St Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia, Canada)

Faculty Member, Philosophy

Full Professor

Saint Francis Xavier University

About

James Mensch is a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy.  In April 2011, he was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant for the project, “A Commentary on Levinas’ Totality and Infinity (2011-2013). 

His previous Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grants were for the projects  “Patočka’s A-subjective Phenomenology” (2008-11), “Husserl’s Account of Time and Internal Time Consciousness” (2002-06) and “The Internalized Perception of the Self and Others as a Basis for Ethics” (1998-2002).

In 2010, his book, Embodiments From the Body to the Body Politic, won Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy’s Symposium Annual BookAward  for the best work in continental philosophy.  He was invited to be the Keynote Speaker for the Society Conference in Saint John’s in October of 2011.

The author of ten monographs, he serves on the boards of numerous journals. He is a member of the SSHRC Insight Grants committee. 


 
Open Democracy Articles:

“A Theory of Human Rights,” February 12, 2010, http://www.opendemocracy.net/james-r-mensch/theory-of-human-rights

“Violence and blindness: the case of Uchuraccay,” August 9, 2009, http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/violence-and-blindness-the-case-of-uchuraccay

“The neighbor in the self,” August 28, 2008, http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/the-neighbor-in-the-self

“Beyond abstract solidarity,” January 23, 2008, http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/solidarity_mensch

“Violence and embodiment,” December 6, 2007, http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/5050/16_days/violence_embodiment

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