WORK AND RESEARCH

Authored Books

Deleuze's Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press)

Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference (University of Toronto Press, 2006)

The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (University of Toronto Press, 1998)

Edited Books

Deleuze and History, editor, with Claire Colebrook (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press)

Industrialization and Imperialism, 1800-1914: A Biographical Dictionary, editor (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002)

Selected Essays in Refereed Journals

"History Undone: Towards a Deleuzo-Guattarian Philosophy of History," a review essay of Jay Lampert's Deleuze and Guattari's
     Philosophy of History (Continuum, 2006), in Deleuze Studies (Vol. 2, no. 1, 2008), pp. 109-119.

"Charting the Road of Inquiry: Deleuze's Humean Pragmatics and the Challenge of Badiou," Southern Journal of Philosophy
    (44:3 2006).

"Phenomenology, Poststructuralism, and the Cinema of Time," in Film and Philosophy, Volume II, 1997. Translated into Italian
     under the title, "Il Cinema Del Tempo: Deleuze, la fenomenologia e la differenza," in Deleuze E Il Cinema Francese (Milano:
     Associazione Culturale Mimesis, 2002), pp. 31-50.

"Philosophizing the Double-Bind: Deleuze Reads Nietzsche," Philosophy Today (Vol. 39, No. 4, 1995).

Chapters in Books

"Of the Rise and Progress of Philosophical Concepts: Deleuze's Humean Historiography," in Deleuze and History, edited by Jeffrey
         A. Bell and Claire Colebrook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming).

"Il Cinema Del Tempo: Deleuze, la fenomenologia e la differenza," in Deleuze E Il Cinema Francese (Milano:
     Associazione Culturale Mimesis, 2002), pp. 31-50. A translation of "Phenomenology, Poststructuralism, and the Cinema of Time."

"Immanence/Transcendence: Deleuze and Voegelin on the Conditions for Political Order," in Eric Voegelin's Dialogue With the    
    Postmoderns, edited by Peter A. Petrakis and Cecil L. Eubanks (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004), pp. 93-120.

"History in the Service of Life: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Intellectual History," in Uniting the Liberal Arts: Core and Context,
     edited by Bairnard Cowan and Scott Lee (New York: University Press of America, 2002), pp. 125-131.

"The Director-function: Auteur theory and Poststructuralism," Fotogenia  (Vol. 3, 1996). Translated into Italian and published
    under the title, "La funzione regista. La teoria dell'autore e il post-strutturalismo"

Current work and research

I am currently beginning work on my next project, tentatively titled, A Joyful Life: Spinoza and the Art of Philosophy.

A current CV is available upon request.