Joseph C Flay

Professional Bio

Areas of Specialization

• I have concentrated on the philosophy of Hegel for many years. But this has led me to general themes of metaphysics and to questions concerning post-Hegelian philosophy.

Recent Publications

• "Absolute Knowing and the Absolute Other", 1999
• "Rupture, Closure, and Dialectic", 1997
• "Cleaning Up the Litter", 1996
• "The Irony of Dialectic and the Dialectic of Irony", 1994
• "Hegel's Metaphysics", 1993
• "Hegel, Heidegger, and Derrida: Retrieval as Reconstruction, Destruction, and Deconstruction", 1992

Current Projects

• Essays on time
• A sketch of a radical naturalism