Matthew Dinan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4247378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Dinan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Dinan |
| SIGNATURE | DINAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Great Books Program, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6480-867X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Friendship in Canadian Philosophy and the End of Reparations: A Reflection on Winthrop Bell’s Philosophy of Canada
According to Winthrop Bell’s analysis of the idea of Canada, a pioneering account of Canadian philosophy written during World War I, Canada’s essence involves intercultural interpretation. In terms familiar to the phenomenology and pragmatism in which he was trained, Bell shows how Canada, by creating a new culture founded upon intercultural respect, could replace monocultural imperialism and materialism with something better: a culturally divers…
Kierkegaard's Socratic Alternative to Hegel in Fear and Trembling
Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling has traditionally attracted interest from scholars of political theory for its apparent hostility to political philosophy, and more recently for its compatibility with Marxism. This paper argues for a reconsideration of Kierkegaard's potential contributions to political theory by suggesting that the work's shortcomings belong to its pseudonymous author, Johannes de Silentio, and are in fact intended by Kierk…
The Robot Condition: Karel Čapek's R.U.R. and Hannah Arendt on Labor, Technology, and Innovation
This article reads Karel Čapek's R.U.R. through the lens of Hannah Arendt's critique of technology in The Human Condition. Arendt and Čapek share a suspicion that modernity's attempts to overcome labor through the use of technology undermines the human condition of natality. Indeed, the revolt of Čapek's Robots dramatizes Arendt's warnings of the dangers of a “society of laborers without labor” and “world alienation.” Both thinkers suggest that t…
Keeping the old name: Derrida and the deconstructive foundations of democracy
This article explores Jacques Derrida’s notion of ‘democracy to come’, showing how democracy generates what might be described as a ‘deconstructive’ relation to foundational ideas. This article opens with an overview of the political theory literature on Derrida’s political thought, arguing that scholars mistakenly present it as naïvely anti-foundationalist. The body of this article then briefly demonstrates that a Derridean approach to foundatio…
Keeping the old name: Derrida and the deconstructive foundations of democracy
This article explores Jacques Derrida’s notion of ‘democracy to come’, showing how democracy generates what might be described as a ‘deconstructive’ relation to foundational ideas. This article opens with an overview of the political theory literature on Derrida’s political thought, arguing that scholars mistakenly present it as naïvely anti-foundationalist. The body of this article then briefly demonstrates that a Derridean approach to foundatio…
Keeping the old name: Derrida and the deconstructive foundations of democracy
This article explores Jacques Derrida’s notion of ‘democracy to come’, showing how democracy generates what might be described as a ‘deconstructive’ relation to foundational ideas. This article opens with an overview of the political theory literature on Derrida’s political thought, arguing that scholars mistakenly present it as naïvely anti-foundationalist. The body of this article then briefly demonstrates that a Derridean approach to foundatio…
The Robot Condition: Karel Čapek's R.U.R. and Hannah Arendt on Labor, Technology, and Innovation
This article reads Karel Čapek's R.U.R. through the lens of Hannah Arendt's critique of technology in The Human Condition. Arendt and Čapek share a suspicion that modernity's attempts to overcome labor through the use of technology undermines the human condition of natality. Indeed, the revolt of Čapek's Robots dramatizes Arendt's warnings of the dangers of a “society of laborers without labor” and “world alienation.” Both thinkers suggest that t…
Friendship in Canadian Philosophy and the End of Reparations: A Reflection on Winthrop Bell’s Philosophy of Canada
According to Winthrop Bell’s analysis of the idea of Canada, a pioneering account of Canadian philosophy written during World War I, Canada’s essence involves intercultural interpretation. In terms familiar to the phenomenology and pragmatism in which he was trained, Bell shows how Canada, by creating a new culture founded upon intercultural respect, could replace monocultural imperialism and materialism with something better: a culturally divers…
Kierkegaard's Socratic Alternative to Hegel in Fear and Trembling
Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling has traditionally attracted interest from scholars of political theory for its apparent hostility to political philosophy, and more recently for its compatibility with Marxism. This paper argues for a reconsideration of Kierkegaard's potential contributions to political theory by suggesting that the work's shortcomings belong to its pseudonymous author, Johannes de Silentio, and are in fact intended by Kierk…
Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Political philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)