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Ian Leask

Ian Leask enjoyed a formation in Scholastic Philosophy, at Queen's University, Belfast. He was previously a lecturer at the Mater Dei Institute, Dublin, the University of Zambia, in Lusaka, and at Queen's University, Belfast; and he has also taught at NUI Maynooth and St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin.

Book

	Year	Publication
	2013	Ian Leask (ed) (2013) John Toland's Letters to Serena. Dublin: Four Courts.
	2011	Ian Leask (2011) Being Reconfigured. : Cambridge Scholars.
	2010	Ian Leask (ed) (2010) The Taylor Effect. Responding to a Secular Age. : Cambridge Scholars.
	2005	Ian Leask (ed) (2005) Givenness and God. Questions of Jean-Luc Marion. : Fordham UP.
	2000	Ian Leask (2000) Questions of Platonism. : Greenwich Exchange.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2021	Ian Leask (2021) 'Statues and Political Power in Plato's Phaedrus'. Japan Mission Journal, 75 (2):75-85.
	2020	Ian Leask (2020) 'Being in Harmony: The Divine Music of Plato's Timaeus'. Japan Mission Journal, 74 (2):122-130.
	2019	Ian Leask (2019) 'Constant Process: The Science of Toland's 'Pantheisticon''. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 34 :11-27.
	2018	Ian Leask (2018) ''Infected with Perplexity': Dialogical Difficulty in Plato's 'Meno''. Japan Mission Journal, 72 (1):39-48.
	2018	Ian Leask (2018) 'Postmodernism pace Postmodernity?'. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50 (14).
	2018	Ian Leask (2018) 'Only Natural: John Toland and the Jewish Question'. Intellectual History Review, .
	2018	Ian Leask (2018) 'Was There A Theological Turn in Phenomenology?'. Philosophy Today, .
	2017	Ian Leask (2017) ''The Caravaggio Within': Nan Goldin's 'Gina''. Photographies, 10 (2):131-143.
	2017	Ian Leask (2017) 'Ideology and the 'Multitude of the Classroom': Spinoza and Althusser at School'. Educational Philosophy and Theory, .
	2016	Ian Leask (2016) 'Stoicism unbound: Cicero's Academica in Toland's Pantheisticon'. BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, 25 (2):223-243. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2016.1230090
	2016	Ian Leask (2016) 'Performing Cosmic Music: Notes on Plato's Timaeus'. REA: RELIGION, EDUCATION AND THE ARTS, 10 :14-27.
	2014	Ian Leask (2014) 'Elemental Enjoyment'. 9 :109-118.
	2012	Ian Leask (2012) ''Beyond Subjection: Notes on the Later Foucault and Education''. 44 :57-73.
	2012	Ian Leask (2012) ''Unholy Force: Toland's Leibnizian Consummation of Spinozism''. 20 :499-537.
	2010	Ian Leask (2010) ''Personation and Immanent Undermining: On Toland's Appearing Lockean''. 18 :231-256.
	2010	Ian Leask (2010) ''Sex on (Bare) Legs? Thomas Lee and Irishness''. 42 :72-84.
	2009	Ian Leask (2009) ''We Are Always Free: Some Implications of Foucauldian Biopower''. 6 .
	2007	Ian Leask (2007) ''From Radical Hermeneutics to the Weakness of God: John D.Caputo in Dialogue''. 51 :219-229.
	2006	Ian Leask (2006) ''Flesh, Chiasm... Providence?''. 37 :5-20.
	2006	Ian Leask (2006) ''Ethics Overcomes Finitude: Levinas, Kant, and the Davos Legacy''. 79 :447-459.
	2005	Ian Leask (2005) ''Educating the Emotions: Platonic Foundations''. 5 :49-54.
	2003	Ian Leask (2003) ''Plato, Education, and the Defence of Art''. 3 :85-95.
	2003	Ian Leask (2003) ''Husserl, Givenness and the Priority of the Self''. 11 :141-156.
	2002	Ian Leask (2002) ''Edith Stein and Others''. 33 :286-298.
	2000	Ian Leask (2000) '‘Shaping Souls: Socrates as Daedalus’'. 1 :53-65.
	2000	Ian Leask (2000) '‘Schelling and Onto-Theology’'. :273-285.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2024	Ian Leask (2024) 'Mortal Thinking: Notes on Plato' In: Critical Questions in Contemporary Theology. Lausanne : Peter Lang. [DOI]
	2022	Ian Leask (2022) ''A Matter of Dangerous Consequence': Molyneux and Locke on Toland' In: Between Secularization and Reform. Religion in the Enlightenment. Leiden : Brill. [DOI]
	2021	Ian Leask (2021) 'John Toland and the Development of Irreligious Philosophy' In: Encycolpedia of Early Modern Philosophy and Sciences. Berlin/Dordrecth/New York/Heidelberg : Springer.
	2020	Ian Leask (2020) 'From Serena to Hypatia: John Toland's Women' In: Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
	2020	Ian Leask (2020) 'Postmodernism pace Postmodernity?' In: What Comes After Postmodernism in Educational Theory?. London : Routledge.
	2019	Ian Leask (2019) ''Within Reason: Spinozism in Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious' In: Philosophy in Ireland: Past Actualities & Present Challenges. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars.
	2018	Ian Leask (2018) 'Toland, Spinoza, and the Naturalization of Scripture' In: Ireland and the Reception of the Bible: Social and Cultural Studies. London : Bloomsbury.
	2017	Ian Leask (2017) ''Speaking for Spinoza? Notes on John Toland's Origines Judaicae' In: Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment. London : Routledge.
	2015	Ian Leask (2015) ''The Happy Limbo of a Non-Identity' (Or: Herculine Barbin's Possibility)' In: Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society. Maynooth : IPS.
	2014	Ian Leask (2014) ''Critique and Ethos'' In: An Ethics of/for the Future. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars.
	2014	Ian Leask (2014) ''The Undivulged Event in Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious'' In: Atheism & Deism: Heterdox Religious Identities in Britain, 1650-1800. Aldershot : Ashgate.
	2013	Ian Leask (2013) '‘Ungodding the World’: Introducing the Letters to Serena' In: I.Leask(Eds.). John Toland's Letters to Serena. Dublin : Four Courts.
	2011	Ian Leask (2011) '‘Creating a Kindersphere: Plato Contra Rancière’' In: Susan Gottlöber(Eds.). Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society. : IPS.
	2010	Ian Leask (2010) ''Deism, Spinozism, Anti-Humanism'' In: I. Leask et al(Eds.). The Taylor Effect. Responding to a Secular Age. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars.
	2007	Ian Leask (2007) ''First Impressions Reconsidered: Some Comments on the Levinasian Critique of Husserl'' In: Cyril Mc Donnell(Eds.). Maynooth Philosophical Papers. : NUI Maynooth.
	2007	Ian Leask (2007) '‘Political Antiquarianism: Maclise’s Marriage Revisited’' In: Michael Hinds, Peter Denman & Margaret Kelleher(Eds.). The Irish Reader. Essays for John Devitt. Dublin : Otior Press.
	2007	Ian Leask (2007) '‘Anamnesis as Alterity?’' In: Peter Candler & Conor Cunningham(Eds.). Transcendence & Phenomenology. London : SCM Press.
	2006	Ian Leask (2006) '‘Strangely Out of Place: Phaedrus 227a-230e’' In: Thomas Kelly(Eds.). Between Systems and Poetics: Themes in the Work of William Desmond. Aldershot : Ashgate.
	2005	Ian Leask (2005) ''Schelling: Art and the Limits of Philosophy'' In: James Mc Guirk(Eds.). Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society. : IPS.
	2005	Ian Leask (2005) '‘The Dative Subject & the Principle of Principles’' In: I.Leask & E.Cassidy(Eds.). Givenness and God. Questions of Jean-Luc Marion. New York : Fordham University Press.
	2005	Ian Leask (2005) '‘Introduction’' In: I.Leask & E.Cassidy(Eds.). Givenness and God. Questions of Jean-Luc Marion. New York : Fordham University Press.
	2004	Ian Leask (2004) ''Contra Fundamental Ontology: The Centrality of the Heidegger-Critique in Levinas's Phenomenology'' In: Thomas Kelly(Eds.). Maynooth Philosophical Papers. : NUI Maynooth.
	2004	Ian Leask (2004) '‘Finitude: The Final Frontier? Heidegger and Levinas on Death’' In: James Norman(Eds.). At the Heart of Education. Dublin : Veritas.
	2003	Ian Leask (2003) '‘John Scottus Eriugena’' In: Brian Lalor(Eds.). The Encylopaedia of Ireland. Dublin : Gill & Macmillan.
	2003	Ian Leask (2003) '‘William Molyneaux’' In: Brian Lalor(Eds.). The Encylopaedia of Ireland. Dublin : Gill & Macmillan.
	2003	Ian Leask (2003) '‘James Connolly as Social Theorist’' In: Brian Lalor(Eds.). The Encylopaedia of Ireland. Dublin : Gill & Macmillan.
	2003	Ian Leask (2003) '‘Edmund Burke as Social Theorist’' In: Brian Lalor(Eds.). The Encylopaedia of Ireland. Dublin : Gill & Macmillan.
	2001	Ian Leask (2001) ''Statuary Presence: Phaedrus 235d-236b' In: Thomas Kelly(Eds.). Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society. : IPS.

Book Review

	Year	Publication
	2022	(2022) David Berman, 'Consciousness from Descartes to Ayer'.

Book Review

	Year	Publication
	2021	Ian Leask (2021) Panagiotis Sotiris: 'A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser'. BREV [Link]
	2020	Ian Leask (2020) Ted Stolze: 'Becoming Marxist'. BREV
	2014	Ian Leask (2014) Felix Ó Murchadha, A Phenomenology of Christian Life. Glory and Night. BREV
	2011	Ian Leask (2011) Philip Coleman (ed.), On Literature and Science. Essays, Reflections, Provocations. BREV
	2010	Ian Leask (2010) Cunningham & Candler (eds), Belief and Metphysics. BREV
	2008	Ian Leask (2008) Corey Beals, Levinas and the Wisdom of Love. BREV
	2007	Ian Leask (2007) Jean-Marc Narbonne, Levinas and the Greek Tradition & Wayne Hankey, One Hundred Years of Neoplatonism in France. BREV
	2007	Ian Leask (2007) Jean-Luc Marion, The Crossing of the Visible. BREV

Research Interests

Critical History (and Historiography) of 'Western' Philosophy

Plato and Plato Reception in European Philosophy (c.1800 - present)

The Radical Enlightenment