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Born: September 14, 1948
Married, two children.
5650-2 South Dorchester Ave.
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
1998 - Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor
1997-1998 - Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Grant (for research and study in Tübingen, Germany, during the 1997-1998 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.
1989-1990 - Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant
1989-1990 - University of California President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities.
1984-1985 - 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.
Pennsylvania State University (1970-1974): Teaching Assistant; Instructor
New College, Sarasota, Florida (1974-75): Assistant Professor
University of California, San Diego [UCSD] (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.")
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).
2. "The Schematism and Empirical Concepts," in 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," in 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," in Metaphilosophy, vol. 9,1978.
5. "Negation and Not-Being in Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Plato's Sophist," in Kant-Studien, Bd. 70, 1979.
6. "Kant on Empirical Concepts," in 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," in Independent Journal of Philosophy, vol. III, 1979.
8. "'...dancing in our chains...' Notes on Nietzsche's Modernism," in Independent Journal of Philosophy, vol. IV, 1980.
9. "Hegel's Political Argument and the Problem of Verwirklichung," in Political Theory, vol. 9, 1981.
10. "Kant's Paralogisms and the 'Philosophy of Mind'," in Proceedings of the Fifth International Kant Congress (Bonn: Bouvier, 1981), pp. 557-567.
11. "Nietzsche and the Origin of the Idea of Modernism," in Inquiry, vol. 26, 1983.
12. "Marcuse on Hegel and Historicity," in 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," in International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, 1986.
15. "Blumenberg and the Modernity Problem," in Review of Metaphysics, Vol. XL, No. 3, March, 1987.
Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.
16. "Kant on the Spontaneity of Mind," in Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 17, No. 2,June, 1987.
Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.
17. "Fichte's Contribution," in Philosophical Forum, Vol. XIX, No. 2-3, Winter-Spring,1987-88.
18. "Ernst Tugendhat, Traditional and Analytic Philosophy," a Review Article in Independent Journal of Philosophy, vol.5/6, 1988.
19. "The Idealism of Transcendental Arguments," in Idealistic Studies, vol. XVIII, no.2, May, 1988.
20. "Apperception and the Difference Between Kantian and Hegelian Idealism," in 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," in 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," in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, no.17, Spring/Summer, 1988.
23. "Hegel and Category Theory," in Review of Metaphysics, vol. xliii, no.4, June, 1990.
24. "Hegel's Idealism: Prospects," in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, no.19, Spring/Summer, 1989.
24. "Conversa sobre Estetica e Filosofia Transcendental," in discussion and debate, in Argumento, vol.1, no.1, April, 1991.
25. "Idealism and Agency in Kant and Hegel," in Journal of Philosophy vol. lxxxviii,no.10 (October, 1991)
26. "Hegel, Modernity, and Habermas," in Monist, vol. 74, no.3, June, 1991.
Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.
27. "Hegel, Ethical Reasons, Kantian Rejoinders," in 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," in 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," in The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, ed. Fred Beiser (Cambridge, 1993).
32. "Being, Time, and Politics: The Strauss-Kojve Debate," in History and Theory, vol 22, no.2, Summer 1993.
Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.
33. "Hegel's Original Insight," in International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. xxxiii, no.3, September, 1993.
34. "Modern Mythic Meaning: Blumenberg Contra Nietzsche," in 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," in Neue Hefte für Philosophie, vol. 35 (1995).
Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.
39. "Hegel," invited contribution for the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. R. Audi. (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
40. "Hegelianism as Modernism," in 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.
4. "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," in 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," in The European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 4, no.1 (April 1966).
Reprinted in Idealism as Modernism, #5 above.
45. "Medical Practice and Social Authority," in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 21 (1996).
46. "The Significance of Taste: Kant, Aesthetic and Reflective Judgments," in The Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. XXXIV, Number 4 (1996).
47. "Truth and Lies in the Early Nietzsche," in 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," in Common Knowledge, vol. 6, n. 2 (Fall 1996).
49. "Hegel on Historical Meaning: For Example, the Enlightenment," in 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).
51. "Morality as Psychology; Psychology as Morality: Nietzsche, Eros, and Clumsy Lovers," in 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," in The European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 7, n.2, (1999), pp. 194 - 212. (Special Hegel issue; commentary by Richard Rorty.)
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 Anfangsgrüne der Rechtslehre, ed. by Otfried Höffe (Klassiker Auslegen series) Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999), pp. 63-85.
55. "Response to David Kolb," in The Owl of Minerva, vol. 30, No.2 (Spring, 1999), pp. 277-86.
56. "Nietzsche and the Melancholy of Modernity," in Social Research, vol. 66, no.2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 495-519.
57. "Philosophie und geschichtlicher Wandel: Wie zeitgemäß ist Isaiah Berlins Kulturphilosophie?" Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie Bd.47, n. 5 (1999), pp.851-61.
57. "Nietzsche und die Melancholie der Modernität," in Konzepte der Moderne, ed. by G. von Graevenitz and Axel Honneth; forthcoming in late 1998. (English versions to appear in Social Research, and as Chapter Six in Second Edition of Modernism as a Philosophical Problem.)
58. "Henry James and Modern Moral Life," chapter in a festschrift for David Grene, to be published in June, 1999 by the University of Chicago Press.
59. "What is the Question for Which Hegel's 'Theory of Recognition' is the Answer?" forthcoming in The European Journal of Philosophy, late 1999, commentary by Axel Honneth.
60. "The Ethical Status of Civility," forthcoming in a collection of the lectures presented during the 1998-99 series on "Civility," organized and edited by Lee Rouner, Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion.
61. "Nietzsche on Democratic Ressentiment," forthcoming in a collection of the lectures presented during the 1998-99 series on "Moral Decline?", organized and edited by Richard Zinmann, director of the Mihcigan State University Symposium on Technology, Values and Democracy.
62. "Die Freiheit als Schicksal. Verwirklichung und Geschichte bei Hegel," forthcoming in Weltgeschichte als Weltgericht," the Proceedings of the International Hegel Kongress, held in Stuttgart, June 1999.
63. "The Realization of Freedom: Hegel's Practical Philosophy," forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism, edited by Karl Ameriks.
64. "Nietzsche and Modernity," forthcoming in The Harvard Companion to German Literature, edited by David Wellberry.
65. "Taking Responsibility: Hegel on Agency," forthcoming in Subjektivität und Anerkennung, (festschrift for Ludwig Siep), edited by Barbara Merker, Georg Mohr, and Michael Quante
2. "Review of: H. Allison, The Kant-Eberhard Controversy," in Kant-Studien, Bd. 66, 1975.
3. "Review of: G. Prauss, Kant und das Problem der Dinge an sich," in Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. XIV, no. 3, July, 1976.
4. "Review of:: I. Fetscher, Hegels Lehre vom Menschen," in Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. XV, no. 3, July, 1977.
5. "Review of: G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History. Introduction: Reason in History, translated by H. M. Nisbet, Introduction by Duncan Forbes," in Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. XVI, no. 1, January, 1978.
6. "Review of: A. Brunner, Kant und die Wirklichkeit des Geistigen," in Review of Metaphysics, vol. XXXII, 1979.
7. "Review of: A, MacIntyre, Against the Self-Images of the Age," in Review of Metaphysics, vol. XXXII, 1979.
8. "Review of: L.W. Beck, Essays on Kant and Hume," in Review of Metaphysics, vol. XXXII, 1979.
9. "Review of: R.C.S. Walker, Kant," in Review of Metaphysics, vol. XXXIII, no. 2, 1979.
10. "Review of: Gordon Brittan, Kant's Theory of Science," in ISIS, vol. 70, 1979.
11. "Review of: F. Kaulbach, Handlung bei Kant," in Review of Metaphysics, vol. XXXIII, no. 4, 1980.
12. "Review of: Bruce Anne, Kant's Theory of Morals," in Review of Metaphysics, vol. XXXIV, no. 2, 1980.
13. "Review of: Werner Busch, Die Entstehung der kritischen Rechtsphilosophie Kants," in Review of Metaphysics, vol. XXXIV, no. 2, 1980.
14. "Review of: Y. Yovel, Kant and the Philosophy of History," in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, Vol. 6, 1980.
15. "Review of: B. Högemann, Die Idee der Freiheit und das Subjekt. Eine Untersuchungen von Kants Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten," in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, Vol. 6, 1980.
16. "Review of: Stanley Rosen, The Limits of Analysis," in Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 14, 1981.
17. "Review of: W. H. Werkmeister, Kant, The Architectonic and Development of His Philosophy," in Review of Metaphysics, vol. XXXIV, no. 4, 1981.
18. "Review of: N. Rotenstreich, Practice and Realization, Studies in Kant's Moral Philosophy, in Review of Metaphysics, vol. XXXII, no. 1, 1981.
19. "Review of: J. N. Findlay, Kant and the Transcendental Object: A Hermeneutic Study, in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, Vol. 7, 1981.
20. "Review of: Rex Stevens, Kant on Moral Practice, in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, Vol. 7, 1981.
21. "Review of: Susan Meld Shell, The Rights of Reason: A Study of Kant's Philosophy and Politics, in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, Vol. 7, 1981.
22. "Review of: P. Heintel and L. Nagel, Zur Kantforschung der Gegenwart, in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, Vol. 7, 1981.
23. "Review of: J. V. Buroker, Space and Incongruence: The Origin of Kant's Idealism, in Review of Metaphysics, vol. XXXV, no. 4, 1982.
24. "Review of: Gary M. Hochberg, Kant: Moral Legislation and Two Senses of 'Will,'" in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, Vol. 8, 1982.
25. "Review of: Michael Rosen, Hegel's Dialectic and its Criticism, in Independent Journal of Philosophy, vol. IV, 1982.
26. "Review of: R. Aquila, Representational Mind, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews, vol. 5, 1985.
27. "Review of: H. Hoppe, Synthesis bei Kant, in Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 39, 1985-86.
28. "Review of: Henry E. Allison, Kant's Transcendental Idealism, in Kant-Studien, Vol. 77, 3, 1986.
29. "Review of: Werner Marx, The Philosophy of F. J. Schelling: History, System and Freedom, in The Philosophical Review, Vol. XCVI, No. 4, October, 1987.
30. "Review of: Ernest Joos, Poetic Truth and Transvaluation in Nietzsche's Zarathustra: A Hermeneutic Study, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. VIII, no. 2, February, 1988.
31. "Review of: H. S. Harris, Hegel's Development: Night Thoughts, Independent Journal of Philosophy, vol 5/6, 1988.
32. "Review of: Judith P. Butler, Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth Century France, in The Philosophical Review, Vol. XCIX, no.1 January 1990.
33. "Review of: Paul Guyer, Kant and the Claims of Knowledge, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. XXVIII, no.1, January, 1990.
34. "Review of: Terry Pinkard, Hegel's Dialectic: The Explanation of Possibility, in The Philosophical Review, Vol. C, no.4, October, 1991.
35. "Review of: Bruce Detweiler, Nietzsche and the Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism, forthcoming in the American Political Science Review.
36. "Review of: Allen W. Wood, Hegel's Ethical Thought, in Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung, Band 47, Heft 3, Juli-Sept, 1993.
37. "Review of: Stephen K. White, Political Theory and Postmodernism, in The Review of Politics, vol 55, no.1, Winter 1993.
38. "Review of: Fred Dallmayr, Between Freiburg and Frankfurt: Toward a Critical Ontology, in Political Theory, vol. 21, No.2, May, 1993.
39. "Review of: Klaus Christian Köhnke, The Rise of Neo-Kantianism, in The Philosophical Review, vol. 102, October, 1993.
40. "Review of: Béatrice Longuenesse, Kant et la pouvoir de juger. Sensibilité et discursivité dans l'Analytique transcendentale de la Critique de la raison pure." in Journal of Philosophy, vol. 97 (no. 9406), 1997.
Contribution to Cambridge Companion to Gadamer (Due in January 2000)
Contribution to collection of essays on John McDowell's Man and World (Due to Routledge in January, 2000)
"The Self-Legislation of Norms: Hegel's Version," for presentation at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, at Columbia University, October 14-16. The conference theme is "Normativity and Legitimacy"
"Die Verwirklichung der Freiheit: Hegels Theorie und moderne Wirklichkeit" for public lecture at The Siemens Stiftung in Munich in November 1999
"Rigorismus und der neue Kant," invited plenary lecture at Kant Kongress in Berlin in January 2000.
"The Erotic Nietzsche," for a conference in Santa Clara in February 2000.
"Conceptions of Philosophy in German Idealism," to be presented at Swarthmore in February.
New College (1974)
Vassar College
Syracuse University
UCSD (1975)
Pacific Division meetings of the APA (1977)
The London School of Economics (1978)
Eastern Division meetings of the APA (1979)
Symposium on Marcuse (UCSD, March, 1979)
Symposium on Modernity, Washington, D. C. (May, 1980)
Fifth International Kant Congress, (Mainz, West Germany, 1981)
Eastern APA (1982)
Pacific APA (1985)
Sixth International Kant Congress, State College, Pa. (1985)
San Diego State University (1985)
Ethics and its History Symposium, UCSD (1986)
Pacific APA (1986)
Symposium on Blumenberg, American Political Science Assoc. (1988)
Colloquium on "War, Human Nature, and Power in Greek Tragedy," San Diego (February 16-19, 1989)
Symposium on my Hegel's Idealism (commentators, Terry Pinkard, H. S. Harris), Pacific Division meeting APA (April, 1989)
Conference, "Zur Philosophischen Aktualität Heideggers," Bonn-Bad Godesberg (April, 1989), Georgetown University
Penn State University (1989)
Claremont College Graduate School (1989)
"Technology and Democracy" conference, Michigan State University
International Colloquium on Kant's Critique of Judgment, Lisbon, Portugal (1990)
Georgetown University, (1991)
American Metaphysical Society, Penn State University (1991)
Pacific Division APA (1991).
September 1991: Conference on German Emigrés, University of Colorado, Boulder; October, 1991: Boston University, Duke University
November, 1991: University of Chicago
December, 1991: University of Toronto, Eastern Division of APA (Symposium)
January, 1992: Tel Aviv, Jerusalem (Conference)
March, 1992: Princeton University (Government Department)
April, 1992: Emory University, Central Division, APA (Symposium on Hegel's Idealism)
June, 1992: St. Paul,Minn. (Conference on Plato's Laws)
American Political Science Association, September, 1992, conference participant
University of Illinois, February, 1993
American Philosophical Association, Central Division meetings
April 1993 (Symposium on Terry Pinkard's Hegel's Dialectic)
Northwestern University, April 1993
Hegel Kongress, June, 1993
International Nietzsche Sesquicentennial Conference, 1994
Notre Dame University, 1994
University of Pittsburgh Philosophy Department, 1994, Dartmouth Conference on German Idealism, 1995; Vanderbilt University, Conference on New Readings of Kant's Critique of Judgment.
August 31- September 5: Hegel Society of Great Britain, Pembroke College, Oxford. "Hegel on Historical Meaning: For Example, the Enlightenment."
September 12: Colorado College. "Henry James and Modern Moral Life."
September 20: Northern Illinois University, Philosophy Department Colloquium. "Hegel, Freedom, the Will: The Philosophy of Right, #1-33."
October 10 - October 20: Germany
May 1: Philosophy Department, Princeton University. "Hegel on Historical Meaning: For Example, the Enlightenment."
May 8 - 11: Sidona, Arizona, "Liberty in the Westerns of John Ford." Liberty Fund Conference; discussant.
May 18: "Bloom's International Theme: American Universities and German Philosophers." Olin Center Conference. "Ten Years After The Closing of the American Mind."
June 13: "Blumenberg's Kompatibilismus: Zwischen Logos und Mythos." Keynote speaker, Hans Blumenberg Memorial Conference. Münster, Germany
September, 1997: "Nietzsche und die Melancholie der Modernität," Konzepte der Moderne, DFG conference, Günzberg. Plenary speaker.
October, 1997: "Nietzsche und Modernität," Master Course, Humboldt University, Berlin. (A Master Course is a five hour per day, five day, semester credit seminar; in this case, sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation.)
Tübingen, December, 1997: "Abgrenzen und Ableiten in Kants Rechtslehre," international conference on Kant's Rechtslehre.
Heidelberg, December, 1997: "Nietzsche und die Melancholie der Modernität," Philosophisches Seminar.
Göttingen, January, 1998: "Hegel über Freiheit," Philosophisches Seminar.
Frankfurt, February, 1998: "Hegel über Freiheit," Philosophisches Seminar
Prague, April, 1998:
Budapest, June, 1998: Commentator on paper by Norman Davies, "The Idea of Europe."
Tübingen, June 1998: "Der frühe Fichte war kein subjektiver Idealist," Colloquium series, Philosophisches Seminar
Frankfurt, July, 1998: "What is the Question for which Hegel's Theory of Recognition is the Answer?" International Conference on Theories of Recognition
Boston University, September, 1998: "The Ethical Status of Civility"
Northwestern University, November, 1998: Conference on "Hegel's Legacy." "Naturalness and Mindedness: Hegel's Compatibilism."
University of Kentucky, December, 1998: "The Ethical Status of Recognition in Hegel"
Washington, D.C., December, 1998, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, North American Nietzsche Society meetings: "Nietzsche and Democracy." "Deceit, Desire and Democracy: Nietzsche on Modern Eros."
University of Georgia, January, 1999: "The Ethical Status of Recognition in Hegel"
Michigan State University, February, 1999: "Modern Moral Meaning: Nietzsche on Democratic Ressentiment."
Harvard University, March, 1999: "Nietzsche on the Melancholy of Modernity."
Loyola University, Chicago, April, 1999: "Nietzsche on the Melancholy of Modernity."
Georgetown University, April, 1999: "Hegel's Compatibilism."
University of Illinois, Urbana, April, 1999: "The Ethical Status of Recognition in Hegel"
Stuttgart, June, 1999: Hegel Kongress, "Die Freiheit als Schicksal. Verwirklichung und Geschichte bei Hegel."
Fellowship Selection Committee, NEH, 1989, 1991
Editorial Board, History of Philosophy Quarterly (1994-1997)
Editorial Board, Journal of the History of Philosophy
Editorial Board (English Language Editor) Jahrbuch der Nietzsche Forschung.
Program Selection Committee, North American Nietzsche Society (1994-1997)
Editorial Advisory Board, Hegel Society of America/Owl of Minerva
Editorial Board, Philosophical Explorations
Series Editor, Modern European Philosophy, Cambridge University Press.
Stanford Encyclopedia Project, Editor, Nineteenth Century Continental Philosophy
1997 Central Division, APA Program, Committee.
Advisory Committee, APA Programs
[November 1999]
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