Benjamin Brewer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Brewer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Brewer |
| SIGNATURE | BREWER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto Toronto, ON Canada |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-5278-2502 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The German, the Greek, the Jew
This article argues that Heidegger’s nationalist politics and his thinking of race (including his antisemitism) are undergirded by his novel ontology of essence. Beginning in 1930 with the first lecture version of “On the Essence of Truth,” a thinking of essence as relational rather than self-identical became central to his thinking. By explicating this understanding of essence as relational, the article shows that Heidegger’s German nationalism,…
Difficult Conversations
Translator’s Introduction to “Transcendence and Paratranscendence”
Translation of Oskar Becker’s “Transcendence and Paratranscendence” (1937). The essay is the first announcement of Becker’s project of “paraontology,” a phenomenological investigation of essence that attempted to encompass both mathematical and “natural” entities (which he took to include racial identity)
The Hidden Law of Selfhood
Despite his wide-ranging and incisive engagement with Heidegger's thought across his career, Derrida seems to have written very little about Heidegger's Ereignis manuscripts, which, according to many commentators, constitute the place where Heidegger's thinking comes closest to Derridean deconstruction. Taking up Derrida's comments in Hospitality 1 on the figure of ‘selfhood’ ( Selbstheit) in Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy, this essay ar…
Good Enough Justice
Taking Cavell’s misreading of Walter Benjamin as exemplary of this tendency, the essay shows how Cavell’s moral perfectionism consistently converts questions about the suffering of others into a problem of the self and its conscience, thereby avoiding the ethical claim at the heart of Benjamin’s project
Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III
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Good Enough Justice
Taking Cavell’s misreading of Walter Benjamin as exemplary of this tendency, the essay shows how Cavell’s moral perfectionism consistently converts questions about the suffering of others into a problem of the self and its conscience, thereby avoiding the ethical claim at the heart of Benjamin’s project
Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III
The Hidden Law of Selfhood
Despite his wide-ranging and incisive engagement with Heidegger's thought across his career, Derrida seems to have written very little about Heidegger's Ereignis manuscripts, which, according to many commentators, constitute the place where Heidegger's thinking comes closest to Derridean deconstruction. Taking up Derrida's comments in Hospitality 1 on the figure of ‘selfhood’ ( Selbstheit) in Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy, this essay ar…
Translator’s Introduction to “Transcendence and Paratranscendence”
Translation of Oskar Becker’s “Transcendence and Paratranscendence” (1937). The essay is the first announcement of Becker’s project of “paraontology,” a phenomenological investigation of essence that attempted to encompass both mathematical and “natural” entities (which he took to include racial identity)
Difficult Conversations
The German, the Greek, the Jew
This article argues that Heidegger’s nationalist politics and his thinking of race (including his antisemitism) are undergirded by his novel ontology of essence. Beginning in 1930 with the first lecture version of “On the Essence of Truth,” a thinking of essence as relational rather than self-identical became central to his thinking. By explicating this understanding of essence as relational, the article shows that Heidegger’s German nationalism,…
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works)