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Dennis Schmidt

Liberal Arts Research Professor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and German,
Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Universität Freiburg, Germany
Visiting Professor of the Humanities, Universita di Roma, "La Sapienza," Italy

Education:
  • B.A., Bucknell University
  • M.A., Boston College
  • Ph.D., Boston College
Areas of Specialization:
  • Ancient philosophy
  • Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy
  • Aesthetics
  • Literary Criticism
Recent Courses:
  • Hegel and the Problem of Freedom
  • The History of the Idea of Nature
  • Kant's Third Critique
  • Romanticism and Idealism
  • The Experience of Language
  • Philosophy and the State
  • On the Tragic
Recent Publications:
  • 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)
  • The Ubiquity of the Finite: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Entitlements of Philosophy (MIT Press, 1988)
  • Hermeneutishce Wege: Hans-Georg Gadamer zum Hundertsten , co-edited with Günter Figal (Mohr Verlag, 2000)
  • Natural Law and Human Dignity, translation of Ernst Bloch's Naturrecht und menschliche Wuedre (MIT Press, 1986)
  • Editor, SUNY Press "Series in Continental Philosophy" (over 50 titles)
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