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The temporality of artwork and festival and the temporality of the cosmos: Gadamer’s reflections on time and eternity (2022)
Journal Article
Keane, N. (2022). The temporality of artwork and festival and the temporality of the cosmos: Gadamer’s reflections on time and eternity. Continental Philosophy Review, 55(3), 335-351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-022-09581-0

The following examines the concept of time in Gadamer’s work, looking specifically at the role of artwork and festival as focal points of his temporal analysis. It is argued that the usual way of understanding Gadamer’s reflections on time as either... Read More about The temporality of artwork and festival and the temporality of the cosmos: Gadamer’s reflections on time and eternity.

Mortality, time, and the lessons of silence: A Hermeneutical analysis of give and take (2021)
Journal Article
Keane, N. (2021). Mortality, time, and the lessons of silence: A Hermeneutical analysis of give and take. Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.11575/jah.v2021i2021.73474

The following will provide a hermeneutical examination of two experiences of time: time as taking-away and time as giving. It will attempt to address the interrelated issues of death, time, and the time of silence in order to see whether time should... Read More about Mortality, time, and the lessons of silence: A Hermeneutical analysis of give and take.

Polemos, logos, plurality: Hannah Arendt's phenomenological reading of the Greeks (2021)
Journal Article
Keane, N. (2021). Polemos, logos, plurality: Hannah Arendt's phenomenological reading of the Greeks. Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 26(1), 203-229. https://doi.org/10.5840/epoche2021813195

The following examines Hannah Arendt’s interpretations of Greek thought, specifically her phenomenological reading of Homer and Socrates as proto-phenomenological thinkers of objectivity, plurality, and logos. Drawing inspiration from these thinkers,... Read More about Polemos, logos, plurality: Hannah Arendt's phenomenological reading of the Greeks.

Linguisticality and lifeworld: Gadamer’s late turn to phenomenology (2021)
Journal Article
Keane, N. (2021). Linguisticality and lifeworld: Gadamer’s late turn to phenomenology. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 29(3), 370-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2021.1970791

The influence of Husserlian phenomenology on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics has been the subject of some analysis in the secondary literature, with scholars emphasizing both Gadamer’s distance from traditional phenomenology as well a... Read More about Linguisticality and lifeworld: Gadamer’s late turn to phenomenology.

Dasein and world: Heidegger’s reconceiving of the transcendental after Husserl (2020)
Journal Article
Keane, N. (2020). Dasein and world: Heidegger’s reconceiving of the transcendental after Husserl. Journal of Transcendental Philosophy, 1(3), 265-287. https://doi.org/10.1515/jtph-2020-0012

The following examines Heidegger's analysis of world and Dasein from a transcendental perspective. It is argued that Heidegger's reflections on the interconnected themes of world and Dasein reveal the tensions that exist between the transcendental cl... Read More about Dasein and world: Heidegger’s reconceiving of the transcendental after Husserl.

Negativity, finitude, and the leap in Heidegger’s contributions to philosophy (2016)
Journal Article
Keane, N. (2016). Negativity, finitude, and the leap in Heidegger’s contributions to philosophy. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 47(4), 309-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2015.1122867

This article examines Heidegger's assessment of negativity and finitude in the late 1930s and his enlargement of these issues in the name of a leap from one type of philosophy, one type of beginning, to a wholly other beginning. The guiding concerns... Read More about Negativity, finitude, and the leap in Heidegger’s contributions to philosophy.

The continually expanding limits of hermeneutics: Heidegger on poetic expression, nature, and the holy (2016)
Journal Article
Keane, N. (2016). The continually expanding limits of hermeneutics: Heidegger on poetic expression, nature, and the holy. Research in Phenomenology, 46(3), 349-368

This article sets itself the task of explicating and assessing Heidegger's hermeneutically expansive analyses of the 'holy,' 'poetic expression,' and 'nature' in his 1934/35 and 1944 Hölderlin lectures. The piece looks specifically at how Heidegger... Read More about The continually expanding limits of hermeneutics: Heidegger on poetic expression, nature, and the holy.

The silence of the origin: Philosophy in transition and the essence of thinking (2013)
Journal Article
Keane, N. (2013). The silence of the origin: Philosophy in transition and the essence of thinking. Research in Phenomenology, 43(1), 27-48. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341242

This article pursues Heidegger's protracted engagement with the question of silent origins. First, I explore the so-called transitional thinking grounded in the fundamental attunement of reticence as it is put forward in the Beiträge zur Philosophie.... Read More about The silence of the origin: Philosophy in transition and the essence of thinking.