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Being human and being open: Heidegger’s radicalization of the transcendental after Husserl (2022)
Book Chapter
Keane, N. (2022). Being human and being open: Heidegger’s radicalization of the transcendental after Husserl. In I. Farin, & J. Malpas (Eds.), Heidegger and the Human

Heidegger was well aware of the importance of separating thematically the world of human experience from the conditions of its manifestation. Yet as phenomenologist he also recognized that the way of being of the human is itself constitutive of such... Read More about Being human and being open: Heidegger’s radicalization of the transcendental after Husserl.

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.

Empathy, intersubjectivity, and the world-orienting other (2022)
Book Chapter
Keane, N. (2022). Empathy, intersubjectivity, and the world-orienting other. In A. Bortolan, & E. Magrì (Eds.), Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World: The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology (165-186). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110698787-009

This chapter addresses the self-other relation through Husserl's account of empathy and phenomenological encounter. While respecting the centrality and importance of the first-person character of subjective consciousness in Husserl's phenomenology, t... Read More about Empathy, intersubjectivity, and the world-orienting other.

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.

Gadamer’s Heidegger: On language and metaphysics (2021)
Book Chapter
Keane, N. (2021). Gadamer’s Heidegger: On language and metaphysics. In T. George, & G. van der Heiden (Eds.), The Gadamerian Mind

Gadamer has been the viewed as follower, appropriator, and urbanizer of the wilder elements of Heidegger’s thought, with his explicit resistance to certain aspects of Heidegger’s thought often only present between the lines. This chapter examines Gad... Read More about Gadamer’s Heidegger: On language and metaphysics.

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.

Heidegger, Europe, and the history of "Beyng" (2021)
Book Chapter
Keane, N., & Girardi, L. (2021). Heidegger, Europe, and the history of "Beyng". In D. Meacham, & N. de Warren (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Europe (84-96). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Much more so than for his reflections on Europe, Martin Heidegger is known for his examination of the question of being (Seinsfrage). As the question that both guided the Western metaphysical tradition and – in Heidegger’s reading of this tradition –... Read More about Heidegger, Europe, and the history of "Beyng".

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.

The affects of rhetoric and reconceiving the nature of possibility (2019)
Book Chapter
Keane, N. (2019). The affects of rhetoric and reconceiving the nature of possibility. In C. Hadjioannou (Ed.), Heidegger on Affect (47-67). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24639-6_3

This chapter looks at the genesis of Heidegger’s reflections on affect, embodied speaking together, the nature of possibility and the critique of actuality, which form the soil in which the later existential analysis of Being and Time sinks its roots... Read More about The affects of rhetoric and reconceiving the nature of possibility.

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.

Métaphysique, politique et nihilisme chez Heidegger et Jünger (2015)
Book Chapter
Keane, N. (2015). Métaphysique, politique et nihilisme chez Heidegger et Jünger. In B. Lévy (Ed.), La Règle du jeu N° 58/59, Septembre 2015 (343-379). LA RÈGLE DU JEU, PARIS

Dans une épigraphe ouvrant le volume 94 de la Gesamtausgabe(1), Heidegger cite le passage suivant du Théétète de Platon : « Panta gar tolmêteon », que l'on pourrait traduire par « il faut prendre un risque en toute chose » ou encore : « il faut oser... Read More about Métaphysique, politique et nihilisme chez Heidegger et Jünger.

On the origins of illness and the hiddenness of health: A Hermeneutic approach to the history of a problem (2015)
Book Chapter
Keane, N. (2015). On the origins of illness and the hiddenness of health: A Hermeneutic approach to the history of a problem. In D. Meacham (Ed.), Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (57-72). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9870-9_4

If health is definable as a dynamic equilibrium, then there needs to be some criterion for its re-establishment or restoration. For centuries this criterion has been identified as nature, a criterion which is not altogether unproblematic. It must be... Read More about On the origins of illness and the hiddenness of health: A Hermeneutic approach to the history of a problem.

Die Kehre spielt im Sachverhalt selbst: Making sense of the twists and turns in Heidegger’s thought (2014)
Book Chapter
Keane, N. (2014). Die Kehre spielt im Sachverhalt selbst: Making sense of the twists and turns in Heidegger’s thought. In S. Heinämaa, M. Hartimo, & T. Miettinen (Eds.), Phenomenology And The Transcendental. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The ‘turn’ or ‘turning’ ( Kehre), which is used at various times and with multiple meanings, is without doubt one of the most problematic (and least monochromatic) terms when it comes to understanding Heidegger’s work and its lexical horizon. The ef... Read More about Die Kehre spielt im Sachverhalt selbst: Making sense of the twists and turns in Heidegger’s thought.

“Die Kehre spielt im Sachverhalt selbst” 1: Making sense of the twists and turns in Heidegger's thought (2014)
Book Chapter
Keane, N. (2014). “Die Kehre spielt im Sachverhalt selbst” 1: Making sense of the twists and turns in Heidegger's thought. In S. Heinämaa, M. Hartimo, & T. Miettinen (Eds.), Phenomenology and the Transcendental (295-314). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The ‘turn’ or ‘turning’ ( Kehre ), which is used at various times and with multiple meanings, is without doubt one of the most problematic (and least monochromatic) terms when it comes to understanding Heidegger’s work and its lexical horizon. The ef... Read More about “Die Kehre spielt im Sachverhalt selbst” 1: Making sense of the twists and turns in Heidegger's thought.

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.

The Gadamer Dictionary (2011)
Book
Keane, N., & Lawn, C. (2011). The Gadamer Dictionary. Bloomsbury Publishing

The Gadamer Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all his major works, ideas and influences and provides a firm groundi... Read More about The Gadamer Dictionary.