Research

Every spring semester, all graduate students take a Research Seminar in which they have the opportunity to develop an individual scholarly project into a publishable essay.  Recently students have worked on the following projects: 

2014

• "Zarathustra's Frenemy: Agonism and Self-Overcoming"
• "A Pun is its Own Reword: Grammatical Jokes and Philosophy in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations"
• "Dreaming with their Eyes Open: A New Spinozist Perspective on Mending the Mind"
• "Divine Ethics and the Limits of Law"
• "Feminist Collectivities and the Virtue of Political Imagination"
• "Impersonal Personal Identity"
• "Despair in Becoming a Self: Faith and the Demonic"
• "Antigone Resurrected"
• "The Poet and the Philosopher: An Analysis of the Lyrical Voice in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling"

2013

• "Kant and Adorno: Objective Mimesis of the Sublime”
• "Foundations of Meaning: Phenomenology, Language and Cognition"
• "Descartes, Pascal and Narcissism: Self-Love in Descartes' Passions of the Soul and Pascal's Pensées"
• "Reflective Judgment and the Production of Immanent 'Transcendental' Conditions in Hannah Arendt's Kant Lectures"
• “Cartesian Hate: A Delusion of Invulnerability”
• "Does Feminist Critique Need Ontology?"
• “The Time of the Contingent: Walter Benjamin’s Aura”
• “Descartes’ Integration of Biology and Reason in Moral Philosophy”
• "The Human Element: Reading Benjamin through Hegel-Colored Glasses"
• "Harnessing Cupid: Superinducing Virtuous Affections and Binding the Imagination"