Research

My work occurs primarily at the intersection of the history of philosophy and social and political philosophy generally. Chief points of interest for me at the articulation of key political concepts (violence, democracy, class), as well as philosophy written in the 19th century, or philosophy heavily influenced by the thought of that time (most notably the global Interwar period, which in character, I contend, is much more like the 19th century than the rest of the 20th). I also entertain interests in Spinoza, decolonial philosophy, and comparative philosophy generally.

My main project right now is a book manuscript on the concept of class. My contention is that philosophers, both Marxist and non-Marxists, have loosely and irresponsibly used the term without working out the exact argumentative implication of the often-conflicting uses of the term. I propose a general schema to bring order to these conceptual proceedings, as well as put forward a novel definition of the concept that is defensible and also adequate to the various uses a philosopher ought to have for notion of a “social class.”

Below is a list of my scholarly publications with links:

“Exhaustion, Scars, and Inheritance: An Embodied Approach to Social Class,” (forthcoming) New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities, eds. Alejandro Arango and Adam Burgos.

“Apocalyptic Claims and the Everyday: Tosaka Jun, History, and Journalism,” Asian Philosophy, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/09552367.2022.2107791

“Quotidian Apocalypse?: Tosaka Jun’s Critical Theory in a New Age of Crisis,” Southwest Philosophy Review, Volume 38, Issue 1, 209-218, 2022.

“The Lebensform as Organism: Clarifying the Limits of Immanent Critique,” Philosophy & Social Criticism, Volume 47, Issue 9, 1060-1087, 2021.

“The Fascist and the Democrat: Crisis of the Political in Dewey and Schmitt,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 55, No. 3, 228-253, Summer 2019.

“Benjamin and Spinoza: Divine Violence and Potentia,” Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 75-90, 2019.