Michael A Gillespie

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Office Phone:	(919) 660-4308, (919) 660-4300
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Teaching (Fall 2009):

• Focus 99fcs.09, Special topics in focus

  See instru, Th 06:00 PM-07:30 PM

• Polsci 123fcs.01, Intro to pol philosophy (c)

  Perkins 307, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• Polsci 226s.01, Nietzsche's polit philos Synopsis

  Perkins 307, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

• German 276s.01, Nietzsche's polit philos Synopsis

  Perkins 307, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

• Polsci 398.02, Sel top government/pol

  Perkins 2-070, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

Education:

PhD	University of Chicago	1981
Research	Ruhr Universität-Hegel Archives, Bochum, Germany	1976
A.B. magna cum laude	Harvard University	1973

Specialties:

Political Philosophy
Political Theory
Continental Philosophy

Research Interests:

Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, works in political philosophy, with particular emphasis on modern continental theory and the history of political philosophy. He is the author of Hegel, Heidegger and the Ground of History, and Nihilism before Nietzsche. He is also co-editor of Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics, and Ratifying the Constitution. He has published articles on Montaigne, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and various topics in American political thought, as well as on the relation of religion and politics. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Templeton Foundation, the Liberty Fund, and the Earhart Foundation. He is the Director of the Gerst Program in Political, Economic, and Humanistic Studies.

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. M.A. Gillespie, "Hegel," The International Encyclopedia of Political Science, ed. George Kurian et al (Washington, DC: CQ Press, forthcoming). (2009).
2. M.A. Gillespie, "Afterword", in Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus (2008).
3. M.A. Gillespie, “Nihilism,” Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2009) (2008).
4. M.A. Gillespie, Players and Spectators: Sports and Ethical Training in the American University, in Debating Moral Education, edited by Elizabeth Kiss and Peter Euben (Forthcoming 2009), Duke University Press.
5. Geoffrey Brennan and Michael Gillespie, Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus, Public Choice, Special Issue (2008).