Anthony Joseph Steinbock
Department of Philosophy
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901-4505
(618) 453-7436
e-mail: steinboc@siu.edu
Academic/Professional Information, Publications, Papers Presented, Grants and Awards, Teaching, Service, Professional Affiliations
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
· Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Professor with Tenure, Department of Philosophy (1999-present)
· Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy (1995-99)
· University of New Hampshire, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy (1994-95)
· State University of New York at Stony Brook, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy (1992-94)
Guest Professor: Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 5 - April 2, 2008
FACULTY STATUS:
Graduate Faculty
EDUCATION:
1985 - 1993 SUNY AT STONY BROOK, Stony Brook, New York, Ph.D. in Philosophy (1993)
1989 - 1990 L'ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES, Paris, France
1987 - 1989 RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM, Bochum, Germany
1981 - 1983 DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, Chicago, Illinois, M.A. in Philosophy (1983)
1976 - 1981 UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND, Portland, Oregon, B.S. Philosophy maxima cum laude (1981), B.A. Theology maxima cum laude (1981)
ARCHIVAL RESEARCH:
Husserl-Archives, New York, USA NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH (April-August, 1992)
Husserl-Archief, Leuven, Belgium KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (April, 1991)
Archives-Husserl, Paris, France ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE (December 1990-June 1991)
Husserl-Archief, Leuven, Belgium KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (March, 1998)
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES:
General Editor “Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy” (“SPEP”) Series at Northwestern University Press
Editor-in-Chief Continental Philosophy Review: An International Philosophical Review (formerly Man and World)
Associate Editor “Topics in Historical Philosophy” at Northwestern University Press
Editorial Board Levinas Studies. An Annual Review
Editorial Board Chiasmi International
Editorial Board Alter: revue de phénoménologie
Executive Editorial Board Library of Living Philosophers
Associate Advisor Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
Executive Committee SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
LANGUAGES:
Fluency in German and French; Proficiency in Spanish, Ancient Greek, and Ancient Hebrew
Academic/Professional Information, Publications, Papers Presented, Grants and Awards, Teaching, Service, Professional Affiliations
PUBLICATIONS:
A. BOOKS, BOOK AND JOURNAL EDITIONS:
Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious Experience (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007), pp. 309.
Edmund Husserl, Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Syntheses: Lectures on Transcendental Logic, translation, Husserliana Collected Works, IX (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 659 + lx “Translator’s Introduction.”
Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology after Husserl (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1995), pp. 336.
Grenzüberschreitungen: Generative Phänomenologie nach Husserl, trans., Tanja Stähler (Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber, 2003), pp. 428. German translation of Home and Beyond.
BOOK EDITIONS:
Phenomenology in Japan, with presentation (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998) Reprint of Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 31, No.3, pp. 116..
SPECIAL JOURNAL EDITIONS:
The Phenomenology of Attention (Special Edition of Continental Philosophy Review), Vol. 37, No. 1 (2004), 1-151 (pp. 151).
The Philosophy of Michel Henry (Special Edition of Continental Philosophy Review), Vol. 32, No. 3 (1999), 219-377 (pp. 158).
Phenomenology in Japan (Special Edition of Continental Philosophy Review), Vol. 31, No. 3 1998), 225-335 (pp. 110).
Back to the Things Themselves (Special Edition of Human Studies), Vol. 20, No. 2 (1997), 127-301 (pp. 174).
A. ARTICLES: (“*” signifies articles translated and published in another language):
“Reducing the One to the Other: Kant, Levinas, and the Problem of Religious Experience,” in Levinas Studies: An Annual Review, Vol. 4 (2009), forthcoming.
* "Limit-Phenomena and the Liminality of Experience, Russian translation forthcoming in Topos: Journal for Philosophical and Cultural Studies.
“The Poor Phenomenon: Marion and the Problem of Givenness,” in French Phenomenology, eds., Bruce Ellis Benson and Norman Wirzba (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming).
“The Poor Phenomenon: Marion and the Problem of Givenness,” Alter: revue de phenomenology, Vol. 15 (forthcoming 2007).
“From Phenomenological Immortality to Phenomenological Natality,” in Rethinking Facticity, ed., Eric Nelson and Francois Raffoul (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2008 forthcoming).
* “Personal Givenness and Cultural a prioris” in Chinese translation by Liangkang Ni (forthcoming, 2007).
“A Phenomenology of Despair,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3 (2007), 435-451.
“Time, Otherness, and Possibility in the Experience of Hope” in Issues in Interpretation Theory, ed., Pol Vandevelde (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2006), 271-289.
“On the Theory and Practice of Philosophical Education,” in Ideas and Practice of Philosophical Education and Educating Philosophy, eds., K. Murakami, et. al., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2006, 131-141.
* Japanese translation of “On the Theory and Practice of Philosophical Education,” trans., Dai Takeuchi and Takeaki Fukyo, in Ideas and Practice of Philosophical Education and Educating Philosophy, eds., K. Murakami, et. al., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2006, 251-261.
* “Exemplarity and Intersubjective Attention,” Chinese translation by Liangkang Ni, The Phenomenological and Philosophical Research in China, “Phenomenology and Ethos,” Vol. 7(2005). 315-348.
"Pour une phénoménologie de l'espoir," Revue de théologie et de philosophie, trans., Frédéric Moinat, Vol. 137 (2005), 245-260.
“Face and Revelation: Levinas on Teaching as Way-Faring,” in Addressing Levinas, ed., Eric Sean Nelson, et. al. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2005), 119-137.
* “Immortalité, mortalité et natalité dans une perspective phénoménologique,” trans., Frédéric Moinat, Alter: revue de phénoménologie, Vol. 13 (2005), 317-333.
* “French translation of the above by Lysiane Janssens: “Donation de la personne et a prioris culturel,” L'art du Comprendre, 2004.
“Facticity and Insight as Problems of the Lifeworld: On Individuation,” in Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2004), 241-261.
“Affection and Attention: On the Phenomenology of Becoming Aware” in The Phenomenology of Attention (Special Edition of Continental Philosophy Review), ed., Anthony J. Steinbock, Vol. 37, No. 1 (2004), 21-43.
“Personal Givenness and Cultural a prioris,” in Time, Space, and Culture, eds., David Carr and Chan–Fai Cheung, (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004), 159-176.
“Facticité et intuition dans la problématique du monde de la vie,” French translation by Frédéric Moinat, in Kairos, No. 22 (2003), 189-211.
“Individuation, Particularization, and the Scope of Eidetic Insight,” in Husserl Studies in Japan: The Exploration of New Horizons in Husserlian Phenomenology, Vol. 1 (March, 2003), 193-209.
* Japanese translation by Toru Tani of “Individuation, Particularization, and the Scope of Eidetic Insight,” in Husserl Studies in Japan: The Exploration of New Horizons in Husserlian Phenomenology, Vol. 1 (March, 2003), 211-234.
“Generativity and the Scope of Generative Phenomenology,” in The New Husserl: A Critical Reader, ed. Donn Welton (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003), 289-325.
“Interpersonal Attention through Exemplarity” (Reprint), Chul Hak Sa Sang (Journal of Philosophical Ideas, Korea) Vol. XV (Winter 2002), 47-83.
“Affektion und Aufmerksamkeit,” trans., Christiane Thompson, in Die erscheinende Welt: Festschrift for Klaus Held, ed., Heinrich Hüni and Peter Trawny (Berlin: Duncker & Humbolt, 2002), 241-273.
“Interpersonal Attention through Exemplarity,” Journal of Consciousness Studies: Beyond Ourselves, ed., Evan Thompson (2001), 179-196.
"Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and Saturated Intentionality," in Rereading Merleau-Ponty: Essays Across the Continental-Analytic Divide, eds. Lawrence Hass and Dorothea Olkowski (Amherst, NY: Humanities Books, 2000), 53-74.
"The Problem of Forgetfulness in Michel Henry" The Philosophy of Michel Henry (Special Edition of Continental Philosophy Review ) ed., Anthony J. Steinbock, 32/3 (1999), 271-302.
"Saturated Intentionality" in The Body: Classic and Contemporary Readings, ed. Donn Welton (London: Blackwell, 1999), 178-199.
"Phenomenology and Limit-Phenomena: Review of Alter: revue de phénoménologie, Husserl Studies, 1999.
"Forward" to The Ethics of Homelessness: A Philosophical Perspective, ed., John M. Abbarno (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999), 1-4.
* "Limit-Phenomena and the Liminality of Experience," Alter: revue de phénoménologie, 6 (1998), 275-296.
* Japanese translation of above article by Eiji Kamiya, Shiso [Thought]/A Hundred Years of Phenomenology, ed., Toru Tani and Yoshihiro Nitta: 10/916 (2000): 218 - 243.
"Idolatry and the Phenomenology of the Holy: Reversing the Reversal," in Phänomenologische Philosophie in Japan: Beiträge zum interkulturellen Gespräch, ed., T. Ogawa, M. Lazarin, and G. Rappe (München: Iudicium, 1998), 385-407.
"Introduction" to “Phenomenology in Japan,” Continental Philosophy Review, 31/3 (1998): 225-239.
"Spirit and Generativity: The Role and Contribution of the Phenomenologist in Hegel and Husserl," in Alterity and Facticity: New Perspectives on Husserl, eds., Natalie Depraz and Dan Zahavi (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998), 163-203.
"Husserl's Static and Genetic Phenomenology: Translator's Introduction," Continental Philosophy Review (formerly Man and World): 31/ 2 (1998): 127-134.
"Genesis, Normality and Optimality: Commentary on Wolfe Mays's 'Genetic Explanation in Husserl and Piaget'," New Ideas in Psychology, 16/1 (1998): 11-17.
"Temporality and the Point: The Origins and Crisis of Continental Philosophy,” in Self-Awareness, Temporality, and Alterity: Central Topics in Phenomenology, ed., Dan Zahavi (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998), 151-167.
"Introduction," Back to the Things Themselves, Human Studies, Guest Editor, Anthony J. Steinbock, 20/2 (1997): 127-135.
"The Origins and Crisis of Continental Philosophy," Man and World, 30/2 (1997): 199-215. "Generative Phenomenology," in The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, ed., Lester Embree (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997), 261-266.
"Reflections on Earth and World: Merleau-Ponty's Transcendental Geology and Transcendental History," in Merleau-Ponty: Differences, Materiality, Painting, ed., Véronique M. Fóti (New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1996), 90-111.
"Homeworld/Alienworld: Towards Husserl's Generative Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity," in Phenomenology, Interpretation, and Community, ed., Lenore Langsdorf and Stephen H. Watson (New York: SUNY Press, 1996), 65-81.
"Generativity and Generative Phenomenology," Husserl Studies, 12/1 (1995), 55-79. "The Phenomenological Concepts of Normality and Abnormality," in Man and World, 28/3 (1995): 241-260.
"The Project of Ethical Renewal and Critique: Edmund Husserl's Early Phenomenology of Culture," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 32/4, (Winter, 1994): 449-464.
"Homelessness and the Homeless Movement: A Clue to the Problem of Intersubjectivity," in Human Studies, 17/3 (April, 1994): 203-223.
"The New 'Crisis' Contribution: A Supplementary Edition of Edmund Husserl's Crisis Texts," in Review of Metaphysics, 47/3 (March, 1994): 557-584.
* French translation of above article, "Nouvelle contributions à la 'Krisis': une édition complémentaire des texts de Husserl relatif à la Krisis." Trans., Matthieu Mavridis, Alter: revue de phénoménologie, "Monde(s)," 6 (1998): 335-363.
"Totalitarianism, Homogeneity of Power, Depth: Towards a Socio-Political Ontology," Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 51/4, (December 1989): 621-648.
"Whitehead's 'Theory' of Propositions," Process Studies, 18/1 Spring 1989, 19-29. "Helping and Homogeneity: Therapeutic Interaction as the Challenge to Power," Quarterly Journal of Ideology 12/1 (1988): 31-45.
"Merleau-Ponty's Concept of Depth," in Philosophy Today, 31/4 (1987): 336-351.
TRANSLATIONS:
"Horizons and the Genesis of Perception" by Edmund Husserl, in The Essential Husserl: Basic Writings in Transcendental Phenomenology, ed., Donn Welton (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), 221-233.
"Static and Genetic Phenomenological Method," in The Essential Husserl: Basic Writings in Transcendental Phenomenology, ed., Donn Welton (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), 316-321. [Reprint of item below]
"Static and Genetic Phenomenological Method," Continental Philosophy Review (formerly Man and World), 31/2 (1998): 135-142.
"The Phenomenology of Monadic Individuality and the Phenomenology of the General Possibilities and Compossibilites of Lived-Experiences. Static and Genetic Phenomenology," Continental Philosophy Review (formerly Man and World), 31/2 (1998), 143-152.
"Civic Prudence: Paradigm Transformation in Machiavelli," by Klaus Held, in The Ancients and the Moderns, ed., Reginald Lilly (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 115 –129.
"Fundamental Moods and Heidegger's Critique of Contemporary Culture," by Klaus Held, in Reading Heidegger: Commemorations, ed., John Sallis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), 286-303.
"Finitude of the World: Phenomenology in Transition from Husserl to Heidegger," by Klaus Held, in Ethics and Danger: Essays on Heidegger and Continental Thought, ed., Arleen B. Dallery and Charles E. Scott (SUNY Press, 1992), 187-198.
"Experience of the Alien in Husserl's Phenomenology," by Bernhard Waldenfels, Research in Phenomenology, 20 (1990): 19-33.
"The Greek Beginning of Philosophy and its Phenomenological Renewal," by Klaus Held, presented at the New School for Social Research, October 5, 1989.
"A Conversation between Joschka Fischer and André Glucksmann: On the French and German Left," Telos, 67 (Spring 1986): 206-217. Trans. with Wodek Szemberg.
"Philosophy and Literature," by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Man and World, 18 (1985): 241-259.
Academic/Professional Information, Publications, Papers, Grants and Awards, Teaching, Service, Professional Affiliations
B. PAPERS:
“Religious Experience, Mysticism, and the Question of Evidence: Crisis as Idolatry,” Crisis and Tradition: Phenomenological Horizons (European Rationality in the Break from Modernity: Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics), Keynote, University of Helsinki, Helsinki,Finland, March 28, 2008.
“The Crisis Problematic in Husserl’s Generative Phenomenology,” Research Seminar, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, March 27, 2008.
“Repentance: Immanence and Transcendence in Personal Emotions,” Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 25, 2008.
“L’expérience religieuse, mysticisme, et la question de l’évidence,” Université Sorbonne (Paris IV), Paris, France, March 22, 2008.
“Exemplarité et attention,” Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique: Séminaire des Archives Husserl 2007-2008, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France, March 21, 2008.
“Reducing the One to the Other: Kant, Levinas, and the Problem of Religious Experience,” Keynote, Religion and Subjectivity: Reconsidering the Relational Self, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 14, 2008.
“The Formation of Self and Otherness in the Experience of Trust,” Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, March12, 2008.
"Repentance in a Phenomenology of Personal Experience," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Chicago, IL, November 8, 2007.
"Mysticism, Religious Experiences and the Question of Evidence,” Colloquium Series, Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, October, 26, 2007.
“Aesthesis as Kinaesthesis” A_esthesia: The UN Ocular Effect, Keynote Address, School of Architecture, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, September 29, 2007.
“The Verticality of Experience,” Nordic Society for Phenomenology, Plenary Lecture, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 20, 2007.
“Mysticism and Religious Experience,” Honi Haber Memorial Lecture, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO, March 12, 2007.
“The Poor Phenomenon: Marion and the Problem of Givenness,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Philadelphia, PA, October 13, 2006.
“Synaesthesia and the Sixth Sense,” Chair and Discussant on “Toward a Phenomenology of the Senses,” Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS), Philadelphia, PA, October 12, 2006.
“Verticality and Idolatry,” Stony Brook Philosophy Colloquium Series, Stony Brook, NY, March 30, 2006.
“The Experience of Trust in the Phenomenology of Personal Emotions,” Keynote Address, Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN, February 24, 2006.
“Hope in Human Experience: Structures of the Person,” DePaul Philosophy Colloquium Series, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, January 27, 2006.
“Hope in Human Experience: Toward a Phenomenology of the Emotional Life,” Continental Group Talk, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, January 17, 2006.
“On the Phenomenology of Trust,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Salt Lake City, UT, October 21, 2005.
“On the Phenomenology of Despair,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Memphis, TN, October 29, 2004.
“Temporality and Possibility: Toward a Phenomenology of Hope” Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 26, 2004.
“Immortalité, mortalité et natalité dans une perspective phénoménologique,” Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, France, May 24, 2004.
“Un rendez-vous de l'éthique: sur le chemin de l'espoir vécu”, Ethique et phénoménologie/Alter, Paris, France, May 22, 2004.
“Immortalité, mortalité et natalité dans une perspective phénoménologique,” Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, May 18, 2004.
“On a Phenomenology of Hope, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Boston, MA, November 7, 2003.
“Immortality, Mortality, and Natality in Phenomenological Perspective,” Keynote Address, Philosophy Graduate Student Association: On Intentionality, Marquette University, April 4, 2003.
“Facticity and Insight as Problems of the Lifeworld," Seminar on Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, April 3, 2003.
“Hoping Against Hope: The Relation between Possibility and Impossibility in the Experience of Hope,” Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center’s Symposium on Hope, Duquesne University, February 28 - March 1, 2003.
“From Phenomenological Immortality to Phenomenological Natality,” Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, November 27, 2002.
“Individuation, Particularization, and the Scope of Eidetic Insight,” New Research in Husserlian Phenomenology, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan, November 23, 2002.
“Levinas and Revelation after a Fashion,” University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea, November 22, 2002.
“Intersubjectivity and Exemplarity,” University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea, November 21, 2002.
“Individuation, Temporality, and Affection,” Boston University Colloquium, Boston, MA, October, 19, 2002
“Attending to the Passive Propagation of Sense,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Chicago, IL, October 12, 2002.
“Epiphany as a Clue to the Religious Dimension of Experience,” Phenomenology as Bridge between Asia and the West, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, May 10, 2002
“Dimensions of Vertical Givenness,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Baltimore, MD, October 5, 2001.
“Epiphany and Withdrawal,” Phenomenology in the Nordic Countries, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1, 2001.
“Le dévoilement de le sens de la passivité,” Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, France, May 28, 2001.
“Personal Givenness and Cultural Aprioris,” Second International Conference on Phenomenology, “Time, Space, and Culture,” Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, November 20-25, 2000.
“Interpersonal Attention and Exemplarity,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), University Park, Pennsylvania, October, 6, 2000.
“Affection and Attention: On Becoming Aware,” invited paper, Philosophy Colloquium Series, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, May 5, 2000.
“Responsibility and Renewal,” Philosophical Collaborations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, March 2, 2000.
"Face and Revelation: Levinas on Teaching as Way-Faring, Addressing Levinas, Atlanta, Georgia, Emory University, October 16, 1999
"The Awakening of Cognitive Interest: The Transition from Passive to Active Synthesis", Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Eugene, Oregon, October 8, 1999.
"Exemplarity, the Moral Life, and Overcoming Forgetfulness," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Denver, Colorado, October 9, 1998.
"Idolatrie und Phänomenologie des Heiligen" Ringvorlesung: "Wozu Phänomenologie," Bergische Universität Wuppertal (invited lecture), May 25, 1998.
"Levinas and Scheler on Teaching and Exemplarity," Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (invited lecture), March 25, 1998.
"Freedom, Justice, and Teaching: Alterity in Levinas," Philosophical Collaborations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, March 19, 1998.
"Idolatry and the Phenomenology of the Holy," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Lexington, Kentucky, October 17, 1997.
"Temporality and the Point: The Origins and Crisis of Continental Philosophy," Self-Awareness, Temporality and Alterity (invited paper) University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 5-7, 1996.
"Saturated Presence, Vertical Experience, Aesthetic Body," Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences/SPEP, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 11, 1996.
"The Generation of the a priori and Being at Home," Response to Gail Soffer and Burt Hopkins in "Current Scholars Session" Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy on review of my Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology after Husserl, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 10, 1996.
"Communicating Generativity Across Homeworlds and Alienworlds," Japanese/American Conference: The Possibility of Cross-Cultural Communication, Sendai, Japan, September 16-21, 1996.
"Generative Phenomenology and Intercultural Life," Phenomenology & Metaphysics: East and West, Rice University, April 4-7, 1996.
"The Crisis of Continental Philosophy," invited lecture, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, November 30, 1995.
Chair and Discussant, "Merleau-Ponty, Language, and Saussure/Husserl/Heidegger," Merleau-Ponty Circle, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 21-23, 1995.
"The Project of a Generative Phenomenology," Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois, February 3, 1995.
"The Phenomenological Concepts of Normality and Abnormality," invited lecture, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, January 16, 1995.
"The Phenomenological Concepts of Normality and Abnormality," Northern New England Philosophical Association, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 22, 1994.
"Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and Saturated Intentionality," Merleau-Ponty Circle, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia, September 23, 1994.
"The Project of Ethical Renewal and Critique: Edmund Husserl's Early Phenomenology of Culture," Husserl Circle, Atlantic Florida University, Florida, May 27, 1994.
"Normality and Abnormality in Husserl's Genetic Phenomenology," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 23, 1993.
"Lifeworld-Ontology, Anthropology, and Generativity: Part IV of Husserl's Crisis Reflections," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 21, 1993.
"Dancing in Depth: Movement in the Vertical Dimension," Merleau-Ponty Circle, Mullenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, September 25, 1993.
"Commentary: Tradition and Generativity in Husserl and Heidegger," Heidegger Conference, Stony Brook, New York, June 5, 1993.
"The Idea of a Generative Phenomenology," The Society for the Study of Husserl's Philosophy/American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 23, 1993.
"The Problem of Normality and Abnormality from a Phenomenological Perspective," invited by Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, January 28, 1993.
"Homelessness and the Homeless Movement: A Clue to the Problem of Intersubjectivity," invited by Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Denver, February 1, 1993.
"The Homeless Movement as the Heimlich Maneuver: Unheimlichkeit and Homelessness," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Boston College and Boston University, Boston Massachusetts, October 10, 1992.
"Reflections on Earth and World: Merleau-Ponty's Transcendental Geology and History," Merleau-Ponty Circle, Saint Joseph's College, West Hartford, Connecticut, September 25, 1992.
"Homeworld/Alienworld: Husserl's Generative Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity," at Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, October 17, 1991.
"Towards a Social Ontology of Depth in Merleau-Ponty," Merleau-Ponty Circle, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, September 13, 1990.
"Die Tiefe als Grundbegriff der Sozialontologie," [Depth as a Fundamental Concept of Social Ontology] Doktorandkolloquium, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany, May 1989.
"Das Thema der transzendentalen Wissenschaft: Unterwegs zu einer transzendentalen Methodenlehre," [The Theme of Transcendental Science: On the Way Towards a Transcendental Doctrine of Method] Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany, June, 1988.
"Therapeutic Action and the Concept of Power," Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, April 12, 1987.
"What is Radical?: Therapeutic Interaction and the Homogeneity of Power," Strategies of Critique, York University, Toronto, Canada, March, 14, 1987.
"Artist, Revolutionary, Hero," Merleau-Ponty Circle, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, September 28, 1985.
"Merleau-Ponty and Erotic Perception," invited by the Five College Community Lecture Series, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, November 16, 1983.
"Nietzsche and the Will to Power as Interpretation," Conference on Contemporary European Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, April 26, 1983.
"Existence as Co-existence: The Sexual and Political Spheres," Merleau-Ponty Circle, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York, October 7, 1982.
Academic/Professional Information, Publications, Papers Presented, Grants and Awards, Teaching, Service, Professional Affiliations
RESEARCH/TEACHING GRANTS AND AWARDS:
National and International Grants and Awards
1999 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend. A grant for finalizing the translation and edition of Edmund Husserl, Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis: Lectures on Transcendental Logic (May 16 - July 15)
1998 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS): Contemplative Practice Fellowship Program. An award for the development of courses and teaching materials that explore contemplative practice from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives (June 16 - August 15, 1998).
1989-1990 Bourse Chateaubriand: A research fellowship awarded by the French Government for doctoral and post-doctoral work in the social sciences and the humanities.
1987-1989 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Direktstipendium: A fellowship awarded by the German Government for doctoral research at German universities and institutes.
1987 (Summer) DAAD Goethe-Institut Stipendium: A fellowship sponsored by the Generalkonsulat der Bundesrepublik Deutschland and Lewis and Clark College for language study.
University Grants and Awards
2008 College of Liberal Arts (CoLA) Outstanding Scholar of the Year
2006 College of Liberal Arts (CoLA) Outstanding Teacher of the Year
2005 Undergraduate Teaching Enhancement Award A university award, in this case, based on a proposal to design and to teach a new course entitled, "The Mission of the University” (award dates: May 16- July 15; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
2002-03 Special Research Project Award: A university research award sponsoring current research and providing funding for a full-time graduate research assistant, travel, etc. (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
2002 Summer Research Fellowship: A university award designed to support research for scholarly projects during the
Summer (June 16-July 15; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
1999 Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship Award: A university award to design and to develop courses for undergraduate
instruction (July 16 - August 15; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
1999 Summer Research Fellowship: See description above (May 16-July 15; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
1998 Multimedia Instructional Technology Fellowship Award: A university award to support the design and development of multi-media instructional strategies and materials for undergraduate instruction (May 16 - June 15, 1998; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
1997 Interdisciplinary Teaching Award: An award given by the College of Liberal Arts for Interdisciplinary, Team-Teaching. Award includes financial incentive bonus, support costs, and release from other undergraduate teaching duties. (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
1996-99 Special Research Grant: (See description above.)
1996 Summer Research Fellowship: (See description above. May 16-June 15)
1994-1995 Humanities Center Endowment: An endowment to sponsor interdisciplinary work such as conferences and colloquia. (University of New Hampshire, Humanities Center)
1995 Class of 1954 Fund: An award given to conference and colloquia directors for invited speakers of national and international recognition. (The University of New Hampshire)
1981-1983 Arthur J. Schmitt Fellowship awarded by DePaul University
Academic/Professional Information, Publications, Papers Presented, Grants and Awards, Teaching, Service, Professional Affiliations
TEACHING
A. Graduate Theses Committees:
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE
Doctoral Dissertations:
Internal
Director:
Committee Member:
· Russell Couch: The Humanism of Arendt and Gadamer: A Response to the Confrontation with Evil (June 22, 2006)
· Corey McCall, Indeterminacies of the Present: Heidegger and the Philosophical Significance of Curiousity (Defense: September 2, 2005)
· Christopher Nelson, Our Author’s Voice: The Quest of the Actual Veronym in Writings of Søren Kierkegaard (Defense: June 27, 2003)
· Adam Dike, Heidegger’s Appropriation of Aristotle: The Analogy of Being in Hermeneutic Phenomenology (Defense: April 8, 2003)
External
International:
Outside Reader SIUC:
Master's Theses:
Director:
· Christopher Nelson, Coming to Terms with the Ineffable: Eckhart, Discourse and the Divine (Defense: June 16, 1998) University Outstanding Master's Thesis Award
Committee Member:
B. Courses:
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE
Fall 2007 Graduate Seminar: Husserl, Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis
Spring 2007 Mission of the University
Spring 2007 Philosophy of Ethics: (Introductory Lecture) Theme: The Value of Person
Fall 2006 Graduate Seminar: Marx: Grundrisse
Spring 2006 Mission of the University
Spring 2006 Philosophy of Ethics: (Introductory Lecture) Theme: Ethics and Human Values
Fall 2005 Graduate Seminar: Levinas, Totality and Infinity
Spring 2005 Philosophy of Ethics: (Introductory Lecture) Theme: Ethics and Nihilism
Spring 2005 Philosophy and Film: Theme: Artist, Mystic, Saint: Models of Transcendence and Transformation
Fall 2004 Graduate Seminar: Husserl, Crisis
Summer 2004 Mystical Literature and Meditation
Spring 2004 Special Topics (Upper Division/Graduate): Phenomenology of Love
Spring 2004 Philosophy of Ethics: (Introductory Lecture) Theme: Ethics of Hope
Fall 2003 Graduate Seminar: Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
Summer 2003 Mystical Literature and Meditation
Spring 2003 Philosophy of Ethics: Theme: Politics and Ethics
Spring 2003 Philosophy of Religion: Theme: Religious Thought on Hope
Fall 2002 Graduate Seminar: Husserl, Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis
Fall 2002 Philosophy and Film: Theme: Artist, Mystic, Saint: Models of Transcendence and Transformation
Summer 2002 Mystical Literature and Meditation
Spring 2001 Graduate Seminar: 20th Century Jewish Philosophers: Buber and Levinas
Spring 2001 Philosophy of Ethics: (Introductory Lecture) Theme: Environmental Ethics
Fall 2000 Graduate Seminar: Scheler: Formalism
Fall 2000 Philosophy and Film: Bresson and Ozu
Summer 2000 Mystical Literature and Meditation
Spring 2000 Introductory Lecture: Theme: Utopia as Ethics
Spring 2000 Graduate Seminar: Husserl: Crisis
Fall 1999 Graduate Seminar: Merleau-Ponty: Phenomenology of Perception
Fall 1999 Philosophy and Literature/Team-Taught with English: Theme: "Toward a New Atlantis: Utopian Thought and Practice"
Spring 1999 Graduate Seminar: Recent European Philosophy, “The Gift”
Spring 1999 Mystical Literature and Meditation
Fall 1998 Philosophy of Religion: Theme: The Problem of Grace
Fall 1998 Philosophy of Ethics: (Introductory Lecture) Theme: Self and Other
Spring 1998 Graduate Seminar: Husserl's Analyses Concerning Passive Syntheses
Spring 1998 Philosophy of Ethics: (Introductory Lecture) Theme: Ethics and Education
Fall 1997 Graduate Seminar: Levinas
Fall 1997 Philosophy of Ethics: (Introductory Lecture) Theme: Morality and the Religious Life
Spring 1997 Graduate Seminar: Theme: "Phenomenology of Religious Experience "
Spring 1997 Philosophy and Literature/Team-Taught with English: Theme: "Subjectivity: Lost and Found"
Fall 1996 Philosophy and Literature: Theme: The Mystical Tradition
Fall 1996 Graduate Seminar: Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception
Spring 1996 Moral Reasoning: (Introductory Lecture) Theme: Morality beyond Good and Evil
Spring 1996 Graduate Seminar: Husserl and Genetic Phenomenology: Analyses Concerning Passive Synthesis
Fall 1995 Problems in Philosophy: Theme: Education and Virtue
Fall 1995 Graduate Seminar: "Recent European Philosophy," Theme: The Problem of the Other
SIU Study Group in Phenomenology
2007-08 Phenomenology of Guilt
2006-07 Phenomenology of Repentance
2005-06 Phenomenology of Betrayal
2004-05 Phenomenology of Trust
2003-04 Phenomenology of Despair
2002-03 Phenomenology of Hope
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Summer 1995 Society and Morals: Theme: Ethics and Social Responsibility
Spring 1995 18th Century Philosophy: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Spring 1995 Humanities (Team-Taught) Theme: History, Mind, and the Absurd
Spring 1995 Introduction to Philosophy Theme: Philosophy of Education
Fall 1994 Philosophy through Literature Theme: Movement
Fall 1994 Introduction to Philosophy: Theme: Body, Mind, and Movement
Fall 1994 Introduction to Philosophy: Theme: Body, Mind, and Movement
Conference Organization:
2001 – 02 Organizer and Co-Director (with Natalie Depraz, Sorbonne, Paris IV), “The Phenomenology of Attention-2” May 30 – June 1, 2002 (Collège International de Philosophie), Paris, France
2000 – 01 Organizer and Co-Director (with Natalie Depraz, Sorbonne, Paris IV), “The Phenomenology of Attention” April 18-22, 2001, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
1995-96 Organizer and Co-Director of Back to the Things Themselves Conference March 21-23, 1996, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. (International conference on research
in phenomenological and existentialist studies)
1994-95 Organizer and Co-Director of Back to the Things Themselves Conference March 23-25, 1995, the University of New Hampshire (See description above)
Academic/Professional Information, Publications, Papers Presented, Grants and Awards, Teaching, Service, Professional Affiliations
UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE, AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE:
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE
University and College
2004 - 05 CoLA Mentoring Program
2003 Review Committee for NEH Summer Scholarships
2002 – 04 Review Committee for Office of Research and Development (A university-wide committee to evaluate proposals for internal research grants.)
2000 University Mentoring Program
2000 CoLA Mentoring Program
2000 Review Committee for NEH Summer Stipend
2000 Selection Committee for Outstanding Dissertation Award
1997-99 Review Committee for Office of Research and Development
1997-98 Chair, Academic Policy Committee
1997-98 Executive Officer, Liberal Arts Council
1996-98 Liberal Arts Council