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» Brendan Moran
Brendan Moran
Professor
+1 (403) 220-5064
Social Sciences 1208
bmoran@ucalgary.ca
Office Hours
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
1p‑1:50p
(by appt)
(Sep 12 - Dec 05)
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Research Interests
Walter Benjamin
Continental European Philosophy
Philosophy and Literature
Philosophy and Art
Currently Teaching
F2023 - PHIL 309 - Hegel to Nietzsche
Details
LEC 1
MWF 12:00 - 12:50
SA 121
W2024 - PHIL 412 - Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Details
LEC 1
MWF 12:00 - 12:50
SA 121
view past courses
Publications
Book
Moran, Brendan
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Politics of Benjamin's Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 369. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy in Early Works of Walter Benjamin
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005. 436. Print.
Book Chapter
Moran, Brendan
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A Murmur of Indifference to Authorial Identity in Intellectual Life
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Complicity and the Politics of Representation
Ed.
Cornelia Wächter and Robert Wirth
London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019. 139-57. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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The "Forgotten" as Epic "Vorwelt"
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Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique (Selected Papers of the Annual Conference of the IAPL)
Ed.
Maria Margaroni, Apostolos Lampropoulus, and Christos Hadjichristos eds.
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. 81-93. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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Philosophy and Ambiguity in Benjamin's Kafka
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Kafka and the Universal
Ed.
Arthur Cools and Vivian Liska eds.
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2016. 43-65. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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Nature, Decision, and Muteness
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Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben
Ed.
Moran, Brendan and Carlo Salzani
London UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. 73-90. Print.
Moran, Brendan and Carlo Salzani
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Introduction
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Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben
Ed.
Moran, Brendan and Carlo Salzani
London UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. 1-15. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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An Inhumanly Wise Shame
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Philosophy as a Literary Art
Ed.
Costica Bradatan
Routledge, 2014. 63-75. Reprint. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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Anxiety and Attention
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Philosophy and Kafka
Ed.
Moran, Brendan and Carlo Salzani
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013. 201-27. Print.
Moran, Brendan and Carlo Salzani
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Introduction
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Philosophy and Kafka
Ed.
Moran, Brendan and Carlo Salzani
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013. 1-15. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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"Weltperson" in Salomo Friedlaender's "Schöpferische Indifferenz"
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Selfhood East and West: De-constructions of Identity
Ed.
Jason Dockstader, Hans-Georg Moeller, Guenther Wohlfart
Nordhausen, Germany: Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2012. 111-24. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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Foolish Wisdom in Benjamin's Kafka
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Lachen-Ost und West/Laughter-Eastern and Western Philosophies
Ed.
Möller, Hans-Georg and Wohlfart, Günter
Freiburg/Munich: Verlag Karl Alber, 2010. 175-92. Print.
Book Review
Moran, Brendan
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Léa Veinstein, Les philosophes lisent Kafka: Benjamin, Arendt, Anders, Adorno (Paris: Éditions de la maison de l’homme, 2019). Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy/ Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2 (2020)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. 116-121. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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Review of Graeme Gilloch, Walter Benjamin - Critical Constellations
Philosophy in Review / Comptes rendus philosophiques, 2003. Print.
Edited Book
Moran, Brendan and Carlo Salzani
(eds).
Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben
London UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. 251. Print.
Moran, Brendan and Carlo Salzani
(eds).
Philosophy and Kafka
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013. 300. Print.
Journal Article
Moran, Brendan
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Literature as Miscreant Justice. Benjamin and Scholem debate Kafka's Law
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. Journal of Speculative Philosophy SPEP issue edited by Andrew Cutrofello and Gail Weiss
34.3 (2020): 390-406. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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Kafkan Study
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. Boundary 2 (Special Issue on Walter Benjamin and Education, edited by Matthew Charles and Howard Eiland)
45.2 (2018): 87-109. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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Person of the World? (reprint in "Tummle Dich, Mein Publikum! Friedlaender/ Mynona. Berichte und Forschungen aus 100 Jahren." Special Issue edited by Detlef Thiel)
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. Friedlaender/ Mynona Studien
3. (2015): 263-65. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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Exception, Decision, and Philosophic Politics: Benjamin and the Extreme
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. Philosophy and Social Criticism
40.2 (2014): 145-70. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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Time, Guilt, and Philosophy
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. The European Legacy
18.2 (2013): 221-25. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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Kafka's Prophecy, with Benjamin and Agamben
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. Philosophy Today
SPEP issue edited by Cynthia Willet and Leonard Lawlor. (2011): 285-291. Print.
Moran, Brendan
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Politics of Creative Indifference
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. Philosophy Today
55.3 (2011). Print.
Moran, Brendan
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An Inhumanly Wise Shame
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. The European Legacy
14.5 (2009): 573-85. Print.
Courses
Curriculum Vitae
brendan-moran-cv.pdf
Degrees
PhD
York University
MA
York University
BA (Hons)
Trent University
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