Published Works

Books

Philosophical writings extending the dissertation themes — hermeneutics, the sacred, freedom, and the originary other.

Truth Over Method

Truth Over Method

Art Matters — An Inquiry in Dialogue with Hans-Georg Gadamer, Rabindranath Tagore, and Other Major Thinkers

A doctoral inquiry, completed at Université Laval (2007), into the experience of art as a form of truth. Following Gadamer's hermeneutics, Roeder argues that understanding is an event rather than a method — and that art is one of its most authentic occasions.

HermeneuticsGadamerTagoreAesthetic experienceTruth

$35

Is Sacred Syntactically & Semantically Dense?

Is Sacred Syntactically & Semantically Dense?

A Postmodern Inquiry

An inquiry into the density of the sacred in language — how meaning thickens, how the holy resists translation, and how the postmodern reader stands before the text.

SacredPostmodernismLanguageHermeneutics

$35

BILDUNG and Freedom

BILDUNG and Freedom

On formation, cultivation, and the freedom that emerges from a life shaped by encounter. A philosophical essay on the German tradition of Bildung and its relevance for the contemporary self.

BildungFreedomFormationSelf

$35

Spirit in Flames

Spirit in Flames

Originary Other: Crossing the Limits of Onto-Theology

A philosophical and theological work on the originary other — the encounter that precedes the self, the spirit that burns at the edge of thought.

Onto-theologyThe OtherSpiritTheology

$35