Punctum Books, 2018.
Reiner Schürmann's thinking is, as he himself would say, "riveted to a monstrous site." It remains focused on and situated between natality and mortality, the ultimate traits that condition human life. This book traces the contours of Schürmann's thinking in his magnum opus Broken Hegemonies in order to uncover the possibility of a politics that resists the hegemonic tendency to posit principles that set the world and our relationships with one another into violent order.
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Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading
Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading is an experiment in performative publication. A publication is performative when its mode of publication enacts the argument for which it advocates. In this case, the argument of the book is that Platonic writing is political insofar is it is capable of cultivating communities of readers concerned with the questions of justice, the beautiful, and the good.
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This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects. Drawing Heideggerian phenomenology into dialogue with American pragmatic naturalism, Christopher P. Long undertakes a rigorous reading of Aristotle that articulates the meaning of truth as a cooperative activity between human beings and the natural world that is rooted in our endeavors to do justice to the nature of things. By following a path of Aristotle's thinking that leads from our rudimentary encounters with things in perceiving through human communication to thinking, this book traces an itinerary that uncovers the nature of truth as ecological justice, and it finds the nature of justice in our attempts to articulate the truth of things.
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The Ethics of Ontology: Rethinking an Aristotelian Legacy
SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.
A novel rereading of the relationship between ethics and ontology in Aristotle, concerned with the meaning and function of principles in an era that appears to have given up on their possibility altogether, this book traces the paths of Aristotle's thinking concerning finite being from the Categories, through the Physics, to the Metaphysics, and ultimately into the Nicomachean Ethics. Long argues that a dynamic and open conception of principles emerges in these works that challenges the traditional tendency to seek security in permanent and eternal absolutes. He rethinks the meaning of Aristotle's notion of principle (archē) and spans the divide of analytic and continental methodological approaches to ancient Greek philosophy, while connecting Aristotle's thinking to that of Levinas, Gadamer, and Heidegger.
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Book Chapters & Journal Publications
Agate, Nicky, Rebecca Kennison, Stacy Konkiel, Christopher P. Long, Jason Rhody, Simone Sacchi, and Penny Weber. "The Transformative Power of Values-Enacted Scholarship." Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7, no. 1, 1-12.
Published Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00647-z (External link opens in a new window.).
Agate, Nicky, Rebecca Kennison, Christoper P. Long, Jason Rhody, Simone Sacchi, and Penny Weber. "Syllabus as Locus of Intervention and Impact." Syllabus 9, no. 1 (May 28, 2020).
Published Article: http://www.syllabusjournal.org/syllabus/article/view/300 (External link opens in a new window.).
"Practicing Public Scholarship." Public Philosophy Journal 1, no. 1 (2018);
Published Article: https://doi.org/10.25335/m5/ppj.1.1-1 (External link opens in a new window.).
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Grants, Fellowships, Honors & Awards
The Public Philosophy Journal | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Scholarly Communications and Information Technology Program | Principal Investigator | $400,000 grant to develop the a Collaborative Community Review application to support the open access, open peer review Public Philosophy Journal: http://www.publicphilosophyjournal.org (External link opens in a new window.) | 2020-22
Less Commonly Taught Languages Partnership – Phase II | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Higher Education Program | Principal Investigator | $2,500,000 grant to foster collaboration across the Big 10 Academic Alliance in the teaching and learning of less commonly taught languages with a focus on indigenous languages. | 2019-2023
Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HuMetricsHSS) – Phase II | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Scholarly Communications Program | Co-Principal Investigator | $695,000 grant to create and pilot a values-based framework that will enable humanities and social science scholars to tell more textured stories about the impact of their research and teaching: http://humetricshss.org/ (External link opens in a new window.). | 2019-2020
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Papers, Presentations, Workshops
HuMetricsHSS Values-Enacted Scholarship Workshop, University of Michigan, Online with University of Michigan Mellon Fellows, May 22, 2020.
HuMetricsHSS Values-Enacted Scholarship Workshop (External link opens in a new window.), University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, February 21, 2020.
Keynote Address: The Transformative Power of Publishing, Association of University Presses, Detroit, MI, June 13, 2019.
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Reviews, Translations, Popular Press
"Toxicity, Metrics, and Academic Life." In "Humane Metrics/Metrics Noir," by Franzen, Martina, Eileen Joy, and Chris Long. June 25, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6WP9T61M (External link opens in a new window.).
Graham, Lester. "MSU Deans: Academic Culture Enables Abusers like Larry Nassar." Interview of Cheryl Sisk and Christopher P. Long. Stateside. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Radio, August 31, 2018. http://www.michiganradio.org/post/msu-deans-academic-culture-enables-abusers-larry-nassar (External link opens in a new window.).
Shipley, Arianne, and Stephanie Zavala. "The Transformative Power of Education with MSU Dean, Chris Long," on the Water in Real Life podcast, August 19, 2018: https://www.theh2duo.com/17/ (External link opens in a new window.).
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