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 (Spring 2010):
- POLSCI 299CS.01, MED & EARLY MODERN POL THEORY
Synopsis
- LSRC D243, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- 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, "Response to my Critics", Review of Politics (Fall, 2010) .
- M.A. Gillespie and Keegan Callanan, Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, in A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by Paul Bishop (2010), Camden House (an essay in preparation.) .
- M.A. Gillespie, "Radical Hop[es: Apocalyptic Longings in Nineteenth Century Philosophy", in Apcalypticism, edited by 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). (2009) .