Octavian Gabor, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Dr. Octavian Gabor is Professor of philosophy at Methodist College. He has a PhD in Philosophy from Purdue University, and MA in Applied Orthodox Theology (Balamand University), English (Virginia Tech), and Communication (University of Bucharest). He works in Greek philosophy and has strong interests in Dostoevsky and the issues of freedom and responsibility as they appear in the context of communist persecution. His most recent publications include: “Two Kinds of Responsibility in Crime and Punishment” (in Mundo Eslavo) and “Noica’s Becoming within Being and Meno’s Paradox” in A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe (Blackwell, 2017). He has translated work from French to Romanian and Romanian to English. His most recent translation is Constantin Noica’s Pray for Brother Alexander (Punctum Books, 2018).
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“Re-Creation of Normality in the Absurd Space of Deportations to the Siberian Gulag.” Vergentis, 9.2019.
https://vergentis.ucam.edu/index.php/vergentis/article/view/162
“Taming the Beast: Constantin Noica and Doing Philosophy in Critical Political Contexts.” Dialogos, 2019.
https://revistas.upr.edu/index.php/dialogos/article/view/16610
“Justice between Mercy and Revenge in Sophocles’ Antigone and Plato’s Crito.” Lexicon Philosophicaum: International Journal for the History of Texts and Ideas. 6.2019.
http://lexicon.cnr.it/index.php/LP/article/view/599/439
“Communism: ‘the attempt at deification without God. Reflections on Andrei Scrima’s thought.” The Faith Almanac, 2019, p. 170-177.
“Nationalismul intre sisteme solare si constelatii.” The Faith Almanac, 2019, p. 220-227.
“Two Kinds of Responsibility in Crime and Punishment.” Mundo Eslavo, vol. 16, 2017.
http://mundoeslavo.com/index.php/meslav/article/view/237/209
“Constantin Noica’s Becoming Within Being and Meno’s Paradox.” Companion to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe. Eds. Zara Torlone & Dana Munteanu. Blackwell (April 2017).
“The Use and Intended Outcomes of Presence: A Focus Group Study.” (second author) International Journal of Nursing Knowledge. (2016).
“The Sultan and His Janissaries. Gheorghe Hagi and the Golden Era of Galatasaray Istanbul.” Cultures of Communication/Cultures de la Communication. 1 (2016): 45-56.
“Despre născători de frumos în închisorile comuniste.” Identități sociale, culturale, etnice și religioase în comunism. Ed. Cosmin Budeancă. Polirom, 2016.
“Birth-Givers of Beauty: An Excursion into Finding One’s Given Place within a Constellation.” Introduction to Aspazia Otel Petrescu. With Christ in Prison. Reflection Publishing House, 2014, p. 5-18.
“Dialogical Writing in Philosophy and Literature – A Study on Plato’s Gorgias and Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey.” Kinesis 29.2 (2002): 67-84.
“Adevar si credibilitate in mesajul publicistic de televiziune” (Truth and Credibility in the TV message). Comunicariile “Hyperion” 1. Bucuresti: Editura Hyperion, 1998, p. 72-4.
Reviews:
Review of Brian A. Butcher, Liturgical Theology after Schmemann: An Orthodox Reading of Paul Ricoeur. Fordham University Press, 2018. Phenomenological Reviews, January 2019.
https://reviews.ophen.org/2019/02/21/brian-a-butcher-liturgical-theology-after-schmemann-an-orthodox-reading-of-paul-ricoeur/
Review of Constantin Noica, Pray for Brother Alexander. Punctum Books, 2018. Romanian Studies Association of America Journal. September 2018.
Review of Martha Nussbaum, Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice. Oxford University Press, 2016. Metaphsycology Online Reviews, November 2016.
https://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=7775&cn=394
Review of Michael Davis, The Soul of the Greeks: and Inquiry. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, May 2012.
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012.05.25
Review of Terence Irwin, “Stoicism: Action , Passion, and Reason” and “Stoicism: Virtue and Happiness.” The Development of Ethics: A historical and Critical Study. Vol. I-III. Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Philosophical Forum: A Quarterly. 42.3 (2011): 279-80.
Review of Brooke Holmes. The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2010. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, March 2011.
Review of Ronald Polansky, Aristotle’s De Anima. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, September 2009.
Review of Julie K. Ward, Aristotle on Homonymy: Dialectic and Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, October 2008.
Translation:
Noica, Constantin. Pray for Brother Alexander. Translated from Romania to English. Punctum books, 2018.
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/pray-for-brother-alexander/
Monk Moise, ed. Do Not Avenge Us: Testimonies of Romanians Deported to Siberia. Translated from Romanian to English. Reflection Publishing, 2016.
Scrima. André. Apophatic Anthropology. Translated from Romanian to English. Gorgias, 2016.
Fr. Arsenie Boca. Living Words. Translated from Romanian to English. Deva: Charisma Publishing House, 2014.
Jean Servier. Istoria Utopiei. Translated from French to Romanian by Octavian Gabor and Elena Gabor. Bucharest: Meridiane, 2000. Original title: L’Histoire de l’utopie.
