A Lecturer III, Benjamin Hutchens has an Oxford D.Phil. and has been a Fulbright Scholar. He has dedicated years to teaching courses in the core curriculum, including Logic, Reason and Persuasion, Introduction to Philosophy, and Introduction to Ethics. He has also taught numerous sections of Socrates and Plato, Plato and Aristotle, and Philosophy and Law, as well as courses on phenomenology and existentialism.
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Archaism and the Potency of the Past (contracted with Bloomsbury)
Joy: Plenitude and the Exhilaration of Being (contracted with Peter Lang)
PAST BOOKS
He is the author of two books, Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy (McGill-Queens University Press 2005) and Levinas (Continuum, 2004) and the editor of Jean-Luc Nancy: Justice, Legality, World (Continuum 2011).
ARTICLES
His articles have appeared in Psychoanalytic Review, Angelaki, Substance, Epoché, Constellations, Labyrinth, Journal of Continental Philosophy of Religion, Literature and Theology, Ricoeur Studies, Sartre Studies International, the London Times Review of Books, and others.
RECENT ARTICLES
His peer-reviewed publications in the period 2020-2025 include:
1. “Weaving Political Identities: Jean-Luc Nancy, Empedocles and (the later) Plato” in Constellations (2025)
2. “Heraclitus’s’ Bow: Archaeo-Futurity in Science Fiction” in Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy (2026)
3. ‘Schürmann’s Cicero: The Hegemony of the Latin Fantasm and the Problem of the Normative Singular” in Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 29, no. 1, Fall 2024, (pp. 59-76).
4. ‘Ricoeur on the Problem of Archaism in the Augustinian Concept of Time’ in Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion. Vol. 6, 2023, (pp. 1-17).
5. ‘Gadamer’s Gorgias: The Imperative of Self-Refutation” in Labyrinth. Vol. 24, (no. 1) Summer 2022, (pp. 192-215).
6. ‘Pir-ating the Given: Jean Luc Nancy’s Critique of Empiricism’, special issue of Angelaki dedicated to Jean-Luc Nancy, Vol. 26 (no. 3-4), June-August 2021, (pp. 57-69).
7. ‘Ricoeur’s Rawls: Constitutive Antecedence and Reflective Equilibrium’, in Ricoeur Studies. Vol. 11 (no. 1) 2020, (pp. 130-143).