Joseph Rivera
Dr
I lecture and conduct research on a variety of topics. Trained in the fluid disciplines of phenomenology and philosophy of religion, I focus on themes such as the self, love, empathy, temporal experience, the body, and spiritual experience. In phenomenology I work on figures such as Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and their French heirs: Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, Jean-Yves Lacoste, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. I also research in a secondary area, political philosophy and the mechanics of dialogue. Here I draw principally on the work of John Rawls.
I am currently working on a fourth book project that explores the concept of the world in light of the debate between realism and anti-realism with an emphasis on the cosmology of St. Augustine. While I continue to work within post-Husserlian phenomenology, I also include in this project other philosophical voices from the anglophone world, such as Hilary Putnam and Richard Rorty.
Book
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2024 | (2024) Theological Fringes of Phenomenology. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Theological-Fringes-of-Phenomenology/Rivera-OLeary/p/book/9781032472119#:~:text=These%20include%20the%20Incarnation%2C%20the,Eucharist%2C%20Grace%2C%20and%20Prayer. | |
| 2022 | Joseph Rivera (2022) Phenomenology and the Horizon of Experience: Spiritual Themes in Henry, Marion, Lacoste. New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Phenomenology-and-the-Horizon-of-Experience-Spiritual-Themes-in-Henry/Rivera/p/book/9781032136400 | |
| 2018 | Rivera, J. (2018) Political theology and pluralism: Renewing public dialogue. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Joseph Rivera (2015) The Contemplative Self after Michel Henry: A Phenomenological Theology. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press. | |
| 2014 | Joseph Rivera and Scott Davidson (translators) (2014) Flesh and Body: On the Phenomenology of Husserl, by Didier Franck. New York and London: Bloomsbury. |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2023 | Joseph Rivera (2023) 'Phenomenology, Givenness, Mystery: Dilating Subjectivity'. Religions, 8 :1-18. [Link] https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14081008 | |
| 2021 | Joseph Rivera (2021) 'Blumenberg's Problematic Secularization Thesis: Augustine, Curiositas and the Emergence of Late Modernity'. Religions, 15 (5):297-313. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12050297 | |
| 2021 | Joseph Rivera (2021) 'Giving as Loving: A Requiem for the Gift?'. Continental Philosophy Review, 54 (3):349-366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-021-09527-y | |
| 2020 | Joseph Rivera (2020) 'Religious Reasons and Public Reason: Recalibrating Ireland's Benevolent Secularism'. Review of European Studies, 12 (1):1-12. [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Rivera, J (2020) 'Political Liberalism and Resentment: A Theological Rejoinder'. Modern Theology, . [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Rivera, J (2020) 'Introduction: Political Theology, or the Formations of Pluralism'. Religions, . [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Rivera, Joseph (2019) 'We-Synthesis Husserl and Henry on Empathy and Shared Life'. Research in Phenomenology, 49 (2). [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Rivera J. (2019) 'Liberal Citizenship and the Hermeneutics of Public Dialogue: A Rawlsian Perspective'. :133-151. [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Rivera J. (2019) 'The “original position” as public performance: Liberalism, pluralism, and asceticism'. Religions, 10 (8). [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Joseph Rivera (2019) 'Phenomenologies of the Trinity: Trends in Recent Philosophy of Religion'. Philosophy Compass, 14 (1):1-11. [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Joseph Rivera (2019) 'The as yet Undetermined Animal: Augustine's Memoria after Cognitive Science'. European Journal of Science and Theology, 15 (5):77-94. [Link] | |
| 2018 | Joseph Rivera (2018) 'The Myth of the Given? Rethinking Phenomenology's Theological Turn'. Philosophy Today, 62 (2):181-197. [Link] | |
| 2018 | Joseph Rivera (2018) 'Futures of the Theological Turn'. Philosophy Today, 62 (2):89-97. [Link] | |
| 2017 | Rivera, J (2017) 'Human Nature and the Limits of Plasticity: Revisiting the Debate Concerning the Supernatural'. Neue Zeitschrift fur Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 59 :34-53. [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Rivera, J (2016) 'God and Metaphysics in Contemporary Theology: Reframing the Debate'. Theological studies, 77 :823-844. [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Michel Henry (Rivera J.; Faithful G.; translators) (2015) 'The four principles of phenomenology'. Continental Philosophy Review, . [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Rivera J. (2013) 'Figuring the porous self: St. Augustine and the phenomenology of temporality'. Modern Theology, 29 (1):83-103. [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Dr Joseph Rivera (2013) 'Toward a Liturgical Existentialism'. NEW BLACKFRIARS, vol. 94 :79-96. | |
| 2012 | Dr Joseph Rivera (2012) 'Corpus Mysticum and Religious Experience: Henry, Lacoste, Marion'. International Journal of Systematic Theology, vol. 14 :327-349. | |
| 2011 | Dr Joseph Rivera (2011) 'Generation, Interiority and the Phenomenology of Christianity in Michel Henry'. Continental Philosophy Review, Continental Philosophy Review, 44 :205-235. | |
| 2010 | Dr Joseph Rivera (2010) 'Jean-Luc Marion: The Subject as Gifted in Christological Perspective'. Heythrop Journal-A Quarterly Review Of Philosophy And Theology, 51 :1053-1060. |
Other Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | (2023) 'Single Guest Editor of Special Issue on “What is Philosophy of Religion: Definitions, Motifs, New Directions” Religions MDPI, 2023' Religions, 1 . https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Philosophy_of_Religion_New_Directions | |
| 2021 | (2021) 'Editor and panel organizer of online symposium examining Joseph O’Leary’s Reality Itself: Philosophical Challenges of Indian Mahāyāna, hosted at Syndicate network' Syndicate, 2 . https://syndicate.network/symposia/philosophy/reality-itself/ | |
| 2019 | (2019) 'Single Guest Editor of Special Issue on “Political Theology and Pluralism,” Religions MDPI 2019' Religions, 1 . https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/PoliticalTheology | |
| 2018 | (2018) 'Single Guest Editor of Special Topic on “The Futures of Theological Turn in Phenomenology,” for the journal Philosophy Today, vol.62, no.1 (2018): 89-197' Philosophy Today, (no.1) . | |
| 2018 | Joseph Rivera (2018) 'Spiritual Exercises in a Secular Age: Prospects for a Theological Reduction' 17 (2) :307-327. [Link] | |
| 2017 | Joseph Rivera (2017) 'Christian Life and the Phenomenology of Life' 16 (1) :161-182. |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Joseph Rivera (2023) 'Phenomenology, Experience, Spiritual Life' In: Image and Imagination in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience. Nordhausen Germany : Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH. https://www.bautz.de/product-page/image-and-imagination-in-the-phenomenology-of-religious-experience?lang=en | |
| 2023 | Joseph Rivera (2023) 'Affection, Mood, and Poetry: Overcoming Mentalism' In: God and Phenomenology: Thinking with Jean-Yves Lacoste. Eugene Oregon : Veritas. [Link] | |
| 2023 | Joseph Rivera and Michael Hinds (2023) 'To Learn Baseball: A Transatlantic Dialogue on the Astros and American Ways of Winning' In: Astros and Asterisks: Houston's Sign-Stealing Scandal Explained. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press. https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477327432/ | |
| 2022 | Joseph Rivera (2022) 'The Liberal Subject: The Politics of Life in Michel Henry' In: Michel Henry's Practical Philosophy. London : Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/michel-henrys-practical-philosophy-9781350202764/ | |
| 2013 | Joseph Rivera (2013) 'The Night of Living Flesh: Sainthood in Michel Henry' In: Postmodern Saints of France. London and New York : Bloomsbury. |
Conference Contribution
Book Review
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2019 | Rivera, J (2019) The Providence of God: A Polyphonic Approach. LONDON: BREV [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Rivera, J (2016) The Theological Project of Modernism: Faith and Conditions of Mineness. HOBOKEN: BREV [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Rivera, J (2015) Theology without Metaphysics: God, Language and the Spirit of Recognition. HOBOKEN: BREV [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Rivera, J (2015) Barbarism. HOBOKEN: BREV | |
| 2015 | Rivera, J (2015) Praying to a French God: The Theology of Jean-Yves Lacoste. LONDON: BREV | |
| 2015 | Rivera, J (2015) Who's Afraid of Relativism? Community, Contingency and Creaturehood. HOBOKEN: BREV [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Dr Joseph Rivera (2014) Postmodern Apologetics? Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy, Christina M. Gschwandtner (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012). BREV | |
| 2014 | Dr Joseph Rivera (2014) Interpreting Excess: Jean-Luc Marion, Saturated Phenomena and Hermeneutics, by Shane Mackinlay (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010). BREV | |
| 2013 | Dr Joseph Rivera (2013) Michel Henry: the Affects of Thought, eds., Jeffrey Hanson and Michael Kelly (New York and London: Continuum, 2012). BREV | |
| 2013 | Dr Joseph Rivera (2013) Secularization: In Defense of an Unfashionable Theory by Steve Bruce (Oxford, UK Oxford University Press, 2011). BREV | |
| 2011 | Dr Joseph Rivera (2011) Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things, by Ann Taves (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009). BREV | |
| 2011 | Dr Joseph Rivera (2011) Derrida and Theology, by Stephen Shakespeare (London and New York: Continuum, 2009). BREV | |
| 2010 | Dr Joseph Rivera (2010) Solomon Among the Postmoderns, by Peter Leithart (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2008). BREV | |
| 2009 | Dr Joseph Rivera (2009) What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church, by John Caputo (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2007). BREV | |
| 2008 | Dr Joseph Rivera (2008) Christ and Culture, by Graham Ward (Malden, MA; Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005). BREV |
Certain data included herein are derived from the ? Web of Science (2023) of Clarivate. All rights reserved.
Research Interests
Philosophy and philosophy of religion
Themes: secularity, political theory, democracy, concepts of the world, theories of the self, time, the philosophical nature of the body, empathy, love, and happiness.