Asst. Prof. Dr. JAMES GRIFFITH

E-mail: james@metu.edu.tr

Phone: +90 312 210 3152 Office: Z-41

Personal web page: jamesgriffith.eu

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Early Modern Philosophy, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Political Philosophy.

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Ancient Greek Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Applied Ethics.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

M.A., Department of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY

B.A., Trinity College, Hartford, CT

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Co-authored with Dagmar Kusá, "Czechoslovakia after 1989 through Arendt's Eyes: From Pariahs to Strong Men," in Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures (Brill, 2020), DOI: 10.1163/9789004440968_010.

"The Leviathan Becoming a Cephalophore: Primogeniture and the Transition from Sovereignty to Governmentality," Kaygı: Uludağ University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Journal of Philosophy 19:2 (2020), DOI: 10.20981/kaygi.789093.

"Fantasy, Counter-fantasy, and Meta-fantasy in Hobbes and Butler's Accounts of Vulnerability," Philosophy Today 64:3 (2020), DOI: 10.5840/philtoday2020810345.

Co-authored with Dagmar Kusá, "1989 in Czechoslovakia through Arendt's Eyes: An Immodern Non-revolution," Sociološki Pregled 53:3 (2019), DOI: 10.5937/socpreg53-23061.

"Thinking Descartes in Conjunction, with Merleau-Ponty: The Human Body, the Future, and Historicity," Filozofia 74:2 (2019), DOI: 10.31577/filozofia.2019.74.2.3.

"A Cartesian Rereading of Badiou's Political Subjectivity," Philosophy Today 63:1 (2019), DOI: 10.5840/philtoday201925244.

Fable, Method, and Imagination in Descartes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70238-4.

(Translator) Yves Charles Zarka, Hobbes and Modern Political Thought (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).