is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Dialogue on the Threshold: Heidegger and Trakl and Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement, and editor of Reiner Schürmann’s Neo-Aristotelianism and the Medieval Renaissance. He is currently writing a book titled Life without Why: Reiner Schürmann and the Imperative of Releasement.