Lawrence J Hatab
Old Dominion University, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty Member
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Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Philosophy and Eminent Scholar at Old Dominion Universityedit
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Existentialism has been marked by Sartre’s claim that ‘existence’ precedes ‘essence,’ that concrete life cannot be governed by abstract universals. Traditional philosophy has typically connected essences with concepts, mental constructs... more
Existentialism has been marked by Sartre’s claim that ‘existence’ precedes ‘essence,’ that concrete life cannot be governed by abstract universals. Traditional philosophy has typically connected essences with concepts, mental constructs that provide grounding knowledge of perceived particulars in experience. The problem is that existentialism, as a philosophy of existence, cannot help but traffic in concepts. So, the question is whether and how existentialism can deploy concepts that are different from everyday and essentialist kind. This chapter will explore the possibility of ‘existential concepts’ found in Heidegger’s notion of formal indication. A treatment of what Heidegger means by formal indication will be followed by a detailed analysis of the concept of care in Being and Time.
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In Myths and Fictions, eds. S. Biderman and B. Scharfstein (Leiden:Brill, 1993), 141-160
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Chapter Five of my book Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech I
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Chapter Four of my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language.
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Chapter Three of my book Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech I.
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Chapter Two of my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech I
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The Preface of my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language
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Chapter One of my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language
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The Introduction to my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language
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Aristotle's Poetics defends the value of tragic poetry, presumably to counter Plato's critique in the Republic. Can this defense resonate with something larger and rather surprising, that Aristotle's overall philosophy displays a tragic... more
Aristotle's Poetics defends the value of tragic poetry, presumably to counter Plato's critique in the Republic. Can this defense resonate with something larger and rather surprising, that Aristotle's overall philosophy displays a tragic character? I define the tragic as pertaining to indigenous and inescapable limits on life, knowledge, control, achievement, and agency. I explore how such limits figure in Aristotle's physics, metaphysics, and biological works. Accordingly I want to disturb the common account of Aristotle's thought as a neat system of ontological order and metaphysical closure-not to exclude such elements but to place them within a world-view that includes certain limits at the edges of being.
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Philosophy and Gatherings
This is a PDF file of my 1990 book: Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths (Chicago: Open Court, 1990)
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Philosophy and Aristotle
Published in Heidegger and Practical Philosophy, eds. Francois Raffoul and David Pettigrew (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002)
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My review of Kaitlyn Creasy, The Problem of Affective Nihilism in Nietzsche, in Journal of Nietzsche Studies
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This is a file of my 1995 book, A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy: An Experiment in Postmodern Politics
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Review of my book, Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality, and Literacy: Dwelling in Speech II. in the journal Research in Phenomenology.
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It is remarkable that four commentaries on Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals will h ve been published within the space of one year?a testimony to how prominent the text has become in scholarship and college courses. Recently I... more
It is remarkable that four commentaries on Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals will h ve been published within the space of one year?a testimony to how prominent the text has become in scholarship and college courses. Recently I had the great pleasure of convening with the other three authors?Dan Conway, Chris Janaway, and David Owen?to share and discuss our work. I can say with confidence that each of these authors has produced a first-rate study, and I am proud to share the stage with them.1 Moreover, there should be little concern about redundancy within this set of commentaries; each is written in a distinctive style, with distinctive interpretations, emphases, and perspectives on Nietzsche's complicated book?yet each with careful and expert attention to the text as writ ten. So there is plenty of room for productive disagreement and cross-fertilization among these commentaries. In my article I will focus on Nietzsche's discussion of the ascetic ideal in GM III.2 ...
My review appeared in New Nietzsche Studies 8/3-4 (Winter 2011-Spring 2012), 216-225.
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This is a PDF of the second volume of my study of language from a Heideggerian perspective, which takes up areas of research not typically pursued in philosophy: child development, language acquisition, the difference between oral and... more
This is a PDF of the second volume of my study of language from a Heideggerian perspective, which takes up areas of research not typically pursued in philosophy: child development, language acquisition, the difference between oral and written language. Literacy is a necessary condition for philosophical thinking, but its departure from face-to-face speech practices accounts for a distorted picture of the nature of language.
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Published in The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, ed. Thomas Stern (Cambridge University Press, 2019), 329-350.
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My commentary on Robert Scharff's book, Becoming Heidegger, for the 2021 meeting of the Heidegger Circle.
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Review of my Dwelling in Speech, Volume II, by Carolyn Culbertson in the Heidegger Circle journal Gatherings.
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My entry on language for The Heidegger Lexicon, ed. Mark Wrathall, Cambridge University Press
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My entry on communication in The Heidegger Lexicon, ed. Mark Wrathall, Cambridge University Press.
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Published in the journal The Agonist
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Review of Dwelling in Speech II by Chris Drain in the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
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“The Satyr: Human-Animality in Nietzsche,” Nietzsche’s Animals, ed. Christa Davis Acampora and Ralph Acampora (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), 211-219.
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“Appearance and Values: Nietzsche and an Ethics of Life,” in Nietzsche and Phenomenology: Power, Life, Subjectivity, eds. Élodie Boublil and Christine Daigle (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013), 236-257.
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“Heidegger and the Question of Empathy,” in Heidegger and Practical Philosophy, edited by Francois Raffoul and David Pettigrew (Albany, NY: SUNY Press), 2001, 249-273.
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Found in Heidegger on Science, ed. Trish Glazebrook (New York: SUNY Press, 2012), 93-111.
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Review of my book, Ethics and Finitude: Heideggerian Contributions to Moral Philosophy, by Brendan Leier, in the journal Philosophy in Review 22/2 (2002), 120-23.
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A review of my book, A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy, by Drew Hyland. in the journal Philosophy in Review 16/3 (1996), 167-171.
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Review of my book by Anthony Jensen in Journal of the History of Philosophy
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This is a chapter in Language and Phenomenology, ed. Chad Engelland (NY: Routledge, 2021). The book's table of contents is at the end of the chapter.
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Review of my second Volume of Dwelling in Speech by Lawrence Berger in Phenomenological Reviews
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Review of my Dwelling in Speech Volume II by Robert Leib in Review of Metaphysics
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Reviewed by Hayden Kee in Phenomenological Reviews.
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My review of Christa Davis Acampora's Contesting Nietzsche
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My review of Jessica Berry's Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition
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My review of Aryeh Botwinik's Skepticism, Belief, and the Modern: Maimonides to Nietzsche
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My review of Richard Capobianco's book, Engaging Heidegger, found in Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, Vol. 1 (2011).
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An examination of nihilism and Nietzsche's philosophy, with specific attention to human selfhood
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Review of Myth and Philosophy by Kathleen Hull in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 1994
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Will Dudley's review of my book, A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy: An Experiment in Postmodern Politics, in the journal Philosophy and Social Criticism, 1998.
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Hayden Kee's review of my book, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language.
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My analysis and commentary on Nietzsche's text.
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Nietzsche’s thought has been of renewed interest to philosophers in both the Anglo- American and the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions. Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind presents 16 essays from analytic and... more
Nietzsche’s thought has been of renewed interest to philosophers in both the Anglo- American and the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions. Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind presents 16 essays from analytic and continental perspectives. Appealing to both international communities of scholars, the volume seeks to deepen the appreciation of Nietzsche’s contribution to our understanding of consciousness and the mind. Over the past decades, a variety of disciplines have engaged with Nietzsche’s thought, including anthropology, biology, history, linguistics, neuroscience, and psychology, to name just a few. His rich and perspicacious treatment of consciousness, mind, and body cannot be reduced to any single discipline, and has the potential to speak to many. And, as several contributors make clear, Nietzsche’s investigations into consciousness and the embodied mind are integral to his wider ethical concerns.
This volume contains contributions by international experts such as Christa Davis Acampora (Emory University), Keith Ansell-Pearson (Warwick University), João Constâncio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Frank Chouraqui (Leiden University), Manuel Dries (The Open University; Oxford University), Christian J. Emden (Rice University), Maria Cristina Fornari (University of Salento), Anthony K. Jensen (Providence College), Helmut Heit (Tongji University), Charlie Huenemann (Utah State University), Vanessa Lemm (Flinders University), Lawrence J. Hatab (Old Dominion University), Mattia Riccardi (University of Porto), Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen (New York University and EGS), and Benedetta Zavatta (CNRS).
This volume contains contributions by international experts such as Christa Davis Acampora (Emory University), Keith Ansell-Pearson (Warwick University), João Constâncio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Frank Chouraqui (Leiden University), Manuel Dries (The Open University; Oxford University), Christian J. Emden (Rice University), Maria Cristina Fornari (University of Salento), Anthony K. Jensen (Providence College), Helmut Heit (Tongji University), Charlie Huenemann (Utah State University), Vanessa Lemm (Flinders University), Lawrence J. Hatab (Old Dominion University), Mattia Riccardi (University of Porto), Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen (New York University and EGS), and Benedetta Zavatta (CNRS).