Jason Kemp Winfree
Associate Professor
Education:
B.A., Hiram College (Religious Studies), June 1991
M.A., Vanderbilt University (Religion), December 1993
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University (Philosophy), August 2001
Areas of Specialization
- 20th Century Continental Philosophy (esp. Phenomenology, Deconstruction, Existentialism, Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot, Bataille, Nancy, Benjamin)
- 19th Century Continental Philosophy (esp. Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche)
Areas of Competence
- Philosophy of Literature
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Art
- Social and Political Thought
Publications:
Edited Book
The Obsessions of Georges Bataille: Community and Communication, co-edited with Andrew J. Mitchell (SUNY Press, 2009)
Articles
- "Wonder and The Elemental: Suffering Beyond Ethics,” forthcoming in Continental and Comparative Philosophy
- “Sacred Violence: Bataille’s Lucid Fanaticism,” in Philosophy Today, forthcoming.
- “No More Beautiful Days: Situating Agamben’s Coming Community,” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, forthcoming.
- “Language, Animality, Sovereignty: On the Conditions of Community after the End of History,” in theory@buffalo, 15, animal.machine.sovereign.
- “Solitude, Violation, Alterity: Juan Rulfo’s Wastelands,” SubStance, vol. 38, no. 2, 2009 (Issue 119)
- “The Contestation of Community,” in The Obsessions of Georges Bataille: Community and Communication (SUNY Press, 2009)
- “Fragments—of the Philosophy of History,” Idealistic Studies, 2008
- “Genealogy, History, and the Work of Fiction,” in Styles of Piety: Practicing Philosophy after the Death of God, ed. S. Clark Buckner and Matthew Statler (Fordham University Press, 2006)
- “The Expiation of Authority: Towards a Genealogy of Community,” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 10, no. 1, 2005
- “On the Lineage of Oblivion: Heidegger, Blanchot, and the Fragmentation of Truth,” Research in Phenomenology, 2005
- “Before the Subject: Rereading Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Spring 2003
- “Crossing the Line: Heidegger, Blanchot, and the Lineage of Nihilism” Heidegger Conference Proceedings, 2002
- “Bearing the Writing of the Subject,” Parallax 2002 (On Kant’s Critique of Judgment)
- “The Repetition of Eternal Return, or the Disastrous Step: From Deleuze to Blanchot,” Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, 2001
- “Concealing Difference: Derrida and Heidegger’s Thinking of Becoming,” Research in Phenomenology, 1999
Translation
- Jean-Luc Nancy, “The Confronted Community,” in The Obsessions of Georges Bataille
- Marc F. Meurice, “An Alteration of the Sense of His Blood,” in The Obsessions of Georges Bataille
Book Reviews
- “Caring for Indifference: A Review of Charles E. Scott’s Living with Indifference,” in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 38, No.1, 2008
Conference Presentations | Lectures:
- Method, Dramatization, Representation: Bataille’s Sovereign Literature,” SPEP, Rochester, NY, November 2, 2012
- Wonder and the Elemental: Suffering Beyond Ethics,” PACT, September 28, 2012, Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii
- “Ecstatic Atheism: Bataille’s ‘Community’ with Nietzsche,” SPEP, November 5, 2010, Montreal, Quebec
- “The Fate of Community: On the Conditions of Communication,” Just Theory Lecture Series, April 15, 2010, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, Comparative Literature
- “Solitude, Violation, Alterity: Juan Rulfo’s Deserts,” CSU Stanislaus Philosophy Speakers Series, February 2009
- “Solitude, Alterity, and Violation in Juan Rulfo’s Deserts,” American Academy of Comparative Literature, April 2008, Long Beach, CA
- “Recasting the Revaluation of Values: Unavowable Filth,” An Interdisciplinary Symposium: The Sacred and the Debased: Humanity, Community and Cruelty in the Work of Georges Bataille, Occidental College, Los Angeles, February 2008
- “Nondetermination and Exposure,” CSU Stanislaus Philosophy Colloquium, September 2007
- “Nondetermination and Exposure: Photography and the Communication of Pain,” Plenary Roundtable Session, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, June 2007, Cyprus
- “The Contestation of Community,” American Philosophical Association, Spring 2007, San Francisco
- “Georges Bataille as Curator,” Philosophy, Art, and the Uncanny, Staffordshire University, May 2003
- “The Expiation of Authority: Towards a Genealogy of Community,” American Philosophical Association (Pacific), April 2003
- “Writing at the Threshold of Common Sense,” International Association of Philosophy and Literature, June 2002 (On Kant and the Idea of a Universal History)
- “Crossing the Line: Heidegger, Blanchot and the Lineage of Oblivion,” North American Heidegger Conference, Southern Connecticut State University, May 2002
- “Crossing through the Crossing: Writing and Displacement in Heidegger’s Beiträge zur Philosophie,” Participant’s Conference of the Phaenomenologicum Collegium, Cittá di Castello, Italy, Summer 2000
- “Genealogy, History and the Work of Fiction: Cormac McCarthy and Enlightenment Thought,” International Association of Philosophy and Literature, SUNY-Stony Brook, May 2000
- “The Repetition of Eternal Return,” Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy, University of Oregon, September 1999
- “Heidegger and the Memory of Nietzsche,” Heidegger Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, April 1999
- “Heidegger’s Performative Discourse,” Participant’s Conference of the Phaenomenologicum Collegium, Perugia, Italy, Summer 1998
- “On Time and Love in Nietzsche and Levinas,” Tennessee Philosophical Association, Fall 1996
Book Project
Towards a Genealogy of Community, a treatment of the issue of community in contemporary continental discourse with special attention to the way this issue exhibits different and conflicting lineages, problems, and conceptions of philosophy
Courses Taught:
CSU Stanislaus
Introduction to Philosophy
Philosophical Inquiry
Honors Critical Thinking Seminar
Classics of Western Philosophy
Philosophical Reading and Analysis
Introduction to Continental Philosophy
Philosophy through Literature
Advanced Studies in the History of Philosophy (Seminars on Hegel, Nietzsche, Bataille, Levinas)
Philosophy of Language
Cognitive Phenomenology
Professional Ethics
Philosophy of Art
Senior Seminar