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    The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues.Sean D. Kirkland - 2012 - Albany: State University of New York Press.
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    Colloquium 6 Dialectic and Proto-Phenomenology in Aristotle’s Topics and Physics.Sean D. Kirkland - 2014 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 29 (1):185-213.
    In this essay, I begin by observing that dialectic is the method Aristotle explicitly associates with the activity of philosophizing, both when he introduces dialectic in the Topics and also, with some refinements and developments, in the methodological discussions of later works, the opening pages of the Physics being taken as exemplary. I then interpret these passages, attending very closely to the argument, the imagery, and the etymological resonances of Aristotle’s terminology. This leads me to argue that dialectic, in both (...)
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    Nietzsche and drawing near to the personalities of the pre-Platonic Greeks.Sean D. Kirkland - 2011 - Continental Philosophy Review 44 (4):417-437.
    This essay focuses on and attempts to uncover the truly radical character of Nietzsche’s early “philological” work, specifically asking after the benefit he claims the study of classical culture should have for our present, late-modern historical moment. Taking up his study of the Pre-Platonic thinkers in 1873’s Philosophie im tragischen Zeitalter der Griechen , the first section analyzes Nietzsche’s statement that history’s principle task is the uncovering of Persönlichkeiten . I argue that it is not at all the subjective character (...)
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    Socrates contra scientiam, pro fabula.Sean D. Kirkland - 2004 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (2):313-332.
    In the Phaedrus, Plato’s Socrates distinguishes himself from the natural scientists of his day and indicates that the true philosophical attitude, the love of realhuman wisdom, shares something essential with the mythical attitude. In the following essay, I argue that Socrates criticizes science here for its failure to attend to aporia, to recognize an essentially questionworthy aspect of the world of human experience, an aspect I will refer to as distance. Furthermore, I argue that Socrates aligns his own philosophical activity (...)
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    Russon's Plato.Sean D. Kirkland - 2023 - Symposium 27 (2):97-107.
    This essay offers an assessment of some of the fundamental features and contributions of John Russon’s scholarship on the dialogues of Plato. It focusses on the interpretive method he refers to as “reading as agents of nemesis” and on Russon’s unique emphasis on experience as the ground of philosophical activity in the Platonic corpus. I close by raising two issues that I see as fundamental questions that Russon’s work on Plato leaves unanswered—the difference in ontology, and thus method, between ancient (...)
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    Logos as the Message from the Gods.Sean D. Kirkland - 2007 - Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 12 (1):1-14.
    In the Cratylus, Socrates seems to present the logos essentially as an always already present yoke binding us to our world. However, this prior and necessary bond does not entail that the world is revealed perfectly and completely in the terms and structures of our human language. Rather, within this bond, the logos opens up a distance between being and appearance, insofar as it points to ›what is‹ as the withdrawn possibility condition for the appearances ordered, gathered and separated according (...)
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    Thinking in the between with Heidegger and Plato.Sean D. Kirkland - 2007 - Research in Phenomenology 37 (1):95-111.
    In this essay, I attempt first to clarify what non-metaphysical thinking as a thinking "in the Between" might mean for Heidegger, as presented in his Beiträge zur Philosophie . After determining this as the proper response to the self-concealment Heidegger sees as grounding the appearing of beings, I then attempt to show that the elenctic method of Socrates in Plato's early dialogues exhibits something like the same dynamic. That is, Socrates attempts to situate himself and his interlocutors in a space (...)
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  8. Returns of Antigone.Tina Chanter & Sean D. Kirkland (eds.) - 2015
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    The Returns of Antigone: Interdisciplinary Essays.Tina Chanter & Sean D. Kirkland (eds.) - 2014 - State University of New York Press.
    _Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature._.
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    A Companion to Ancient Philosophy.Sean D. Kirkland & Eric Sanday (eds.) - 2018 - Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.
    A Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of essays on a broad range of themes and figures spanning the entire period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers. Rather than offering synoptic and summary treatments of preestablished positions and themes, these essays engage with the ancient texts directly, focusing attention on concepts that emerge as urgent in the readings themselves and then clarifying those concepts interpretively. Indeed, this is a companion volume that takes a very (...)
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    Finding Our Way Home.Sean D. Kirkland - 2021 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (2):349-379.
    Situating the Philebus within the greater context of Plato’s late-period reconsideration of his own “theory of Ideas,” this essay offers a coordinated interpretation of two of the dialogue’s central passages—the discussion of the God-Given Method and that of the Fourfold Ontology. These passages prove to be interested not in Ideas apart from their material instantiations, as often seemed the case in the middle period dialogues, but in Ideas as they work on and even in materiality as such, producing an intelligible (...)
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  12. Heidegger and greek philosophy.Sean D. Kirkland - 2013 - In Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 77.
     
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    Heidegger and the destruction of Aristotle: on how to read the tradition.Sean D. Kirkland - 2023 - Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.
    A bold new conception of Heidegger's model of Destrucktion as a method of interpreting history that enables us to reorient and indeed transform its own most troubling legacies.
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    On Anti-Parmenidean Temporality in Aristotle’s Physics.Sean D. Kirkland - 2007 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (1):49-62.
    Taking very seriously its anti-Parmenidean character, this essay locates a radically temporalized ontology at the heart of Aristotle’s Physics. We first concentrateon Aristotle’s discussion of kinêsis or ‘change’ as always between opposites, drawing the conclusion that the archai that govern and constitute a change, as opposites, cannot be present in the change itself. Thus, change is what it is by virtue of what is necessarily not present. We then draw the implications of this discussion for chronos or ‘time,’ defined in (...)
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    On the Ontological Primacy of Relationality in Aristotle’s Politics and the “Birth” of the Political Animal.Sean D. Kirkland - 2017 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (2):401-420.
    In this paper, I begin with the most basic tenet in Aristotelian metaphysics, namely that ousia or ‘substance’ is ontologically prior to the nine other categories of being, including the pros ti, the condition of being literally ‘toward something’ or what is sometimes called 'relation' or ‘relationality.’ Aristotle repeats this frequently throughout his works and it is, I take it, manifest. However, in the Politics, so I argue here, Aristotle’s dialectical study of common appearances leads him to describe ‘human being’ (...)
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  16. Speed and Tragedy in Cocteau and Sophocles.Sean D. Kirkland - 2010 - In S. E. Wilmer & Audrone Zukauskaite (eds.), Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism. Oxford University Press. pp. 313.
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    The Nature Drawings of Peter Karklins.Sean D. Kirkland (ed.) - 2012 - Depaul Art Museum.
    The German-born, Chicago-based Latvian artist Peter Karklins creates small, pencil-and-paper drawings that capture the processes and energies just below the surface of all human life. The complexity of his organic forms is matched by the artist’s meticulous recording of the times and circumstances of the creation of each image on its reverse, providing viewers with added insight into these rich images. In this visually compelling collection, brief essays by an eclectic and distinguished group of scholars deploy a wide range of (...)
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    The Tragic Foundation of Aristotelian Ethics.Sean D. Kirkland - 2009 - Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 30 (2):239-260.
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    The Temporality of Phronêsis in the Nicomachean Ethics.Sean D. Kirkland - 2007 - Ancient Philosophy 27 (1):127-140.
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    Aristotle on the Common Sense. [REVIEW]Sean D. Kirkland - 2009 - Ancient Philosophy 29 (2):438-441.
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    The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy. [REVIEW]Sean D. Kirkland - 2006 - Teaching Philosophy 29 (1):65-70.
  22. Walter A. Brogan: Heidegger and Aristotle: The Twofoldness of Being: Albany, NY, The State University of New York Press, 2005, ISBN 0-7914-6491-1, 211 pp, US$60.00 ; ISBN 0-7914-6492-X, US$22.95. [REVIEW]Sean D. Kirkland - 2010 - Continental Philosophy Review 43 (2):287-292.