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James Mensch is a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He is currently the holder of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant for the project, “Patočka’s A-subjective Phenomenology” (2008-11). His previous Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grants were for the projects “Husserl’s Account of Time and Internal Time Consciousness” (2002-06) and “The Internalized Perception of the Self and Others as a Basis for Ethics” (1998-2002). The author of ten monographs, he is a representative for philosophy on the Aid to Scholarly Publications Committee, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Recent Publications:

In 2010, Prof. Mensch published the following articles: ““The Phenomenological Status of the Ego,” Idealistic Studies, 39, Nos. 1–3, Spring–Summer–Fall 2009, pp. 1-10; “Arousal: The Intertwining of the Within and the Without,” World Picture Journal 4, 2010; “Violencia y ceguera. El caso Uchuraccay,” Memoria, Revista sobre cultura, democracia y Derechos Humanos, No. 7, 2010, pp. 93-102; and “The Temporality of Merleau-Ponty’s ‘Intertwining,’” Continental Philosophy Review, 42:14, 449-463. Also, the article, “A Theory of Human Rights,” February 12, 2010, appeared in the online journal, Open Democracy. Prof. Mensch’s book, Husserl’s Account of our Consciousness of Time, was accepted for publication by Marquette University Press this year. In addition, the following chapters were accepted for publication: “Patočka and Artificial Intelligence,” in Jan Patočka and the Heritage of Phenomenology. Centenary Papers, eds. Ivan Chvatik and Erika Abrams, Springer Verlag, in press; “Empathy and Rationality,” in The Politics of Empathy, Berlin: LIT Verlag, in press; and “Religious Intolerance, Hating Your Neighbor as Yourself,” in Negativistische Sozialphilosophie, ed. Hans-Rainer Sepp, Königshausen & Neumann, in press.

In 2009, Prof. Mensch’s book, Embodiments, From the Body to the Body Politic, was published by Northwestern University Press. Also published in 2009 was his article, “Violenza Politica,” in Rivista di fenomenologia, I, 1-31. In addition, the article, “Violence and blindness: the case of Uchuraccay,” appeared in the online journal Open Democracy on August 7, 2009.

In 2008, the following chapters were accepted for publication: “Retention and the Schema,” in On Time. New Contributions to Husserl's Theory of Time-constitution, eds. Dieter Lohmar and Ichiro Yamaguchi, Springer Verlag and “The Mind Body Problem and Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of the Intertwining” in Investigating Subjectivity, ed. Karel Novotny, Brill Publishers. The following chapter appeared in 2008: “Political Violence,” in Über Zivilisation und Differenz. Beitrage zu einer politischen Phänomenologie Europas, ed. L. Hagedorn and M. Staudigl Staudigl (Orbis phaenomenologicus), Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008, 285-303. Also published in 2008 were the articles: “Violence and Embodiment,” Symposium, Journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Thought, 12:1, Spring 2008, pp. 5-10 and “Politika in Svoboda,” Phainomena (Ljubljana) XVII (2008), 64/65:17-26. In addition, the following articles appeared in the online journal, Open Democracy in 2008: “The neighbor in the self,” August 28, 2008 and “Beyond abstract solidarity,” January 23, 2008.

In 2007, the following chapters by Prof. Mensch appeared: “Sovereignty and Alterity,” in Phänomenologien des Politischen. Perspektiven sozialphänomenologischer Forschung nach Husserl, ed. G. Leghissa and M. Staudigl, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann (Orbis phaenomenologicus; “Sustaining the Other: Tolerance as a Positive Ideal,” in Interpretando la experiencia de la tolerancia, ed. Rosemary Rizo-Patrón, Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2 vols. 2007, II, 99-106 and “The Intertwining of Incommensurables: Yann Martel’s Life of Pi,” in Phenomenology and the Non-human Animal, ed. Corinne Painter and Christian Lotz, Dordrecht: Springer, 2007, 135-147. Also appearing were the articles: “The A priori of the Visible: Patocka and Merleau-Ponty,” Studia Phenomenologica, Vol. 7, 2007, pp. 259-284 and “Public Space,” Continental Philosophy Review, 40:1, March, 2007, 31-47. In addition, the following article appeared in the online journal, Open Democracy, “Violence and Embodiment,” (shorter version) December 6, 2007.