Publications

Books

The Multi-Voiced Body: A Philosophy of Society and Communication in the Age of Diversity. New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming.

Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty's Notion of the Flesh Albany, ed. Fred Evans and Leonard Lawlor.  Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2000.

Psychology and Nihilism:  A Genealogical Critique of the Computational Model of Mind. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Articles in Philosophy

"Deleuze, Bakhtin, and the 'Clamour of Voices', Deleuze Studies, forthcoming, 2008.

"Iris Marion Young and 'Intersecting Voices'," Philosophy Today, 52, forthcoming, 2008. (SPEP Supplemental Volume 32 of Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, eds. Peg Brimingham and James Risser).

Entries on “Genealogical Critique” and “The Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research,” for The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods, ed. Lisa M. Given (London: Sage Publications, Inc.), forthcoming, 2008.

"Chiasm and Flesh," in Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts, eds. Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds. Stocksfield, UK: Acumen Publishing Limited, 2008, 184-193.

(with Barbara McCloskey), “Sixties Redux?: A Report from the 2004-05 Carnegie International (or Kutlug Ataman’s Provocation),” Kunst und Politik, Bd. 9, 2008, 175-181.

“Citizenship, Art and the Voices of the City: Wodiczko’s The Homeless Projection.” In Acts of Citizenship, eds. Engin Isin and Greg Nielsen. London: Zed Books, 2008, 227-246.

(with Barbara McCloskey) “The New Solidarity: A Case Study of Cross-Border Labor Networks and Mural Art in the Age of Globalization’.” In Toward a New Socialism, ed. Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt. New York: Rowan and Littlefield, 2007, 483-496.

“Lyotard, Foucault, and ‘Philosophical Politics,’” International Journal of the Humanities, 3, 2006, 85-98.

Entries on “Psychology,” “Cognitive Science,” “Bakhtin,” “Hubert Dreyfus,” “Dialogism,” and “Heteroglossia/Monoglossia” for the Edinburgh University Press Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, ed. John Protevi, Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press Ltd., 2005, and for A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, ed. John Protevi, Yale University, Yale University Press, 2006.

“Multi-Voiced Society: Philosophical Nuances on Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children,” Florida Journal of International Law, 16:3, 2004, 727-741.

“Cyberspace and the Concept of Democracy,” Studies in Practical Philosophy: A Journal of Ethical and Political Philosophy, 4:1, 2004, 71-101. (Originally published in First Monday).

“Witnessing and the Social Unconscious,” Studies in Practical Philosophy: A Journal of Ethical and Political Philosophy, 3:2, Fall 2003, 57-83.

“Lyotard, Bakhtin, and Radical Heterogeneity,” Continental Philosophy, Vol.8, 2003, 61-74.

“Bakhtin, Communication, and the Politics of Multiculturalism.” Reprinted in Mikhail Bakhtin: Sage Masters of Modern Social Thought, vol. IV, ed. Michael E. Gardiner. London: SAGE Publications, 2003, 271-293. (Originally published in Constellations).

“Dialogisme et droits de l’Homme au Chiapas,” trans. Louis Jacob, Cahiers de recherche sociologique, no. 36, 2002, 75-104 (A translation of my “Voices of Chiapas”).

“Genealogy and the Problem of Affirmation in Nietzsche, Foucault, and Bakhtin,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 27:3, 2001, 41-65.

“Cyberspace and the Concept of Democracy,” First Monday, Vol. 5 (10) (October 2000) URL: http//www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_10/evans/index.html (a peer-reviewed electronic publication).

“Voices of Chiapas: The Zapatistas, Bakhtin, and Human Rights,” Philosophy Today, 42, 2000, 196-210. (Supplement Text Volume Twenty-Five of Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, ed. Linda Martín Alcoff and Walter Brogan).

“’Chaosmos’ and Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Nature,” Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty, 2, 2000, 63-82.

“The Value of Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy and the Modernism/Postmodernism Debate” (with Leonard Lawlor); critical introductory essay to Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty’s Notion of the Flesh, ed. Fred Evans and Leonard Lawlor. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2000, 1-20.

“Merleau-Ponty, Lyotard and the Basis of Political Judgment,” in Rereading Merleau-Ponty: Essays Across the Continental-Analytic Divide, ed. Lawrence Hass and Dorothea Olkowski. New York, NY: Prometheus Press, 2000, 253-274.

“’Solar Love’: Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and the Fortunes of Perception,” Continental Philosophy Review, vol.31:2, 1998, 171-193.

“Voices, Oracles, and the Politics of Multiculturalism,” Symposium, vol.2:2, 1998, 179-189.

“Bakhtin, Communication, and the Politics of Multiculturalism”, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, vol. 5:3, 1998, 403-423.

“Technology as Art and the ‘Spheres of Freedom and Necessity,’” Research in Philosophy and Technology, vol. 14, 1994, 219-234.

“Marx, Nietzsche, and the ‘Voices of Democracy.’”Iin Paradigms in Political Theory: Marxism-Liberalism-Postmodernism, ed. Steven Jay Gold, Iowa State University Press, Spring, 1993, 79-97.

“To ‘Informate’ or ‘Automate’: The New Information Technologies and Democratization of the Work Place,” The Journal of Social Theory and Practice, vol. 17:3, 1991, 409-439.

“Cognitive Psychology, Phenomenology, and the ‘Creative Tension of Voices,’” Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 24:2, 1991, 105-127.

“Language and Political Agency: Derrida, Marx, and Bakhtin,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 28:4, 1990, 249-266.

“Marx, Nietzsche, and the ‘New Class,’” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 4:3, 1990, 505-524.

“Marx, Nietzsche, y ‘La Nueva Clase,’” trad. por Magdalena Holguin, Ideas y Valores, Num. 74-75, Agosto-Diciembre, 1987, Publicacion de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, 81-98.

Translations in Philosophy

Jean-François Lyotard, “On the Strength of the Weak,” in Jean-François Lyotard, Toward the Post-Modern, ed. Robert Hurley and Mark Roberts, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, Humanities Press International, 1993, 62-72.

Mikel Dufrenne, “Intentionality and Aesthetics,” in Mikel Dufrenne, In the Presence of the Sensuous: Essays in Aesthetics, ed. Dennis Gallagher and Mark Roberts, Humanities Press, 1987, 3-12.

With Hugh J. Silverman, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “The Experience of Others,” in “Merleau-Ponty and Psychology,” a special issue of the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, 18 (1,2,&3), 1985, 33-63.

“Integrating Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture: Report on the Biopesticides Conference Workshop,” (with Anne K. Hollander and Alan Wood), in Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture: Policy Alternatives, Ithica, NY, Boyce Thompson Institute, 1989, 14-20.

“Research and Socio-Economic Rehabilitation Concerning the Handicapped in Laos,” in M. Barber and A. Dore, eds., Sangkhom Khady San: Colloques en Sciences Humaines, Vientiane, Laos, 1974, 65-72.

“Lao Village Study: Economic, Social and Cultural Factors Related to Community Development in Tasseng Xieng Mene,” a research monograph prepared for the Lao Government/International Voluntary Services, Inc., 1971; a copy of this monograph is included in the Cornell University South East Asian Studies Microfilm Library.

Book Reviews

Review of Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy: Dwelling on the Landscapes of Thought, eds. Suzanne L. Cataldi and William S. Hamrick (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2007), Organization and Environment, forthcoming, 2008.

Unforseeable Americas:  Questioning Cultural Hybridity in the Americas, ed. Rita De Grandis and Zilá Bernd (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2000), Symposium, 8:1, 2004, 168-73.

"Existential Refusal and the New World Order," a Review of Martin J. Beck Matustik's Specters of Liberation: Great Refusals in the New World Order, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998, Continental Philosophy Review, 33, 2000, 107-112.

Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition, ed. Amy Gutman, Princeton University Press, 1994, Radical Philosophy Review of Books, Nos. 11-12, 1995, 98-105.

Judging Lyotard, ed. Andrew Benjamin, New York: Routledge, 1992, Radical Philosophy Review of Books, No. 9, 1994, 16-21.

"The Return of Merleau-Ponty," a Review of Monika A. Langer's Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: A Guide and Commentary, The Florida State University Press, 1989, Teaching Philosophy, 14:4, 1991, 443-447.

Ofelia Schutte, Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche Without Masks, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1984, The Radical Philosophy Review of Books, 1, 1990, 28-30.

"From 'Automating' to 'Informating,'" a Review of Shoshana Zuboff's In The Age of The Smart Machines:  The Future of Work and Power, (New York, Basic Books, 1988), Socialism and Democracy, 9, 1989, Fall-Winter, 193-198.

"How Not 'To Close the Circle,'" a Review of The Social Construction of Technological Systems:  New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor J. Pinch, Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1987), Socialism and Democracy, 7,1988, Fall-Winter, 198-205.

With Len Lawlor, "Norris, Rose, and the Rationality of Post-Structuralism," a Critical Review of Christopher Norris' Contest of Faculties: Philosophy and Theory After Deconstruction and Gillian Rose's Dialectic of Nihilism:  Post-Structuralism and Law, Socialism and Democracy, 5, 1987, Fall-Winter, 213-219.

"Unfulfillable Longings?", a Review of Bernard Yack's The Longing for Total Revolution:  Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, Socialism and Democracy, 5, 1987, Fall-Winter, 219-225.

Nancy Love, Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity, New York, Columbia University Press, 1986, Socialism and Democracy, 4, 1987, Spring-Summer, 178-183.

Reseña de Presence and Absence: A Philosophical Investigation of Language and Being por Robert Sokolowski, Filosofia, Publicacion de la Facultad de Filosofia del Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Revista 3, Bogotá, Colombia, 1982, 58-61.

Works in Progress or Submitted for Publication

Books

Voices of Democracy: Citizenship and Public Art (project in early stage).

Articles

"Voices of Democracy: Citizenship and Public Art" (Chicago's Millennium Park). Abstract accepted for 2008 SPEP and RPA conferences).

"Voces de Chiapas: Los Zapatistas, Bakhtin y los Derechos Humanos" (Spanish trans. of published English version; submitted for publication).

"9/11:  The 'Clash of Civilizations' and Cultural Rights," in Phobias:  Race, Sex and Ethnicity After 9/11, ed. Mark Roberts (completed and accepted by editor; book under review with SUNY Press).

Doctoral and Master's Theses

The Psychology of the "Last Man": Cognitive Psychology and Modern Nihilism, Doctoral Dissertation in Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, (University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan), 1986: Dissertation Advisor:  Edward S. Casey.

The Naturalistic and Existential-Phenomenological Approaches to Schizophrenia, Master's Thesis in Psychology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, MI), 1977.

Alfred North Whitehead's Philosophy of Mind, Master's Thesis in Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1969.