Department of Philosophy

• B.A., Bucknell University
• M.A., Boston College
• Ph.D., Boston College

• Ethics
• Ancient philosophy
• Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy (esp. Hegel, Schelling, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Derrida)
• Aesthetics
• Literary Criticism
• German Romaniticism
• Hermeneutics

• Philosophy and the State
• War and Representation
• Hegel's "Aesthetics"
• Art and Truth - "From Kant to Klee"
• The History of Criticism I - Literature and Criticism in Ancient Greece
• Ancient Philosophy - Plato's "Republic"
• Heidegger - "Being and Time"
• Gadamer - "Truth and Method"
• Poetics and Speculation - 19th and 20th Century

• Idiome der Wahrheit, forthcoming Klostermann Verlag, 2012
• Between Word and Image, Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2011.
• Foreword to and revised translation of Heidegger's Being and Time, SUNY Press, 2010.
• Difficulties of Ethical Life, Fordham UP, 2008. Co-edited with Shannon Sullivan
• Lyrical and Ethical Subjects: Essays on the Periphery of the Word, Freedom, and History (SUNY Press, 2005)
• On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life (Indiana University Press, 2001)
• Hermeneutishce Wege: Hans-Georg Gadamer zum Hundertsten, J.C.B. Mohr Verlag, 2000. Co-edited with Günter Figal
• Editor, SUNY Press "Series in Continental Philosophy" (over 132 titles)

Selected Recent Articles:

2012: “Die Wahrheit Sagen,” in Heidegger und die Literature, ed. Figal, Klostermann
Verlag, forthcoming.

2012: “Truth be told: On Homer, Plato and Heidegger,” in Heidegger and the Question of Language, ed. Powell, Indiana University Press, forthcoming.

2012: “On the Idiom of the Ethical,” Epoche, forthcoming.

2012: “The Musical Idiom and the Movement of Life,” Simon Silverman Lectures forthcoming.

2011: “On the Idiom of Truth,” Internationale Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, Bd. 9, pp. 41-53.

2011: “Nietzsche und die Wiedergeburt der Tragödie,” in Philosophie des Tragischen, ed. L. Huhn, Meiner Verlag, 26 pp. ms.

2011: “Sull’idioma della verità e il movimento della vita,” Annuario Filosofico, Vol 26, pp. 19-30.

2011: “Gadamer,” in Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

2010: “In Kant’s Wake,” in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 40, pp. 104-114.

2010: “On Soil, Soul, and the Human Condition,” Poligrafi, Special Issue on Natural History, Nr. 61-62, Vol. 16, pp. 169-183.

2010: “Über das Tragische: Ein Versuch zu Schelling,” in Heideggers Schelling-Seminar, Schellingiana 22, Frommann-Holzboog Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 113-138.

2010: “Über die Äußerlichkeit des Lebens,” in Gegenständlichkeit, ed. Espinet, Mohr-Siebeck Verlag, pp. 47-58.

2010: “On Interrupted Conversations,” in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics and the Art of Conversation, ed. Wierciński, International Studies in Hermeneutics and Phenomenology, Vol 2, pp. 107-115.

2010: “O Jeziku in Slepoti: Nekaj Opazk O Grškem Pojmu,” in Phainomena: Analogije, XVIII/72-73, pp. 189-202.

2009: “Naked, Wild, and Puny: On the Idea of Form and Limits Untold,” in Philosophy Today, Vol. 34, pp. 81-88.

2009: “Kratek uvod v hermenevtiko,” in Filozofija na maturi, Vol. 3-4, ed. Komel, pp. 5-12.

2009: “Between Word and Image: Twombly and the Question of Writing,” in Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, Stuttgart, Band 8, 2009, pp. 59-84.

2009: “The Late Heidegger,” The History of Continental Philosophy, Vol. 4., ed. Lawlor and Schrift, Acumen Press, pp. 157-175.

2008: “Who counts? On Democracy, Power, and the Incalculable,” in Research in Phenomenology, pp. 228-243.

2008: “La filosopfia e il pathos della tragedia: Intervista con Professore Dennis Schmidt” http://www.giornaledifilosofia.net/

2008: “What should be said of tragedy today?”, in The Locus of Tragedy , ed. Crombez, Brill, Leiden, pp. 319-334.

2008: “Hermeneutics and Original Ethics,” in The Difficulties of Ethical Life, Fordham University Press, New York, pp. 35-47 + 214-216.

2008: “From the beginning once again,” in Ancient Philosophy Today , ed. Gurtler and Cleaery, BACAP, Boston.

2008: “Heidegger, Gadamer, Klee: On Word and Image,” in Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, Stuttgart, Band 7, pp. 245-263.

• Socrates with a Cane: Coming to Terms with Gadamer - in addition to lengthy discussions of Gadamer, both his person and his work, there are also discussions of Heidegger, Plato, Socrates, Xenophon, Freud, Mahler.
• My next project emerges out of a series of articles and talks I have given over the past five or six years.  It is tentatively entitled On the Unbidden: A History of the Idea of Nature