Michael A Gillespie, Professor and Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Political Science edit
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Education:
PhD, University of Chicago, 1981
Research, Ruhr Universität-Hegel Archives, Bochum, Germany, 1976
A.B. magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1973
- Specialties:
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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
- 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
Teaching (Spring 2010):
- POLSCI 299CS.01, Adv top in govt & pol (theory)
Synopsis
- LSRC D243, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- M.A. Gillespie. ""Hegel," The International Encyclopedia of Political Science, ed. George Kurian et al (Washington, DC: CQ Press, forthcoming).."
- M.A. Gillespie. ""Afterword"." Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus. 2008.
- M.A. Gillespie. "“Nihilism,” Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2009)."
- M.A. Gillespie. "Players and Spectators: Sports and Ethical Training in the American University." Debating Moral Education. Ed. Elizabeth Kiss and Peter Euben. Duke University Press, Forthcoming 2009.
- Geoffrey Brennan and Michael Gillespie. Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus. Public Choice, Special Issue. 2008.