Peter Atterton, Ph.D.
University of Essex
Associate Professor of Philosophy

Location: AL-431
Phone: (619) 594-4997
Email: atterton@mail.sdsu.edu

Office Hours:
TTH 1215 - 1345

Publications

Authored Books

On Levinas (with Matthew Calarco) (Belmont: Wadsworth, 2004).

Edited Books

(Forthcoming) Levinas Studies. An Annual Review, Vol. V (Pittsburg, PA.: Duquesne University Press, 2010)

(Forthcoming) Radicalizing Levinas (with Matthew Calarco) (Albany: SUNY Press, 2010).

Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference (with Matthew Calarco and Maurice Friedman) (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2004) .
Translated into Spanish: Levinas y Buber, diálogo y diferencias (Argentina: Lilmod Ediciones, 2005).

Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought (with Matthew Calarco, and with a preface by Peter Singer) (New York: Continuum, 2004) ).

The Continental Ethics Reader (with Matthew Calarco) (London: Routledge, 2003).

Journal Articles/Book Chapters

(Forthcoming) “Levinas and Our Moral Responsibility toward Animals,” in Faces of Nature: Levinasian Ethics and Environmental Philosophy, ed. Chris Diehm, William Edelglass, and Jim Hatley (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press).

“Levinas, Justice, and Just War.” Levinas in Jerusalem, ed. Joelle Hansel (Dordrecht: Springer, 2008), 141-153.

“A Duty to Be Charitable? A Rigoristic Reading of Kant.” Kant-Studien 2 (2007): 135-155.

“‘The Talking Cure’: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis.” The Psychoanalytic Review 94, 4 (August 2007): 553-576.

“Art, Religion, and Ethics Post Mortem Dei: Levinas and Dostoyevsky.” Levinas Studies: An Annual Review, Vol. II, ed. Jeffrey Bloechl (Pittsburg, PA.: Duquesne University Press, 2007), 105-132.

“The American People ‘To Come’: Deconstructing the Declaration of Independence and Melting the Salad.” Journal of the Interdisciplinary Crossroads 3, 2 (August 2006): 405-429.

“Philosophy as a Practice for Life.” Philosophical Practice 1, 2 (2005): 89-93.
 
“A Sign of Things to Come? On Emmanuel Levinas” (co-authored with Matthew Calarco and Joelle Hansel). Modern Judaism 25, 3 (2005): 285-286.

“Ethical Cynicism.” In Animal Philosophy (New York: Continuum, 2004), 51-61.
 
“Face-to-Face with the Other Animal?” In Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2004), 262-281.
Translated into Spanish: “Cara a cara con lo otro no humano,” in Levinas y Buber, diálogo y diferencias (Argentina: Lilmod Ediciones, 2005).

“Derrida’s Gift to Levinas: The Feminine.” International Studies in Philosophy 35:2 (2003): 1-26.
 
“Emmanuel Levinas.” In Postmodernism: The Key Figures. Eds. Hans Bertens and Joseph Natoli (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), 231-8.

“From Transcendental Freedom to the Other” In In Proximity: Emmanuel Levinas and the 18th Century. Eds. Melvyn New, Robert Bernasconi, and Richard A. Cohen (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2001), 327-54.

“The Proximity Between Levinas and Kant: The Primacy of Pure Practical Reason.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 40, 3 (1999): 61-77.

“Levinas’s Skeptical Critique of Metaphysics and Anti-humanism.” Philosophy Today 41, 4 (1997): 491-506.
Reprinted in Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments, vol. 1, ed. Claire Katz with Lara Trout (New York: Routledge, 2005), 7-31.

“Power’s Blind Struggle for Existence: Foucault, Genealogy and Darwinism.” History of the Human Sciences Journal 7, 4 (1994): 1-20.

“Levinas and the Language of Peace: A Response to Derrida.” Philosophy Today 36, 1 (1992): 59-70.

Reviews

Review of Michael L. Morgan, Discovering Levinas. In Perspectives on Political Science 36, 4, Fall 2007.

Review of Lynne Sharpe, Creatures Like Us? In Times Literary Supplement, June 2005, 29.

Translations

Emmanuel Levinas, "The Meaning of Religious Practice." Modern Judaism 25, 3 (2005): 286-289.

Emmanuel Levinas, "On Buber" (Interview). In Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2003).

Emmanuel Levinas, "Substitution" (with Graham Noctor). In Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings. Eds. Robert Bernasconi, Simon Critchley and Adriaan Peperzak (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 79-95.

Emmanuel Levinas, "Peace and Proximity." In Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 161-69.

Emmanuel Levinas, "Is Ontology Fundamental?" In Philosophy Today 33, 2 (1989): 121-29.
(Reprinted in Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings. Eds. Robert Bernasconi, Simon Critchley and Adriaan Peperzak (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 1-10.)

Web Sites

SDSU Dept. of Philosophy

The Emmanuel Levinas Web Page