Michael A Gillespie

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Office Phone:	(919) 660-4308, (919) 660-4300
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Teaching (Spring 2012):

• Polsci 236s.01, Hegel's pol philosophy Synopsis

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

Education:

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

Specialties:

Political Philosophy
Political Theory
Continental Philosophy
Political Institutions

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 and John Harpham, Sherlock Holmes, Crime and the Anxieties of Globalization, Critical Review (January, 2012).
2. M.A. Gillespie and Keegan Calanan, Toward Noon: Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, in A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by Paul Bishop (2012), Camden House.
3. M.A. Gillespie and Lucas Perkins, Vattimo's Hermeneutic Marxism, in Renewing Communism through Hermeneutics? On Vattimo and Zabala’s Hermeneutic Communism, edited by Silvia Mazzini (2012), Continuum Press.
4. M.A. Gillespie, Machiavelli's Modernity and the Christian Tradition, in The Modern Turn (2012), Catholic University Press.
5. M.A. Gillespie, Martin Heidegger between Philosophy and Political Theology, in Religion and Modern European Thought,, edited by Graham Ward, George Pattison and Nicholas Adams (2012), Oxford University Press.