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APS Presentation on Schürmann

In April, I will give a paper entitled "The Duplicity of Beginning: Schürmann, Aristotle and the Origins of Metaphysics" at the Eighth Annual Independent Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society, which will meet this year…

Christopher LongFebruary 19, 2008

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

SAAP 2008 Presentation

My paper on Woodbridge's reading of Aristotle entitled "The Natural History of the Soul" has been accepted for the 2008 meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. The paper is part of…

Christopher LongNovember 18, 2007

Articles Book Chapter Vita

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

Book Reviews Vita

The Descent of Socrates

I wrote a review of The Descent of Socrates: Self-knowledge and Cryptic Nature in the Platonic Dialogues, by Peter A. Warnek (Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006) in The Continental Philosophy Review, (forthcoming).

Christopher LongJune 17, 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

Books Vita

The Ethics of Ontology

In 2004 my book, The Ethics of Ontology: Rethinking an Aristotelian Legacy, was published by the State University of New York Press. A novel rereading of the relationship between ethics and ontology in Aristotle. Concerned…

Christopher LongMay 11, 2004

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Does Socrates Have a Method?

I wrote a review of Does Socrates Have a Method? Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato’s Dialogues and Beyond, edited by Gary Alan Scott (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press) inn The Review of Metaphysics,…

Christopher LongMay 11, 2004

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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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Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz

I wrote a review of Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges, edited by Rosenberg, Alan, James Watson and Detlef Linke (Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, 2000) in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 15, 1 (2001):…

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

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