Books
Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and The Physics of the Damned. Forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
Atheism Reclaimed. Winchester & Washington: Iff Publications, 2014.
Derrida: Profanations. London: Continuum, 2010.
Published Articles
“Spiritual Cinema: Agel, Merleau-Ponty and the Cinematic Real," Journal of Religion & Film 28, no. 1, (April 2024), Article 62, 1-31.
“Screening Solidarity: Possible Lives in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers,” Herausforderung Solidarität: Konzepte – Kontroversen – Perspektiven, Wetzler: Transcript Publishing, 2024.
‘’Stay Broken: Nietzsche, Badiou, and The Leftovers’ Nihilism,’’ Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, Vo. 3:1, December 2021.
“Embodied Social Work Practice Within Risk Society,’’ Journal of Social Work, 2019. https://bit.ly/2YXVC9e
‘‘The Character of Co-Operation: Reflections on Education and Co-Operative Learning,’’ Learning for a Cooperative World, London: UCL Press, 2019.
“Saving Sheriff Bell: Derrida and No Country for Old Men,” Journal of Cormac McCarthy Studies, Vol. 15:2, 2017.
“Anti-Matters: Blanchot, McCarthy and The Road,” European Journal of North American Studies, Vol. 12:3, 2017.
“Literature, Religion and Death: Blanchot, McCarthy and Suttree,” Beyond Reckoning: Philosophical Approaches to Cormac McCarthy, London: Routledge, 2017.
“Learning together: Foucault, Sennett and the crisis of the co-operative character,” Journal of Co-operative Studies (with Keith Crome), Vol 49:2, 2016.
“Letting Habits Die: Derrida, Ravaisson and the Structure of Life,” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Vol. 19:2, April 2015.
“The Courage for Infinity: Mortal and Immortal Ethics in Alain Badiou,” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (with Frederick Aspbury), Vol. 44:2, May 2013.
“The Philosophy and Pedagogy Channel: An Archive of Best Practice,” Discourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies (with Lisa Clughen and Ruth Griffin), Vol. 11:2, 2013.
“The Embodied Writer: Merleau-Ponty, Writing Groups and the Possibilities of Space,” in Writing in the Disciplines: Building Supportive Cultures for Student Writing in UK Higher Education (with Melanie Petch), Bradford: Emerald, 2012.
“Redemptive Remnants: Agamben’s Human Messianism,” in The Messianic Now: Politics, Religion and Culture, London: Routledge, 2010.
“Agamben’s Human Messianism,” Journal of Cultural Research, Vol. 13:4, September 2009.
“What is Autonomous Learning?” Discourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies (with Keith Crome and Ruth Farrar), Vol. 9:1, 2009.
“There is No World without End (Salut): Derrida’s Phenomenology of the Extra-Mundane,” Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology, Vol. 39:3, October 2008.
“On the Importance of Not-Being Earnest: A Dialogue with Terry Eagleton,” Irish Studies Review, Vol. 16:1, 2008.
“Derrida’s Worldly Responsibility: An Opening between Faith and the Sacred,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 45:2, June 2007.
“Derrida: Revolutionary Agape and Community,” Kinesis: Graduate Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 32:2, 2005.
Special Issues of Journals
Foucault: Politics, Power, Pleasure: Special Edition of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 42:3 (co-edited with Keith Crome), 2012.
Online Journalism
‘’Solus Sanctus: On The Young Pope,’ Bright Lights Film Journal, 2017. https://bit.ly/39yVHH9
“Left's Labour's Lost,” Open Democracy, 2016. http://bit.ly/2bpyHhF
“The Irish book of the Dead: a review of Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s ‘The Dirty Dust’”. 3:AM Magazine, 2016. https://goo.gl/E4ZXSj
“Toiling, triumphing and terraforming: a review of Ridley Scott’s The Martian. Unknown Magazine, 2015. https://goo.gl/HRhCKf
“Atheism must be about more than just not believing in god.” The Conversation, 2015. https://goo.gl/vyJpZi
Proceedings, Reviews, Encyclopaedia Entries, etc.
Review of Craig Martin, Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie, Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 44.3, 2016.
Review of Miles Kennedy, Home: Bachelard’s Concrete Metaphysics, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 44:3, 2013.
Review of Martin Hägglund, Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 41:1, 2010.
‘Derrida’ in The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy, Beth Lord and John Mularkey (Eds), London: Continuum, 2009.
‘Deconstruction’ in The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy, Beth Lord and John Mularkey (Eds), London: Continuum, 2009.
Review of Joanna Hodge, Derrida on Time, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol 40:1, January 2009.
Review of Giorgio Agamben, Profanations, Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, Vol. 28: 4, 2008.
Review of Peter Hallward, Out of this World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation, Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, Vol. 27:3, 2007.
Review of Brian O’Connor, Adorno’s Negative Dialectics: Philosophy and the Possibility of Critical Rationality, Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, Vol. 26:2, April 2006.