Department of Philosophy
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Box 90743
Durham, NC 27708

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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, 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 2010):
  • POLSCI 299CS.01, Med & early modern pol theory Synopsis
    LSRC D243, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)
  • M.A. Gillespie. ""Response to my Critics"." Review of Politics (Fall, 2010).
  • M.A. Gillespie and Keegan Callanan. Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche. Camden House, 2010.  (an essay in preparation)
  • M.A. Gillespie. ""Radical Hop[es: Apocalyptic Longings in Nineteenth Century Philosophy"." Apcalypticism. Ed. Matthais Riedl.  2009. 
  • M.A. Gillespie. "Slaying the Jabberwock: Sherlock Holmes and the Problem of Globalization"."   (Submitted, 2009).
  • M.A. Gillespie. ""Hegel," The International Encyclopedia of Political Science, ed. George Kurian et al (Washington, DC: CQ Press, forthcoming).."  

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