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Michael A Gillespie, Professor and Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Political Science    editMichael A Gillespie

Office Phone: +1 919-660-4308
Fax:  (919) 660-4330
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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
Continental Philosophy

Research Interests:
Michael Gillespie (Ph.D. University of Chicago) 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 is currently completing a book entitled Mutiplicitous Modernity. 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.

Areas of Interest:
Political Philosophy, 
Modern Continental Philosophy, 
History of Political Philosophy

Teaching (Spring 2012):
  • POLSCI 236S.01, Hegel's pol philosophy Synopsis
    Perkins 307, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)
  • M.A. Gillespie and John Harpham. "Sherlock Holmes, Crime and the Anxieties of Globalization." Critical Review  (Accepted, January, 2012).
  • M.A. Gillespie and Keegan Calanan. "Toward Noon: Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals." A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche  (Accepted, 2012).
  • M.A. Gillespie and Lucas Perkins. "Vattimo's Hermeneutic Marxism." Renewing Communism through Hermeneutics? On Vattimo and Zabala’s Hermeneutic Communism  (Accepted, 2012).
  • M.A. Gillespie. "Machiavelli's Modernity and the Christian Tradition." The Modern Turn  (Accepted, 2012).
  • M.A. Gillespie. "Martin Heidegger between Philosophy and Political Theology." Religion and Modern European Thought,  (Accepted, 2012).

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