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Veronique Foti

Veronique Foti

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
(Deceased)
247 Sparks Building

Education

B.A. (summa cum laude), Oglethorpe University and Gymnasium, Zürich (Switzerland)
Ph.D., Boston College

Professional Bio

Areas of Specialization

  • Contemporary European philosophy
  • Continental Rationalism
  • Ancient philosophy
  • Philosophy of art
  • Philosophy and literary theory

Recent Courses

  • Modern Philosophy
  • Merleau-Ponty
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Evil and the Holocaust

Recent Publications

  • "Revisting the Tragic Theater with Plato, Aristotle, and Hölderlin", Festschrift for Jacques Taminiaux, ed. Michael Gendre, forthcoming.
  • "The Aesthetic Dimension of Paideia in Plato's Republic", Kostas Boudouris and Mikovja Knešević, eds., Paideia: Education in the Global Era, vol. II (Athens: Ionia Publications 2008), 77-87.
  • "Being-in-the-World and the Phenomenon of World", Robert C. Scharff, ed.,The Blackwell Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time, forthcoming.
  • "Rethinking Parmenides in Dialogue with Reiner Schūrmann", The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, forthcoming.
  • "Empedocles' Philosophy of Nature as Mandating Non-Violence," Kostas Boudouris, ed., Values and Justice in the Global Era (Athens: Ionia Publications, 2007), pp. 91-101.
  • "Time's Agonal Spacing in Hölderlin's Philosophy of Tragedy," Ferda Keskin, ed., Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. II (Ankara: Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2007).
  • Epochal Discordance: Holderlin's Philosophy of Tragedy SUNY Press, 2006
  • Vision's Invisibles: Philosophical Explorations Suny Press, 2003

Current Projects

A book on expression in Merleau-Ponty's philosophy.

Veronique Foti
Veronique Foti