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Professional Preparation
Ph.D. - History University of Michigan - 1987
B.A. State University of New York at Cortland - 1974
Research Areas
Areas of Specialization
Hermeneutics, contemporary continental philosophy, 19th & 20th-century European intellectual history and philosophy
TEACHING INTERESTS
Philosophy and Poetry in Dialogue
History of Hermeneutics
Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Ethics in Continental Philosophy
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Humanities
History of Philosophy: Greeks and Modern Period
Philosophy and the University in Europe
Contemporary French Philosophy and Literary Theory
Aesthetics
Environmental Philosophy
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Philosophy and Poetry
Justice, Dike, and Gerechtigkeit: Translating the Metaphysics of Dwelling
The Hermeneutical Tradition from the Romantics to Heidegger
Philosophy and the German University, 1810-1945
Translation and Philosophy of Language: Benjamin, Nietzsche, Hölderlin
Nietzsche and the Early Greeks
Publications
Editor, NIETZSCHE : Special Issue American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, vol. LXXXIII (2010) 2010 - Publication
The Temporality of Becoming in: History and Theory vol. 49 ( December 2010) 2010 - Publication
The Concept of the Archaic in Nineteenth-Century German Thought in: Paul Bishop, ed., The Archaic: The Past in the Present (London: Routledge, 2010). 2010 - Publication
Nietzsche's Legacy in: Robert Bernasconi & Jonathan Judd, eds., Situating Existentialism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010) 2010 - Publication
Historicism: Spengler, Neo-Kantianism, Heidegger in: Peter Eli Gordon, ed., Weimar Thought (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010). 2010 - Publication
Heidegger und die Griechen, Heidegger Jahrbuch 5 (2009), 12pp. 2009 - Publication
Heidegger, National Socialism, and the German Volk in: Bret W. Davis, ed. Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts (London: Acumen Publishing, 2009). 2009 - Publication
Awards
Book Panel dedicated to my latest book Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice: Hölderlin-Heidegger-Celan - Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (National Organization for Continental Philosophy) [2014]
Senior Faculty Research Grant - Earhart Foundation [2012]
Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship (CIES) - University of Tübingen, Germany [2008]
Faculty Research Grant - Earhart Foundation [2005]
Faculty Research Grant - Earhart Foundation [1998]
Faculty Research Grant - Earhart Foundation [1991]
Faculty Research Grant - University of Texas at Dallas [1989]
Appointments
Professor University of Texas at Dallas [1989–Present]
Projects
Gadamer in Dialog
1993–1993Society For Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Fall 1993.
Heidegger's Destruktion and the Metaphysics of Presence
1994–1994Heidegger Conference, March 1994.
H?lderlin, Heidegger and the Greeks: Translation as Hermeneutic Violence
1993–1993German Studies Association, Fall 1993, Washington, D.C.
The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time
1995–1995Heidegger Conference, March 1995.
Historicity and Hermeneutics in the Work of Wilhelm Dilthey and Hans-Georg Gadamer
1993–1993Heidegger Conference: University of North Texas, January 1993.
Additional Information
TEACHING EXPERIENCE - UTD
UNDERGRADUATE
A&H 3300: Reading and Writing Texts
PHIL 2306: Ethics: Theory and Practice
PHIL 2316: History of Ancient Philosophy
PHIL 2317: History of Modern Philosophy
PHIL 3326: Philosophy and the Modern University
PHIL 4305: Ancient Greek Thought
PHIL 4380: Nietzsche
PHIL 4380: Time in Western Philosophy and Literature
PHIL 4381: Topics in Continental Philosophy
GRADUATE
Humanities: History of Ideas 5300: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Arts and Humanities
Humanities: History of Ideas 6305: Philosophy and Poetry
Humanities: History of Ideas 6325: History of Hermeneutics
Humanities: History of Ideas 6325: The Postmodern Plato
Humanities: History of Ideas 6390: Theory and Practice in the History of Ideas
Humanities: History of Ideas 7355: Heidegger and Nietzsche in Dialogue
Humanities: History of Ideas 7340: Nietzsche and Postmodernity
Humanities: History of Ideas 6390: The Greeks and the Germans
Humanities: History of Ideas 7379: Aristotle and Hermeneutics
Humanities: History of Ideas 7368: Philosophy and the Political
Humanities: History of Ideas 7332: Germans, Greeks, and Hebrews
Humanities: History of Ideas 7379: Philosophy and Aesthetics
Lecturer, The University of Michigan, 1986 - 1988
Philosophy 374: Existentialism
Great Books 191: The Ancient World
Great Books 192: Medieval and Renaissance
Great Books 291: Modern European Thought and Culture
HONORS AND AWARDS
Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship (CIES) University of Tübingen, Germany 2008
Earhart Foundation Faculty Research Grant, 2005-2006
Earhart Foundation Faculty Research Grant, 1998-1999
Earhart Foundation Faculty Research Grant, Summer-Fall 1991; Summer 1992
University of Texas at Dallas Faculty Research Grant, 1989
William Rainey Harper Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago, 1988-89 (not accepted)
DAAD Study Abroad Fellowships, 1979-80, 1980-81
University of Tübingen Exchange Fellowship, 1977-78
Earhart Foundation Study Abroad Fellowships, 1976, 1977
University of Michigan Teaching Fellowships, 1976-78, 1982
LANGUAGES
German (fluent), French, and one year of Ancient Greek