Articles and Essays

Joseph's publications entail forays into the lived experiences common to us all: how do I experience time? Another person? My body? Your body? The divine mystery? What about love and its mystery? Much of his work appears in academic journals, but a few have been released in popular venues like the Dublin Review of Books or RTE Brainstorm--more to come on this front. 

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“Broadening Metaphysics: Lived Experience and the Possibility of God,” in Contemplation and Metaphysics, ed. Jacob Benjamins (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming).

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​How do I love Myself? in RTE Brainstorm, May 2025

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“Love is a ‘Life which Binds Together:’ Self-Love and the Other in Henry and Augustine,” in Phenomenologies of Love, ed. Iulian Apostolescu (Leiden: Brill, 2025), 143-64.

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“Whom do I love When I love Myself?” The Challenge of Narcissism,” Philosophies MDPI, vol.9 (2025): 1-11.

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“Am I an Illusion? Overcoming Egocide,” in Dublin Review of Books, no.2 Autumn (2024): 1-9

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“The Open Self: Political Identity and Dialogue,” in Festschrift for Dermot Lane (Bern: Peter Lang Publishing, 2024): 227-236

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“Two Types of Philosophy of Religion: Neutral Cognition versus Lived Experience,” Religions MDPI, 15, no.5 (2024): 1-6.

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“Phenomenology, Givenness, Mystery: Dilating Subjectivity,” Religions MDPI, 14, no. 6 (2023): 1-16.

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“Phenomenology, Experience, Spiritual Life,” Introduction to Theological Fringes of Phenomenology, eds. Joseph Rivera and Joseph S. O’Leary (London: Routledge, 2023), 1-14.

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“Affection, Mood, Poetry: Overcoming Mentalism” in God and Phenomenology: Thinking with Jean-Yves Lacoste, eds. Joeri Schrijvers and Martin Koci (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2023), pp.141-61.

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“Phenomenology and Religion,” Foreword to Image and Imagination in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, eds. Martin Nitsche and Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (Leiden: Brill, 2023), pp.4-12.

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“‘To Learn Baseball:’ A Transatlantic Dialogue on the Astros and the American Ways of Winning,” (co-authored with Michael Hinds) in Astros and Asterisks: Houston’s Sign-Stealing Scandal Explained, ed. Jonathan Silverman (University of Texas Press, 2023), pp. 101-117.

 

“The Liberal Subject: Michel Henry’s Politics of Life,” in Michel Henry’s Practical Philosophy, eds. Jeffrey Hanson, Brian Harding, and Michael Kelly (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), 110-125.

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“Giving as Loving: A Requiem for the Gift?” Continental Philosophy Review, 54 no.3 (2021): 349-66.

 

“Blumenberg’s Problematic Secularization Thesis: Augustine, Curiositas and the Emergence of Late Modernity,” Religions MDPI, 12 no. 5 (2021): 297-313.

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“Religious Discourse and Public Reason: Recalibrating Ireland’s Benevolent Secularism,” in Review of European Studies, 12 no.1 (2020): 75-87.

 

“Political Liberalism and Resentment: A Theological Rejoinder,” Modern Theology 36 no.2 (2020): 420-27.

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“Political Theology, or the Formations of Pluralism,” Religions MDPI, 11 no.1 (2020): 1-3.

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"Liberal Citizenship and the Hermeneutics of Public Dialogue: A Rawlsian Perspective,”

Journal of Nationalism, Memory, and Language Politics, 13 no.2 (2019): 133-51.

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“The Original Position as Public Performance: Liberalism, Pluralism, and Asceticism,” Religions MDPI, 10 no.8 (2019): 462-74.

 

“The As Yet Determined Animal: Augustine’s Memoria after Cognitive Science,” European Journal of Science and Theology, 15 no.5 (2019): 77-94.

 

“We-Synthesis: Edmund Husserl and Michel Henry on Empathy and Shared Life,” Research in Phenomenology, 49 no.2 (2019): 184-208.

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“Phenomenologies of the Trinity: Trends in Recent Philosophy of Religion,” Philosophy Compass, 14 no.1 (2019): 1-12.

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“Christian Life and the Phenomenology of Life,” Jahrbuch für Religionsphilosophie, 16 no.1 (2018): 307-27.

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“Spiritual Exercises in a Secular Age: Prospects for a Theological Reduction,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 17 no.2 (2018): 161-82.

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“The Myth of the Given?  Rethinking Phenomenology’s Theological Turn,” Philosophy Today, 62 no.1 (2018): 181-97.

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“Futures of the Theological Turn,” Philosophy Today, 62 no.1 (2018): 89-98.

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“Human Nature and the Limits of Plasticity: Revisiting the Debate concerning the Supernatural,” Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie

59 no.1 (2017): 34-53.

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“God and Metaphysics in Contemporary Theology: Reframing the Debate,” in Theological Studies 77 no.4 (2016): 790-811.

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Michel Henry, “Quatre principes de la phénoménologie,” Revue de métaphysique et morale 96 no.1 (1991): 3-26; Co-translated with George Faithful: “The Four Principles of Phenomenology,” Continental Philosophy Review 48 no.1 (2015): 1-21.

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"Confronting a Secular Age," Expository Times 124, no.6 (2013): 1-4

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“The Night of Living Flesh: Sainthood in Michel Henry,” in Colby Dickinson, ed., Postmodern “Saints” of France, London and New York: Continuum Press, 2013, pp.217-30.

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“Figuring the Porous Self: St. Augustine and the Phenomenology of Temporality,” Modern Theology 29 no.1 (2013): 83-103.

 

“Toward a Liturgical Existentialism,” New Blackfriars 94 no.1 (2013): 79-96.

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“Corpus Mysticum and Religious Experience: Henry, Lacoste, Marion,” International Journal of Systematic Theology 14 no.3 (2012): 327-49.

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“Generation, Interiority and the Phenomenology of Christianity in Michel Henry,” Continental Philosophy Review 44 no.2 (2011): 205-35.

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“Jean-Luc Marion: The Subject as ‘Gifted’ in Christological Perspective” Heythrop Journal 51 no.6 (2010): 1053-60.