Articles - Christopher P. Long

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The Transformative Power of Values-Enacted Scholarship

Agate, Nicky, Rebecca Kennison, Stacy Konkiel, Christopher P. Long, Jason Rhody, Simone Sacchi, and Penelope Weber. “The Transformative Power of Values-Enacted Scholarship.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7, no. 1 (December 7, 2020): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00647-z…

Christopher LongDecember 19, 2020

Original HuMetrics Team sitting outside on a patio at the Rizzo Center in Chapel Hill, NC. From left to right is Jason Rhody, Nicky Agate, Chris Long (sitting in the back), Rebecca Kennison, Stacy Konkiel (standing in the back), and Simo Sacchi.

Syllabus as Locus of Intervention and Impact

Agate, Nicky, Rebecca Kennison, Christoper P. Long, Jason Rhody, Simone Sacchi, and Penny Weber. “Syllabus as Locus of Intervention and Impact.” Syllabus 9, no. 1 (May 28, 2020). http://www.syllabusjournal.org/syllabus/article/view/300. This is a flash article related…

Christopher LongMay 28, 2020

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Practicing Public Philosophy

“Practicing Public Scholarship.” Public Philosophy Journal 1, no. 1 (2018). https://doi.org/10.25335/m5/ppj.1.1-1. Situating the Public Philosophy Journal at the intersection of philosophy and questions of public concern, this essay articulates how the journal hopes to practice…

Christopher LongApril 23, 2018

Richard Bernstein in a black turtleneck.

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Pragmatism and the Cultivation of Digital Democracies

“Pragmatism and the Cultivation of Digital Democracies.” In Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy: Thinking the Plural, edited by Marcia Morgan and Megan Craig, 37–59. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016. As technology enables…

Christopher LongSeptember 16, 2017

Pollock Murals

Journal of General Education Publication: Journal The Liberal Arts Vita

The Liberal Arts Endeavor: The Arts of Liberty in a Time of Uncertainty

“The Liberal Arts Endeavor: The Arts of Liberty in a Time of Uncertainty.” Journal of General Education, 65, 2 (2017), v-vi. Even if, as Hannah Arendt suggests, “we are always educating for a world that…

Christopher LongMarch 19, 2017

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Reiner Schürmann: Care of Death

“Care of Death: On the Teaching of Reiner Schürmann.” Philosophy Today, January 31, 2017. doi:10.5840/philtoday201713141. A homage in the guise of an essay, this is the story of the last course Reiner Schürmann taught. As…

Christopher LongMarch 11, 2017

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The Liberal Arts Endeavor: On Editing the Journal of General Education

“The Liberal Arts Endeavor: On Editing the Journal of General Education.” Journal of General Education, 65, 1 (2016), v-vii. In accepting the editorship of the Journal of General Education: A Curricular Commons of the Humanities…

Christopher LongOctober 19, 2016

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Public Philosophy and Philosophical Publics

de Avlillez, André Rosenbaum, Mark Fisher, Kris Klotz, and Christopher P. Long. “Public Philosophy and Philosophical Publics: Performative Publishing and the Cultivation of Community.” The Good Society 24, no. 2 (2015): 118–45. The emergence of…

Christopher LongJune 27, 2016

A child's hands touching tree bark

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On Touch and Life in the De Anima

“On Touch and Life in the De Anima.” In Phenomenology and the Metaphysics of Sight, edited by Antonio Cimino and Pavlos Kontos, (Leiden: Brill Academic Publisher, 2015, 69-94). Although Aristotle is often thought to give…

Christopher LongDecember 15, 2015

Two wolves in tall grass

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Tracking Plato’s Dogs

“Who Let the Dogs Out? Tracking the Philosophical Life Among the Wolves and Dogs of Plato’s Republic.” In Plato’s Animals: Gadflies, Snakes, Stingrays, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts, edited by Jeremy Bell and Michael Naas,…

Christopher LongFebruary 19, 2015

Ancient rock path in the mountains

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The Peripatetic Method: Walking with Woodbridge, Thinking with Aristotle

“The Peripatetic Method: Walking with Woodbridge, Thinking with Aristotle.” In The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle, edited by Claudia Baracchi, (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014). Published in The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle (Bloomsbury Companions), this essay, entitled…

Christopher LongJanuary 15, 2014

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Socrates: Platonic Political Ideal

Christopher P. Long, "Socrates: Platonic Political Ideal," Ideas y Valores, 61, 149: 2012. This essay articulates the differences and suggests the similarities between the practices of Socratic political speaking and those of Platonic political writing.…

Christopher LongSeptember 22, 2012

Scales and weights

Articles Publication: Journal Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Attempting the Political Art

Christopher P. Long, "Attempting the Political Art," Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 27 (2012): 153-74. The main thesis of this essay is that the practice of Socratic political speaking and the…

Christopher LongMay 28, 2012

Looking up the columns at the Supreme Court building

Articles Publication: Journal Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Crisis of Community

Long, Christopher P. "Crisis of Community: The Topology of Socratic Politics in the Protagoras," Epoché: a Journal for the History of Philosophy, 15, 2 (2011): 361-377. In Plato's Protagoras Alcibiades plays the role of Hermes,…

Christopher LongMarch 10, 2011

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The Voice of Singularity

The Voice of Singularity traces what Reiner Schürmann calls the "double comprehension of being" in Kant in which the sense of being as pure givenness is said to be recognized but denied by Kant as…

Christopher LongOctober 23, 2009

Green sprout growing from a pruned tree

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The Duplicity of Beginning

This essay is an immanent critique of the story Reiner Schürmann tells concerning the origins of metaphysics as an epoch of hegemonic principles. In both Heidegger on Being and Acting and Broken Hegemonies, Schürmann identifies…

Christopher LongDecember 25, 2008

The Tomb of the Diver and the Symposium

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Plato's Method in Madness

Long, Christopher P. "Is there Method in this Madness? Context, Play and Laughter in Plato's Symposium and Republic." In Philosophy in Dialogue: Plato's Many Devices, edited by Gary Alan Scott. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press,…

Christopher LongNovember 11, 2007

Clytemnestra Hesitates before Killing the Sleeping Agamemnon by Pierre Narcisse Guérin

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The Daughters of Metis

"The Daughters of Metis: Patriarchal Dominion and the Politics of the Between." The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 28, 2 (2007). By attending closely to three ancient stories concerned with the origin and effect of patriarchal…

Christopher LongOctober 22, 2007

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Nous and Logos in Aristotle

"Nous and Logos in Aristotle." Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 54, 3 (2007): 348-367; co-authored with Richard A. Lee, Jr. This essay challenges the received orthodoxy that in Aristotle, nous, the capacity for intuitive…

Christopher LongSeptember 11, 2007

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Aristotle’s Phenomenology of Form

Long, Christopher P. "Aristotle's Phenomenology of Form: The Shape of Beings that Become," Epoché 11, no. 2 (2007), 435-448. Scholars often assume that Aristotle uses the terms morphē and eidos interchangeably. Translators of Aristotle's works…

Christopher LongMay 28, 2007

Marsyas teaches young Olympus playing the flute Painting by Pyotr Vasilyevich Basin

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The Politics of Music

Long, Christopher P. "Socrates and the Politics of Music: Preludes of the Republic," Polis 24, no. 1 (2007). At least since the appearance of Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic has been read as arguing for a…

Christopher LongMarch 10, 2007

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Saving the Things Said

Long, Christopher P. "Saving ta legomena: Aristotle and the History of Philosophy," The Review of Metaphysics 60 (2006): 247-267. By taking seriously the extent to which Aristotle understands the things said (ta legemona) by his…

Christopher LongMay 11, 2006

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Between the Universal and the Singular in Aristotle

This essay attempts to uncover the ideology of form that operates in an unquestioned way in much philological scholarship concerning Aristotle's thinking. Drawing on four different interpretations of form in Aristotle, that of Joseph Owens,…

Christopher LongDecember 1, 2003

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Dancing Naked with Socrates

Long, Christopher P. "Dancing Naked with Socrates: Pericles, Aspasia and Socrates at Play with Politics, Rhetoric and Philosophy," Ancient Philosophy 23, 1 (2003): 49-69. This article offers an interpretation of Plato's Menexenus in which the…

Christopher LongNovember 11, 2003

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The Ethical Culmination of Aristotle’s Metaphysics

Long, Christopher P. "The Ethical Culmination of Aristotle's Metaphysics," Epoché 8, 1 (Fall 2003): 121-140. This article takes up the rather bold philosophical suggestion that Aristotle’s Metaphysics culminates not in the purity of God’s self-thinking…

Christopher LongJuly 4, 2003

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Totalizing Identities

Long, Christopher P. "Totalizing Identities: The Ambiguous Legacy of Aristotle and Hegel after Auschwitz," Philosophy and Social Criticism 29, 2 (2003): 213-244. The Holocaust throws the study of the history of philosophy into crisis. Critiques…

Christopher LongMay 28, 2003

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The Ontological Reappropriation of Phronesis

Long, Christopher P. "The Ontological Reappropriation of Phronesis," Continental Philosophy Review 35, 1 (2002): 35-60. Ontology has been traditionally guided by sophia, a form of knowledge directed toward that which is eternal, permanent, necessary. This…

Christopher LongMarch 10, 2002

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The Rhetoric of Spinoza

Long, Christopher P. "The Rhetoric of the Geometrical Method: Spinoza's Double Strategy," Philosophy and Rhetoric 34, 4 (2001). Rather than adopting an uncritical conception of the geometrical method as optimal due to its inherent objectivity,…

Christopher LongJuly 4, 2001

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Between Reification and Mystification

Lee, Richard A. and Christopher P. Long "Between Reification and Mystification: Rethinking the Economy of Principles," Telos 120 (2001): 92-112. While the rhetoric of the “end of metaphysics” is guided by a well-founded concern to…

Christopher LongMay 28, 2001

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Art's Fateful Hour

Long, Christopher P. "Art's Fateful Hour: Benjamin, Heidegger, Art and Politics," New German Critique 83 (2001): 89-115. In 1935 Walter Benjamin wrote that “art’s fateful hour has struck” and that he had “captured its signature”…

Christopher LongMarch 10, 2001

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The Hegemony of Form and the Resistance of Matter

Long, Christopher P. “The Hegemony of Form and the Resistance of Matter,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 21, 2 (1999): 21-46. This article offers an interpretation of the transition that occurs in Physics A.7, in which…

Christopher LongMay 28, 1999

Articles Book Chapter Vita

Imagination/Einbildungskraft

Long, Christopher P. "Imagination/Einbildungskraft," Enzyklopädie Philosophie, ed., Sandkühler, Hans Jörg, (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1999). This is an article I wrote for an encyclopedia in Germany that traces the meaning of the imagination through the…

Christopher LongMay 28, 1999

White flower growing out of a fissure in a cement lot

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Arendt on the Family

Long, Christopher P. "A Fissure in the Distinction: Hannah Arendt, The Family and the Public/Private Dichotomy," Philosophy and Social Criticism 24, 5 (1998): 85-104. By way of an analysis of Arendt’s defense of the public/private…

Christopher LongNovember 27, 1998

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The Understanding and Imagination in Kant

Long, Christopher P. "Two Powers, One Ability: The Understanding and Imagination in Kant's Critical Philosophy," The Southern Journal of Philosophy XXXVI, 2 (1998): 233-253. In order to suggest why Kant does not offer an explicit…

Christopher LongMarch 10, 1998

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Reluctant Transcendence

Long, Christopher P. "Reluctant Transcendence: The Face to Face in Levinas's Totality and Infinity, Conference 5, 1 (1994): 19-34. By investigating Levinas’ notion of the transcendence of the face to face against the backdrop of…

Christopher LongFebruary 14, 1994