Publications
Books
- Questioning Sexuality: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
- Poststructuralist Agency (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
- Critiquing Sovereign Violence (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019)
- Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019)
- The Problem of Political Foundations in Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas (Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
- Ontology in Heidegger and Deleuze (Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
- Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre, and the Alienation of Human Being (Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Edited Collections
- Transformation in Contemporary French Philosophy, ed. with Emma Ingala and Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming)
- Philosophy across Borders: Perspetives from Contemporary Theory, ed. with Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, forthcoming)
- Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism, ed. with Cillian Ó Fathaigh (New York: Routledge, forthcoming)
- Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism, ed. with Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2021)
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The Meanings of Violence, ed. with Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2019)
- Subjectivity and the Political, ed. with Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2018)
Book Chapters
- "Embedded Rupture: Castoriadis on Creating the New," in Philosophical Perspectives on Artistic Agency, eds. Alistair Macaulay, Timothy Deane-Freeman, and Antonia Pont (New York: Palgrave Macmillian, forthcoming).
- "Introduction: The Problem of Transformation," with Emma Ingala and Cillian Ó Fathaigh, in Transformation in Contemporary French Philosophy, ed. with Emma Ingala and Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming)
- "From Magma to Plasticity: Transformation in Castoriadis and Malabou," in Transformation in Contemporary French Philosophy, ed. with Emma Ingala and Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming)
- "Introduction," with Emma Ingala, in Philosophy across Borders: Perspectives from Contemporary Theory, ed. Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, forthcoming)
- "From Ontological Difference to Difference in itself: Deleuze and Heidegger," in The Deleuzian Mind, ed. Jeffrey A. Bell and Henry Somers-Hall (New York: Routledge, under contract)
- "Introduction," with Cillian Ó Fathaigh, in Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism, ed. Gavin Rae and Cillian Ó Fathaigh (New York: Routledge, forthcoming)
- "Agency and the Imaginary: Lacan, Irigaray, Castoriadis," in Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism, ed. Gavin Rae and Cillian Ó Fathaigh (New York: Routledge, forthcoming).
- "The Phantasmatic Fiction: Derrida on the Ground of Politics," in Derrida’s Politics of Friendship, ed. Luke Collison, Cillian Ó Fathaigh, Georgios Tsagdis (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), pp. 181–192.
- "Introduction," with Emma Ingala, in Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics, ed. Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 1–12.
- "Strategies of Political Resistance: Agamben and Irigaray," in Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics, ed. Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 223–245.
- "Independence, Alliance, and Echo: Deleuze on the Relationship between Philosophy, Science, and Art," in Deleuze, Guattari, and the Problem of Transdisciplinarity, ed. Guillaume Collet (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), pp. 239–263.
- ‘Forming the Individual: Lacan and Castoriadis on the Socio-Symbolic Function of Violence,’ in Violence and Meaning, ed. Lode Lauwaert, Laura Smith, and Christian Sternad (Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 239–265.
- ‘The Meanings of Violence: Introduction,’ with Emma Ingala, in The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics, ed. Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 1–9.
- ‘Taming the Little Screaming Monster: Castoriadis, Violence, and the Creation of the Individual,’ in The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics, ed. Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 171–190.
- ‘Editor’s Introduction: Between Subjectivity and the Political,’ with Emma Ingala, in Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 1–11.
- ‘Between Failure and Redemption: Emmanuel Levinas on the Political,’ in Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 55–74.
- ‘The Wolves of the World: Derrida on the Political Symbolism of the Beast and the Sovereign,’ in Seeing Animals after Derrida, ed. James Tink and Sarah Bezan (Lanham: Lexington, 2018), pp. 3–19.
- ‘Anthropocentrism,’ in Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, ed. Henk ten Have (Dordrecht: Springer, 2014), pp. 1–12: DOI: 1007/978–3–319–05544–2_24–1.
Journal Articles
- "Arendt, Free Will, and Action," forthcoming in Philosophy and Social Criticism.
- "Sartre on Action: Decentring the Will," forthcoming in the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology.
- "All Power to the Imagination: Sartre and Castoriadis," forthcoming in Philosophy and Social Criticism.
- “The Ethical Self in the Later Foucault: The Question of Normativity,” Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions, 62, n. 2, 2023, pp. 381–402.
- "Derrida, Autoimmunity, and Critique,’ Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, vol. 23, n. 2–3, 2022, pp. 238–258.
- "Butler and the Politics of Epistemic Frames," Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory, vol. 23, n. 2, 2022, pp. 172–187.
- "Laclau on Misunderstanding and the Genesis of Collective Identity," Thesis Eleven, vol. 170, n. 1, 2022, pp. 117–135.
- “The Equivocity of Being: Heidegger, Multiplicity, and Fundamental Ontology,” Human Studies, vol. 44, n. 3, 2021, pp. 351–371.
- “The ‘New’ Materialisms of Lacan and Butler,” Philosophy Today, vol. 65, n. 3, 2021, pp. 655–672.
- “Merleau-Ponty on the Sexed Body,” Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, vol. 51, n. 2, 2020, pp. 162–183.
- “Maternal and Paternal Functions in the Formation of Subjectivity: Kristeva and Lacan,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 46, n. 4, 2020, pp. 412–430.
- “Questioning the Phallus: Jacques Lacan and Judith Butler,” Studies in Gender and Sexuality, vol. 21, n. 1, 2020, pp. 12–26.
- “Freud and Heidegger on the “Origins” of Sexuality,” Human Studies, vol. 42, n. 4, 2019, pp. 543–563.
- “Hannah Arendt, Evil, and Political Resistance,” History of the Human Sciences, vol. 32, n. 3, 2019, pp. 125–144.
- “Agency and Will in Agamben”s Coming Politics,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 44, n. 9, 2018, pp. 978–996.
- “The Problem of Grounding: Schelling on the Metaphysics of Evil,” Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions, vol. 57, n. 2, 2018, pp. 233–248.
- “The Politics of Justice: Levinas, Violence, and the Ethical-Political Relationship,” Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 17, n. 1, 2018, pp. 49–68.
- “Disharmonious Continuity: Critiquing Presence with Sartre and Derrida,” Sartre Studies International, vol. 23, n. 2, 2017, pp. 58–81.
- “The Political Significance of the Face: Deleuze”s Critique of Levinas,” Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory, vol. 17, n. 3/4, 2016, pp. 279–303.
- “The Theology of Carl Schmitt”s Political Theology,” Political Theology, vol. 17, n. 6, 2016, pp. 555–572.
- “The Real Enmity of Carl Schmitt”s Concept of the Political,” Journal of International Political Theory, vol. 12, n. 3, 2016, pp. 258–275.
- “Much Ado about Nothing: The Bergsonian and Heideggerian Roots of Sartre”s Conception of Nothingness,” Human Studies, vol. 39, n. 2, 2016, pp. 249–268.
- “Authoritarian and Anthropocentric: Examining Derrida”s Critique of Heidegger,” Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory, 2015, vol. 16.1, pp. 27–51.
- “The Philosophical Roots of Donna Haraway”s Cyborg Imagery: Descartes and Heidegger through Latour, Derrida, and Agamben,” Human Studies, vol. 37, n. 4, 2014, pp. 505–528.
- “Traces of Identity in Deleuze”s Differential Ontology,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 22, n. 1, 2014, pp. 86–105.
- “Heidegger”s Influence on Posthumanism: The Destruction of Metaphysics, Technology, and the Overcoming of Anthropocentrism,” History of Human Sciences, vol. 27, n. 1, 2014, pp. 51–69.
- “Violence, Territorialization, and Signification: The Political from Carl Schmitt and Gilles Deleuze,” Theoria and Praxis: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought,1, n. 1, 2013, pp. 1–17.
- “Overcoming Philosophy: Heidegger on the Destruction of Metaphysics and the Transformation to Thinking,” Human Studies, vol. 36, n. 2, 2013, pp. 235–257.
- “Being and Technology: Heidegger on the Overcoming of Metaphysics,” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol. 43, n. 3, October, 2012, pp. 305–325.
- “Hegel, Alienation, and the Phenomenological Development of Consciousness,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 20, n. 1, 2012, pp. 23–42.
- “Sartre, Group Formations, and Practical Freedom in the Critique of Dialectical Reason,” Comparative and Continental Philosophy, vol. 3, n. 2, 2012, pp. 183–206.
- “Sartre on Authentic and Inauthentic Love,” Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, 23, n. 1, 2012, pp. 75–88.
- “Alienation, Authenticity, and the Self,” History of the Human Sciences, vol. 23, n. 4, 2010, pp. 21–36.
- “Re-thinking the Human: Heidegger, Fundamental Ontology, and Humanism,” Human Studies, vol. 33, n. 1, 2010, pp. 23–39.
- “Kierkegaard, the Self, Authenticity, and the Teleological Suspension of the Ethical,” Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory, vol. 11, n. 1, 2010, pp. 75–97.
- “Marcuse, Aesthetics, and the Logic of Modernity,” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 14, n. 2, 2010, pp. 383–398.
- “Sartre and the Other: Conflict, Conversion, Language, and the We,” Sartre Studies International, vol. 15, n. 2, 2009, pp. 52–75.
Book Reviews
- "Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness by Kate Katepatrick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)," in European Journal of Philosophy of Religion, vol. 10, n. 4, 2018, pp. 222–227.
- "Hegel, Love, and Forgiveness: Positive Recognition in German Idealism by Liz Disley (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015)," in Hegel Bulletin, vol. 39, vol. 2, 2018, pp. 360–365.
- "Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman, ed. Dennis M. Weiss, Amy D. Propen, and Colbey Emmerson Reid (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014)," in Technology and Culture, January, vol. 57, n. 1, 2016, pp. 283–284.
Translations
- Nathan Widder, ‘Micropolitica de las pulsiones,’ trans. by Emma Ingala and Gavin Rae, Logos: Anales del Seminario de Metafísica, vol. 50, 2017, pp. 21–38.