Outputs (13)

Contaminations: Beyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science, and Film (2016)
Book

This book enquires into the problem of various oppositions between pure entities such as nature and society, body and mind, science and the arts, subjectivity and objectivity. It examines how works of literature and cinema have contaminated construct... Read More about Contaminations: Beyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science, and Film.

Contaminations of Modern Tragedy from Benjamin via Strindberg, Darwin, Nietzsche and Kafka to Beckett and Wallace (2016)
Journal Article
Mack, M. (2016). Contaminations of Modern Tragedy from Benjamin via Strindberg, Darwin, Nietzsche and Kafka to Beckett and Wallace. Avello Publishing journal, 1(6),

Building on my recently published book Contaminations: Beyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science and Film, this article questions various critical approaches that assume that the modern and the tragic are mutually exclusive. The theoretical pro... Read More about Contaminations of Modern Tragedy from Benjamin via Strindberg, Darwin, Nietzsche and Kafka to Beckett and Wallace.

Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging Our Infatuation with Numbers (2014)
Book

Highlighting literature and philosophy's potential impact on economics, health care, bioethics, public policy and theology, this book analyses the heuristic value of fiction. It alerts us to how we risk succumbing to the deceptions of fiction in our... Read More about Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging Our Infatuation with Numbers.

Two Different Approaches to the Relationship between Poetry, History and Philosophy: Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger (2014)
Journal Article
Mack, M. (2014). Two Different Approaches to the Relationship between Poetry, History and Philosophy: Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger. New readings, 14, 1-30

This article first shows how an early essay of Walter Benjamin casts poetry as a transcendental mode of potential disruption that swerves away from harmful practices of politics. It then analyses how Benjamin’s understanding of the political dimensio... Read More about Two Different Approaches to the Relationship between Poetry, History and Philosophy: Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger.

Testing the compatibility of psychoanalysis and contemporary neuroscience : Freud between Spinoza and Kant (2012)
Journal Article
Mack, M. (2012). Testing the compatibility of psychoanalysis and contemporary neuroscience : Freud between Spinoza and Kant. Avello Publishing journal, 2: The Unconscious(1), 3-29

‘Spinoza’s non-humanist humanism’ (2012)
Book Chapter
Mack, M. (2012). ‘Spinoza’s non-humanist humanism’. In L. Beth (Ed.), Spinoza beyond philosophy (28-47). Edinburgh University Press

How Literature Changes the Way We Think. (2012)
Book

The capacity of the arts and the humanities, and of literature in particular, to have a meaningful societal impact has been increasingly undervalued in recent history. Both humanists and scientists have tended to think of the arts as a means to repre... Read More about How Literature Changes the Way We Think..

Literature Between Medicine and Religion: Herder’s Aesthetics of Touch and the Emerging Field of Medical Humanities (2010)
Journal Article
Mack, M. (2010). Literature Between Medicine and Religion: Herder’s Aesthetics of Touch and the Emerging Field of Medical Humanities. Neophilologus, 94(4), 541-555. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-010-9208-2

This article uses a reading of Herder’s early essay Sculpture to locate Herder’s place within the complex genealogies of thought regarding the mind–body problem. It analyses how Herder discusses sculpture and touch by combining an idealist with a mat... Read More about Literature Between Medicine and Religion: Herder’s Aesthetics of Touch and the Emerging Field of Medical Humanities.

Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud. (2010)
Book

The Holocaust and Hannah Arendt’s philosophical critique of philosophy: Eichmann in Jerusalem. (2009)
Journal Article
Mack, M. (2009). The Holocaust and Hannah Arendt’s philosophical critique of philosophy: Eichmann in Jerusalem. New German Critique: An Interdisciplinary Journal of German Studies, 36(1_106), 35-60. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033x-2008-020