RYAN J. JOHNSON
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Elon University
PUBLICATIONS
Books
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Journal Articles & Book Chapters
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"Hegel, Antigone, and the Lynching of Emmett Till." Forthcoming.
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“A Memorandum for Past Millennia: Excising the Plague from Lucretius’s de Rerum Natura.” Ford, Casey, Suzanne M. McCullagh, and Karen L. F. Houle, eds. Minor Ethics: Deleuzian Variations. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021, 107-27.
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“Notes of a Wayward Son: Hegel, Baldwin, and Antiracist Idealism,” co-written with Nathan Jones. Idealistic Studies 51, no. 2 (2021): 109–30.
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"The Problem and the Blemish," co-written with Biko Mandela Gray. (2021): 11-27.
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“The Gastrosophists! A Seven-Course Meal with Epicurus and Nietzsche.” Essay. In Nietzsche and Epicurus, edited by Vinod Acharya and Ryan J Johnson, 26–37. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
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“Homesickness and Nomadism: Traveling with Kant and Maimon.” Polish Journal of Philosophy 10, no. 2 (2016): 45–69.
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“The Cartesian Eye-without-Organs: the Shaping of Subjectivity in Cartesian Optics,” The Journal of Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 51, No. 1 (2018), 73-90.
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“Empty Souls: Confession and Forgiveness in Hegel and Dostoevsky,” Sophia and Philosophy: Essays and Explorations, Vol. 1, Iss. 1, (2016).
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“Back to Metaphysics in Spinoza’s Ethics: Spinoza’s Theory of Reading,” Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 27: ‘Philosophising in the Proper Order: Spinoza and Systematic Metaphysics,’ (2015), 23-56.
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“Kantian Excentricities,” Evental Aesthetics, “Vital Materialism” Vol. 4 No. 2 (2015), 54-77.
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“Machinery, Monstrosity, and Bestiality: An Analysis of Repulsion in Kierkegaard’s Practice in Christianity,” The Heythrop Journal, Vol. 55, Issue 5 (September 2014), 903-915.
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“Another Use of the Concept of the Simulacrum: Deleuze, Lucretius, and the Practical Critique of De-Mystification,” Deleuze Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (February 2014), 70-93.
ENGAGED & EXPERIENTIAL TEACHING
"Most people imagine that philosophy consisted in delivering discourses from the heights of a chair, and in giving classes based on texts. But what these people utterly miss is the uninterrupted philosophy which we see being practiced every day in a way which is perfectly equal to itself…Socrates did not set up grandstands for his audience and did not sit upon a professorial chair; he had no fixed timetable for talking or walking with his friends. Rather, he did philosophy sometimes by joking with them, or by drinking or going to war or to the market with them, and finally by going to prison and drinking poison. He was the first to show that at all times and in every place, in everything that happens to us, daily life gives us the opportunity to do philosophy."
- Plutarch
