–17.
• Hegel's Racism: A Reply to McCarney, Radical Philosophy 119 (2003).
• "Will the Real Kant Please Stand Up: The Challenge of Enlightenment Racism to the Study of the History of Philosophy," Radical Philosophy 117 (2003): 13–22.
• "With What Must the History of Philosophy Begin? Hegel's Role in the Debate on the Place of India within the History of Philosophy," in David A. Duquette (ed.), Hegel's History of Philosophy: New Interpretations (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003): 35–49.
• "The Assumption of Negritude
  Négritude
  Négritude is a literary and ideological movement, developed by francophone black intellectuals, writers, and politiciansin France in the 1930s by a group that included the future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and the Guianan Léon Damas.The Négritude...
  
  : Aimé Césaire
  Aimé Césaire
  Aimé Fernand David Césaire was a French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature".-Student, educator, and poet:...
  
  , Frantz Fanon, and the Vicious Circle of Racial Politics," Parallax 8, 2 (2002): 69–83.
• "Emmanuel Levinas: The Phenomenology of Sociality and the Ethics of Alterity," in John Drummond (ed.), Phenomenological Approaches to Moral Philosophy (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002): 249-268. With Stacy Keltner.
• "The Ghetto and Race," in David Theo Goldberg & John Solomos (eds.), A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002): 340–48.
• "What is the Question to which 'Substitution' is the Answer?" in Bernasconi & Critchley (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2002): 234–51.
• "Eliminating the Cycle of Violence: The Place of A Dying Colonialism within Fanon's Revolutionary Thought," Philosophia Africana 4, 2 (2001): 17–25.
• "Who Invented the Concept of Race? Kant's Role in the Enlightenment Construction of Race," in Bernasconi (ed.), Race (2001): 11–36.
• "Almost Always More Than Philosophy Proper," Research in Phenomenology 30 (2000): 1–11.
• "The Invisibility of Racial Minorities in the Public Realm of Appearances," in Kevin Thompson & Lester Embree (eds.), Phenomenology of the Political (Netherlands: Kluwer, 2000): 169–87.
• "Krimskrams: Hegel and the Current Controversy about the Beginnings of Philosophy," in Charles E. Scott & John Sallis
  John Sallis
  John Sallis is an American philosopher. Since 2005, he has been the Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He has previously taught at Pennsylvania State University , Vanderbilt University , Loyola University of Chicago , Duquesne University and the University of the South .He is the brother...
  
   (eds.), Interrogating the Tradition: Hermeneutics and the History of Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000): 191–208.
• "With What Must the Philosophy of World History Begin? On the Racial Basis of Hegel's Eurocentrism
  Eurocentrism
  Eurocentrism is the practice of viewing the world from a European perspective and with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of European culture...
  
  ," Nineteenth Century Contexts 22 (2000): 171–201.
• "Expecting the Unexpected," in James Watson (ed.), Portraits of American Continental Philosophers (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999): 13–24.
• "Richard J. Bernstein
  Richard J. Bernstein
  Richard J. Bernstein is an American philosopher, the Vera List Professor of Philosophy and former dean of the graduate faculty at The New School....
  
  : Hannah Arendt's Alleged Evasion of the Question of Jewish Identity," Continental Philosophy Review 32 (1999): 472–78.
• "The Third Party: Levinas on the Intersection of the Ethical and the Political," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 30 (1999): 76-87.
• "The Truth that Accuses: Conscience, Shame, and Guilt in Levinas and Augustine
  Augustine of Hippo
  Augustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...
  
  ," in Gary B. Madison & Marty Fairbairn (eds.), The Ethics of Postmodernity (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1999): 24–34.
• "'We Philosophers': Barbaros medeis eisito," in Rebecca Comay & John McCumber (eds.), Endings: Questions of Memory in Hegel and Heidegger (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1999).
• "Different Styles of Eschatology: Derrida's Take on Levinas' Political Messianism," Research in Phenomenology 28 (1998): 3–19.
• "Hegel at the Court of the Ashanti," in Stuart Barnett (ed.), Hegel after Derrida (New York & London: Routledge, 1998): 41–63.
• "African Philosophy's Challenge to Continental Philosophy," in Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (ed.), Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997).
• "Justice Without Ethics?", PLI—Warwick Journal of Philosophy 6 (1997): 58–67.
• "Eckhart's
  Meister Eckhart
  Eckhart von Hochheim O.P. , commonly known as Meister Eckhart, was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire. Meister is German for "Master", referring to the academic title Magister in theologia he obtained in Paris...
  
   Anachorism," Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 19, 2–20, 1 (1997): 81–90.
• "Opening the Future: The Paradox of Promising in the Hobbesian
  Thomas Hobbes
  Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury , in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy...
  
   Social Contract," Philosophy Today 41 (1997): 77–86.
• "Philosophy's Paradoxical Parochialism: The Reinvention of Philosophy as Greek," in Keith Ansell-Pearson, Benita Parry, & Judith Squires (eds.), Cultural Readings of Imperialism: Edward Said
  Edward Said
  Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism...
  
   and the Gravity of History (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997): 212-26.
• "The Violence of the Face: Peace and Language in the Thought of Levinas," Philosophy and Social Criticism 23, 6 (1997): 81–93.
• "What Comes Around Goes Around: Derrida and Levinas on the Economy of the Gift and the Gift of Genealogy," in Alan D. Schrift (ed.), The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity (New York & London: Routledge, 1997): 256–73.
• "Casting the Slough: Fanon’s New Humanism for a New Humanity," in Lewis R. Gordon, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting & Renée T. White (eds.), Fanon: A Critical Reader (Oxford, Blackwell, 1996): 113-21.
• "The Double Face of the Political and the Social: Hannah Arendt and America's Racial Divisions," Research in Phenomenology 26 (1996): 3–24.
• "Heidegger and the Invention of the Western Philosophical Tradition," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 26 (1995): 240–54.
• "‘I Will Tell You Who You Are.’ Heidegger on Greco-German Destiny and Amerikanismus
  Americanism
  Americanism may refer to:* Americanization* A word or phrase considered typical of American English, English as spoken in the United States* An attitude or conviction which gives special importance to the nation, national interest, political system, or culture of the United States* Americanism ,...
  
  ," in Babette E. Babich (ed.), From Phenomenology to Thought, Errancy, and Desire: Essays in Honor of William J. Richardson
  William J. Richardson
  William John Richardson, S. J. is an American philosopher, who was among the first to introduce the philosophy of Martin Heidegger to the English-speaking world. He is currently professor emeritus of philosophy at Boston College.-Bibliography:...
  
  , S. J. (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995).
• "On Heidegger’s Other Sins of Omission: His Exclusion of Asian Thought from the Origins of Occidental Metaphysics and His Denial of the Possibility of Christian Philosophy," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 69 (1995): 333–50.
• "'Only the Persecuted...: Language of the Oppressor, Language of the Oppressed," in Adriaan T. Peperzak (ed.), Ethics as First Philosophy: The Significance of Emmanuel Levinas for Philosophy, Literature and Religion (New York & London: Routledge, 1995): 77–86.
• "Sartre's Gaze Returned: The Transformation of the Phenomenology of Racism," Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 18, 2 (1995) 201–21.
• "'You Don't Know What I'm Talking About': Alterity and the Hermeneutic Ideal," in Lawrence K. Schmidt (ed.), The Specter of Relativism: Truth, Dialogue, and Phronesis in Philosophical Hermeneutics (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1995): 178–94.
• "Repetition and Tradition: Heidegger's Destructuring of the Distinction Between Essence and Existence in Basic Problems of Phenomenology," in Theodore Kisiel
  Theodore Kisiel
  Theodore Kisiel, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Northern Illinois University, is a well-known translator of and commentator on the works of Martin Heidegger. Kisiel is known for his research on the development of Heidegger's early thought...
  
   & John van Buren (eds.), Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in His Earliest Thought (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994).
• "On Deconstructing Nostalgia for Community within the West: The Debate Between Nancy
  Jean-Luc Nancy
  Jean-Luc Nancy is a French philosopher.Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre , a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe...
  
   and Blanchot
  Maurice Blanchot
  Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. His work had a strong influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Jacques Derrida.-Works:...
  
  ," Research in Phenomenology 23 (1993): 3–21.
• "Politics Beyond Humanism: Mandela
  Nelson Mandela
  Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...
  
   and the Struggle against Apartheid," in Gary B. Madison (ed.), Working Through Derrida (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1993): 94–120.
• "Locke's Almost Random Talk of Man: The Double Use of Words in the Natural Law Justification of Slavery," Perspektiven der Philosophie: Neues Jahrbuch 18 (1992): 293–318.
• "No More Stories, Good or Bad: de Man's
  Paul de Man
  Paul de Man was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist.He began teaching at Bard College. Later, he completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in the late 1950s...
  
   Criticisms of Derrida on Rousseau
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.His novel Émile: or, On Education is a treatise...
  
  ," in David Wood (ed.), Derrida: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
• "Who is my Neighbor? Who is the Other? Questioning 'the Generosity of Western Thought'," in Ethics and Responsibility in the Phenomenological Tradition: The Ninth Annual Symposium of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center (Pittsburgh: Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Duquesne University, 1992): 1–31.
• "Habermas
  Jürgen Habermas
  Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theory on the concepts of 'communicative rationality' and the 'public sphere'...
  
   and Arendt on the Philosopher's 'Error': Tracking the Diabolical in Heidegger," Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 14, 2 (1991): 3-24.
• "Skepticism in the Face of Philosophy," in Bernasconi & Critchley (eds.), Re-Reading Levinas (1991): 149–61.
• "The Ethics of Suspicion," Research in Phenomenology 20 (1990): 3–18.
• "The Heidegger Controversy," German Historical Institute London Bulletin 12 (1990): 3–9.
• "Rousseau and the Supplement to the Social Contract: Deconstruction and the Possibility of Democracy," Cardozo Law Review 11 (1990): 1539–64.
• "One-Way Traffic: The Ontology of Decolonization and its Ethics," in Galen A. Johnson & Michael B. Smith (eds.), Ontology and Alterity in Merleau-Ponty (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990): 14–26.
• "Heidegger’s Destruction of Phronesis," Southern Journal of Philosophy 28 supp. (1989): 127–47.
• "Rereading Totality and Infinity," in Arleen B. Dallery & Charles E. Scott (eds.), The Question of the Other (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989): 23–34.
• "Seeing Double: Destruktion and Deconstruction
  Deconstruction
  Deconstruction is a term introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1967 book Of Grammatology. Although he carefully avoided defining the term directly, he sought to apply Martin Heidegger's concept of Destruktion or Abbau, to textual reading...
  
  ," in Diane P. Michelfelder & Richard E. Palmer (eds.), Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989).
• "Deconstruction and Scholarship," Man and World 21 (1988): 223–30.
• "'Failure of communication' as a Surplus: Dialogue and Lack of Dialogue between Buber
  Martin Buber
  Martin Buber was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship....
  
   and Levinas," in Bernasconi & Wood (eds.), The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the Other (1988): 100–35.
• "The Silent, Anarchic World of the Evil Genius," in Guiseppina Moneta, John Sallis & Jacques Taminiaux
  Jacques Taminiaux
  Jacques Taminiaux is a Belgian philosopher, since 1989 Professor at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts . He studied philosophy at the Universite Catholique de Louvain...
  
   (eds.), The Collegium Phaenomenologicum: The First Ten Years (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1988): 257–72.
• "Fundamental Ontology, Metontology and the Ethics of Ethics," Irish Philosophical Journal 4 (1987): 76–93.
• "Levinas: Philosophy and Beyond," in Hugh J. Silverman (ed.), Continental Philosophy 1 (New York: Routledge, 1987): 232–58.
• "Technology and the Ethics of Praxis," Acta Institutionis Philosophiae et Aestheticae (Tokyo) 5 (1987): 93–108.
• "Hegel and Levinas: The Possibility of Reconciliation and Forgiveness," Archivio di Filosophia 54 (1986): 325–46.
• "Levinas and Derrida: The Question of the Closure of Metaphysics," in Richard A. Cohen (ed.), Face to Face with Levinas (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986): 181–202.
• "The Good and the Beautiful," in W. S. Hamrick (ed.), Phenomenology in Practice and Theory (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985).
• "The Trace of Levinas in Derrida," in Bernasconi & Wood (eds.), Derrida and Différance (1985): 13–30.
• "Levinas Face to Face—With Hegel," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 13 (1982): 267–76.
• "Levinas on Time and the Instant," in Bernasconi & Wood (eds.), Time and Metaphysics (1982): 199–217.

See also

• list of deconstructionists
• Africana philosophy
  Africana philosophy
  Africana philosophy is an emerging term in the field of philosophy representing the works of professional philosophers who are of African descent as well as others whose works deal with the subject matter of the African diaspora.-What is Africana philosophy?:...