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Brendan Moran

Positions

Professor

Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy

Contact information

Email

bmoran@ucalgary.ca

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-5064

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy York University,

M.A. York University,

B.A. Trent University,

Research

Areas of Research

Modern and Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, Benjamin, Theories of Decolonization

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
PHIL 309 Hegel to Nietzsche Fall 2023
PHIL 412 Contemporary Continental Philosophy Winter 2024
PHIL 315 LEC 01 01 Philosophy in Literature 2021
PHIL 412 LEC 01 01 Contemporary Continental PHIL 2021

Publications

  • “Literature as Miscreant Justice: Benjamin and Scholem debate Kafka’s Law” . Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 34, No. 3. SPEP issue edited by Andrew Cutrofello and Gail Weiss. 390-406. (2020)
  • “Kafkan Study” . Boundary 2. Special Issue on Walter Benjamin and Education, edited by Matthew Charles and Howard Eiland, Vol. 45, No. 2. 87-109. (2018)
  • “Person of the World?” . In Detlef Thiel ed. “‘Tummle Dich, Mein Publikum!’ Friedlaender/ Mynona. Berichte und Forschungen aus 100 Jahren.” Special issue of Friedlaender/Mynona Studien: vol. 3 . 263-65. (2015)
  • “Exception, Decision, and Philosophic Politics: Benjamin and the Extreme” . Philosophy and Social Criticism. 40:2 . 145-70. (2014)
  • “Kafka’s Prophecy, with Benjamin and Agamben” . Philosophy Today. Vol. 36. SPEP Issue, edited by Cynthia Willett and Leonard Lawlor. 285-91. (2011)
  • “Politics of Creative Indifference” . Philosophy Today. Vol. 55, No. 3 . 321-36. (2011)
  • “An Inhumanly Wise Shame” . The European Legacy. Vol. 14, No.5 . 573-85. (2009)
  • Walter Benjamin and Political Theology. Co-edited with Paula Schwebel. (London UK: Bloomsbury) . (2024)
  • "Study, Sovereignty, and Justice. Benjamin, Scholem, and Agamben". Walter Benjamin and Political Theology. Eds. Brendan Moran and Paula Schwebel (London UK: Bloomsbury). 133-53. (2024)
  • "Introduction" (with Paula Schwebel). Walter Benjamin and Political Theology. Eds. Brendan Moran and Paula Schwebel. (London UK: Bloomsbury). 1-24. (2024)
  • "Decolonization as philosophical health". Philosophical Health: Thinking as a Way of Healing. Edited by Luis de Miranda. London UK: Bloomsbury.. 196-211. (2024)
  • "Benjamin's Time of Healing: The Messianic as Remembrance, Happiness, and Justice". Herta Nagl-Docekal and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz eds. Religion in the Secular Age. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 89-107. (2023)
  • Politics of Benjamin’s Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade. Palgrave Macmillan. 369 pages. (2018)
  • Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy in Early Works of Walter Benjamin. Lexington Books. 436 pages. (2005)
  • Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben. Brendan Moran and Carlo Salzani eds.. Bloomsbury. 251 pages. (2015)
  • Philosophy and Kafka. Brendan Moran and Carlo Salzani eds.. Lexington Books. 291 pages. (2013)
  • “A Murmur of Indifference to Authorial Identity in Intellectual Life.” . In Cornelia Wächter and Robert Wirth eds. Complicity and the Politics of Representation. Rowman and Littlefield International. 139-57. (2019)
  • “The ‘Forgotten’ as Epic Vorwelt.”. In Maria Margaroni, Apostolos Lampropoulos, and Christos Hadjichristos eds. Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity and Critique. (Selected Papers of the annual conference of the IAPL) Lexington Books. 81-93. (2017)
  • “Philosophy and Ambiguity in Benjamin’s Kafka.” . In Kafka and the Universal, eds. Arthur Cools and Vivian Liska. Walter de Gruyter. 43-65. (2016)
  • “Nature, Decision, and Muteness” . In Brendan Moran and Carlo Salzani eds. Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben. Bloomsbury Press. 73-90. (2015)
  • “Introduction” (with Carlo Salzani). Brendan Moran and Carlo Salzani. In Brendan Moran and Carlo Salzani eds., Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben. Bloomsbury. 1-15. (2015)
  • “An Inhumanly Wise Shame” . Philosophy as a Literary Art, ed. Costica Bradatan. Routledge . 63-75. (2014)
  • “Anxiety and Attention” . In Brendan Moran and Carlo Salzani eds., Philosophy and Kafka. Lexington Books. 201-37. (2013)
  • "Introduction" (with Carlo Salzani). In Brendan Moran and Carlo Salzani eds., Philosophy and Kafka. Lexington Books. 1-15. (2013)
  • “'Weltperson' in Salomo Friedlaender’s Schöpferische Indifferenz” . In Jason Dockstadter, Hans-Georg Möller and Günter Wohlfart eds. Selfhood East and West. De-constructions of Identity (Reihe: Weltphilosophien im Gespräch. Band 8. [Series: World Philosophies in Conversation. Volume 8]). Verlag Traugott Bautz. 111-24. (2012)
  • “Foolish Wisdom in Benjamin’s Kafka” . In Hans-Georg Möller and Günter Wohlfart eds. Lachen – Ost und West/ Laughter – Eastern and Western Philosophies. (In the series: Welten der Philosophie.) Verlag Karl Alber . 175-92. (2010)
  • REVIEW of Léa Veinstein, Les philosophes lisent Kafka: Benjamin, Arendt, Anders, Adorno Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2019. Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy/ Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française (Vol. XXVIII, No. 2). 116-21. (2020)
  • “Time, Guilt, and Philosophy.” REVIEW of Peter Fenves, The Messianic Reduction. Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011) . The European Legacy, vol. 18:2 . 221-25. (2013)
  • REVIEW of Graeme Gilloch, Walter Benjamin – Critical Constellations. Cambridge: Polity, 2002. Philosophy in Review/ Comptes rendus philosophiques. Vol. XXIII, No. 1 . 31-33. (2003)
  • TRANSLATION of Bettine Menke, “’Zur Kritik der Gewalt’: Techniken der Übereinkunft, Diplomatie, Lüge,” in Hendrik Blumentrath et al. (eds.), Techniken der Übereinkunft. Zur Medialität des Politischen, Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2009, pp. 37-56. Carlo Salzani and Brendan Moran. “‘Critique of Violence’: Techniques of Agreement, Diplomacy, Lying,” in Brendan Moran and Carlo Salzani (eds.), Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben, 2015. 19-37. (2015)
  • TRANSLATION of Antonia Birnbaum, “Variations du destin,” “Préface,” in Walter Benjamin, Critique de la violence et autres essais, trans. Nicole Casanova. Paris: Payot & Rivages, 2012, pp. 7-51. Carlo Salzani and Brendan Moran. “Variations of Destiny,” in Brendan Moran and Carlo Salzani (eds.), Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben. 91-105. (2015)