Dr. Hakhamanesh Zangeneh

Associate Professor, Philosophy

California State University, Stanislaus

 

I specialize in 19th and 20th C. European philosophy, with particular interests in metaphysics (events, time) and aesthetics (theories of art, of the symbol). I also teach texts from Ancient philosophy, as well as topics related to language.

 

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Education

Université Paris XII - Docteur de philosophie 2009

 

Thesis:

The Structuration of Phenomenality:

Temporality, Trace, Event (Heidegger, Derrida, Nancy)

French, 386pp.

Jury:

Jean-Luc Nancy, President, (Strasbourg),

Eliane Escoubas, Director, (Paris XII),

Alexander Schnell (Paris IV)

 

Mention: Très honorable, félicitations du jury à l’unanimité (= summa cum laude)

University of California, Irvine - B.A. Philosophy, 1995

The philosophers whose works I frequent include Kant and other figures in Classical German Philosophy, German phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger), and so-called “post-structuralist” French philosophers (Derrida, Nancy, Deleuze, Lyotard). In general, my work is situated at the intersection of different languages and traditions. When I teach Ancient or Medieval Philosophy, I try to pursue a lay-interest in traditions of commentary and interpretation that provide the framework and practices which led to the constitution of a tradition.

There is a more detailed statement of my current project here.

I began in physics, at UCI, and then slowly discovered European philosophy, in the margins of that institution. This led me to pursue graduate study in Europe, first in Germany, and then in France for the doctoral degree. I have studied with a variety of philosophers over the years – a lot of them dislike each other, most if not all have been nice to me so I don’t dislike any of them. Don’t you wish we could all just get along?

 

Publications:

Research Articles:

“What was the Problem that Fink Solved for Derrida and Deleuze in 1967?” (Traces a complex of question and response centered on Spiel, jeu, from Eugen Fink, through Kostas Axelos, and up to Derrida’s Of Grammatology and Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense). Completed for forthcoming volume Phenomenology of Play: Eugen Fink, ed. S. Stakland, I. A. Moore, Bloomsbury."

“Brentano as a source of Seinsgeschichte? (You will rethink the Husserl relation too).” (Identifies Brentano’s conception of intentionality as Heidegger’s target in his critique of subjectivity in the 1930s. Emphasizes Husserl’s critique of the same notion in Logical Investigations)." Proceedings of the Heidegger Circle, Boston, 2023.

“Heideggerian Phenomenology, under Philological Reduction – an overview emphasizing current European work,” in Horizons of Phenomenology, ed. J. Yoshimi, Springer, 2023.

“The Pathological Origins of Authenticity: The Instant According to Jaspers and Janet in the Context of Heidegger’s Being and Time,” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. 44 (3), 2013, pp 232-250. [Historical study of notion of Augenblick and doctrine of multiplicity of times, in two unexpected sources for Heidegger.]

 “An Impossible Waiting: Reading Derrida’s Reading of Heidegger in Aporias,” [Close reading of Derrida’s conceptions of modality and of the future, as derived from Being-towards-death; centered around the translation of the term Bevorstehen.] MLN. Comparative Literature, 128 (5), 1170-1193, 2013.

“Right Outta’ Nowhere: Jean-Luc Nancy, phenomenon and event ex nihilo,” [An articulation of Nancy’s conception of ex nihilo event in the context of recent French discussions of phenomenality and eventness]  in Continental Philosophy Review.

“Phenomenological Problems for the kairological reading of Augenblick in Being and Time,” [Critique of eschatological [Pauline] and phronological [Aristotelian] readings of temporality, remarks on individuation], in International Journal of Philosophical Studies.

“Novelty, Temporality, Negativity: Event Metaphysics with Jean-Luc Nancy,” Pli, vol 21, 2010, Warwick, UK. [An elaboration of Nancy’s reflections on creation ex nihilo, with particular emphasis on references to Kant, Schelling, Hegel]

“The Mathematical-Sublime in Kant’s Critique of Judgment,” w/ S. Schilz, transl. into Russian by D.Razeev, in Metaphysical Investigations, vol 13, 2000, pp.102-126, University of St. Petersburg, Russia. [On the particular import of the mathematical-sublime for purposiveness and imagination; with critical reference to Lyotard, de Man]

Encyclopedia Article:

Entry on “Heidegger” (w/ S.Schilz) in Les philosophes de l’antiquité au XXe siècle ed. Jean-François Balaudé, Le Livre de Poche, Paris, 2006, pp.1254-1267. (Augmented re-edition of Les Philosophes célèbres ed. M. Merleau-Ponty, Mazenod, Paris, 1956, original entry by A. de Waehlens.)

 

Translations:

Heidegger en France, D. Janicaud, Vol. I. Chapters 7, 8, 9 (pp.233-345), Vol. II. Interviews with J. Derrida, J.-L. Nancy, E. Escoubas (pp.89-126, 244-255, 127-136), English forthcoming from Indiana UP.

“Painting,” E. Escoubas in Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics, (Contributions To Phenomenology, Vol. 59), Sepp, H. R.; Embree, L. (Eds.), Springer, 2010.

Into French (w/ S.Schilz): Psychoanalyse und Daseinsanalytik, Medard Boss, Kindler, 1980, 2 chapters, published as Psychanalyse et analytique du Dasein, ed., trans., Cabestan, Dastur and Ecole Française de Daseinsanalyse, Vrin, Paris, 2009.

Into French (w/ S.Schilz): “Die Idee der Reduktion. Husserls Reduktionen - und ihr gemeinsamer methodischer Sinn,” Dieter Lohmar, in Alter, 11, 2003.

Numerous other translations for conference presentations 2000-2009. Full list available upon request.

 

Projected:

"The Missing Link between Fink and French Philosophy: Kostas Axelos" (An Essay on Axelos' VPP, 1966, as related to Fink's PSW) invited 2024.

“What Heidegger (and Derrida) could have learned from Aristotle’s Greek commentators: dynaton and endekheton in the analysis of death.Circa 2k words. (The distinction, attested in Ammonius’ and Alexander’s commentaries on de Int and Analytica Priora, is used to both contextualize and to refine Heidegger’s language of the possibility of death. Some of the consequences of this for Derrida’s Aporias are hinted at.)

“One or many times in Kant? K. Düsing and J.-F. Lyotard , on two post-Heideggerian interpretations of Kantian time,” 4k words

 “The symbolic function of language in Kant and Schelling.” (An attempt to reconstruct a philosophy of language in Classical German Philosophy, not in anthropology but in philosophy of art.)

 

Teaching

Spring 2023

Fall 2023

Fall 2024