Stephen Mulhall
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 313866 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen Mulhall |
| NOMBRES | Stephen |
| APELLIDO | Mulhall |
| FIRMA | MULHALL S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8394-6138 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Response to Lehigh Conference Papers
In this essay, I attempt to respond to the papers on my work contained in this volume of Philosophical Topics. My response attempts to draw out connections between those papers, as well as engaging with individual lines of criticism developed in each, so it is best thought of as one sustained critical evaluation of them all. It consequently touches on a number of inter-related issues, many of them deriving from Stanley Cavell’s work and its criti…
Here and There
As Cavell's draft preface makes clear, the title of this first posthumous volume of previously uncollected essays alludes to a metaphor by which he had attempted to express his conception of the nature of philosophy. “Here” and “there” are the near and far shores between which the “river of philosophy” has to take and modify its way. In earlier writing, he presented the near shore as marking one mode of philosophy's aspiration to perspicuity—that…
Transubstantiation and the Eucharist
This article discusses and critically evaluates the dispute between Herbert McCabe and his pseudonymous interlocutor G. Egner with respect to the doctrine of transubstantiation. The aim is to treat their views of that doctrine as exemplary of the difference made by what might be called a ‘Grammatical Thomist’ approach to our view of the nature of the sacrament of the Eucharist, of sacraments in general, and of theology's propensity to violate the…
In Other Words
J. M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' trilogy extends and intensifies his long-term interest in engaging with a wide range of texts, themes, and assumptions that help constitute the history of Western European philosophy. In this commentary, Stephen Mulhall extends his own earlier work on Coetzee's previous stagings of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature by identifying and following out various ways in which the 'Jesus' trilogy activates and …
The Ascetic Ideal
This book develops a reading of Nietzsche's concept of 'the ascetic ideal', through which he tracks the evolution, mutation, and expansion of the system of slave moral values that he associates primarily with Judaeo-Christian religious belief through diverse fields of Western European culture-not just religion and morality, but aesthetics, science, and philosophy. The work of Stanley Cavell and Michael Fried, and its impact in the philosophy of f…
The Idea of Ethical Vulnerability
This paper addresses the question of whether there might be secular analogues of the theological virtues. Beginning with a Kierkegaardian account of the unity and structural underpinnings of Christian accounts of faith, hope and love as distinct from moral virtues more generally, it utilizes ideas from Stanley Cavell, John Stuart Mill and Jonathan Lear to develop a phenomenology of familiar moral experiences whose underlying logic points us in th…
Health and Deviance, Irony and Incarnation
Stephen Mulhall’s chapter explores the boundaries between literature, philosophy, and theology: specifically, the ways in which The Childhood of Jesus ironically recounts themes from Plato’s The Republic , Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations , and the story of the Incarnation in the New Testament. He draws attention to the unsettling provocation offered by Coetzee’s text, and the uncertain direction of its many ironies. Refusing to recupe…
Philosophy as Poetry by Richard Rorty
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
Knowing What to Do
Journal Article Knowing What to Do: Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics Get access Knowing What to Do: Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics.Edited ByChappell Timothy. (Oxford: OUP, 2014. Pp. viii + 322. Price £45.00.) Stephen Mulhall Stephen Mulhall New College, Oxford, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 259…
Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies
This collection is devoted to the task of finding ways to open lines of communication between the work of Stanley Cavell and the texts, theories, and methods that go to make up the field of contemporary literary studies, very broadly construed. Cavell's academic life was always centered in philosophy departments; but his modes of teaching and writing are unusually insistent on acknowledging the ways in which philosophy as he inherited it naturall…
The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time
The Routledge guidebook to Heidegger's Being and time
Orchestral Metaphysics
This article argues that Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy is an attempt to forge a mode of discourse that draws equally upon the resources of tragic drama, opera, and philosophy, and thereby attempts to disclose their internal relatedness, in order both to exemplify and to enable the attainment of a nonelitist species of perfectionism—one that has both an individual and a cultural dimension (with the latter finding expression in a willingness to ques…
The Poetry of Thought
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what functions do they really serve? What future does the concept of 'evil' have - and can it be revalued? What sorts of virtues and ideals does Nietzsche advocat…
Wittgenstein on Faith, Rationality and the Passions
This short article discusses three erroneous interpretations of Wittgenstein's few remarks on the relation between religion, reason and the passions: (1) that the role he allots to pictures in religious discourse commits him to a certain form of expressivism; (2) that the heart and the intellect are essentially opposed in the context of faith; and (3) (in what is thought to be a Kierkegaardian vein) that the passionate heat of faith stands in sim…
A Critical Commentary
Journal Article A Critical Commentary Get access Stephen Mulhall Stephen Mulhall New College, Oxford [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 95–98, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayq048 Published: 01 January 2011
Little Did I Know
Book Review| August 01 2011 Little Did I Know: Excerpts From Memory Cavell, Stanley, Little Did I Know: Excerpts From Memory (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010), 584 pp. Stephen Mulhall Stephen Mulhall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 542. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1305472 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation St…
Hacker on Human Nature
This book, the first volume of a planned trilogy, is an attempt to locate human nature in the broader scheme of things. Its author describes his enterprise as an exercise in philosophical anthropology (that is, an investigation of the concepts and forms of explanation characteristic of the study of man), and hence as a venture in metaphysics, if by that we mean an investigation into the most general structural concepts that inform our thought abo…
The Cat and the Camel
This response to "Morality or Moralism?" by Émilie Hache and Bruno Latour, while accepting the plausibility and importance of their critique of moralism in the name of morality, identifies a number of questionable steps and assumptions in their development of it. Mulhall's response questions an ambiguity in their specifications of what morality and moralism are-an unexplained tendency on their part to occlude distinctively nonhuman animal life in…
The Wounded Animal
The Wounded Animal
In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of fiction about an eminent novelist, Elizabeth Costello, invited to lecture on the moral status of animals at an American college. Coetzee's lectures were published in 1999 as The Lives of Animals , and reappeared in 2003 as part of his novel Elizabeth Costello ; and both lectures and novel have attracte…
Émile Perreau-Saussine, Alasdair MacIntyre
The Wounded Animal
In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of fiction about an eminent novelist, Elizabeth Costello, invited to lecture on the moral status of animals at an American college. Coetzee's lectures were published in 1999 as The Lives of Animals , and reappeared in 2003 as part of his novel Elizabeth Costello ; and both lectures and novel have attracte…
Political Liberalism and Civic Education
This article evaluates the conception of citizenship embodied in political liberalism as the core ingredient of a national syllabus designed to provide an uncontroversial yet substantial education in moral and political values in a liberal democratic state system. I argue (pace recent work by Stephen Macedo) that Rawls's paradigmatic version of political liberalism fails to avoid begging the political question against those who do not share liber…
Promising, Consent, and Citizenship
Etude de la critique de la theorie de la justice de J. Rawls developpee par S. Cavell dans le contexte de ce qu'il appelle le perfectionnisme moral. Analysant les notions morales de promesse, punition et jeu, d'une part, et les notions politiques de consentement et citoyennete, d'autre part, l'A. montre que la critique de Cavell repose sur l'idee de justice comme loyaute (fairness) qui reste fondamentale dans la conception du liberalisme politiqu…
Species-being, teleology and individuality part I
1998). Species‐being, teleology and individuality part I: Marx on species‐being. Angelaki: Vol. 3, Impurity, authenticity and humanity, pp. 9-27
Heidegger and the Place of Ethics
Species-being, teleology and individuality part II
1998). Species‐being, teleology and individuality part II: Kant on human nature. Angelaki: Vol. 3, Impurity, authenticity and humanity, pp. 49-58
No Smoke Without Fire
Journal Article No Smoke Without Fire: The Meaning of Grue Get access Stephen Mulhall Stephen Mulhall All Souls College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 155, April 1989, Pages 166–189, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219637 Published: 01 April 1989
The Ascetic Ideal
This book develops a reading of Nietzsche's concept of 'the ascetic ideal', through which he tracks the evolution, mutation, and expansion of the system of slave moral values that he associates primarily with Judaeo-Christian religious belief through diverse fields of Western European culture-not just religion and morality, but aesthetics, science, and philosophy. The work of Stanley Cavell and Michael Fried, and its impact in the philosophy of f…
Species-being, teleology and individuality part III
1998). Species‐being, teleology and individuality part III: Alienation and self‐realisation the physiognomy of the human. Angelaki: Vol. 3, Impurity, authenticity and humanity, pp. 89-100
Liberals and Communitarians
Davidson on Interpretation and Understanding
Journal Article Davidson on Interpretation and Understanding Get access Stephen Mulhall Stephen Mulhall All Souls College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 148, July 1987, Pages 319–322, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220403 Published: 01 July 1987
The theoretical foundations of liberalism
The publication of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice in 1972 inaugurated a new era in Anglo-American political theory by providing a sophisticated and complex paradigm of liberal political diagnosis of and prescription for contemporary society; it resulted in a flood of detailed analyses and discussions of Rawls' proposals in the large and in the small, and also brought forth (in the form of Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia) a counterblast…
No Smoke Without Fire
Journal Article No Smoke Without Fire: The Meaning of Grue Get access Stephen Mulhall Stephen Mulhall All Souls College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 155, April 1989, Pages 166–189, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219637 Published: 01 April 1989
Liberalisms and Communitarianisms
Perfectionism, Politics and the Social Contract
Liberals and Communitarians
Political Liberalism
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Political Liberalism. By John Rawls. (New York: Columbia UP, 1993. Pp. xxxiv + 401. Price £20.00.) Stephen Mulhall, Stephen Mulhall aUniversity of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Adam Swift Adam Swift bBalliol College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 177, October 1994,…
Re-Monstrations
L'A. etudie la signification de la figure de la main dans les oeuvres de Heidegger, Derrida et Wittgenstein. Incarnation de la lisibilite de l'etre humain, elle designe a la fois la difference sexuelle, la difference entre l'humain et le non-humain, les relations entre l'ecriture et le discours, entre la proximite et la distance, la nature de la pensee et la difference ontologique. L'A. propose donc une lecture de la main de Wittgenstein sur le m…
Can There be an Epistemology of Moods?
By entitling her recent collection of essays on philosophy and literature Love's Knowledge , Martha Nussbaum signals her commitment to giving a positive answer to the question posed by the title of this paper. If love can deliver or lay claim to knowledge, then moods (the variety of affective states to which human nature is subject) must be thought of as having a cognitive significance, and so must not only permit but require the attentions of th…
Stanley Cavell
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Stanley Cavell: Philosophy’s Recounting of the Ordinary. By Stephen Mulhall. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii + 351. Price £35.00.) Russell B. Goodman Russell B. Goodman University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 183, April 1996, Pages 276–278, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956406 Published: 01 April 199…
Truth in Philosophy
Promising, Consent, and Citizenship
Etude de la critique de la theorie de la justice de J. Rawls developpee par S. Cavell dans le contexte de ce qu'il appelle le perfectionnisme moral. Analysant les notions morales de promesse, punition et jeu, d'une part, et les notions politiques de consentement et citoyennete, d'autre part, l'A. montre que la critique de Cavell repose sur l'idee de justice comme loyaute (fairness) qui reste fondamentale dans la conception du liberalisme politiqu…
Political Liberalism and Civic Education
This article evaluates the conception of citizenship embodied in political liberalism as the core ingredient of a national syllabus designed to provide an uncontroversial yet substantial education in moral and political values in a liberal democratic state system. I argue (pace recent work by Stephen Macedo) that Rawls's paradigmatic version of political liberalism fails to avoid begging the political question against those who do not share liber…
Species-being, teleology and individuality part II
1998). Species‐being, teleology and individuality part II: Kant on human nature. Angelaki: Vol. 3, Impurity, authenticity and humanity, pp. 49-58
Species-being, teleology and individuality part III
1998). Species‐being, teleology and individuality part III: Alienation and self‐realisation the physiognomy of the human. Angelaki: Vol. 3, Impurity, authenticity and humanity, pp. 89-100
Species-being, teleology and individuality part I
1998). Species‐being, teleology and individuality part I: Marx on species‐being. Angelaki: Vol. 3, Impurity, authenticity and humanity, pp. 9-27
A solemn combination of souls
Crimes and deeds of glory
Journal Article Crimes and deeds of glory: Michael Fried's modernism Get access S Mulhall S Mulhall New College, Oxford, OX1 3BN, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 41, Issue 1, January 2001, Pages 1–23, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/41.1.1 Published: 01 January 2001
On film
Few movies of recent times have caught and shocked our imagination as the Alien cinematic quartet and the quest of Sigourney Weaver's Flight Lieutenant Ellen Ripley. In this gripping and lucidly written book, Mulhall shows why these films fascinate us, by showing that they are compelling examples of philosophy in action. Bringing a philosopher's eye to cinema, he argues that the Alien films take us deep into the question of what it is to be human…
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Heidegger and Being and Time
Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. A difficult and powerful philosopher, his work requires careful reading. Being and Time was his first major book and remains his most influential work.Heidegger and Being and Time introduces and assesses: Heidegger's life and the background of Being and Time; the ideas and text of Being and Time; Heidegger's importance to philosophy and to the intellectual life of this …
The Cambridge Companion to Rawls
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. John Rawls is the most significant and influential philosopher and moral philosopher of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly shaped contemporary discussions of social, political and economic justice in philosophy, law, political scie…
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Heidegger and Being and time
Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. His writing are notoriously difficult; they both require and reward careful reading. Being and Time, his first major publication, remains to this day his most influential work. Heidegger and Being and Time introduces and assesses Heidegger's life and the background to Being and Time, the ideas and text of Being and Time, and Heidegger's continuing importance to philosop…
Articulating the Horizons of Liberalism
In Sources of the Self, his epic historical recounting of the making of our modern moral identity, Charles Taylor attempts to articulate the broader background or horizon (what he there calls the moral ontology) of the specific arrays of moral judgement characteristic of modernity in the West. Without such an ontology, he argues, those judgements can neither secure their distinctive content nor receive a truly rational assessment of their strengt…
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor is beyond question one of the most distinctive figures in the landscape of contemporary philosophy. In a time of increasing specialization Taylor's ability to contribute to philosophical conversations across a wide spectrum of ideas is distinctive and impressive. These areas include moral theory, theories of subjectivity, political theory, epistemology, hermeneutics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and aesthetics. His mo…
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Heidegger and Being and Time
Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings are notoriously difficult; they both require and reward careful reading. Being and Time, his first major publication, remains to this day his most influential work. Heidegger and Being and Time introduces and assesses: * Heidegger’s life and the background to Being and Time * the ideas and text of Being and Time * Heidegger’s continuing importance to philos…
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