Ryan J Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4495897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan J Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duquesne University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice
Introduction
Let us return to the tales of ancient philosophers, as we still have much to learn.First, the time When Hipparchia Bared It All.Hipparchia had suitors, with their wealth and status, a family, with their expectations and demands, and her love for the philosophic life. 1 In particular, she was devoted to the philosophy of the dog, the cynical shortcut to virtue through asksis, frank speech and simple living.These teachings had been embodied by her …
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice
As Contemporary Encounters on Ancient Metaphysics engaged with ancient theory from the perspective of contemporary continental metaphysics, this companion volume collects written and visual works that engage with opportunities of ancient practice from within the continental tradition. More than surveying ancient ethical or political ideas, the chapters develop divergent yet resonant approaches to concrete ways of living, acting, reflecting, and b…
Sabotage
This essay returns to John Brown’s so-called Raid on Harpers Ferry and his plan to build a mountain guerilla wing of the Underground Railroad through the Appalachian Mountains in order to theorize a concept of sabotage. Learning from the Haitians and other militant and enslaved rebellions, Brown seems to have interpreted American chattel slavery infrastructurally, which meant the key to abolition was the militant sabotage of the infrastructural r…
Phenomenology of Black Spirit
What if the protagonist of Hegel's Phenomenology were Black? Ryan Johnson and Biko Mandela Gray study the relationship between Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Black Thought from Frederick Douglass to Angela DavisThe first philosophy book written, in a single voice, by a Black philosopher and a white philosopherDramatizes a dialectical parallelism between Hegel's Phenomenology and Black ThoughtDiversifies and transforms the history of philosop…
Phenomenology of Black Spirit
What if the protagonist of Hegel’s Phenomenology were Black? This staging of an elongated dialectical parallelism between Hegel’s classic text and major 19th-20th-century Black thinkers explodes the western canon of philosophy. From the first moment — the Master-Slave dialectic, Frederick Douglass, and Ida B. Wells — to the last — Unhappy Consciousness, Malcolm X, and Angela Davis — Hegel’s abstract dialectic is transformed and critiqued by the l…
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics
The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter
This book explores how Deleuze's thought was shaped by Lucretian atomism — a formative but often-ignored influence from ancient philosophy. More than any other 20th-century philosopher, Gilles Deleuze considers himself an apprentice to the history of philosophy. But scholarship has ignored one of the more formative influences on Deleuze: Lucretian atomism. Deleuze's encounter with Lucretius sparked a way of thinking that resonates throughout all …
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics
Like the ancient inquiries into the nature of things, contemporary continental realism and materialism, from Deleuze to the Speculative Realists, embraces a commitment to investigate beings, without subordinating it to analyses of language, consciousness, texts or the social. This pensée brute, traditionally known as metaphysics, dares to question the one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial and the world itself…
Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter
Another Use of the Concept of the Simulacrum
While many of the most important figures in the history of philosophy have employed the concept of the simulacrum in one way or another, a detailed study of this usage has yet to be written. In this essay, I will attempt to tell the story of a sequence in that history of that usage, by focusing on one of Deleuze's case studies of the concept of the simulacrum. To do so, I will focus primarily on one the appendices to The Logic of Sense: ‘Lucretiu…
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Another Use of the Concept of the Simulacrum
While many of the most important figures in the history of philosophy have employed the concept of the simulacrum in one way or another, a detailed study of this usage has yet to be written. In this essay, I will attempt to tell the story of a sequence in that history of that usage, by focusing on one of Deleuze's case studies of the concept of the simulacrum. To do so, I will focus primarily on one the appendices to The Logic of Sense: ‘Lucretiu…
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics
The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter
This book explores how Deleuze's thought was shaped by Lucretian atomism — a formative but often-ignored influence from ancient philosophy. More than any other 20th-century philosopher, Gilles Deleuze considers himself an apprentice to the history of philosophy. But scholarship has ignored one of the more formative influences on Deleuze: Lucretian atomism. Deleuze's encounter with Lucretius sparked a way of thinking that resonates throughout all …
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics
Like the ancient inquiries into the nature of things, contemporary continental realism and materialism, from Deleuze to the Speculative Realists, embraces a commitment to investigate beings, without subordinating it to analyses of language, consciousness, texts or the social. This pensée brute, traditionally known as metaphysics, dares to question the one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial and the world itself…
Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter
Phenomenology of Black Spirit
What if the protagonist of Hegel's Phenomenology were Black? Ryan Johnson and Biko Mandela Gray study the relationship between Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Black Thought from Frederick Douglass to Angela DavisThe first philosophy book written, in a single voice, by a Black philosopher and a white philosopherDramatizes a dialectical parallelism between Hegel's Phenomenology and Black ThoughtDiversifies and transforms the history of philosop…
Phenomenology of Black Spirit
What if the protagonist of Hegel’s Phenomenology were Black? This staging of an elongated dialectical parallelism between Hegel’s classic text and major 19th-20th-century Black thinkers explodes the western canon of philosophy. From the first moment — the Master-Slave dialectic, Frederick Douglass, and Ida B. Wells — to the last — Unhappy Consciousness, Malcolm X, and Angela Davis — Hegel’s abstract dialectic is transformed and critiqued by the l…
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice
As Contemporary Encounters on Ancient Metaphysics engaged with ancient theory from the perspective of contemporary continental metaphysics, this companion volume collects written and visual works that engage with opportunities of ancient practice from within the continental tradition. More than surveying ancient ethical or political ideas, the chapters develop divergent yet resonant approaches to concrete ways of living, acting, reflecting, and b…
Sabotage
This essay returns to John Brown’s so-called Raid on Harpers Ferry and his plan to build a mountain guerilla wing of the Underground Railroad through the Appalachian Mountains in order to theorize a concept of sabotage. Learning from the Haitians and other militant and enslaved rebellions, Brown seems to have interpreted American chattel slavery infrastructurally, which meant the key to abolition was the militant sabotage of the infrastructural r…
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice
Introduction
Let us return to the tales of ancient philosophers, as we still have much to learn.First, the time When Hipparchia Bared It All.Hipparchia had suitors, with their wealth and status, a family, with their expectations and demands, and her love for the philosophic life. 1 In particular, she was devoted to the philosophy of the dog, the cynical shortcut to virtue through asksis, frank speech and simple living.These teachings had been embodied by her …
Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Atomism (2 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (2 works) · Dialectic (2 works) · Hegelianism (2 works)