Christopher P Long
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher P Long |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher P |
| FAMILY NAME | Long |
| SIGNATURE | LONG C P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9932-5689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Hideously Difficult Task Before Us: Toward a More Perfect Union—Reading Baldwin with Schürmann
Tracing a path opened by an enigmatic reference in Reiner Schürmann’s dissertation to the symbol of water in James Baldwin’s , this essay follows the thinking of Schürmann and Baldwin to the tragic denial that perverts the ideals of the United States from the moment of its founding. Drawing on Schürmann’s imperative hermeneutics, we attend to Baldwin’s essays from the 1960s as they call white citizens of the United States to take on the “hideousl…
The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship
The current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher education are unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set of proxy measures, current systems of evaluation fail to recognize and reward the many dependencies upon which a healthy scholarly ecosystem relies. Drawing on the work of the HuMetricsHSS Initiative, this essay argues that by aligning values with practices, recognizing the…
Reiner Schürmann and the Poetics of Politics
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Reiner Schürmann and the Poetics of Politics
Reiner Schürmann's thinking is, as he himself would say, "riveted to a monstrous site." It remains focused on and situated between natality and mortality, the ultimate traits that condition human life. This book traces the contours of Schürmann's thinking in his magnum opus Broken Hegemonies in order to uncover the possibility of a politics that resists the hegemonic tendency to posit principles that set the world and our relationships with one a…
Public Philosophy and Philosophical Publics: Performative Publishing and the Cultivation of Community
The emergence of new platforms for public communication, public deliberation, and public action presents new possibilities for forming, organizing, and mobilizing public bodies, which invite philosophical reflection concerning the standards we currently look to for coordinating public movements and for evaluating their effects. Developing a broad understanding of public philosophy, this article begins with the view of philosophy and intellectual …
Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading
Aristotle on the Nature of Truth
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Aristotle on the Nature of Truth
This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects. Drawing Heideggerian phenomenology into dialogue with American pragmatic naturalism, Christopher P. Long undertakes a rigorous reading of Aristotle that articulates the meaning of truth as a co-operative activity between human beings and the natural world that is rooted in our endeavours to do justice to the na…
The Duplicity of Beginning: Schürmann, Aristotle, and the Origins of Metaphysics
The Daughters of Metis: Patriarchal Dominion and the Politics of the Between
From its very beginnings, patriarchal dominion has always established its authority and won legitimacy by a subversion of the feminine that arises out of an implicit recognition of feminine power. Swallowing Metis, Zeus secures the stable order of his divine rule; sacrificing Iphigenia, Agamemnon asserts his authority as sovereign; denying the Erinyes their vengeance, Athena founds the human community that bears her name. Each of these stories ar…
Socrates and the Politics of Music: Preludes of the Republic
At least since the appearance of Aristotle’s Politics, Plato’s Republic has been read as arguing for a politics of unity in which difference is understood as a threat to the polis. By focusing on the musical imagery of the Republic, and specifically on its compositional organization around three ‘preludes’, this essay seeks an understanding of Socratic politics that moves beyond the hypothesis of unity. In the first ‘prelude’, Thrasymachus and hi…
Totalizing identities: The ambiguous legacy of Aristotle and Hegel after Auschwitz
The Holocaust throws the study of the history of philosophy into crisis. Critiques of Western thinking leveled by such thinkers as Adorno, Levinas and, more recently, postmodern theorists have suggested that Western philosophy is inherently totalizing and that it must be read differently or altogether abandoned after Auschwitz. This article intentionally rereads Aristotle and Hegel through the shattered lens of the Holocaust. Its refracted focus …
The ontological reappropriation of phronēsis
Art's Fateful Hour: Benjamin, Heidegger, Art and Politics
In 1935 Walter Benjamin wrote that "art's fateful hour has struck" and that he had "captured its signature" in his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Technical Reproduction." Less than a month after these words were written, Martin Heidegger gave a lecture entitled "The Origin of the Work of Art" in Freiburg. These two philosophical reflections on the nature of art, written in the lengthening shadow of European fascism, are brought into relatio…
The Hegemony of Form and the Resistance of Matter
This article offers an interpretation of the transition that occurs in Physics A.7, in which Aristotle establishes an important new role for form in accounting for ontological identity. It then turns to Heidegger's interpretation of Aristotle's conception of physis in order to show the dangers, both ontological and ethical, endemic to Heidegger's absolute affirmation of the notion of form in Aristotle. Finally, by way of Aristotle's biological wr…
A fissure in the distinction: Hannah Arendt, the family and the public/private dichotomy
By way of an analysis of Arendt's defense of the public/private distinction in The Human Condition, this essay offers a re-interpretation of the status of the family as a realm where the categories of action and speech play a vital role. The traditional criterion for the establishment of the public/private distinction is grounded in an idealization of the family as a sphere where a unity of interests destroys the conditions for the categories of …
Two Powers, One Ability: The Understanding and Imagination in Kant's Critical Philosophy
In order to suggest why Kant does not offer an explicit argument for the necessary connection between the synthesis of the imagination and the categories, this article argues that the productive imagination and the understanding are in fact two aspects of one and the same ability (Vermögen), and further, that their identity may be thought in such a way that, while understanding and sensibility are necessarily linked, they are not related to one a…
Art's Fateful Hour: Benjamin, Heidegger, Art and Politics
In 1935 Walter Benjamin wrote that "art's fateful hour has struck" and that he had "captured its signature" in his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Technical Reproduction." Less than a month after these words were written, Martin Heidegger gave a lecture entitled "The Origin of the Work of Art" in Freiburg. These two philosophical reflections on the nature of art, written in the lengthening shadow of European fascism, are brought into relatio…
A fissure in the distinction: Hannah Arendt, the family and the public/private dichotomy
By way of an analysis of Arendt's defense of the public/private distinction in The Human Condition, this essay offers a re-interpretation of the status of the family as a realm where the categories of action and speech play a vital role. The traditional criterion for the establishment of the public/private distinction is grounded in an idealization of the family as a sphere where a unity of interests destroys the conditions for the categories of …
The Hegemony of Form and the Resistance of Matter
This article offers an interpretation of the transition that occurs in Physics A.7, in which Aristotle establishes an important new role for form in accounting for ontological identity. It then turns to Heidegger's interpretation of Aristotle's conception of physis in order to show the dangers, both ontological and ethical, endemic to Heidegger's absolute affirmation of the notion of form in Aristotle. Finally, by way of Aristotle's biological wr…
Two Powers, One Ability: The Understanding and Imagination in Kant's Critical Philosophy
In order to suggest why Kant does not offer an explicit argument for the necessary connection between the synthesis of the imagination and the categories, this article argues that the productive imagination and the understanding are in fact two aspects of one and the same ability (Vermögen), and further, that their identity may be thought in such a way that, while understanding and sensibility are necessarily linked, they are not related to one a…
A fissure in the distinction: Hannah Arendt, the family and the public/private dichotomy
By way of an analysis of Arendt's defense of the public/private distinction in The Human Condition, this essay offers a re-interpretation of the status of the family as a realm where the categories of action and speech play a vital role. The traditional criterion for the establishment of the public/private distinction is grounded in an idealization of the family as a sphere where a unity of interests destroys the conditions for the categories of …
Two Powers, One Ability: The Understanding and Imagination in Kant's Critical Philosophy
In order to suggest why Kant does not offer an explicit argument for the necessary connection between the synthesis of the imagination and the categories, this article argues that the productive imagination and the understanding are in fact two aspects of one and the same ability (Vermögen), and further, that their identity may be thought in such a way that, while understanding and sensibility are necessarily linked, they are not related to one a…
The Hegemony of Form and the Resistance of Matter
This article offers an interpretation of the transition that occurs in Physics A.7, in which Aristotle establishes an important new role for form in accounting for ontological identity. It then turns to Heidegger's interpretation of Aristotle's conception of physis in order to show the dangers, both ontological and ethical, endemic to Heidegger's absolute affirmation of the notion of form in Aristotle. Finally, by way of Aristotle's biological wr…
Art's Fateful Hour: Benjamin, Heidegger, Art and Politics
In 1935 Walter Benjamin wrote that "art's fateful hour has struck" and that he had "captured its signature" in his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Technical Reproduction." Less than a month after these words were written, Martin Heidegger gave a lecture entitled "The Origin of the Work of Art" in Freiburg. These two philosophical reflections on the nature of art, written in the lengthening shadow of European fascism, are brought into relatio…
The ontological reappropriation of phronēsis
Totalizing identities: The ambiguous legacy of Aristotle and Hegel after Auschwitz
The Holocaust throws the study of the history of philosophy into crisis. Critiques of Western thinking leveled by such thinkers as Adorno, Levinas and, more recently, postmodern theorists have suggested that Western philosophy is inherently totalizing and that it must be read differently or altogether abandoned after Auschwitz. This article intentionally rereads Aristotle and Hegel through the shattered lens of the Holocaust. Its refracted focus …
The Daughters of Metis: Patriarchal Dominion and the Politics of the Between
From its very beginnings, patriarchal dominion has always established its authority and won legitimacy by a subversion of the feminine that arises out of an implicit recognition of feminine power. Swallowing Metis, Zeus secures the stable order of his divine rule; sacrificing Iphigenia, Agamemnon asserts his authority as sovereign; denying the Erinyes their vengeance, Athena founds the human community that bears her name. Each of these stories ar…
Socrates and the Politics of Music: Preludes of the Republic
At least since the appearance of Aristotle’s Politics, Plato’s Republic has been read as arguing for a politics of unity in which difference is understood as a threat to the polis. By focusing on the musical imagery of the Republic, and specifically on its compositional organization around three ‘preludes’, this essay seeks an understanding of Socratic politics that moves beyond the hypothesis of unity. In the first ‘prelude’, Thrasymachus and hi…
The Duplicity of Beginning: Schürmann, Aristotle, and the Origins of Metaphysics
Aristotle on the Nature of Truth
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Aristotle on the Nature of Truth
This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects. Drawing Heideggerian phenomenology into dialogue with American pragmatic naturalism, Christopher P. Long undertakes a rigorous reading of Aristotle that articulates the meaning of truth as a co-operative activity between human beings and the natural world that is rooted in our endeavours to do justice to the na…
Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading
Public Philosophy and Philosophical Publics: Performative Publishing and the Cultivation of Community
The emergence of new platforms for public communication, public deliberation, and public action presents new possibilities for forming, organizing, and mobilizing public bodies, which invite philosophical reflection concerning the standards we currently look to for coordinating public movements and for evaluating their effects. Developing a broad understanding of public philosophy, this article begins with the view of philosophy and intellectual …
Reiner Schürmann and the Poetics of Politics
If you're reading the e-book, you can click on the image below to go directly to our donations site.Any amount, no matter the size, is appreciated and will help us to keep our ship of fools afloat.Contributions from dedicated readers will also help us to keep our commons open and to cultivate new work that can't find a welcoming port elsewhere.Our adventure is not possible without your support.
Reiner Schürmann and the Poetics of Politics
Reiner Schürmann's thinking is, as he himself would say, "riveted to a monstrous site." It remains focused on and situated between natality and mortality, the ultimate traits that condition human life. This book traces the contours of Schürmann's thinking in his magnum opus Broken Hegemonies in order to uncover the possibility of a politics that resists the hegemonic tendency to posit principles that set the world and our relationships with one a…
The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship
The current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher education are unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set of proxy measures, current systems of evaluation fail to recognize and reward the many dependencies upon which a healthy scholarly ecosystem relies. Drawing on the work of the HuMetricsHSS Initiative, this essay argues that by aligning values with practices, recognizing the…
The Hideously Difficult Task Before Us: Toward a More Perfect Union—Reading Baldwin with Schürmann
Tracing a path opened by an enigmatic reference in Reiner Schürmann’s dissertation to the symbol of water in James Baldwin’s , this essay follows the thinking of Schürmann and Baldwin to the tragic denial that perverts the ideals of the United States from the moment of its founding. Drawing on Schürmann’s imperative hermeneutics, we attend to Baldwin’s essays from the 1960s as they call white citizens of the United States to take on the “hideousl…
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