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Dr. Brent Adkins

Professor

Department:
Religion/Philosophy
Location:
321 Francis T. West Hall
Phone:
(540)378-5152

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago
  • M.Phil., Institute for Christian Studies
  • B.Th., Ozark Christian College

Research & Teaching Interests

  • Modern Philosophy, particularly Spinoza and Kant.
  • Contemporary Philosophy, particularly recent French philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Books

  • Mil Platôs de Deleuze e Guattari: Uma introdução crítica e guia. Fabio Henrique Medeiros Bogo, tr. Portaria: Editora da UFSC, 2022.
  • Ölüm ve Arzu: Hegel, Heidegger, Deleuze. Istanbul: Fol Kitap, 2020.
  • A Guide to Ethics and Moral Philosophy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
  • Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
  • Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze: A New Cartography. Co-authored with Paul Hinlicky. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
  • True Freedom: Spinoza’s Practical Philosophy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009.
  • Death and Desire in Hegel, Heidegger, and Deleuze. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Publications

  • “Deleuze et Badiou: Événement et sujet.” Lectures de Deleuze. Jean-Philippe Chemineau, ed. Paris: Editions Ellipses, 2022.
  • “Dos Dogmas de Empirismo trascendental.” in Ontología práctica III. Buenos Aires: RAGIF Ediciones, 2022.
  • “Catharsis.” The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology. Jan Van den Bulck, ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
  • “Tragic Affirmation: Disability Beyond Optimism and Pessimism.” Journal of Medical Humanities. Co-authored with Thomas Abrams (2020, Online first).
  • “On Four Poetic Formulas Which Might Summarize Difference & Repetition.” Deleuze & Guattari Studies 13 (3), 2019: 395-400.
  • “Information as the Image of Thought: A Deleuzian Analysis,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 33 (3), 2019: 489-500.
  • “The Idolatry of Friendship.” Research in Phenomenology 49 (1), 2019: 135-42.
  • "To Have Done with the Transcendental: Deleuze, Immanence, Intensity.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy. 2018: 533-43.
  • "One or Several Wolves.” A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy. Henry Somers-Hall, ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Available as a Media resource for the following topics

  • Philosophy, Ethics, Politics

Willing to speak to professional, social or civic groups on

  • Philosophy, Ethics, Politics