Philosophy Department
Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
Phone: 718-817-3280
RESEARCH AREAS:
Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Lonergan, Critical Theory, Marx, Liberation Philosophy
EDUCATION
1. B.A., Gonzaga University, 1962.
2. M.A., Gonzaga University, 1963.
3. Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1971.
POSITIONS HELD
1. Instructor of Philosophy, Loyola
University of Chicago, 1966-67.
2. Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St.
Louis University, 1970-76.
3. Associate Professor of Philosophy, St.
Louis University, 1976-80.
4. Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Fordham
University, 1980-81.
5. Professor of Philosophy, St. Louis
University, 1981-85.
6. Professor of Philosophy, Fordham
University, 1985-present.
SERVICE
University
A. Department of Philosophy
1. Chairman of Speaker's Committee, 1976-80.
2. Chairman of Committee of Recruitment and
Placement, 1979-80, 1981-84.
3. Chairman, Hiring Committee, Philosophy
Department, 1991-93.
4. Hiring Committee, Philosophy Department,
1995-98.
5. Member of Merit Committee, 2001.
B. University
1. Nominating Committee of the Graduate
School, 1975-76.
2. Committee for Applied Gerontology,
1975-76.
3. Library Associates Nominating for the
Messing Award, 1976.
4. University Council, 1977-80.
5. Executive Council, College of Arts and
Sciences, 1977-80.
6. Committee for Evaluating the Graduate
Program of the English Department, 1978-
79.
7. Faculty Senate, 1979-80, 1982-84.
8. Chairman, Academic Affairs Committee,
Faculty Senate, 1982-84.
9. Academic Planning Committee, College of
Arts and Sciences, 1983.
10. Graduate Council, 1982-84.
11. Executive Committee for Graduate
Council, 1983-84.
12. Pre-Medical Advising Committee, 1986-87.
13. Advisory Committee for Studies in Peace
and Justice, 1987-2001.
Community
1. Chairman, Program Committee, American
Catholic Philosophical Association, 1987-
88.
2. Executive Council, American Catholic
Philosophical Association, 1989-92.
3. Executive Committee of Executive Council,
American Catholic Philosophical
Association, 1991-92.
4. Book Selection Committee, Society for
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy,
1992-93.
5. Executive Committee, Marcel Society,
1994.
6. Executive Committee, Lonergan Society,
1994.
7. Program Committee, Radical Philosophy
Association, The Annual Meeting of The
American Philosophical Association, New York
City; December 27-30, 1995.
8. Program Committee, Radical Philosophy
Association, Second Annual National
Conference, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana; November 14-17, 1996
SCHOLARSHIP
Membership in Professional Associations
-- Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy
-- The American Philosophical Association
-- The American Catholic Philosophical
Association
-- The Hegel Society
-- The Kierkegaard Society
-- The Radical Philosophy Association
-- The Sartre Society
-- The Marcel Society
-- The Lonergan Society
-- Invited member of a Marxist Theory
Colloquium, New York City, Chair: Bertell
Ollman, Department of Political Science, New
York University, 1996-2001.
Honors and Awards
-- Danforth Associate, 1974-79.
-- Matchette Award, The American Catholic
Philosophical Association, for the best
paper by a young philosopher at the 1976
meeting of the Association.
Papers Delivered, Symposia, Commentaries
-- "Political Radicalism: A Phenomenological
Analysis and Critique," The Southern
Illinois University Philosophy Department,
Edwardsville, Illinois; April, 1971.
-- "Political Radicalism: Hegel's Critique
and Alternative," The Missouri Philosophical
Association, Stephen's College, Columbia,
Missouri; October, 1971.
-- Commentary on "Sartre's Theory of
Alienation," a paper by John Scanlon, The
Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
October, 1972.
-- "Concluding Scientific Postscript," The
Philosophy Department, University of
Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; March, 1973.
-- "Freedom, Receptivity, and God," The
American Catholic Philosophical Association,
New York; April, 1976.
-- "The Paradox of Perception," The Missouri
Philosophical Association, The University of
Missouri, Columbia, Missouri; November,
1976.
-- "Consciousness and Expression," The
Southwestern Philosophical Association,
Texas A & M University, University Park,
Texas; November, 1977.
-- "A New Interpretation of the
Hegel-Kierkegaard Relationship," The Hegel
Society, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, Pennsylvania; November,
1978.
-- "Objectivity, Alienation, and
Reflection," The Society for Phenomenology
and Existential Philosophy, Perdue
University, Lafayette, Indiana; November,
1979.
-- "Phenomenology as Ideology Critique," The
American Catholic Philosophical Association,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; April, 1980.
-- "Perception and Reflection," The
Merleau-Ponty Circle, Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, Pennsylvania;
September, 1980.
-- "Is Late Capitalism Rational?" Fordham
Philosophy Club, Fordham University, Bronx,
New York; November 14, 1980.
-- "Marx and Kierkegaard on Alienation," The
Metropolitan Regional American Catholic
Philosophical Association, Fordham
University, Bronx, New York; December 6,
1980.
-- "The Triumph of Ambiguity," Philosophy
Department, Villanova University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; March, 1981.
-- (with Roslyn Bologh), "Dialectical
Phenomenology as Social Theory," The
American Catholic Philosophical Association,
San Antonio, Texas; March, 1982.
-- (with Roslyn Bologh), "Dialectical
Phenomenology as Social Theory," The
American Catholic Philosophical Association,
Houston, Texas; April, 1982.
-- "Description in Phenomenology,"
Commentary on papers by Maurice Natanson and
Robert Sokolowski, The Society for
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy,
Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, Pennsylvania; October, 1982.
-- "Heidegger's Overcoming of Metaphysics: A
Critique," British Society for
Phenomenology, Oxford University, Oxford,
England; March, 1983.
-- "Dialectical Phenomenology: From
Suspension to Suspicion," Symposium for
Phenomenology and the Human Sciences,
University of Manchester, Manchester,
England; March, 1983.
-- (with Buford Farris), "Habermas'
Communicative Ethics and Social Work
Practice," Midwestern Sociological
Association, Kansas City, Missouri; April,
1983.
-- (with Roslyn Bologh), "Phenomenology,
Marxism, and Feminism," World Congress of
Philosophy, Montreal, Canada; August, 1983.
-- Moderator of Symposium, "Narratives," The
Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, St. Louis, Missouri; October,
1983.
-- "The Situation of Contemporary
Philosophy," St. Louis Post-Hegelians, St.
Louis, Missouri; November, 1983.
-- "Dialectical Phenomenology as Critical
Social Theory," British Society for
Phenomenology, Oxford, England; March, 1984.
-- "Interiority and Revolution," Conference
on Marxism and Religion, University of
Northern Iowa, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; October
10-13, 1984.
-- "From Immediacy to Mediation: The
Emergence of Dialectical Phenomenology," The
Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Atlanta, Georgia; October 18-20,
1984.
-- "Technology and Science as Ideology," St.
Louis Post-Hegelians, St. Louis, Missouri;
February, 1985.
-- "From Immediacy to Mediation: The
Emergence of Dialectical Phenomenology,"
Winter Meeting of the Metropolitan Regional
American Catholic Philosophical Association,
St. John's University, Jamaica, New York;
December 7, 1985.
-- "Mallarme's Un Coup de Des: A Neo-Marxist
Interpretation," For Interpretation: A
Conference on Hermeneutics, Adelphi
University, Garden City, New York; April 5,
1986.
-- "Liberation in the Center: A
Philosophical Exploration," Department of
Philosophy, George Mason University,
Fairfax, Virginia; April 12, 1986.
-- "Life-World, Technology, Modernity: A
Dialogue Between a Modernist and a
Post-Modernist," A Conference on
Phenomenology and Technology, Polytechnic
University, Brooklyn, New York; October 5-6,
1986.
-- "The Postmodernist Interpretation of
History: A Phenomenological-Hermeneutical
Critique," Annual Meeting of the British
Society for Phenomenology, Oxford
University, Oxford, England; March 27-29,
1987.
-- "Intellectual, Moral, and Religious
Conversion as Radical Political Conversion,"
Society for Ultimate Reality and Meaning,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada; August 19-22, 1987.
-- Chair, "Religious Themes in Hitchcock,"
The Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy, University of Notre
Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana; October 15-17,
1987.
-- "Intellectual, Moral, and Religious
Conversion as Radical Political Conversion,"
Regional Meeting of the American Catholic
Philosophical Association, Fairfield
College, Fairfield, Connecticut; December 5,
1987.
-- "The Ideal of Philosophy, Democracy, and
the Rule of Reagan," Philosophy Club,
Stephen's Institute of Technology; December
8, 1987.
-- "The Bishops' Economic Pastoral: A
New-Marxist Interpretation," American
Philosophical Association, New York City;
December 27-31, 1987.
-- "Strategies of Evasion: The Paradox of
Self-Referentiality and the Post-Modern
Critique of Rationality," Department of
Philosophy, Fordham University, Bronx, New
York; April 15, 1988.
-- "Identity and Liberation," World Congress
of Philosophy, Brighton, England; August 22,
1988.
-- "The Play of Difference/Differance in
Hegel and Derrida," World Congress of
Philosophy, Brighton, England; August 24,
1988.
-- "The Corsair Affair: Kierkegaard and
Critical Theory," Conference on Kierkegaard,
San Diego University, San Diego, California;
February 9, 1989.
-- "The Three Faces of Marxism," Department
of Philosophy, Molloy College, Rockville
Centre, New York; February 14, 1989.
-- Chair and Commentator for a Symposium,
"Media and the Image," Conference of the
Mosaic Society, Adelphi University, Garden
City, New York; February 25, 1989.
-- Panelist and Commentator on a paper by
Matthew Lamb, "Communicative Praxis and the
Aporias of Reason," Department of
Philosophy, Molloy College, Rockville
Centre, New York; February 28, 1989.
-- "Rationality, Ambiguity, and
Communicative Praxis," Symposium:
Rationality, Critique, and Modernity,
Fordham University, Bronx, New York; March
2, 1989.
-- Chair and Commentator for a panel of
papers, "Post-Modernism, Rationality, and
Communication," The Socialist Scholars'
Conference, The Borough of Manhattan
Community College; April 1, 1989.
-- "The Two Derridas," Fifth Biennial
International Conference, Society for
Textual Scholarship, Pierpont Morgan
Library, New York City; April 8, 1989.
-- Chair for a paper by Enrique Dussel,
"Marx and Theology," Fordham University,
Bronx, New York; November 7, 1989.
-- Commentator on a paper by Enrique Dussel,
"Marxism and Liberation Theology,"
Philosophy Department, Baruch College, New
York City; November 16, 1989.
-- Chair, A Symposium on Modernism and
Post-Modernism, Education and the Image,
Adelphi University, Garden City, New York;
April 7, 1990.
-- "French Ideology: Post-Structuralism as
Critical Social Theory," A Symposium on
Modernism and Post-Modernism, Education and
the Image, Adelphi University, Garden City,
New York; April 7, 1990.
-- "On the Possibility of Democratic
Socialism," Socialist Scholars' Convention,
The Borough of Manhattan Community College,
New York City; April 8, 1990.
-- "On the Possibility of Democratic
Socialism," Midwest Socialist Scholars'
Conference, Loyola University, Chicago,
Illinois; October 15, 1990.
-- "Truth and Power," Conference on
Liberation Philosophy and Critical Theory,
University of Iberoamerica, Mexico City,
Mexico; February 28, 1991.
-- "The Religious Significance of Habermas,"
Philosophy Department, University of
Iberoamerica, Mexico City, Mexico; March 2,
1991.
-- "The Religious Significance of Habermas,"
Department of Philosophy, University of
Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; March 3, 1991.
-- "The Dilemmas of Post-Modernism,"
Conference of Education, Adelphi University,
Garden City, New York; April 6, 1991.
-- "The Religious Significance of Habermas,"
Conference of Ultimate Reality and Meaning,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada; August 21, 1991.
-- "Communication and Liberation,"
Conference on Liberation Philosophy and
Critical Theory, Frankfurt, Germany; April
4-6, 1992.
-- "Truth and Power in Foucault," The
Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Boston College, Boston,
Massachusetts; October 8-10, 1992.
-- "Truth and Power in Foucault," Philosophy
Club, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New
York; November 10, 1992.
-- "Violence, Non-Violence, and Action,"
Socialists Scholars' Conference, Manhattan
Borough Community College, New York City;
April 2, 1993.
-- "Freedom as Communication and
Self-Realization," Invited Paper for Plenary
Session of the New Jersey Philosophical
Association, Hoboken, New Jersey; April 15,
1993.
-- "Rationality and its Other," Invited
Paper for Colloquium, Husserl Society,
American Philosophical Association, Chicago,
Illinois; April 29, 1993.
-- "Kierkegaard and Critical Theory," The
Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, New Orleans, Louisiana; October
22, 1993.
-- "Post-Modernism: A Lonerganian Retrieval
and Critique," Symposium on Thomism and
Post-Modernism, The Maritain Society,
Dallas, Texas; November 10, 1993.
-- "The Right and the Good," Society for the
Philosophy of Liberation, American
Philosophical Association, Atlanta, Georgia;
December 28, 1993.
-- Commentator on a paper by Albert Randall,
Jr., "Love, Death, and Tragedy: Towards a
Concrete Philosophy," Marcel Society,
American Catholic Philosophical Association,
Atlanta, Georgia; March 28-30, 1994.
-- "Ghosts and Spirits: Of Marx, Derrida,
and the New World Order," Panel sponsored by
Society for the Advancement of American
Philosophy, Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy, Seattle Washington;
September 29-October 1, 1994.
-- Commentator on a paper by Max Pensky,
"The Limits of Solidarity: Discourse Ethics,
Levinas, and the Moral Point of View,"
Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Seattle, Washington; September
29-October 1, 1994.
-- "Ghosts and Spirits: Of Marx, Derrida,
and the New World Order," Department of
Philosophy, Southern Illinois University,
Edwardsville, Illinois; October 3, 1994.
-- "French Ideology: Post-Modernism as
Critical Social Theory," National Meeting of
Radical Philosophical Association, Des
Moines, Iowa; November 2-4, 1994.
-- "Ghosts and Spirits: Of Marx, Derrida,
and the New World Order," Sponsored by the
Fordham Society of the Diaspora, Fordham
University, Lincoln Center, New York City;
December 8, 1994.
-- "Ghosts and Spirits: Of Marx, Derrida,
and the New World Order," Socialists
Scholars' Conference, Manhattan Borough
Community College, New York City; April 3,
1995.
-- "Post-Modernism: A Lonerganian Retrieval
and Critique," Annual National Meeting of
The American Catholic Philosophy
Association, Washington, D.C.; April 10,
1995.
-- Invited participant in a panel on
liberation philosophy and critical theory,
Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical
Association, Midwest Division, Chicago,
Illinois; April 25, 1995
-- Respondent in a session, "Author Meets
Critics," devoted to a discussion of
Critique, Action, and Liberation and Stephen
David Ross's Injustice and Restitution,
Annual Meeting of The Society of
Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy,
Chicago, Illinois; April 25, 1995.
-- Respondent in a session, "Author Meets
Critics," devoted to a discussion of
Critique, Action, and Liberation, and David
Ingram's Reason, History, and Politics,
Radical Philosophy Association, Annual
Meeting of The American Philosophical
Association, Eastern Division, New York
City; December 29, 1995.
-- "Being and Having: Marcel and Marx,"
Marcel Society, Annual Meeting of The
American Philosophical Association, Eastern
Division, New York City; December 28, 1995.
-- Commentator on Bill Martin's "Eurocentrically
Distorted Communication" and Eduardo
Mendietta's "Modernity, Post-Modernity, and
Trans-Modernity," Association for Philosophy
of Liberation, Annual Meeting of The
American Philosophical Association, Eastern
Division, New York City; December 29, 1995.
-- "The Conception of Ideology in Sartre's
Family Idiot," Panel Discussion on The
Family Idiot, Socialist Scholars'
Conference, The Borough of Manhattan
Community College, New York City; April 6,
1996.
-- "Ghosts and Spirits: Marx, Derrida, and
The New World Order," Michael J. Toulouse,
S.J. Memorial Philosophy Lecture, Seattle
University, Seattle, Washington; April 24,
1996.
-- "What's Critical About Critical Theory,"
Philosophy Pro-seminar, Seattle University,
Seattle, Washington; April 25, 1996.
-- "Heidegger's Racism: Its Meaning for Us,"
Honors Seminar Lecture, Seattle University,
Seattle, Washington; April 26, 1996.
-- "Liberation in the Center," Philosophy
Club Lecture, Seattle University, Seattle,
Washington; April 26, 1996.
-- "Beyond the New World Order: A Critique
of Neo-Imperialism," The Northwest Society
for Phenomenology, Existentialism, and
Hermeneutics, Seattle University, Seattle,
Washington; April 27, 1996.
-- "Commentator on Father Brian Davies'
'Being and God in Aquinas'," Fordham
University, Bronx, New York; September 10,
1996.
-- "Process, Praxis, and Transcendence: An
Overview," Fordham University, Bronx, New
York; September 17, 1996.
-- "Commentator on Carol Gould's
'Explorations in Feminism and Democracy',"
Fordham University, Bronx, New York; October
1, 1996.
-- "The Right and the Good: Ricoeur's
Solution to the Communicative Ethics
Controversy," Annual Meeting of the Society
of Phenomenological and Existential
Philosophy, Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C.; October 15, 1996.
-- "Modernism and Postmodernism," Department
of Philosophy, Manhattanville College,
Purchase, New York; November 8, 1996.
-- "What's Critical About Critical Theory,"
National Conference of the Radical
Philosophy Association, Purdue University,
West Lafayette, Indiana; November 16, 1996.
-- "The Conception of Ideology in Sartre's
Family Idiot," Panel Discussion on Sartre's
The Family Idiot, National Conference of the
Radical Philosophy Association, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana;
November 16, 1996.
-- “Commentary of Hugo Meynell’s
‘Postmodernism and the New Enlightenment’,”
The Lonergan Society, Annual Meeting of The
American Catholic Philosophical Association,
Buffalo, New York; March 29-April 1, 1997.
-- “Beyond the New World Order: A Critique
of Neo-Imperialism,” Conference on Critical
Theory and Liberation Philosophy, University
of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; September
29-October 3, 1997.
-- “The Conception of Ideology in Sartre’s
Family Idiot,” Panel Discussion on Sartre’s
The Family Idiot, Annual Meeting of The
Sartre Society, Emory University, Atlanta,
Georgia; October 4-6, 1997.
-- Introduced a paper by Enrique Dussel,
“Towards a New Material Principle in the
Philosophy of Liberation,” Annual Meeting of
The Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy, The University of
Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky; October
17-20, 1997.
-- “Toward a Critique of Habermas’
Philosophy of Law,” The Society for
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy,
The University of Kentucky, Lexington,
Kentucky; October 17-20, 1997.
-- “Marcel and Postmodernism,” Panel on
Marcel and Postmodernism, sponsored by The
Marcel Society, Annual Meeting of The
American Philosophical Association, Eastern
Division, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
December 29, 1997.
-- Respondent in a session, “Author Meets
Critics,” devoted to a pre-publication
discussion of Process, Praxis, and
Transcendence, sponsored by The Association
for the Philosophy of Liberation, Annual
Meeting of The American Philosophical
Association, Eastern Division, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; December 29, 1997.
-- “The Catholic Tradition and
Post-Modernism,” Panel, World Congress of
Philosophy, Boston, Massachusetts; August
11, 1998.
-- “Toward a Critique of Habermas’s
Philosophy of Law,” Panel sponsored by The
Association for the Philosophy of
Liberation, World Congress of Philosophy,
Boston, Massachusetts; August 14, 1998.
-- “The Concept of Ideology in Sartre’s
Family Idiot,” Panel on The Family Idiot,
World Congress of Philosophy, Boston,
Massachusetts; August 15, 1998.
-- “Towards a Critique of Habermas’s
Philosophy of Law,” Conference on Critical
Theory, Boston College, Boston,
Massachusetts; October 7, 1998.
-- “The Material Principle and the Formal
Principle in Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation,”
Annual Meeting of the Society of
Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy,
Denver, Colorado; October 12, 1998.
-- “Intellectual, Moral, and Religious
Conversion as Radical Political Conversion,”
Annual West Coast Conference on Lonergan,
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara,
California; Novebmer 5, 1998.
-- “Ghosts and Spirits: Marx, Derrida, and
the New World Order,” Loyola Marymount
University, Los Angeles, California;
November 7, 1998.
-- “My Life and Work,” Philosophy
Department, Loyola Marymount University, Los
Angeles, California; November 8, 1998.
-- “Commentator, Politics at the Impasse, by
Bill Martin,” sponsored by the Association
for the Philosophy of Liberation, Annual
Meeting of the American Philosophical
Association, Eastern Division, Washington,
DC; December 28, 1998
-- “Ghosts and Spirits: Marx, Derrida, and
the New World Order,” Philosophy Department,
Middle Tennessee State University,
Murfreesboro, Tennessee; April 15, 1999.
-- Moderator, Panel on Modernism and
Post-Modernism, Philosophy Department,
Fordham University, Bronx, New York; March
24, 1999.
-- Participant, Panel on Modernism and
Post-Modernism, Philosophy Department,
Fordham University, Bronx, New York; March
24, 1999.
-- Moderator, “Critical Theory and Prisons,”
Talk by Thomas McCarthy, Philosophy
Department, Fordham University, Bronx, New
York; March 25, 1999.
-- “The North American Jesuit University,
Capitalism, and Empire as a Way of Life,”
paper delivered for a panel on social
justice, National Meeting of Jesuit
Educators, St. Joseph’s University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; June 29, 1999.
-- “The North American Jesuit University,
Capitalism, and Empire as a Way of Life,”
Committment to Justice in Jesuit Higher
Education, Regional Conference, Boston
College, Boston, Massachusetts; October
29-31, 1999.
-- Commentary, “ Insight and Language,”
paper by David Oyler , Lonergan Society,
American Catholic Philosophical Association,
Minneapolis, Minnesota; November 6-8,
1999.
-- “The Achievement of Thomas Flynn,” panel
on Thomas Flynn’s work, Annual Meeting of
the International Association of Philosophy
and Literature, State University of New York
at Stony Brook; Stony Brook , New York, May
15, 2000.
-- “The Corporatization of the University,”
Annual Meeting of American Association of
University Administrators, Washington, D.C.,
May 24, 2000.
-- “Comments,” panel discussion of Sartre’s
Critique of Dialectical Reason, Simon
Frasier
University, Waterloo, Ontario, September 15,
2000.
-- “U.S. Justice is to Real Justice as . . .
,” Sullivan Lecture, Department of
Philosophy, Fordham University at Lincoln
Center, November 1, 2000.
-- “Self-Appropriation, Lonergan’s Pearl of
Great Price” Lonergan Society, Loyola
University, Los Angeles, California, March
25, 2001.
-- Respondent in a session, “Author Meets
Critics,” devoted to a discussion of
Process, Praxis, Transcendence. Annual
meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy, Goucher College,
Baltimore, Maryland, October 4, 2001.
-- “Towards a Critique of Habermas’s
Philosophy of Law,” Inaugural lecture
sponsored by Department of Philosophy,
Fordham University, Bronx, NY; October 16,
2001.
Less Formal Talks, Addresses, Speeches
-- "The Bishop's Economic Pastoral: A
New-Marxist Interpretation," Regional
Meeting of Pax Christi, Fordham University,
Bronx, New York; November 6, 1987.
-- "Capitalism, Anti-Communism, and Empire
as a Way of Life," Talk sponsored by Peace
and Justice Studies, Fordham University,
Bronx, New York; March 10, 1988.
-- "Human Rights and Foreign Policy," Talk
for a symposium, "Human Rights and Foreign
Policy," Fordham University, Bronx, New
York; March 10, 1989.
-- "Feminism and Marxism," Talk sponsored by
Women at Fordham, Sesquicentennial
Dormitory, Fordham University, Bronx, New
York; March 15, 1989.
-- "Truth and Justice at Fordham," Talk
sponsored by Progressive Student Alliance,
Sesquicentennial Dormitory, Fordham
University, Bronx, New York; April 3, 1989.
-- "Capitalism, Anti-Communism, and Empire
as a Way of Life," Sesquicentennial
Dormitory, Fordham University, Bronx, New
York; April 12, 1989.
-- "Capitalism, Anti-Communism, and Empire
as a Way of Life," Catholic Worker House,
New York City; April 28, 1989.
-- "Capitalism as Imperialism in the Middle
East: The Politics of Oil," Teach-In on the
Middle East, Fordham University, Bronx, New
York; November 28, 1990.
-- "Why Socialists Should Vote," Talk given
at a symposium on the 1992 election,
sponsored by Peace and Justice Studies,
Fordham University, Bronx, New York; October
26, 1992.
-- "Should We Support the New World Order?"
Panel Discussion, Fordham University, Bronx,
New York; March 15, 1993.
-- Participant in a Press Conference on the
death penalty and the case of Mumia Abu
Jamal, Radical Philosophy Association,
Annual Meeting of The American Philosophical
Association, Eastern Division, New York
City; December 28, 1995.
-- "The Election as Farce," Panel Discussion
on the 1996 National Election, Fordham
University, Bronx, New York; October 28,
1996.
-- “The Catholic Tradition, Justice, and Gay
Rights,” Fordham University, Bronx, New
York; March 10, 1998.
-- “Peace and Justice Today,” A Conversation
with Daniel Berrigan, Fordham University,
Bronx, New York; April 3, 1998.
-- “Peace, Justice, and the New World
Order,” conversation with Daniel Berrigan,
S.J. ,
Fordham College, Lincoln Center, New York;
April 25, 2000.
-- “The North American Jesuit University,
Capitalism, and Empire as a Way of Life,”
talk
given at a panel discussion sponsored by
Peace and Justice Studies, McGinley Center,
Fordham University, April 15, 2000.
-- “ A Liberatory Model of the Jesuit
University,” Retreat of Magis Group, Fordham
University, April 15, 2000.
-- “Five Suggestions for the Long Haul,” a
talk given at the Certificate Awards
Ceremony, Peace and Justice Studies, Fordham
University, Bronx, New York, May 10, 2001.
-- Introduced a talk by Daniel Berrigan,
“Reflections of September 11,” sponsored by
Peace
and Justice Studies, Fordham University,
Bronx, New York, October 10, 2001.
PUBLICATIONS
A. Reviews
1. Perception, Expression, and History: The
Social Phenomenology of Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, by John O'Neill, Modern
Schoolman XLIX, November 1971, pp. 87-88.
2. Philosophy, vol. II, by Karl Jaspers,
trans. E.B. Ashton, Modern Schoolman XLIX,
May 1972, pp. 382-83.
3. Hermeneutic Phenomenology: The Philosophy
of Paul Ricoeur, by Don Ihde, Modern
Schoolman XLIX, May 1972, pp. 377-79.
4. Method in Theology, by Bernard Lonergan,
Modern Schoolman, May 1974, pp. 390-93.
5. The Phenomenology of Aesthetic
Experience, by Mikel Dufrenne, trans. Edward
Casey and others, Modern Schoolman LII,
March 1975, pp. 303-306.
6. The Function of the Sciences and the
Meaning of Man, by Enzo Paci, trans. Paul
Piccone and James Hanson, Modern Schoolman
LII, May 1975, pp. 458-60.
7. Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite
Tasks, by Maurice Natanson, Modern Schoolman
LII, November 1975, pp. 79-82.
8. Phenomenology and the Problem of History,
by David Carr, Modern Schoolman LIV, January
1976, pp. 67-69.
9. Husserlian Meditations, by Robert
Sokolowski, Modern Schoolman LIV, January
1976, pp. 188-90.
10. Activity and Ground: Fichte, Schelling,
and Hegel, by George Seidel, Review of
Metaphysics XXXI, March 1978.
11. Being and Existence in Kierkegaard's
Pseudonymous Works, by John W. Elrod, Modern
Schoolman LV, March 1978, pp. 327-28.
12. Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Authorship: A
Study of Time and the Self, by Mark C.
Taylor, Modern Schoolman LV, March 1978, pp.
337-38.
13. Hegel's Phenomenology, Part I: Analysis
and Commentary, by Howard Kainz, Review of
Metaphysics XXXIII, September 1978, pp.
142-43.
14. A Reading of Hegel's "Phenomenology of
Spirit", by Quentin Lauer, The Owl of
Minerva: Quarterly Journal of the Hegel
Society, September 12, 1980, pp. 1-3.
15. The Mystical Element in Heidegger's
Thought, by John Caputo, Modern Schoolman
LVIII, November 1980, pp. 53-55.
16. Dialectical Phenomenology: Marx's
Method, by Roslyn Wallach Bologh, New
Political Science 5/6, Winter/Spring 1981,
pp. 121-26.
17. Hegel's Concept of God, by Quentin
Lauer, International Philosophical Quarterly
XXIII, March 1983, pp. 91-95.
18. Heidegger and Aquinas, by John Caputo,
Feature Review, International Philosophical
Quarterly, September 1985.
19. Spirit in Ashes: Hegel, Heidegger, and
Man-Made Mass Death, by Edith Wyschogrod,
Cross Currents XXXVI, Summer 1986, pp.
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20. Radical Hermeneutics, by John Caputo,
Feature Review, International Philosophical
Quarterly XXVIII, December 1988, pp. 459-65.
21. Communicative Praxis and the Space of
Subjectivity, by Calvin Schrag, The Journal
of the British Society for Phenomenology
XXX, May 1989, pp. 180-81.
22. An Existential Phenomenology of Law, by
William Hamrick, International Philosophical
Quarterly XXX, September 1990, pp. 378-79.
B. Articles
1. "The Two Kierkegaards," Philosophy Today
16 (Winter 1972): pp. 113-22.
2. "Romantic Radicalism: A Phenomenological
Analysis and Critique," Journal of Social
Philosophy IV (January 1972): pp. 18-21.
3. "Political Radicalism: Hegel's Critique
and Alternative," Idealistic Studies IV (May
1974): pp. 188-99.
4. "Lonergan's Mediation of Subjectivity and
Objectivity," Modern Schoolman LIII (March
1975): pp. 249-61.
5. “Concluding Scientific Postscript,”
Southwestern Journal of Philosophy IV
(November 1975): pp. 159-71.
6. "The Triumph of Ambiguity: Merleau-Ponty
and Wittgenstein," Philosophy Today 19 (Fall
1975): pp. 243-55.
7. "Freedom, Receptivity, and God," The
International Journal for the Philosophy of
Religion VI (Winter 1975): pp. 219-35.
8. "Freedom, Receptivity, and God," Freedom:
Proceedings of the American Philosophical
Association (Washington, D.C.: Catholic
University of America, 1976): pp. 82-89.
9. "The Paradox of Perception," Modern
Schoolman LIV (May 1977): pp. 379-84.
10. "Hitchcock Medium Rare," National
Catholic Reporter 12 (June 1976): p. 11.
11. "Consciousness and Expression," The
Southwestern Journal of Philosophy IX
(Spring 1978): pp. 105-109.
12. "An Inconsistency in Husserl's Cartesian
Meditations," The New Scholasticism LIII
(Autumn 1979): pp. 460-74.
13. "Phenomenology as Ideology Critique,"
Philosophy Today XXIV (Fall 1980): pp.
272-84.
14. "Comment on 'The Constitution of Self in
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and
Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death,' by
Robert Perkins," Method and Speculation in
Hegel's Phenomenology, ed. Merold Westphal
(New York: Humanities Press, 1980): pp.
109-15.
15. "Phenomenology as Ideology Critique,"
1980 Proceedings of The American Catholic
Philosophical Association (Washington D.C.:
Catholic University of America, 1981): pp.
199-225.
16. "Perception and Reflection," The Modern
Schoolman LVIII (May 1981): pp. 237-48.
17. "Alienation in Welfare State
Capitalism," Social Praxis: International
and Interdisciplinary Quarterly of the
Social Sciences 8 (Fall 1981): pp. 121-36.
18. (with Buford Farris) "Social Work as a
Foreign Body in Late Capitalism," The
Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 18
(Winter 1982): pp. 87-94.
19. "Collins and Gadamer on Interpretation,"
History of Philosophy in the Making, ed.
Linus Thro (Washington, D.C.: University
Press of America, 1982): pp. 231-46.
20. "Objectivity, Alienation, and
Reflection," International Philosophical
Quarterly XXII (September 1982): pp. 131-39.
21. "Adorno's Critique of Stravinsky," New
German Critique 23 (Winter 1983): pp.
147-69.
22. "The Irony and Ambiguity of Freedom,"
Poetics Today 4 (Spring 1983): pp. 479-92.
23. "Marx and Kierkegaard on Alienation," A
Kierkegaard Commentary: Two Ages, ed. Robert
Perkins (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University
Press, 1984): pp. 155-74.
24. "Objectivity, Alienation, and
Reflection," Phenomenology in a Pluralistic
Context, ed. William McBride and Calvin
Schrag (Albany: SUNY Press, 1983): pp.
273-82.
25. (with Roslyn Bologh) "Phenomenology,
Marxism, and Feminism," Journal of Social
Philosophy (Special Microfilm edition, Fall
1983).
26. "Romantic Radicalism: A Phenomenological
Analysis and Critique," Philosophy for a
Changing Society, ed. Creighton Peden
(Advocate: Reynoldsburg, 1983): pp. 241-45.
27. "Dialectical Phenomenology: From
Suspension to Suspicion," Man and World
(Fall 1984): pp. 121-41.
28. (with William Hamrick) "Whitehead and
Marx: Toward a Political Metaphysics,"
Philosophy Today 28 (Fall 1984): pp.
191-202.
29. "Heidegger's Overcoming of Metaphysics:
A Critique," The Journal of the British
Society for Phenomenology 16 (January 1985):
pp. 55-69.
30. "Introduction," Guest editorial for
issue on Phenomenology and Critical Social
Theory, The Journal of the British Society
for Phenomenology 16 (May 1985): pp.
106-108.
31. "Dialectical Phenomenology as Critical
Social Theory," Journal of the British
Society for Phenomenology 16 (May 1985): pp.
177-93.
32. "Phenomenology of Coercion and Appeal,"
Phenomenology in Practice and Theory, ed.
William Hamrick (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff,
1985): pp. 117-28.
33. "Interiority and Revolution," Philosophy
Today 29 (Fall 1985): pp. 191-202.
34. "Reply to Allen," The Journal of the
British Society for Phenomenology 18
(January 1987): pp. 75-78.
35. "Reply to Rompp," The Journal of the
British Society for Phenomenology 18 (May
1987): pp. 176-78.
36. "From Immediacy to Mediation: The
Emergence of Dialectical Phenomenology,"
Critical and Dialectical Phenomenology, ed.
Donn Welton and Hugh Silverman (Albany: SUNY
Press, 1987): pp. 136-49.
37. "Kierkegaard's Double Dialectic of
Despair and Sin," International Kierkegaard
Commentary: Sickness Unto Death, ed. Robert
Perkins (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University
Press, 1987): pp. 67-83.
38. "The Post-Modern Interpretation of
History: A Phenomenological-Hermeneutical
Critique," The Journal of the British
Society for Phenomenology 19 (May 1988): pp.
112-27.
39. "My Life and Work," Phenomenology in
America, ed. Calvin Schrag and Eugene Kaelin
(Boston: Kluwer, 1989): pp. 350-52.
40. "Strategies of Evasion: The Paradox of
Self-Referentiality and the Post-Modern
Critique of Rationality," International
Philosophical Quarterly XXIX (September
1989): pp. 339-49.
41. "The Play of Difference/Differance in
Hegel and Derrida," The Owl of Minerva 21
(Spring 1990): pp. 145-53.
42. "Praxis and Ultimate Reality:
Intellectual, Moral, and Religious
Conversion as Radical Political Conversion,"
Ultimate Reality and Meaning 13 (September
1990): pp. 222-40.
43. "The Corsair Affair: Kierkegaard and
Critical Theory," International Kierkegaard
Commentary: The Corsair Affair, ed. Robert
Perkins (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University
Press): pp. 63-83.
44. "The Irony and Ambiguity of Freedom,"
Philosophy: An Introduction to the Labor of
Reason, ed. Gary Percesepe (New York:
Prentice Hall, 1991): pp. 433-42.
45. "Truth and Power," Diskursethik oder
Befreiungsethik, ed. Raul Fornet-Betancourt
(Frankfurt: Concordia Reihe Monographien,
1992): pp. 166-74.
46. "Communication and Liberation,"
Concordia Reihe Monographen 9 (Aachen,
Germany, 1993): pp. 174-91
47. "The Religious Significance of Habermas,"
Faith and Philosophy X (October 1993): pp.
521-38.
48. "Post-Modernism: A Lonerganian Retrieval
and Critique," International Philosophical
Quarterly, XXXV (June 1995): pp. 159-73.
49. "Kierkegaard and Critical Theory,"
Kierkegaard in Post-Modernity, ed. Martin
Matustik and Merold Westphal (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1995), pp.
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50. “Postmodernism: A Lonerganian Retrieval
and Critique,” Postmodernism and Christian
Philosophy, ed. Roman T. Ciapolo (American
Maritain Associatioon, distributed by The
Catholic University of America Press, 1997),
pp. 149-67.
51. “Truth and Power in Foucault,”
Reinterpreting the Political, ed. Stephen
Watson and Lenore Langsdorf (Albany: SUNY
Press, 1998).
52. “Comments on Schmitz,” American Catholic
Philosophical Quarterly, LXXIII (Spring
1999): pp. 267-275.
53. “The North American Jesuit University,
Capitalism, and Empire as a Way of Life,”
Committment to Justice in Higher Education,
ed. Patrick Byrne and David McMennan
(Boston: Philosophy Department, Boston
College, 1999), pp. 1-16.
54. “What’s Critical About Critical Theory,”
Perspectives on Habermas , ed. Lewis Hahn
(Chicago : Open Court Press, 2000), pp.
555-67.
55. “The Material Principle and the Formal
Principle in Dussel’s Ethics,” Thinking From
the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel’s
Philosophy of Liberation, ed. Linda Martin
Alcoff and Eduardo Menietta (New York :
Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), pp. 57-67.
56. “The Corporatization of the University,”
National Assembly XXIX Policy Papers
(Washington, D.C.: George Washington
Universtiy, 2000), pp. 1-11.
57. “Towards a New Critical Theory” in New
Critical Theory, Ed. William Wilkerson and
Jeffrey Paris, (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and
Littlefield, 2001), pp. 201-221.
C. Books
1. Post-Cartesian Meditations: An Essay in
Dialectical Phenomenology (Bronx: Fordham
University Press, 1988).
2. (with John Caputo and Merold Westphal)
Modernity and Its Discontents (Bronx:
Fordham University Press, 1992).
3. Radical Fragments (New York: Peter Lang,
1992).
4. Critique, Action, and Liberation (Albany:
SUNY Press, 1994).
5. Process, Praxis, and Transcendence
(Albany: SUNY Press, 1999).
6. Unjust Legality: A Critique of Habermas’s
Philosophy of Law (Lanham, Maryland:
Rowman and Littlefield: 2001).
7. (co-edited with Richard Cohen) Ricoeur as
Another (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002).
