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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, Nihilism before Nietzsche. and The Theological Origins of Modernity. He is also co-editor of Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics, Ratifying the Constitution, and Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus.. 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, the Earhart Foundation, the Smith Foundation, and The Jack Miller Center. He is the Director of the Gerst Program in Political, Economic, and Humanistic Studies, and the Duke Program in American Values and Institutions.

Areas of Interest:

Political Philosophy, 
Modern Continental Philosophy, 
History of Political Philosophy

• POLSCI 175FS.01, Intro to pol philosophy (c) Synopsis

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

• FOCUS 195FS.09, Special topics in focus Synopsis

  Smith 271, Th 06:00 PM-07:30 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

• M.A. Gillespie and John Harpham. "Sherlock Holmes, Crime and the Anxieties of Globalization." Critical Review (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).