Michael A Gillespie, Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy and Director, Gerst Program in Political , Economic, and Humanistic Studies
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Teaching (Fall 2008):
- POLSCI 85EFCS.01, FREEDOM/RESPONSIBILITY
- Perkins 307, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- FOCUS 99FCS.09, SPECIAL TOPICS IN FOCUS
Synopsis
- SEE INSTRU, Th 06:00 PM-07:30 PM
- Education:
- PhD, University of Chicago, 1981
- Research, Ruhr Universität-Hegel Archives, Bochum, Germany, 1976
- A.B. magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1973
- Specialties:
- Political Theory
- Research Interests: Continental Political Philosophy, Humanism, Rationalism, German Idealism, Existentialism, American Political Thought
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, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Existentialism, and various topics in American political thought and public philosophy, 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.
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- M.A. Gillespie, "Distorting Mirrors: Reflecting on Europe and America,", in Europe and America in Translation, edited by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Markus Hunemorder, Meike Zwingenberger (2006), Winter Verlag .
- M.A. Gillespie, “The Search for Immediacy and the Problem of the Political in Existentialism and Phenomenology,, in The Blackwell Companion to Phenomenology, edited by Hubert Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall (2006), Oxford: Blackwell .
- M.A. Gillespie, 'Slouching Toward Bethlehem to Be Born', On the Nature and Meaning of Nietzsche's Superman, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, vol. 30 (2005), pp. 50-70 .
- M.A. Gillespie, Nietzsche, Friedrich, in The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, edited by Hans Hillerbrand (2003), New York: Routledge .
- M.A. Gillespie, Sovereign Selves and Sovereign States: Political Theory for a New Millenium, in Freedom and the Human PErson, edited by Richard Velkley (forthcoming), Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press .