Selected Publications

Highlights from Academic Work

Dr. Christopher S. Morrissey
Academic Interests: Logic / Semiotics / Metaphysics / Philosophy of Nature
Translator of the Ancient Greek Poetry of Hesiod

Selected Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews:

• Review of Dietrich von Hildebrand, My Battle with Hitler: Faith, Truth, and Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich,
  Translated and Edited by John Henry Crosby with John F. Crosby (New York: Image, 2014),
  in Contemporary Church History Quarterly, Reviews, Volume 20, Number 4 (Dec 2014).
  


• Review of Vasileios Syros, Marsilius of Padua at the Intersection of Ancient and Medieval Traditions of Political Thought
  (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012) in "Letters in Canada 2012",
  Vol. 83, No. 2 of University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities (Spring 2014): 555–556.
  DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.83.2.397
  


• "Deferral of War: The Religious Sign System of Ritual Violence", in Gabriel R. Ricci (ed.), Faith, War, and Violence.
  Religion and Public Life, Volume 39 (Piscataway, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2014), 133–147. ISBN 978-1412854993.
  


• "Semiotics and Causal Analysis: Objective Specificative Causality in the Middle of McLuhan's Tetrad",
  in Jamin Pelkey and Leonard Sbrocchi (eds.), Semiotics 2013: Why Semiotics? (Ottawa: Legas, 2014), 293–302.
  


• Review of Brendan Purcell, From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution
  (Hyde Park, New York: New City Press, 2012) in Voegelin View (June 11, 2014). ISBN 978-1565484337. [HTML].
  


• "Hesiod and Historiogenesis: Eric Voegelin's Discovery of a Millennial Constant", in Karen Haworth, Andrea Johnson, and Leonard G. Sbrocchi (eds.),
  Semiotics 2012: Semiotics and New Media (Ottawa: Legas, 2013), 111–118.
  


• "The Intuition of Being: Guardian of Metaphysics in a Time of Unbelief", in
  Montague Brown (ed.), Love and Friendship: Maritain and the Tradition,
  American Maritain Association Publications (Catholic University of America Press, 2013), 157–167. ISBN 978-0982711927. [CUA Press]
  


• "'The Great Visible God': Socrates, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas on the Way from Nature to Nature's God", in
  Nikolaj Zunic (ed.), Distinctions of Being: Philosophical Approaches to Reality,
  American Maritain Association Publications (Catholic University of America Press, 2013), 83–102. ISBN 978-0982711927. [CUA Press] [PDF]
  


• "Philosophical Distinctions in the Social Thought of Benedict XVI:
  Maritain, Ratzinger, and Voegelin on Natural Law, Reason, and Gnosticism",
  ?tudes maritainiennes - Maritain Studies XXVIII (2012): 121–130. ISSN 0826-9920.
  


• "Thomas Aquinas and Adolf Reinach on States of Affairs",
  Quaestiones Disputatae: A Journal of Philosophical Inquiry and Discussion Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall 2012): 65–77. ISSN 2150-5756.
  


• "Thomas Aquinas on Providence, Prudence, and Natural Law", in Gabriel R. Ricci (ed.),
  Politics in Theology (Piscataway, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2012), 133–145. ISBN 978-1-4128-4300-3.
  


• "A Model for the Many Senses of Scripture: From the Literal to the Spiritual in Genesis 22 with Thomas Aquinas",
  Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 19 (2012): 231–248. ISSN 1075-7201.
  [PDF Copyright © 2012 by Michigan State University. This article originally appeared in Contagion Vol. 19, 2012, pages 231?248]
  


• "Solesmes Old and New: Modeling Systems Theory and Gregorian Semiology", in William Renwick (ed.),
  Chant: Old and New, Proceedings of the conference of the Gregorian Institute of Canada, Dalhousie University, August 4–7, 2011,
  with a Foreword by Jennifer Bain (Lions Bay, Canada: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 2012), 63–72. ISBN 978-1-926664-12-5.
  


• "How Agent Intellect Enables a Syntactic Interior Word: Aquinas's Contribution Within Neoplatonism",
  Quaestiones Disputatae: A Journal of Philosophical Inquiry and Discussion Vol. 2, Nos. 1 and 2 (Spring–Fall 2011): 165–184. ISSN 2150-5756. [PDF] [HTML]
  


• "Aquinas's Third Way as a Reply to Stephen Hawking's Cosmological Hypothesis,"
  ?tudes maritainiennes - Maritain Studies XXVII (2011): 99–121. ISSN 0826-9920. [PDF]
  


• Review of Ryan Topping, Augustine (Continuum Library of Educational Thought, Vol. 17), in
  ?tudes maritainiennes - Maritain Studies XXVII (2011): 159–162. ISSN 0826-9920.
  


• "Aristotle's 'Natural Slaves' and Colossae's Unnatural 'Scythians': A Generative Exegesis of Colossians 3:11", in Ann W. Astell and Sandor Goodhart (eds.),
  Sacrifice, Scripture, and Substitution: Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity, Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Series, Volume 18
  (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011), 410–423. ISBN 0268020388. [UND Press] [PDF excerpt]
  


• "Did the Latin Age Really Begin with Augustine?" in Leonard G. Sbrocchi et al. (eds.),
  Semiotics 2009: The Semiotics of Time (New York: Legas, 2010), 296-303.chopard replica watches ISBN 1897493193. [PDF]
  


• "The Via Romana", Review of Paula Fredriksen, Augustine and the Jews, in
  The Globe and Mail (Apr 11, 2009), F13. [HTML]
  


• "Dialectic and Demonstration in the Philosophy of Nature",
  ?tudes maritainiennes - Maritain Studies XXIII (2007): 64-75. ISSN 0826-9920. [Note: this volume was printed in 2008]
  


• "Blessings and blood", Review of Bruce Chilton, Abraham’s Curse, in
  The Globe and Mail: Books (Feb 23, 2008), D8. [HTML].
  


• "René Girard's Accusation: Intellectuals are the Castrators of Meaning",
  An interview with Giulio Meotti in Il Foglio (March 20, 2007); translation by Paul N. Faraone and Christopher S. Morrissey in
  Modern Age (Spring 2008): 180-185. [HTML]
  


• Review of Rémi Brague, The Law of God in
  Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.09.46. [HTML].
  


• "Original Sin and Generative Anthropology",
  Anthropoetics 13.2 (2007). <http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1302/1302morrissey.htm>. ISSN 1083-7264.
  


• "The Epigenetic Evolution of the Immaterial Intellect on the Originary Scene", in Adam Katz (ed.)
  The Originary Hypothesis: a Minimal Proposal for Humanistic Inquiry, Critical Series in the Humanities (Aurora, Colorado: Davies Group, 2007), 75–99. ISBN 978-1-888570-36-6.
  


• "The Nativity code", The Globe and Mail (23 Dec 2006): D15.
  


• "Joining God’s army", Review of Michael W. Higgins, Stalking the Holy: The Pursuit of Saint Making, in
  The Globe and Mail (11 Feb 2006): D4.
  


• "Protection for human reason", Review of James V. Schall, Roman Catholic Political Philosophy, in
  Homiletic and Pastoral Review 106 (Mar 2005). ISSN 0018-4268. [HTML].
  


• "Sparagmos! A Dialogue on Girard and Gans",
  Anthropoetics 11.1 (Spring/Summer 2005): <http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1101/sparagmos.htm>. ISSN 1083-7264.
  


• Review of Clifford Angell Bates, Jr., Aristotle’s "Best Regime": Kingship, Democracy, and the Rule of Law, in
  The Historian 66.4 (2004): 897-898. ISSN 0018-2370.
  


• "'Pomo Homer': A Review of the Troy Movie",
  Chronicles of Love and Resentment 304 (June 26, 2004): <http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/vw304.htm>.


• "Aristotle, Derrida, Girard",
  Humanitas: Bulletin of the Institute for the Humanities 3 (Spring 2004): 49-50. [Modernity, Secularity, Pluralism Lecture Series]


• "Oedipus the Cliché: Aristotle on Tragic Form and Content",
  Anthropoetics 9.1 (2003): 1-14. ISSN 1083-7264 [HTML].


• Review of Michael Tierno, Aristotle’s Poetics for Screenwriters: Storytelling Secrets from the Greatest Mind in Western Civilization, in
  Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies (Nov 2003): <http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/bookreview.php?issue=nov2003&id=442§ion=book_rev>. ISSN 1465-9166


• "Aristotle’s Hollywood Renaissance", Review of Michael Tierno,
  Aristotle’s Poetics for Screenwriters: Storytelling Secrets from the Greatest Mind in Western Civilization, in
  University Affairs (March 2003): 42.


• Review of Ari Hiltunen, Aristotle in Hollywood: The Anatomy of Successful Storytelling, in
  Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies (May 2004): <http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/bookreview.php?issue=may2004&id=320§ion=book_rev>. ISSN 1465-9166


• "Reading Mimesis Against Revenge: Girard and Mimetic Violence",
  West Coast Line 37.1 (Spring 2003): 55-66. (Violence and Its Alternatives: A Special Section [No. 40]). ISSN 1182-4271.


• Collected Works on Mimetic Theory and Generative Anthropology