Writing
In Progress
I am writing a book on philosophical life entitled Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time. The book explores the connection between the good and the beautiful.
Essays on Philosophical Practice
“Counselling: Putting Lives in Order,” The Philosophers’ Magazine 57.
“Prescribing Aristotle,” Conversation at Washington Post (August 23, 2011).
“Philosophical Readings to Help You Cope With Hurricane Irene,” by Emily Wax, Washington Post (August 26, 2011).
“Letter Writing as Spiritual Exercise,” Philosophical Practice 6.3 (2011), 856-68.
“Following Nature’s Course,” Dark Mountain: Issue 3, August 2012.
Essays on Philosophical Life
“The Life Need of Philosophy,” Huffington Post (May 2, 2011).
“Our Failure of Imagination,” Inside Higher Ed (April 8, 2011). Part 2.
“Models for Post-University Life,” Inside Higher Ed (March 16, 2011). Part 1.
Personal Essays
“Walking… Philosophy… Waking: A Reverie,” Dark Mountain Project (June 2012).
“Wistfulness in These Strange Times,” Spike Magazine (September 6, 2011).
“Our Winter Ourselves,” Writing in Public (March 2012).
Essays on Moral Education
“Introduction,” Jane Austen: Four Novels, Canterbury Press, November 2011.
“Whither Moral Education?” World and I (November 1, 2011).
“Austen’s Ethical Vision of Wholehearted Love,” World and I, February 2012.
“Towards a Transformative Philosophy of Education,” New Public Thinking #1, eds. Keith Kahn-Harris and Dougald Hine, February 2012.
Essays on Public Philosophy
“Who is David Brooks?,” Huffington Post (April 12, 2011).
“What is New Public Thinking? Three Reflections,” with Keith Kahn-Harris and Pat Kane. New Public Thinking (March 29, 2011).
“Radical Leftist Politics, What Have You Done for Us Lately?,” New Public Thinking (February 28, 2011).
“In the Land of Bloombergia,” Counterpunch (February 9, 2011).
“Philosophy, What’s it Good for?” Arts and Opinions 9.5 (2010).
“With What Authority does a Public Philosopher Speak?” Butterflies and Wheels (July 18, 2010).
“Philosophy in the Popular Imagination,” Butterflies and Wheels (June 27, 2010).
“Taking Relativism Seriously,” Butterflies and Wheels (January 12, 2009).
“Badiou Abridged,” symploke 14.1/2 (2006): 297-305.
Essays on Speculative Philosophy
“On the Need for Speculative Philosophy Today,” Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social History 8.1 (2012), 47-61.
“An Encomium for Richard Holloway,” Butterflies and Wheels (February 2, 2011).
“Unbounded Naturalism,” Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social History 4.1/2 (2008): 154-77.
“Adorno and the Question of Metaphysics,” New Essays on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, ed. Alfred Drake (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010): 210-36.
Book Reviews
Benedict’s Dharma: Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of St. Benedict, ed. Patrick Henry, Philosophical Practice, 2012.
“The Function and Value of Literature and Literary Studies Reconsidered,” College Literature 33.4 (Fall 2006): 204-16.
The Century by Alain Badiou, symploke 16.1/2 (2008): 311-13.
Adorno’s Negative Dialectic: Philosophy and the Possibility of Critical Rationality by Brian O’Connor, Substance 6.1 (2007): 172-8.
