Ian Leask
Dr
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
Peer Reviewed Journal
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 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) ''The Undivulged Event in Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious'' In: Atheism & Deism: Heterdox Religious Identities in Britain, 1650-1800. Aldershot : Ashgate. | |
| 2014 | Ian Leask (2014) ''Critique and Ethos'' In: An Ethics of/for the Future. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars. | |
| 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) '‘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) ''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) '‘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) '‘Introduction’' In: I.Leask & E.Cassidy(Eds.). Givenness and God. Questions of Jean-Luc Marion. New York : Fordham University Press. | |
| 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. | |
| 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) '‘William Molyneaux’' In: Brian Lalor(Eds.). The Encylopaedia of Ireland. Dublin : Gill & Macmillan. | |
| 2003 | Ian Leask (2003) '‘John Scottus Eriugena’' 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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Research Interests
Critical History (and Historiography) of 'Western' Philosophy
Plato and Plato Reception in European Philosophy (c.1800 - present)
The Radical Enlightenment