CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

B.A. with Honors in English, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. 1970

M.A. Philosophy (Minor: Greek), Pennsylvania State University 1972

Ph.D. Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, August 31, 1974

2002 – Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (One year’s residence in Berlin to begin autumn, 2003)

2001 –The Andrew M. Mellon Foundation’s "Distinguished Achievement Award" (Three year fellowship, to begin autumn, 2004)

2001 - Dotterer Lecture, The Pennsylvania State University

2000 - Bradley Lecturer, Boston College

1998 - Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor

1997-8 - Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Grant (for research and study in Tübingen, Germany, during the 1997-8 academic year).

April, 1997 - Everett Ross Lecture in Philosophy, The University of Iowa.

April, 1997 - Blanchard Means Lecture in Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford.

Summer, 1995 - National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute for College Teachers. ("Modernity and its Discontents")

Summer, 1993 - National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute for junior and community college teachers. ("The Enlightenment and the Counter-Enlightenment")

April, 1993 - Nuveen Lecture in the Divinity School, University of Chicago.

1989-90 - Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant

1989-90 - University of California President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities.

1984-85 - National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research.

1984 - NEH Grant. Summer Stipend for participation in Humanities Institute for area secondary school teachers. (The funding period covered the summers of 1984, 1985, 1986.)

1983 - Earhart Foundation Research Fellowship

1980 - Excellence in Teaching Award; UCSD Alumni and Friends Association

1979 - Outstanding Teacher in Humanities; Revelle College

1977 - Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Grant (June, 1977-August, 1978; Residence in Bonn-Bad Godesberg; Research at Cologne and Mainz)

1969-1976 - Phi Beta Kappa; Woodrow Wilson Fellow; Sparks Dissertation Fellowship; Pennsylvania State Graduate School Fellowships; University of California Summer Fellowship.

Kant, German Idealism, Hegel, Nietzsche, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Philosophy, Critical Theory, Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy

Philosophy and Literature, History of Modern Philosophy, Issues in Epistemology and Metaphysics, Aesthetics

Pennsylvania State University (1970-74): Teaching Assistant; Instructor

New College, Sarasota, Florida (1974-75): Assistant Professor

University of California, San Diego (1975-present): Assistant Professor (1975-1981)

Associate Professor (1981-1989)

UCSD-NEH Humanities Institute, Summer 1984, 1985, 1986.

Professor (1989-Present)

Chair of Department (1990-92)

University of Chicago (1992-Present)

Chair, Committee on Social Thought (1994-97; 1998 - Present)

Humboldt University, Berlin (October, 1997; "Master Course," "Nietzsche's Diagnosis of Modernity.")

Introductory: Metaphysics; Ancient Philosophy; Modern Philosophy; Humanities I(Hebrew Bible, Greeks); Humanities III (Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern); Humanities IV (18th and 19th Century); Humanities V (20th Century); Classics of Social and Political Thought (UofC Core Course, all periods)

Upper Division: Plato; Kant; Hume; Hegel and His Critics; 20th Century European Philosophy I (Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger); 20th Century European Philosophy II (Sartre and Contemporary French Philosophy); Philosophy and Literature; Nihilism; Heidegger's Being and Time; Nietzsche's Critique of Philosophy; Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (several times); Kant's Moral Theory (several times).

Graduate Seminars: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (several times); Kant's Moral and Political Theory (several times); Kant's Critique of Judgment (twice, in 1991 with Henry Allison); Hegel's Science of Logic; Hegel's Philosophy of Right (several times); Nietzsche; Critical Theory; Transcendental Arguments; Self-Consciousness and German Idealism; Nietzsche and Heidegger (with Fred Olafson); Kant's Moral Theory and Hegel's Objections (with Henry Allison); Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (several times); Aristotle's Politics and the Problem of Tragedy; Moral Skepticism; Problems of German Idealism; Moral Issues in Henry James; Hegel's Theory of Geist; Kant's Metaphysics of Morals; Nietzsche, Modernity and Melancholia (with J. Lear); Kant’s Theory of Freedom; Hegel's Theory of Freedom. Rousseau's Emile (with N. Tarcov); Nietzsche's Gay Science.

1. Kant's Theory of Form: An Essay on the `Critique of Pure Reason' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982).

2. Marcuse: Critical Theory and The Promise of Utopia, eds. R. Pippin, A. Feenberg, C. Webel. MacMillan (Great Britain), Bergin and Garvey (USA), 1988.

3. Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.)

4. Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991).

--Second edition, with a new Introduction and an additional chapter (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999).

5. Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

6. Henry James and Modern Moral Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

1. "Hegel's Phenomenological Criticism," Man and World, Vol.8, no. 3, 1975.

2. "The Schematism and Empirical Concepts," Kant-Studien, Bd. 67, 1976.

Reprinted in Immanuel Kant: Critical Assessments, volume II, edited by Ruth F. Chadwick (Routledge, 1992).

3. "Hegel's Metaphysics and the Problem of Contradiction," Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. XVI, no. 3, 1978.

Reprinted in The Hegel Myth and Legends, edited by Jon Stewart (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996).

4. "Critical Methodology and Comprehensiveness in Philosophy," Metaphilosophy, vol. 9,1978.

5. "Negation and Not-Being in Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Plato's Sophist," Kant-Studien, Bd. 70, 1979.

6. "Kant on Empirical Concepts," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, vol.10, 1979.

7. "The Rose and the Owl: Some Remarks on the Theory-Practice Problem in Hegel," Independent Journal of Philosophy, vol. III, 1979.

8. "'...dancing in our chains...' Notes on Nietzsche's Modernism," Independent Journal of Philosophy, vol. IV, 1980.

9. "Hegel's Political Argument and the Problem of Verwirklichung," Political Theory, vol. 9, 1981.

10. "Kant's Paralogisms and the 'Philosophy of Mind'," Proceedings of the Fifth International Kant Congress (Bonn: Bouvier, 1981), pp. 557-567.

11. "Nietzsche and the Origin of the Idea of Modernism," Inquiry, vol. 26, 1983.

12. "Marcuse on Hegel and Historicity," Philosophical Forum, vol. XVI, no. 3, 1985.

Reprinted in Marcuse: Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia, edited by R. Pippin, A. Feenberg, and C. Webel (London: Macmillan, 1988).

Reprinted in The Frankfurt School: Critical Assessments, ed. J.M. Bernstein (London: Routledge, 1994).

13. "On the Moral Foundations of Kant's Rechtslehre," invited contribution in Kant, ed.R. Kennington (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1985).

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

14. "Comments on 'Nietzsche's Critique of Causality," International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, 1986.

15. "Blumenberg and the Modernity Problem," Review of Metaphysics, Vol. XL, No. 3, March, 1987.

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

16. "Kant on the Spontaneity of Mind," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 17, No. 2,June, 1987.

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

17. "Fichte's Contribution," Philosophical Forum, Vol. XIX, No. 2-3, Winter-Spring,1987-88.

18. "Ernst Tugendhat, Traditional and Analytic Philosophy," a Review Article. Independent Journal of Philosophy, vol.5/6, 1988.

19. "The Idealism of Transcendental Arguments," Idealistic Studies, vol. XVIII, no.2, May, 1988.

20. "Apperception and the Difference Between Kantian and Hegelian Idealism," Proceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress, ed. G. Funke and T. Seebohm (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1988).

21. "Irony and Affirmation in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra," Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics, eds. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy Strong (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).

22. "Hösle, System and Subject," Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, no.17, Spring/Summer, 1988.

23. "Hegel and Category Theory," Review of Metaphysics, vol. xliii, no.4, June, 1990.

24. "Hegel's Idealism: Prospects," Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, no.19, Spring/Summer, 1989.

24. "Conversa sobre Estética e Filosofia Transcendental," discussion and debate, in Argumento, vol.1, no.1, April, 1991.

25. "Idealism and Agency in Kant and Hegel," Journal of Philosophy vol. lxxxviii,no.10 (October, 1991)

26. "Hegel, Modernity, and Habermas," Monist, vol. 74, no.3, June, 1991.

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

27. "Hegel, Ethical Reasons, Kantian Rejoinders," Philosophical Topics, vol. 19, no.2 (Fall, 1991)

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

28. "Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Metaphysics of Modernity," invited contribution, in Nietzsche and Modern German Thought, ed. K. Ansell-Pearson (London: Routledge, 1991)

29. "The Modern World of Leo Strauss," Political Theory, vol.20, no.3 (1992).

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

Reprinted in Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: German Émigrés and American Political Thought After World War II, ed. by Peter Kielmansegg, Horst Mewes, and Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

30. "Selbstüberwindung, Versöhnung und Modernität bei Nietzsche und Hegel," in Nietzsche und Hegel, ed. Mihailo Djuric and Josef Simon (Königshausen und Neumann, Würzburg, 1992).

31. "'You Can't Get There From Here': Transition Problems in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit," The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, ed. Fred Beiser (Cambridge, 1993).

32. "Being, Time, and Politics: The Strauss-Kojève Debate," History and Theory, vol 22, no.2, Summer 1993.

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

33. "Hegel's Original Insight," International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. xxxiii, no.3, September, 1993.

34. "Modern Mythic Meaning: Blumenberg Contra Nietzsche," History of the Human Sciences, vol.6, no.4 199

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

35. "On the Notion of 'Technology as Ideology': Contemporary Prospects" in Technology, Pessimism and Postmodernism, edited by Yaron Ezrahi, Everett Mendlesohn and Howard Segal (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994).

Reprinted in Technology and the Politics of Knowledge, edited by A. Feenberg and A. Hannay (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

36. "Horstmann, Siep, and German Idealism," a review article in European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 2, no.1, April, 1994.

37. "On Being Anti-Cartesian: Heidegger, Hegel, Subjectivity and Sociality," in Vernunftbegriffe in der Moderne (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1994).

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

Reprinted in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, Tome 38, no.1-2 (January-June, 1994).

38. "Hegel on the Rationality and Priority of Ethical Life," Neue Hefte für Philosophie, vol. 35 (1995).

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

Translated as "Rationalité et priorité de la vie éthique selon Hegel," Revue Germanique Internationale vol. 15 (2001)

39. "Hegel," invited contribution for the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. R. Audi. (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

40. "Hegelianism as Modernism," Inquiry, vol. 38 No.3, September, 1995.

41. "Nietzsche's Alleged Farewell: The Modern, Premodern, and Postmodern Nietzsche," invited contribution, Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, editors, B. Magnus and K. Higgins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) .

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

42. "Hegel's Ethical Rationalism," in German Idealism and the Self, edited by K. Ameriks and D. Sturma (Albany:SUNY Press, 1995).

43. "Avoiding German Idealism: Kant and the Reflective Judgment Problem," Proceedings of the Eight International Kant Congress, 1995, ed. Hoke Robinson (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1996).

(Reprinted as Chapter Two, "Kant," in A Companion to Contintental Philosophy, ed. Simon Critchley and William Schroeder (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), pp. 35-56)

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

44. "Heideggerean Postmodernism and Metaphysical Politics," The European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 4, no.1 (April 1966).

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

45. "Medical Practice and Social Authority," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 21 (1996).

46. "The Significance of Taste: Kant, Aesthetic and Reflective Judgments," The Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. XXXIV, Number 4 (1996).

47. "Truth and Lies in the Early Nietzsche," The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Issue 11, Spring 1996

Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.

Reprinted in Critical Assessments: Friederich Nietzsche. Edited by Daniel Conway, with Peter Groff. Vol. II. (Routledge, 1998)

48. "On Not Being a Neostructuralist," Common Knowledge, vol. 6, n. 2 (Fall 1996).

49. "Hegel on Historical Meaning: For Example, the Enlightenment," Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, no 35 (Spring/Summer 1997).

50. "Hegel, Freedom, The Will: The Philosophy of Right, #1-33," in Hegel: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, ed. Ludwig Siep, (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1997), pp. 31-53.

51. "Morality as Psychology; Psychology as Morality: Nietzsche, Eros, and Clumsy Lovers," Idealism as Modernism, Chapter 14. (Forthcoming also in collection based on University of Chicago conference on "Love and Friendship," and in a collection of conference papers delivered at the University of Illinois in 1994, edited by Richard Schacht.)

52. "Naturalness and Mindedness: Hegel's Compatibilism," The European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 7, n.2, (1999), pp. 194 - 212. (Special Hegel issue; commentary by Richard Rorty.)

Translated as "Naturalität und Geistigkeit in Hegels Kompatibilismus, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie vol. 49, no. 1 (2001)

53. "Eine Moderne ohne radikale Entzauberung: Zwischen Logos und Mythos," in Die Kunst des Überlebens," ed., by Franz Josef Wetz and Hermann Timm (Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1999), pp. 99-117.

54. "Dividing and Deriving in Kant's Rechtslehre," in Immanuel Kant, Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre, ed. by Otfried Höffe (Klassiker Auslegen series) Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999), pp. 63-85.

55. "Response to David Kolb," The Owl of Minerva, vol. 30, No.2 (Spring, 1999), pp. 277-86.

56. "Nietzsche and the Melancholy of Modernity," Social Research, vol. 66, no.2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 495-519.

Translated as "Nietzsche und die Melancholie der Modernität," in Konzepte der Moderne, ed. by G. von Graevenitz and Axel Honneth