About
Current interests include:
- Existentialism
- German idealism
- Political theory
- Philosophy of art
- Environmental ethics
- Indigenous philosophy
- Philosophy of social movements.
Education and credentials
- PhD, University of Ottawa
Research summary
I am currently writing a book about Jacques Ranci癡re, Simone de Beauvoir, and antifascism. My long-term project, called Unsettling Existentialism, involves rethinking the work of Sartre, Beauvoir, and other existentialists through the lens of anticolonial and decolonialthat is, Africana, creole, and Indigenousframeworks.
Publications and other research outputs
- Egalitarian Moments: From Descartes to Ranci癡re (Bloomsbury, 2016)
- Freedom and Nature in Schellings Philosophy of Art (Bloomsbury, 2010)
Recent articles and review essays
- "Politics That Does Not Command: Reconsidering Ranci癡res Opposition Between Politics and Policing, Parrhesia (2019)
- With Veldon Coburn, The Real Justice Denied Colten Boushie, Policy Options (February 15, 2018).
- With Veldon Coburn: Renewing the Status Quo: The Colonial Politics of Recognition in Trudeaus Renewed Relationship with Indigenous Nations E-International Review (September 7, 2017). Parrhesia (2019)
- Disagreement and Recognition between Ranci癡re and Honneth (A review of Axel Honneth and Jacques Ranci癡re, Recognition or Disagreement), Boundary 2 Online (March 13, 2017)