Graduate Student, UNT Philosophy
About
My work tends to focus on those philosophers, novelists, and poets who labor at the limits of language. This wide optic facilitates a 'interdisciplinary' approach in which philosophy and critical thinking intersect with theology, linguistics, and a variety of social sciences. Within the western academic tradition, I draw a profound amount of influence from the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. As a result, my hermeneutic engagements concern primarily their mid-20th century and contemporary interlocutors: Bataille, Levinas, Marion, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Agamben, Nancy and Blanchot.
Currently my investigations have been centered around the problematic relationship between metaphysics and language. It is my intention within this problem-frame to address current social and political issues and inevitably to thresh out tenable theoretical positions for institution builders as the epoch of onto-theology draws to a close.
