All Outputs (13)

Exploring the borderlands of solidarity: Europe and the refugee question (2021)
Book Chapter
Cole, P. (2021). Exploring the borderlands of solidarity: Europe and the refugee question. In D. Meacham, & N. de Warren (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy in Europe. Routledge

This paper examines the concept of solidarity employed by activists in Greece working with asylum seekers and other migrants, and asks whether the ideas of solidarity that have emerged from this activism can tell us something about the theoretical co... Read More about Exploring the borderlands of solidarity: Europe and the refugee question.

Philosophical humanity… oder Europa: Philosophy, modern science, and the Europeanization of the world (2021)
Book Chapter
Trizio, E. (2021). Philosophical humanity… oder Europa: Philosophy, modern science, and the Europeanization of the world. In D. Meacham, & N. de Warren (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Europe (365-378). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Could a Robot Care? It’s All in the Movement (2017)
Book Chapter
Meacham, D., & Studley, M. (2017). Could a Robot Care? It’s All in the Movement. In P. Lin, K. Abney, & R. Jenkins (Eds.), In Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190652951.003.0007

In this chapter, we ask if care robots can care. The standard and indeed intuitive response to such a question is no. This response is premised on the argument that care requires internal cognitive and emotional states that robots lack. We explore ar... Read More about Could a Robot Care? It’s All in the Movement.

Metternich, the gut-brain axis, and the Turing cops: The subjects of posthuman IR (2017)
Book Chapter
Meacham, D. (2017). Metternich, the gut-brain axis, and the Turing cops: The subjects of posthuman IR. In C. Eroukhmanoff, & M. Harker (Eds.), Reflections on the Posthuman in International Relations: The Anthropocene, Security and Ecology (119-129). Bristol, UK: E-International Relations

Biologism and supercivilisation (2016)
Book Chapter
Meacham, D. E. (2016). Biologism and supercivilisation. In F. Tava, & D. E. Meacham (Eds.), Thinking After Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics. Rowman and Littlefield International

Towards the end of one of his last texts, “The Schema of History” (Das Geschichtsschema, written in German between 1975 and 1976), Patočka poses a question that orients much of his late thought on the concepts of “post-Europe,” the “solidarity of the... Read More about Biologism and supercivilisation.

The right to be impaired and the legacy of eugenics: A critical reading of the UN convention on ‘disability’ rights (2015)
Book Chapter
van den Anker, C. (2015). The right to be impaired and the legacy of eugenics: A critical reading of the UN convention on ‘disability’ rights. In D. E. Meacham (Ed.), Medicine and Society, New Continental Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer

This chapter traces the ongoing effects of eugenics on discourses of ‘disability’, analysing in particular the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. I use the sociological methodology of grounded theory-building based on live... Read More about The right to be impaired and the legacy of eugenics: A critical reading of the UN convention on ‘disability’ rights.

Of (auto-)immune life: Derrida, Esposito, Agamben (2015)
Book Chapter
Lewis, M. (2015). Of (auto-)immune life: Derrida, Esposito, Agamben. In D. E. Meacham (Ed.), Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. New York: Springer

Chapter: https://www.academia.edu/3776661/Of_Auto-_Immune_Life_Derrida_Esposito_Agamben_draft_of_a_text_to_be_published_in_a_volume_entitled_Medicine_and_Society_edited_by_D._Meacham_

Medicine and society, new continental perspectives (Preface) (2015)
Book Chapter
Meacham, D. E. (2015). Medicine and society, new continental perspectives (Preface). In D. E. Meacham (Ed.), Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Springer

The institutional life (2012)
Book Chapter
Meacham, D. E. (2012). The institutional life. In R. Breeur, & U. Melle (Eds.), Life, Subjectivity, Art. Dordrecht: Springer

L’histoire, l’Europe, et la vie : Quelques réflexions sur les essais hérétiques de Jan Patočka (2012)
Book Chapter
Meacham, D. E. (2012). L’histoire, l’Europe, et la vie : Quelques réflexions sur les essais hérétiques de Jan Patočka. In N. Frogneaux (Ed.), Jan Patočka. Existence, Histoire, et Monde Commun (239-250). Argenteuil: Le Cercle Herméneutique Editeur

Dans cette courte contribution, je voudrais mettre en rapport la philosophie de l’histoire de Jan Patočka avec notre situation contemporaine, et plus particulièrement avec certaines questions politique et philosophique pressantes. En effet, les que... Read More about L’histoire, l’Europe, et la vie : Quelques réflexions sur les essais hérétiques de Jan Patočka.

Faith is in things not seen: Merleau-Ponty on faith, virtue and the perception of style (2011)
Book Chapter
Meacham, D. E. (2011). Faith is in things not seen: Merleau-Ponty on faith, virtue and the perception of style. In K. Semonovitch, & N. DeRoo (Eds.), Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception (185-207). London: Continuum

The rather truncated paraphrasing of Hebrews 11.1 which forms the title of this contribution can also be found in Merleau-Ponty’s 1945 essay ‘Faith and Good Faith,’ where the French phenomenologist writes, ‘[M]an cannot be sincere, since sincerity su... Read More about Faith is in things not seen: Merleau-Ponty on faith, virtue and the perception of style.

Transgenerational epigenetics or a spectral history of the flesh: A Merleau-Pontian approach to epigenetics (2007)
Book Chapter
Meacham, D. E. (2007). Transgenerational epigenetics or a spectral history of the flesh: A Merleau-Pontian approach to epigenetics. In S. Holl (Ed.), Architettura e fenomenologia. Mimesis Edizioni

Editors's introduction
Book Chapter
Meacham, D. E., & Tava, F. (2016). Editors's introduction. In D. E. Meacham, & F. Tava (Eds.), Thinking After Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics. Rowman and Littlefield International

Editors's Introduction to Thinking After Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics