James R. Mensch

 

Open Democracy Articles:

The Neighbor in the Self.pdf

Beyond Abstract Solidarity.pdf

Violence and Embodiment.pdf

Violence_and_blindness-_the_case_of_Uchuraccay_opendemocracy.pdf

A_Theory_of_Human_Rights.pdf

 

Academic papers:

 On Religion:

 

Hating thy Neighbor as Thyself, Religious Intolerance.doc

 

forgiveness.doc

 

What Should We Pray For.doc

 

Hermeneutics_of_Fundamentalism.doc

 

Abraham_and_Isaac.doc

 

A Note on Job and Creation.doc

 

 

On Merleau-Ponty

 

The Intertwining, The Recursion of the Seer and the Seen.doc

 

Patoka-Merleau-Ponty_The_Apriori_of_the_Visible.doc

 

The Temporality of Merleau-Ponty's Intertwining.doc 

 

 

On the Intertwining

 

Arousal, The Intertwining of the Within and the Without.doc

 

The Intertwining of Generations.doc

 

 

On Philosophy and Literature:

 

The Intertwining of Incommensurables, Yann Martel’s Life of Pi.doc

 

Benito_Cerino,_Freud_and_the_Breakdown_of_Politics.doc

 

Literature_and_evil.doc

 

The_Bible_as_Literature.doc

 

 

On Aesthetics:

 

Aesthetic Education.doc

 

EXCESSIVE PRESENCE AND THE IMAGE.doc

 

 

On political theory:

 

A theory of human rights--Mensch.doc

 

Violence and Blindness-The Case of Uchuraccay.doc

 

Empathy and Rationality.doc

 

Violence and Embodiment.doc

 

Public Space-Mensch.doc

 

Politics and Freedom.doc

  

Sovereignty and Alterity.doc

 

 Political Violence.doc

 

Sustaining_the_Other,_Tolerance_as_a_Positive_Ideal.doc

 

Alterity_and_Society.doc

 

Selfhood_and_Politics.doc

 

Freedom_and_Selfhood.doc

 

The_Intersubjective_Basis_of_Imagination.doc

 

 

On Jan Patočka:

 

Postmodern_Phenomenology.doc

 

Manifestation_and_the_Paradox_of_Subjectivity.doc

 

Patocka and Artificial Intelligence.doc

 

 

On Ethics:

 

Shame_and_Guilt.doc

 

The Ethical Limits to Self-Making.doc

 

Rescue_and_the_Face-to-Face.doc

 

Crosscultural_Understanding_and_Ethics.doc

 

Givenness_and_alterity.doc

 

 

On Artificial Intelligence

 

Mensch, The Question of Naturalizing Phenomenology.doc

 

The Mind-Body Problem and the Intertwining.doc

 

AI_&_the_Phenomenology_of_Flesh.doc

 

Qualia.doc

 

Husserl Learns Chinese.doc

 

 

On Husserl:

 

Mensch, The Phenomenological Status of the Ego.doc

 

Retention and the Schema.doc

 

 

Real_&_Ideal_Determination_in_Husserl's_Logical_Investigations.doc

 

Husserl's_Concept_of_the_Future.doc

 

Instincts.doc

 

Derrida-Husserl_Towards_a_Phenomenology_of_Language.doc

 

Existence and Essence in Thomas and Husserl.doc

 

 

On Kant:

 

Temporalization_as_the_Trace_of_the_Subject.doc

 

 

On Heidegger, Levinas

 

Presence_and_Postmodernity.doc

 

Death and the Other, The Origin of Ethical Responsibility.doc

 

Lévinas’s Transformation of Heidegger’s Account of Temporalization.doc

 

Von Wesen der Wahrheit,  A Commentary.doc (1970)

 

 

On Freud:

 

Splitting of the Ego.doc

 

 

On Nietzsche:

 

Nietzsche and Darwin, Confronting the Janus Head.doc

 

 

On Mediaval Philosophy:

 

Bonaventure and the Ontological Argument (1970).doc

 

 

Other:

 

Metaphysics and Alterity.doc

 

Phenomenology of Self-Making (1970).doc

 

Books whose chapters you can download:

 

A Commentary on Levinas’ Totality and Infinity (draft).

 

Commentary on Totality and Infinity 1.5.doc

Husserl’s Account of our Consciousness of Time, Marquette University Press, in press.

 

Husserl’s Account of our Consciousness of Time-final.doc

 

Embodiments: From the Body to the Body Politic, Northwestern University Press, 2009.

 

Embodiments - Northwestern.doc

Hiddenness and Alterity, Duquesne University Press, 2005.

Hiddenness_and_Alterity.doc

Ethics and Selfhood: Alterity and the Phenomenology of Obligation, SUNY Press, 2003

Ethics_and_Selfhood.doc 

Presence and Selfhood: Husserlian Reflections on Embodiment, Penn State Press, 2001

Postfoundational Phenomenology.doc

Knowing and Being: A Post-Modern Reversal, Penn State Press, 1996

Knowing_and_Being.doc

After Modernity, Husserlian Reflections on a Philosophical Tradition, SUNY Press, 1996

After Modernity

 The Beginning of the Gospel of Saint John: Philosophical Reflections, Peter Lang, 1992.

The_Beginning_of_the_Gospel_of_Saint_John.doc

(You will need linguist software fonts to read the Greek of this text)

Intersubjectivity and Transcendental Idealism, State University of New York Press, 1988

Intersubjectivity and Trans. Idealism 

The Question of Being in Husserl's Logical Investigations, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague, 1981

Question_of_Being_in_Husserl's_LU.doc