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Mark Wrathall

Professor of Philosophy • University of Oxford

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Book Chapters

Book Chapters

1.  “Our Fragilized World and the Immanent Frame,” in Charles Taylor: A Secular Age, ed. Michael Kühnlein, Klassiker Auslegen, Vol. 59, ed. Otfried Höffe (Berlin: de Gruyer Verlag, 2017).

2.  “Individuation and Heidegger’s Ontological ‘Intuitionism’,” in Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political, ed. Pavlos Kontos & Véronique Fóti, eds. (Springer, 2017) 

3. “Background Practices and Understandings of Being,” in Background Practices and the Understanding of Being (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017).     

4. “Making Sense of Human Existence (Heidegger on the Limits of Practical Familiarity),” in Ondřej Švec & Jakub Čapek, Eds., Pragmatic Perspectives in Phenomenology (New York: Routledge, 2017).

5.  “Who is the Self of Everyday Existence?” in From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity. Heidegger’s Anyone and Contemporary Social Theory, edited by Hans Bernhard Schmid and Gerhard Thonhauser (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016).

6.  “‘Demanding Authenticity of Ourselves’: Heidegger on Authenticity as an Extra-Moral Ideal,” in Horizons of Authenticity in Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Moral Psychology, edited by Megan Altman and Hans Pedersen (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2015).

7.  “Autonomy, Authenticity, and the Self,” in Heidegger, Authenticity, and the Self, edited by Denis McManus (Routledge, 2015).

8.  “Hubert Dreyfus and the Phenomenology of Human Intelligence,” in Skillful Coping: Essays on the phenomenology of everyday perception and action (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

9.  “Seinsgeschichte,” in Heidegger-Handbuch, edited by Dieter Thomä (Metzler, 2013), 328-335.

10.  “Heidegger on Human Understanding,” in The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger’s Being and Time (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 177-200.

11.  “An Overview of Being and Time” (With Max Murphey) in The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger’s Being and Time (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 1-53.

12.  “The Phenomenological Relevance of Art,” in Art and Phenomenology, edited by Joseph Parry (New York: Routledge, 2010).  

13.  “On the ‘Existential Positivity of our Ability to Be Deceived’” in The Philosophy of Deception, edited by Clancy Martin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 67-81. 

14.  “Truth and the Essence of Truth in Heidegger’s Thought,” in The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, 2d edition, edited by Charles Guignon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 241-267.

15.  “Existential Phenomenology,” in A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (Oxford: Blackwell 2006), pp. 31-47.

16.  “A Brief Introduction to Phenomenology and Existentialism” (with Hubert Dreyfus), in A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (Oxford: Blackwell 2006), pp. 1-6.

17.  “Staring at the Sun: U2 and the Experience of Kierkegaardian Despair” (with Hubert Dreyfus), in U2 and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court, 2006), pp. 15-24.  
    •  Portuguese translation: “‘Olhando Fixamente para o Sol’: U2 e a Experiencia do Desespero Kierkegaardiano”
    • German translation: “Die die Sonne Anstarren: U2 und die Erfahrung Kierkegaardscher Verzweiflung”  

18.  “‘If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel”: Existential Christianity in U2,” in U2 and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court, 2006), pp. 25-42.  
    • Portuguese translation: “‘Se Voce Quisar Beijar o Ceu, e Melhor Aprender a se Ajoelhar’: Cristianismo Existencial no U2"
    • German translation: “‘If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel’: Existentialistisches Christentum bei U2.”

19.  “Unconcealment’” in A Companion to Heidegger (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 337-57.

20.  “Martin Heidegger: An Introduction to His Thought, Work, and Life” (with Hubert Dreyfus),  in A Companion to Heidegger (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 1-16.

21.  “Motives, Reasons, and Causes,” in The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty, edited by Taylor Carman and Mark B. N. Hansen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 111-28.

22.  “‘The purpose of life is to end’: Schopenhauerian Pessimism, Nihilism, and Nietzschean Will to Power,” in More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded, edited by William Irwin (Open Court, 2005), pp. 50-66.

23.  “Seeing the World Made New: Depictions of The Passion and Christian Life,” in: Mel Gibson’s Passion and Philosophy: The Cross, the Questions, The Controversy, edited by Jorge J. E. Gracia (Open Court, 2004), pp. 9-24. 
    •  Portuguese translation: A Paixăo de Cristo (Sao Paolo: Madras, 2007), pp. 39-56.

24.  “Between the Earth and the Sky: Heidegger on Life After the Death of God,” in Religion After Metaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 69-87.

25.  “Non-Rational Grounds and Mind-Transcendent Objects,” in From Kant to Davidson: Philosophy and the Idea of the Transcendental, ed. Jeff Malpas (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 197-209.

26.  “Philosophers, Thinkers, and Heidegger’s Place in the History of Being,” in Appropriating Heidegger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

27.  “Background Capacities, Practices, and Heideggerian Disclosure,” in Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000).

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