Joseph Rivera
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Rivera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Rivera |
| SIGNATURE | RIVERA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8650-7918 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Love Is a Philosopher
Love’s Movement, Love’s Gift [...]
Trump versus the University: Scandal or Calling to Account
Whom Do I Love When I Love Myself? The Challenge of Narcissism
A central question within contemporary debates about the structure of self-love concerns the place and status of the other. Is self-love identical to, or at least vulnerable to, the accusation of self-absorption and narcissism? Whereas contemporary critiques of self-love argue self-love is in principle impossible, the present essay suggests that self-love can be integrated with the love of the other at an a priori level. This material a priori, d…
Two Types of Philosophy of Religion: Neutral Cognition versus Lived Experience
As a discipline taught and debated in universities and seminaries, philosophy of religion has traditionally been understood as a form of apologetics: that is, it pursues with concentrated effort what proof for the existence of God the human mind can mobilize with recourse strictly to reason and logic
Phenomenology, Givenness, Mystery: Dilating Subjectivity
Phenomenology and theology continue to induce interdisciplinary analysis of selfhood and spiritual experience. In what follows, I discuss minimalist and maximalist phenomenologies. The latter opens up space for phenomenology to be informed by the theological concept of mystery. A maximalist phenomenology makes possible a particular variety of selfhood, what I call the dilated or middle-voiced subject, which belongs neither to pure passivity of re…
Giving as Loving: A requiem for the gift
Blumenberg's Problematic Secularization Thesis: Augustine, Curiositas and the Emergence of Late Modernity
Christianity, a spirituality of dwelling critically in the world, is seen by some in late modernity to foster an otherworldly attitude, and thus to cultivate a spirituality at odds with modern identity. Especially in the wake of Nietzsche's condemnation of Christianity on the grounds of its ascetic abandonment of the world, some have contended that Christianity may never have overcome its early conflict with Gnosticism. Hans Blumenberg's Legitima…
Political Liberalism and Resentment: A Theological Rejoinder
Religious Reasons and Public Reason: Recalibrating Ireland’s Benevolent Secularism
Liberal regimes in the West are not homogeneous in their application of secular principles. What kind of “secular” state a particular government promotes depends in large part on the strength and influence of the majority religion in that region. This article acknowledges the heuristic value of a recent threefold taxonomy of secularism: passive, assertive, and benevolent forms of secularism. I take issue with and challenge certain institutional p…
Liberal Citizenship and the Hermeneutics of Public Dialogue: A Rawlsian Perspective
Focusing on the topic of public dialogue between religiously theistic, quasi-religious, atheistic, and non-religious citizens in a liberal democracy, this paper develops a practical strategy of dialogue in the wake of Rawls’ Political Liberalism (1993). To set the stage for a rereading of Rawls, the chief points of liberal citizenship are outlined in critical dialogue with recent literature that urges citizens to abandon liberalism. While metaphy…
Phenomenologies of the trinity: Trends in recent philosophy of religion
This article discusses the theoretical issues and findings of a recent trend in phenomenology of religion: the manifestation of the Trinity. Section one highlights the classical model of the Trinity as mystery. The Trinity is as an elusive phenomenon that can be grasped only as an article of faith. Section two outlines important features of manifestation and experience in Husserl's phenomenology, which lays the conceptual groundwork for the pheno…
The "Original Position" as Public Performance: Liberalism, Pluralism, and Asceticism
John Rawls' well-known device of representation (his terminology) that he names the "original position" is put into play by the veil of ignorance. This imaginative device, found in both his early and late works, is often dismissed because it is misunderstood as an exercise in moral geometry. This essay discusses in more detail the subjective mechanics of the original position; while sympathetic of Rawls' application of the veil of ignorance, I di…
Introduction: Political Theology, or the Formations of Pluralism
The need for political theology to refine its scope, and-ultimately-to arrive at a place where it might enjoy full ownership over its public voice, grows more urgent by the moment in our fraught globalized climate
Political Theology and Pluralism
The four principles of phenomenology
Figuring the Porous Self: St. Augustine and the Phenomenology of Temporality
This article examines the phenomenological structures of the homo temporalis filtered through Augustine's illuminating, if unsystematic, insights on temporality and the imago D ei . It situates such a phenomenological interpretation of the A ugustinian self in view of current interpretations that polarize or split the A ugustinian self into an either/or scheme—either an “interior” self or an “exterior” self. Given this imbalance, the article sugg…
Generation, interiority and the phenomenology of Christianity in Michel Henry
Religious Reasons and Public Reason: Recalibrating Ireland’s Benevolent Secularism
Liberal regimes in the West are not homogeneous in their application of secular principles. What kind of “secular” state a particular government promotes depends in large part on the strength and influence of the majority religion in that region. This article acknowledges the heuristic value of a recent threefold taxonomy of secularism: passive, assertive, and benevolent forms of secularism. I take issue with and challenge certain institutional p…
Liberal Citizenship and the Hermeneutics of Public Dialogue: A Rawlsian Perspective
Focusing on the topic of public dialogue between religiously theistic, quasi-religious, atheistic, and non-religious citizens in a liberal democracy, this paper develops a practical strategy of dialogue in the wake of Rawls’ Political Liberalism (1993). To set the stage for a rereading of Rawls, the chief points of liberal citizenship are outlined in critical dialogue with recent literature that urges citizens to abandon liberalism. While metaphy…
Generation, interiority and the phenomenology of Christianity in Michel Henry
Figuring the Porous Self: St. Augustine and the Phenomenology of Temporality
This article examines the phenomenological structures of the homo temporalis filtered through Augustine's illuminating, if unsystematic, insights on temporality and the imago D ei . It situates such a phenomenological interpretation of the A ugustinian self in view of current interpretations that polarize or split the A ugustinian self into an either/or scheme—either an “interior” self or an “exterior” self. Given this imbalance, the article sugg…
The four principles of phenomenology
Political Theology and Pluralism
Liberal Citizenship and the Hermeneutics of Public Dialogue: A Rawlsian Perspective
Focusing on the topic of public dialogue between religiously theistic, quasi-religious, atheistic, and non-religious citizens in a liberal democracy, this paper develops a practical strategy of dialogue in the wake of Rawls’ Political Liberalism (1993). To set the stage for a rereading of Rawls, the chief points of liberal citizenship are outlined in critical dialogue with recent literature that urges citizens to abandon liberalism. While metaphy…
Phenomenologies of the trinity: Trends in recent philosophy of religion
This article discusses the theoretical issues and findings of a recent trend in phenomenology of religion: the manifestation of the Trinity. Section one highlights the classical model of the Trinity as mystery. The Trinity is as an elusive phenomenon that can be grasped only as an article of faith. Section two outlines important features of manifestation and experience in Husserl's phenomenology, which lays the conceptual groundwork for the pheno…
The "Original Position" as Public Performance: Liberalism, Pluralism, and Asceticism
John Rawls' well-known device of representation (his terminology) that he names the "original position" is put into play by the veil of ignorance. This imaginative device, found in both his early and late works, is often dismissed because it is misunderstood as an exercise in moral geometry. This essay discusses in more detail the subjective mechanics of the original position; while sympathetic of Rawls' application of the veil of ignorance, I di…
Introduction: Political Theology, or the Formations of Pluralism
The need for political theology to refine its scope, and-ultimately-to arrive at a place where it might enjoy full ownership over its public voice, grows more urgent by the moment in our fraught globalized climate
Political Liberalism and Resentment: A Theological Rejoinder
Religious Reasons and Public Reason: Recalibrating Ireland’s Benevolent Secularism
Liberal regimes in the West are not homogeneous in their application of secular principles. What kind of “secular” state a particular government promotes depends in large part on the strength and influence of the majority religion in that region. This article acknowledges the heuristic value of a recent threefold taxonomy of secularism: passive, assertive, and benevolent forms of secularism. I take issue with and challenge certain institutional p…
Giving as Loving: A requiem for the gift
Blumenberg's Problematic Secularization Thesis: Augustine, Curiositas and the Emergence of Late Modernity
Christianity, a spirituality of dwelling critically in the world, is seen by some in late modernity to foster an otherworldly attitude, and thus to cultivate a spirituality at odds with modern identity. Especially in the wake of Nietzsche's condemnation of Christianity on the grounds of its ascetic abandonment of the world, some have contended that Christianity may never have overcome its early conflict with Gnosticism. Hans Blumenberg's Legitima…
Phenomenology, Givenness, Mystery: Dilating Subjectivity
Phenomenology and theology continue to induce interdisciplinary analysis of selfhood and spiritual experience. In what follows, I discuss minimalist and maximalist phenomenologies. The latter opens up space for phenomenology to be informed by the theological concept of mystery. A maximalist phenomenology makes possible a particular variety of selfhood, what I call the dilated or middle-voiced subject, which belongs neither to pure passivity of re…
Two Types of Philosophy of Religion: Neutral Cognition versus Lived Experience
As a discipline taught and debated in universities and seminaries, philosophy of religion has traditionally been understood as a form of apologetics: that is, it pursues with concentrated effort what proof for the existence of God the human mind can mobilize with recourse strictly to reason and logic
Trump versus the University: Scandal or Calling to Account
Whom Do I Love When I Love Myself? The Challenge of Narcissism
A central question within contemporary debates about the structure of self-love concerns the place and status of the other. Is self-love identical to, or at least vulnerable to, the accusation of self-absorption and narcissism? Whereas contemporary critiques of self-love argue self-love is in principle impossible, the present essay suggests that self-love can be integrated with the love of the other at an a priori level. This material a priori, d…
Love Is a Philosopher
Love’s Movement, Love’s Gift [...]
Philosophy (15 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (5 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works)