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Publications

(For a full list of publications, see Toadvine's CV above)

Monographs:

Edited Volumes and Journal Issues:

Translated Books:

Journal Articles:

  • 2015. Nicolae Morar, Ted Toadvine, and Brendan Bohannan. Biodiversity at Twenty-Five: Revolution or Red Herring? Ethics, Policy & Environment 18, no. 1: 16-29.

  • 2014. The Elemental Past. Research in Phenomenology 44, no 2: 262–279.

  • 2014. The Time of Animal Voices. Konturen 7: 16-34. Reprinted in Environmental Philosophy 11, no. 1 (2014): 109-124. French translation published as “Le temps des voix animales.” Chiasmi International 15 (2013): 269-282.

  • 2013. Nature’s Wandering Hands: Painting at the End of the World. Klēsis: Revue Philosophique 25: 109-123.

  • 2011. Six Myths of Interdisciplinarity. Thinking Nature: A Journal on the Concept of Nature 1 http:// thinkingnaturejournal.com/volume-1/

  • 2011. The Entomological Difference: On the Intuitions of Hymenoptera. Poligrafi: Journal for Interdisciplinary Study of Religion 16, no. 61-62: 185-214.

  • 2010. Life Beyond Biologism. Research in Phenomenology 40, no. 2: 243–266.

  • 2009. Truth and Resistance. Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 30, no. 1: 111–124.

  • 2009. Natural Time and Immemorial Nature. Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existentialism, vol. 34, edited by Peg Birmingham and Len Lawlor. Supplement to Philosophy Today 53: 214–21.

  • 2009. Music, Being, Nature. Corps et Signes. No centenário do Nascimento de Claude Lévi-Strauss e Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Edited by  Jean-Yves Mercury and Nuno Nabais.Colecção Documenta (Lisbon) 5: 167–177.

  • 2008. La resistencia de la verdad en Merleau-Ponty. Investigaciones Fenomenológicas, Special Issue: Merleau-Ponty Desde la Fenomenología en su Primer Centenario, 1908-2008: 237–53.

  • 2008. The Reconversion of Silence and Speech. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 70: 457–77.

  • 2008. Le Passage du temps naturel. Alter: Revue de phénoménologie 16: 157–69.

  • 2007. ‘Strange Kinship’: Merleau-Ponty on the Human-Animal Relation. Analecta Husserliana 93: 17–32. 2011. Spanish translation published as “Parentesco Extraño”: Merleau-Ponty Sobre La Relación Humano-Animal. Translated by Ana Cristina Ramírez Barreto. Devenires. Revista De Filosofía Y Filosofía De La Cultura 12, no. 23: 83-104.

  • 2005. Gestalts and Refrains: On the Musical Structure of Nature. Environmental Philosophy 2, no. 2: 61–71.

  • 2005. The Melody of Life and the Motif of Philosophy. Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty’s Thought 7: 263–79.

  • 2005. Limits of the Flesh: The Role of Reflection in David Abram’s Ecophenomenology. Environmental Ethics 27, no. 2: 155–70.

  • 2004. Singing the World in a New Key: Merleau-Ponty and the Ontology of Sense. Janus Head 7, no. 2: 273–83.

  • 2001. Chiasm and Chiaroscuro: The Logic of the Epoche. Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty’s Thought 3: 225–41.

  • 2001. Phenomenological Method in Merleau-Ponty’s Critique of Gurwitsch. Husserl Studies 17, no. 3: 195–205.

  • 2000. Nature and Negation: Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Bergson. Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty’s Thought 2: 107–18.

  • 2000. The Cogito in Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Intersubjectivity. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 31: 197–202.

  • 1999. Naturalizing Phenomenology. Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existentialism, vol. 25, edited by Linda Alcoff and Walter Brogan. Supplement to Philosophy Today 44: 124–31.

  • 1997. The Art of Doubting: Merleau-Ponty and Cézanne. Philosophy Today 41: 545–53.

  • 1996. Absolution of Finitude in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Southwest Philosophy Review 12: 141–56.

  • 1995. Hermeneutics and the Principle of Explicability. Auslegung 20: 59–75.

Book Chapters:

  • 2015. Biodiversity and the Diacritics of Life. In Carnal Hermeneutics, ed. Brian Treanor and Richard Kearney. Bronx: Fordham University Press.

  • 2014. Apocalyptic Imagination and the Silence of the Elements. In Ecopsychology, Phenomenology, and the Environment: The Experience of Nature, edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Fernando Castrillón, 211–221. Berlin: Springer.

  • 2013. Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Lifeworldly Naturalism. In Husserl's Ideen, edited by Lester Embree and Tom Nenon, 365–380. Berlin: Springer.

  • 2012. Enjoyment and its Discontents: On Separation from Nature in Levinas. In Facing Nature: Levinas and Environmental Thought, edited by William Edelglass, James Hatley, and Christian Diehm, 161–189. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press.

  • 2010. Ecophenomenology and the Resistance of Nature. In Advancing Phenomenology: Essays in Honor of Lester Embree, edited by Philip Blosser and Thomas Nenon, 343–55. Berlin: Springer. Reprinted in Environment, Embodiment and Gender: An Anthology on Man, Nature and the concepts of Nature, edited by Ane F. Aarø and Johannes Servan, 49–65. Bergen: Hermes Text, 2011.

  • 2007. How Not to Be a Jellyfish: Human Exceptionalism and the Ontology of Reflection. In Phenomenology and the Non-Human Animal: At the Limits of Experience, edited by Christian Lotz and Corinne Painter, 39–55. Berlin: Springer.

  • 2007. Culture and Cultivation: Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Agriculture. In Nature’s Edge: Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice, edited by Charles S. Brown and Ted Toadvine, 207–22. Albany: SUNY Press.

  • 2006. Limits of the Flesh: The Role of Reflection in David Abram’s Eco-Phenomenology. In Interrogating Ethics: Embodying the Good in Merleau-Ponty, edited by James Hatley, Janice McLane, and Christian Diehm, 249–64. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press. Reprinted from Environmental Ethics.

  • 2005. Naturalizing Phenomenology. In Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology, 4th ed., ed. Michael Zimmerman et al., 326–34 (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall). Reprinted from Philosophy Today.

  • 2004. Sense and Non-Sense of the Event in Merleau-Ponty. In Ereignis auf Französisch: Von Bergson bis Deleuze, edited by Marc Rölli, 121–34. Munich: Wilhelm Fink.

  • 2003. The Primacy of Desire and its Ecological Consequences. In Eco-Phenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself, edited by Charles Brown and Ted Toadvine, 139–53. Albany: SUNY.

  • 2002. Leaving Husserl’s Cave? The Philosopher’s Shadow Revisited. In Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Husserl, edited by Ted Toadvine and Lester Embree, 71–94. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • 2002. Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Husserl—A Chronological Overview. Appendix to Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Husserl, edited by Ted Toadvine and Lester Embree, 227–86. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • 2001. Ecophenomenology in the New Millennium. In The Reach of Reflection: Issues in Phenomenology’s Second Century, edited by Steven Crowell, Lester Embree, and Samuel J. Julian. Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc.

Handbook Chapters:

  • 2011. The Chiasm. In Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, edited by Sebastian Luft and Soren Overgaard, 336–47. London: Routledge, 2011.

  • 2010. Ecological Aesthetics. In Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics, edited by Lester Embree and Hans Reiner Sepp, 85–91. Berlin: Springer.

  • 2008. Phenomenology and ‘Hyper-Reflection’. In Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts, edited by Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds, 17–29. Stocksfield, UK: Acumen Publishing.

Translations:

  • 2007. Translation of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Man and Adversity: Discussion. In The Merleau-Ponty Reader, edited by Ted Toadvine and Leonard Lawlor, 207–40. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

  • 2001. Translation (with Elizabeth Locey) of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Reading Notes and Comments on Aron Gurwitsch's The Field of Consciousness. Husserl Studies 17, no. 3: 173–93.

  • 2000. Translation of Françoise Dastur, World, Flesh, Vision. In Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty’s Notion of Flesh, edited by Fred Evans and Leonard Lawlor, 23–49. Albany: SUNY Press.