Ian Leask
Biographic Data
| ID | 5241430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Leask |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Leask |
| SIGNATURE | LEASK I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1472-6059 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Speaking Truth to ‘Platonism’? Some Thoughts on Alcibiades and Erôs
This article reads Alcibiades’ speech in Plato’s Symposium in terms of the later Foucault’s examination of ‘parrhēsia’, or ‘frank spokenness’. It contends that, in part, Alcibiades’ stress on the sheer particularity and individuality of erotic attraction—in his case, attraction to Socrates himself—acts as a kind of rejoinder to the ‘impersonal’ aspect of erôs highlighted in the famous speech of Socrates/Diotima
Givenness and God
After the subject” and beyond Heideggerian ontology, Marion suggests, there is the sheer givenness of phenomena without condition. In theology, this liberation means rethinking God in terms of phenomena such as love, gift, and excess. In addition to an important essay by Marion, “The Reason of the Gift,” and a dialogue between Marion and Richard Kearney, this book contains stimulating essays by ten other contributors: Lilian Alweiss, Eoin Cassidy…
From Serena to Hypatia
This paper focusses on John Toland's influential Hypatia (1720), an account of the neo-Platonist philosopher and mathematician murdered in ancient Alexandria; it also considers segments of his Letters to Serena (1704), and suggests various conjunctions between the two texts which confirm Toland's genuine and sustained feminist commitment. As I try to establish, Toland's concern is as much about contemporaneous events as it is about ‘disinterested…
Constant Process
Only natural
This article examines John Toland’s Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews (1714) by placing it alongside other elements of his engagement with Jewish history, Mosaic principles and wider “Hebraica” – specifically, an appendix to his Nazarenus (1718) and his Origines Judaicae (1709). Although Toland’s case for Jewish naturalization shows the strong influence of Locke’s case for political and religious toleration, and also of a general “mercantilism”, …
Postmodernism pace postmodernity
First, I would suggest that—far from being dead and buried—postmodernity, understood as a description of the current, neo-liberal, conjuncture, is in sickeningly rude health. Capital has not just t
The Caravaggio Within” Nan Goldin’s Gina
This article offers a reading of Nan Goldin’s 1991 photo “Gina at Bruce’s dinner party, NYC”, giving particular attention to the presence within it of a reproduction of Caravaggio’s 1597 “Bacchus”. It considers some similarities and differences between the two images and, drawing on Kierkegaard’s problematizing of the possibility of repetition, suggests that the presence of “Bacchus” within “Gina” questions any uncritical assumption of “origin” o…
Ideology and the ‘Multitude of the Classroom’
This paper approaches the question of Spinoza and education via the work of Louis Althusser. One important aim is to show how Spinoza’s description of the imagination underpins Althusser’s description of the ideological ‘infrastructure’ of educational practices and institutions. To achieve this, I begin by addressing Spinoza’s treatment of the physiological foundation of the imagination: by showing that the realm of ‘individual consciousness’ is …
Beyond Subjection
This article argues against the doxa that Foucault's analysis of education inevitably undermines self‐originating ethical intention on the part of teachers or students. By attending to Foucault's lesser known, later work—in particular, the notion of ‘biopower’ and the deepened level of materiality it entails—the article shows how the earlier Foucauldian conception of power is intensified to such an extent that it overflows its original domain, an…
Edith Stein and Others
Malgre la dette qu'elle reconnait avoir envers Husserl, l'A. montre qu'E. Stein se detache de l'enseignement de son maitre, depassant l'egologie transcendantale en atteignant son non-dit. Des lors, l'auteur du «Probleme de l'empathie» (1917) reaffirme le Mitsein bien au-dela de l'autarchie que Heidegger critique dans «Etre et temps»
Beyond Subjection
This article argues against the doxa that Foucault's analysis of education inevitably undermines self‐originating ethical intention on the part of teachers or students. By attending to Foucault's lesser known, later work—in particular, the notion of ‘biopower’ and the deepened level of materiality it entails—the article shows how the earlier Foucauldian conception of power is intensified to such an extent that it overflows its original domain, an…
Only natural
This article examines John Toland’s Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews (1714) by placing it alongside other elements of his engagement with Jewish history, Mosaic principles and wider “Hebraica” – specifically, an appendix to his Nazarenus (1718) and his Origines Judaicae (1709). Although Toland’s case for Jewish naturalization shows the strong influence of Locke’s case for political and religious toleration, and also of a general “mercantilism”, …
Edith Stein and Others
Malgre la dette qu'elle reconnait avoir envers Husserl, l'A. montre qu'E. Stein se detache de l'enseignement de son maitre, depassant l'egologie transcendantale en atteignant son non-dit. Des lors, l'auteur du «Probleme de l'empathie» (1917) reaffirme le Mitsein bien au-dela de l'autarchie que Heidegger critique dans «Etre et temps»
Beyond Subjection
This article argues against the doxa that Foucault's analysis of education inevitably undermines self‐originating ethical intention on the part of teachers or students. By attending to Foucault's lesser known, later work—in particular, the notion of ‘biopower’ and the deepened level of materiality it entails—the article shows how the earlier Foucauldian conception of power is intensified to such an extent that it overflows its original domain, an…
The Caravaggio Within” Nan Goldin’s Gina
This article offers a reading of Nan Goldin’s 1991 photo “Gina at Bruce’s dinner party, NYC”, giving particular attention to the presence within it of a reproduction of Caravaggio’s 1597 “Bacchus”. It considers some similarities and differences between the two images and, drawing on Kierkegaard’s problematizing of the possibility of repetition, suggests that the presence of “Bacchus” within “Gina” questions any uncritical assumption of “origin” o…
Ideology and the ‘Multitude of the Classroom’
This paper approaches the question of Spinoza and education via the work of Louis Althusser. One important aim is to show how Spinoza’s description of the imagination underpins Althusser’s description of the ideological ‘infrastructure’ of educational practices and institutions. To achieve this, I begin by addressing Spinoza’s treatment of the physiological foundation of the imagination: by showing that the realm of ‘individual consciousness’ is …
Only natural
This article examines John Toland’s Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews (1714) by placing it alongside other elements of his engagement with Jewish history, Mosaic principles and wider “Hebraica” – specifically, an appendix to his Nazarenus (1718) and his Origines Judaicae (1709). Although Toland’s case for Jewish naturalization shows the strong influence of Locke’s case for political and religious toleration, and also of a general “mercantilism”, …
Postmodernism pace postmodernity
First, I would suggest that—far from being dead and buried—postmodernity, understood as a description of the current, neo-liberal, conjuncture, is in sickeningly rude health. Capital has not just t
Constant Process
From Serena to Hypatia
This paper focusses on John Toland's influential Hypatia (1720), an account of the neo-Platonist philosopher and mathematician murdered in ancient Alexandria; it also considers segments of his Letters to Serena (1704), and suggests various conjunctions between the two texts which confirm Toland's genuine and sustained feminist commitment. As I try to establish, Toland's concern is as much about contemporaneous events as it is about ‘disinterested…
Givenness and God
After the subject” and beyond Heideggerian ontology, Marion suggests, there is the sheer givenness of phenomena without condition. In theology, this liberation means rethinking God in terms of phenomena such as love, gift, and excess. In addition to an important essay by Marion, “The Reason of the Gift,” and a dialogue between Marion and Richard Kearney, this book contains stimulating essays by ten other contributors: Lilian Alweiss, Eoin Cassidy…
Speaking Truth to ‘Platonism’? Some Thoughts on Alcibiades and Erôs
This article reads Alcibiades’ speech in Plato’s Symposium in terms of the later Foucault’s examination of ‘parrhēsia’, or ‘frank spokenness’. It contends that, in part, Alcibiades’ stress on the sheer particularity and individuality of erotic attraction—in his case, attraction to Socrates himself—acts as a kind of rejoinder to the ‘impersonal’ aspect of erôs highlighted in the famous speech of Socrates/Diotima
Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works)