Drew Dalton

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Drew M. Dalton
Education KU Leuven (PhD), Wheaton College (BA)
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
Institutions Indiana University, Dominican University
Main interests
 literary theory, ethics, social philosophy, political philosophy, aesthetics

Drew M. Dalton is an American philosopher and a professor of English at Indiana University. [1] Previously, he was a professor of philosophy at Dominican University. [2] He is known for his works on continental philosophy. [3] Dalton received his Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from KU Leuven. [4]

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Dalton's work focuses on the concept of the absolute. In ethics, Dalton argues that the pursuit of an absolute good inevitably leads to evil. Nevertheless, Dalton argues, one should not give up on the idea of absolutes entirely. Instead, Dalton promotes "ethical resistance," as the proper way of relating to any given absolute. In metaphysics, Dalton argues for the idea of a "naturalized absolute" drawn by extension of the conclusions of contemporary scientific research. Dalton also champions "ethical pessimism," as the best response to what he calls the "absolute unbecoming of existence," which he claims is testified to in the contemporary scientific account of nature.

Philosophy

Dalton draws extensively from phenomenology, psychoanalysis, speculative materialism, and German idealism.

Key points of Dalton's philosophy are:

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References

  1. ↑ "Drew Dalton". Department of English. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Drew Dalton | Dominican University". www.dom.edu. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
  3. ↑ DeRoo, Neal (February 26, 2013). "Review of Reexamining Deconstruction and Determinate Religion: Toward a Religion with Religion". NDPR. ISSN   1538-1617.
  4. ↑ "Drew Dalton". Dominican University. Retrieved August 27, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Drew M. Dalton: The Ethics of Resistance: Tyranny of the Absolute, Bloomsbury, 2020 – Phenomenological Reviews". March 10, 2020. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
  6. ↑ DALTON, Drew M. (2022). "The Moral Ambiguity of the Absolute". Tijdschrift voor Filosofie. 84 (5): 67–93. doi:10.2143/TVF.84.5.3290712. ISSN   2031-8952.
  7. ↑ Dalton, Drew M.; DePaul University (2022). "The Metaphysics of Speculative Materialism: Reckoning with the Fact of Entropy". Philosophy Today. 66 (4): 687–705. doi:10.5840/philtoday2022623456. ISSN   0031-8256.
  8. ↑ M. Dalton, Drew (November 16, 2023). "The Unbecoming of Being: Thermodynamics and The Metaphysics and Ethics of Entropic Decay". Technophany, A Journal for Philosophy and Technology: 1–24. doi:10.54195/technophany.14045. ISSN   2773-0875.
  9. ↑ Dalton, Drew M. (2024). "The Unbecoming of Being: Thermodynamics and The Metaphysics and Ethics of Entropic Decay". Technophany, A Journal for Philosophy and Technology: 1–24. doi:10.54195/technophany.14045. ISSN   2773-0875.
  10. ↑ Dalton, Drew M. (August 29, 2024). "Pessimism and the Questions of Moral Nihilism and Ethical Quietism: Schopenhauer and Mainländer on the Practical Potencies of Metaphysical Pessimism". Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy. doi:10.5840/epoche2024828256.
  11. ↑ Dalton, Drew M.; Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (2024). "Speculative Phenomenology: Reexamining the Relation Between Phenomenology and Speculative Realism". Symposium. 28 (1): 121–148. doi:10.5840/symposium20242818. ISSN   1917-9685.
  12. ↑ Dalton, Drew (Fall 2011). ""The Vaccination of the Infinite"" (PDF). jcrt.org. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
  13. ↑ Dalton, Drew M.; Graduate Faculty Philosophy Department, New School for Social Research (2013). "The Intrigue of the Other and the Subversion of the Subject: Levinas and Lacan on the Status of Subjectivity after Heidegger". Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. 34 (2): 415–438. doi:10.5840/gfpj201334226. ISSN   0093-4240.
  14. ↑ Dalton, Drew M.; Duquesne University Press (2014). "Phenomenology and the Infinite: Levinas, Husserl, and the Fragility of the Finite". Levinas Studies. 9: 23–51. doi:10.5840/levinas201494. ISSN   1554-7000.
  15. ↑ Dalton, Drew M.; Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (2024). "Speculative Phenomenology: Reexamining the Relation Between Phenomenology and Speculative Realism". Symposium. 28 (1): 121–148. doi:10.5840/symposium20242818. ISSN   1917-9685.
  16. ↑ Dalton, Drew M. (September 25, 2024). "Pessimism and the Questions of Moral Nihilism and Ethical Quietism: Schopenhauer and Mainländer on the Practical Potencies of Metaphysical Pessimism". Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy. 29 (1): 119–144. doi:10.5840/epoche2024828256.
  17. ↑ Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Press 600 Forbes Avenue. "Longing for the Other: Levinas and Metaphysical Desire Drew M. Dalton". Duquesne University Press. Retrieved October 3, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  18. ↑ "JCRT 11.3 Fall 2011". jcrt.org. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
  19. ↑ Yates, Christopher (June 2012). "Drew M. Dalton: Longing for the other: Levinas and metaphysical desire: Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2009, 313 pp, paperback, US $25, ISBN 978-0-8207-0425-8". Continental Philosophy Review. 45 (2): 325–332. doi:10.1007/s11007-012-9216-y. ISSN   1387-2842.
  20. ↑ Abdullah, Ayesha (June 13, 2011). "Drew Dalton, Longing for the Other: Levinas and Metaphysical Desire". Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy. 19 (1): 171–176. doi:10.5195/jffp.2011.485. ISSN   2155-1162.
  21. ↑ Dalton, Drew M. (2018). The ethics of resistance: tyranny of the absolute. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN   978-1-350-04203-2. OCLC   1031415054.
  22. ↑ "Drew M. Dalton, The Ethics of Resistance | CSCP / SCPC". www.c-scp.org. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
  23. ↑ Nethery IV, H.A. (July 19, 2019). "Book Review: Drew Dalton, The Ethics of Resistance: Tyranny of the Absolute (London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), pp. 154". Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy. 27 (1): 100–104. doi:10.5195/jffp.2019.878. ISSN   2155-1162.
  24. ↑ Hasan-Birdwell, Aminah (December 22, 2021). "Review of The Ethics of Resistance: Tyranny of the Absolute". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. University of Notre Dame. ISSN   1538-1617.
  25. ↑ "The Matter of Evil". Northwestern University Press. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
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