Jesse Goodman
Jesse Goodman
Contact
Email: jesse.goodman@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Belmont University
- M.A., Duquesne University
Research Interests
Aesthetics and Comparative Literature
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Time
Department
Biography
Jesse D. Goodman is a first-year PhD. student in the philosophy department, whose research focuses upon religion, temporality, and the philosophical origins of aesthetic modernism. He completed his M.A at Duquesne University with a thesis on the temporal constitution of the museum, putting prior logics of aesthetic time from Benjamin, Hegel and Robert Smithson into conversation with Kierkegaard via a sustained reading of Marcel Duchamp’s final installation piece, Étant donnés. Other work completed and ongoing works have included engagements with Kierkegaard’s literary form; Bob Dylan’s philosophy of history; Benjamin’s “politicization of aesthetics”; and the defunct artistic movement known as “Remodernism.” He is also a published writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and enjoys picking country guitar in his free time.
Publications
“Revelation at Hand: Artistic Distance, or Prophetic Sense.” Metaxy Journal: Filosofia, arte, riconoscimento vol. 3. 2024
“Étant donnés as Temporal Model: Experience, Allegory, Incarnation.” Art Style Magazine, vol. 15, no. 1, 2025 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14941172
Presentations
“Life and Death on the Border of the Commercial: Bob Dylan’s Dialectical Image of America in ‘Murder Most Foul’” Borders/Dialectics/Civility, Association for Philosophy and Literature, Frankfurt am Main 2025
“Archival Art Ontology: Art History and the Afterlives of Material Things” Bridges and Borders: The Archive, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh 2025
“Among These Rocks: The Silence of Conversion in Kierkegaard and Eliot” Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh 2024
“Benjamin’s Reticence: What is a Politicization of the Aesthetic?” Foucault and the Frankfurt School, DePaul University Graduate Conference, Chicago 2024