![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My next book, Dialectics of the Will: Freedom, Power, and Understanding in Modern French and German Thought, explored the viability of a dialectical concept of the will to rethink human agency after the “death of the subject.” I have published in 2012 a broad historical survey of (mostly) German (Protestant) theologies and philosophies of religion, from Luther and Erasmus to the present, to investigate the tradition that both provided some of the most fundamental modern conceptions of God and led to his “death.” Indeed, I have shown that these two aspects of the tradition have always been in dialogue. ![]() Methodologically the book combines the institutional history of rhetoric, hermeneutics, critical theory, and deconstruction. My first book, The Spirit and Its Letter: Traces of Rhetoric in Hegel’s Philosophy of Bildung, looked at the role that rhetoric played in the formation of Hegel’s thought. if one wants to devote attention to their language. Already in graduate school I realized that it is often easier (and more interesting) to work on such thinkers as Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, and Habermas in a German rather than a philosophy department, esp. My research has generally focused on the German philosophical tradition from the Enlightenment to the present. ![]()
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