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John Caruana
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Department
Areas of Interest:
Contemporary European
Philosophy, Philosophy of Film, Philosophy of Religion,
Existentialism, Social and Political Thought
Current Courses:
Spring
2008
CC8831 Graduate Seminar Theorizing the Sacred in Contemporary Philosophy and Cinema
Fall
2008
ACS100 Ideas that Shaped the World I
ACS900 Conceiving the 'Other' in Contemporary European
Thought
Winter
2009
ACS200 Ideas that Shaped the World I
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Research and Publications
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“Cinematic Epiphanies: Eric Rohmer and the Transcendence of the Ordinary,” in
Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, ed. K. R. Morefield
(Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). |
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"Kieslowski and Kiarostami: A Metaphysical Cinema," in After
Kieslowski: The Legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski, ed. S.
Woodward (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008). |
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"The
Drama of Being: Levinas and the History of Philosophy,"
Continental Philosophy Review 40:3 (2007), 251-273. |
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"'Not
Ethics, Not Ethics Alone, but the Holy': Levinas on Ethics and
Holiness," Journal of Religious Ethics 34:4 (2006),
561-583. |
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"Levinas,"
in Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics, ed. M. Cohen
(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006). |
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"Levinas's Critique of the Sacred,"
International Philosophical Quarterly
42: 4 (2002), 519-534. |
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"The Catastrophic 'Site and Non-Site' of
Proximity: Redeeming the Disaster of Being," International
Studies in Philosophy 30:1 (1998), 33-46. |
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"Mourning and Mimesis: The Freudian Ethics of
Theodor Adorno," Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis 3:2
(1996), 89-108. |
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Reviews |
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"Review of J. Mensch's Ethics and Selfhood,"
Symposium 8:3 (2004), 706-709. |
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"Remembering the Nameless: Review of E.
Wyschogrod's An Ethics of Remembering,"
Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Technology 19 (2000), 411–413. |
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"Review of A. Peperzak's Beyond: The
Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas," Philosophy in Review
18:4 (1998), 299-300. |
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Translations |
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Daniel Bougnoux, "After Lacan: A Critique," in
Returns of the French Freud, ed. Todd Dufresne (New York:
Routledge, 1996) [co-translated with C. Dudas]. |
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Felix Guattari, "The Microphysics of Power and
the Micropolitics of Desire," in The Guattari Reader, ed.
G. Genosko (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996). |
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"The Transference," in The Guattari
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Conference Presentations (selected)
“Representing the Hidden Drama of Ethics: Levinas and the Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers,” Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, October 6, 2007; Looking Through a Glass Darkly Conference, Trinity Western University, Langley, BC, May 12, 2007. |
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“Disaster and Being in Blanchot and Levinas,”
Strategies of Critique, Toronto, ON, April 4, 2006. |
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“Derrida’s
Legacy,” Commentary on S. Pinardi’s “Derrida’s Memoirs of the Blind,”
Society for Existentialist and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, London, ON,
May 29, 2005. |
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"The Role of Conscience in Recent Continental Thought,"
International Social Theory Consortium, Toronto, ON, June 8, 2004. |
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"Martin Buber
and the Politics of I and Thou," Commentary on N. Zunic's "Persons and
Community," Society for Existentialist and Phenomenological Theory and
Culture, Winnipeg, MB, May 31, 2004. |
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"Emmanuel
Levinas on the Drama of Being," Society for Existentialist and
Phenomenological Theory and Culture, Halifax, NS, May 30, 2003. |
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"Conscience in Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Levinas,"
Canadian Philosophical Association meeting, Quebec City, QC, May 28,
2001. |
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"Levinas's Critique of the Sacred," Canadian Society
for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought, Quebec City, QC, May 26,
2001. |
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"'Disaster' to 'Desire:' Seeking the Hidden Good in
Levinas," Canadian Philosophical Association meeting, Sherbrooke, QC,
June 3, 1999. |
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"The Concept of the 'il y a' in the Early Levinas,"
Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought, Ottawa, ON,
May 29, 1998. |
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"Catastrophic Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas on Proximity,"
Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Conference, Binghamton
University, Binghamton, NY, April 21, 1997. |
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"Emmanuel Levinas on the Philosophical Meaning of
Creation," Myth and Ethics Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,
March 28, 1997. |
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