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Michael A Gillespie

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Durham, NC 27708 		+1 919 660 4308 (office)
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Education

PhDUniversity of Chicago1981
Research fellowRuhr Universität-Hegel Archives, Bochum, Germany1976
A.B. magna cum laudeHarvard University1973
Areas of Research

Continental Political Philosophy, Humanism, Religion and Politics, German Idealism, Existentialism, American Political Thought

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Political Science in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, 2003 - 2009
Professor, Department of Philosophy, 1998-present
Professor, Department of Political Science, 1995-present
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, 1991-1995
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 1983-1990
University of Chicago
Instructor, The College and Department of Political Science, 1981-1983
St. Olaf College
Instructor, Department of Political Science, 1979-1980
Loyola University of Chicago
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, 1975-1976
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Phi Beta Kappa-Honorary, May, 2010
Fellow, National Humanities Center, September, 2004-2005
Bass Society of Fellows, Duke University, April, 2003
Leo Strauss Award, American Political Science Association, 1982
Earhart Fellowship, 1975-1976
Hawley Scholar, University of Chicago, 1974-1975
Professional Service

Dept Officer
Acting Chair, Department of Political Science, 2006-07
DGS
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, 1991-1995, 2000
Dept Committees
Theory Field Chair, 2010 - present
Chair, Curriculum Committee, January 01, 2010-April 2010
Subcommittee of Planniing Committee on Fund-Raising, Dec. 2009-Mar. 2010
Nominator, Earhart Foundation, 1999-
Dept Services
Political Theory Workshop Director, 2011 - present
Political Theory Prelim Chair, 2011 - present
Erlangen Exchange Program- Director, December 2011
University Committee
Chair, OUSF Director Review Committee, April 01, 2012 - Fall 01, 2012
participant, University Human RIghts Seminar, September 01, 2011 - present
Franklin Center Working Group on Sports, September 01, 2010 - present
Member, AB Duke Selection Committee, January 01, 2010 - present
member, Marshall/Rhodes Interview Committee, January 01, 2010 - present
Director, Visions of Freedom Focus Program, July 1, 2002 - present
Member, Focus Program Executive Committee, July 1, 2002 - present
Member, German Opportunities at Duke Committee, 2002-2008
Chair, University Athletic Council, September 1, 2007 - August 31, 2010
University Services
Director, Duke Program in American Values and Institutions, 2008 - present
Member, Bass Society of Fellows, 2003 - present
Director, The Gerst Program in Political, Economic, and Humanistic Studies, 1998-present
Papers Refereed
Web editor, National Humanity's Center Human Rights Conference, January 01, 2011 - present
Board Member, Statesmanship Group, January 01, 2011 - present
Editorial Board Review of Politics, 2009 - present
Special Projects
Reviewer for National Humanities Center Proposals, 1990 - present
Other
Panelist/Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, present
Editorial Board, Review of Politics, undefined, 2008 - present
director, Appalachian Institution, Aug. 2010
   "The Origin and Crisis of Individual Liberty," a week long seminar
Panelist/Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities
Member, Professional Associations
   American Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association, Hegel Society of America, Hobbes Society of America, American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy,
Member, Conference for the Study of Political Thought
Reviewer, Reviews in many scholarly journals
Editorial Board, Political Theory, 1995-2000
Co-Director, John M. Olin Center for Normative Political Economy, 1988-1993
Editorial Board, Journal of Politics, 1985-1993
Editorial Board, American Political Science Review, 1991-1995
Selected Recent Invited Talks

Religion and Politics, Boston College, April 27, 2012
Machiavelli and Dante, Boston College,, April 26, 2012
The Anti-Trinitarian Origins of Liberalism, Boston University, December 01, 2011
Machivelli's Modernism, Notre Dame, October 28, 2011
The Nature of Debt, University of Erlangen, July 19, 2011
The Future of Political Theory, Georgetown University, February 15, 2011
"Martin Heidegger's Messianism", Central European University, Budapest Hungary, July, 2010
"Strategic Planning in College Athletics", Conference on Sport and Society in America, St. Norber College, De Pere, WI, May 26, 2010
"Who are you?" Phi Bet Kappa Lecture, Duke University, May 13, 2010
Beyond the Secular, Yale University, March 01, 2010
Beyond Secularism: The Inevitable Entanglement of Religion and Political Life, University of North Florida, November 06, 2009
Toward a New Aristocracy: Nietzsche Contra Plato on the Training of Warriors,”, University of Wisconsin, May 01, 2009
The Incommmenurability of the Good, East Tennessee State University, March 26, 2009
Radical Hopes: Apocalyptic Longing in Nineteenth Century German Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, December 07, 2007
The Contradictions of Enlightenment, American University, Washington D.C., 2006
The Stoic Idea of Freedom, San Francisco, CA, November 3-6, 2005
"America and Europe", Amerikahaus Munich, Tutzing, Germany, Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 2005
"The Fall of the Roman Republic", Newport Beach, CA, April 22-25, 2004
Individual and Political Liberty in Early Italian Humanism, Menaggio, Italy, May 20-23, 2004
Liberty and Responsibility in Sixteenth-Century Continental Humanism, Minneapolis, MN, August 12-15, 2004
"Arts and Politics", San Antonio, TX, January 30-February 2, 2003
"Biology and Morality", Key West, FL, July 2003
"Philosophy, Religion, and Liberty", Chicago, IL, April 24-27, 2003
"Reviving the Study of Free Institutions in America's Universities", Princeton University, January 9-12, 2003
"Skepticism, Liberty, and Morality", Arlington, VA, October 2003
"Sovereign Selves and Sovereign States: Political Theory for a New Millenium", Colorado College, January 28, 2003
"Sovereign Selves and Sovereign States: Political Theory for a New Millenium", University of Texas, January 30, 2003
"Interpreting Hobbes", San Francisco, CA, November 21-24, 2002
"Leadership", Indianapolis, IN, October 18-20, 2002
"Religion and Modernization", Durham, NC, April 12-13, 2002
"Self-Knowledge and Modernization", Park City, UT, August 15-18, 2002
"Shakespeare on Love and Power", Mountain Sky, MT, October 3-6, 2002
"Luther's Theological Political Philosophy", St. Olaf College, February 28, 2002
"Luther and Calvin on Romans", Montreal, Canada, May 3-6, 2001
"The Ties That Bind: Community and Responsibility", Durham, NC, March 30-31, 2001
"American Public Philosophy", University of Notre Dame, November 10, 2000
"The Power of Fate: Electra", Santa Fe, NM, August 3-6, 2000
"The Pursuit of God in English Poetry", Seattle, WA, May 4-7, 2000
"The Question of Modernity", Tucson, AZ, November 30-December 3, 2000
Templeton Institute for the Study of Freedom, Galloway, Ireland, June 9-17, 2000
"Directing Giving to Higher Education", American Council of Trustees and Alumni, Washington, D.C., May 14, 1999
"Democracy and Leadership", Durham, NC, November 11-14, 1999
"Liberty in the Western Tradition", Lake Tahoe, CA, July 13-18, 1999
"Rousseau and the Ancients", North American Rousseau Society, Duke University, Durham, NC, May 20-22, 1999
"The Future of the American University", Clearwater, FL, February 11-14, 1999
"The Political Philosophy of Pierre Manent", Albuquerque, NM, December 2-5, 1999
"Will in the Thought of Martin Luther", Williamsburg, VA, January 14-17, 1999
Templeton Freedom Institute, Newport, RI, May 22-30, 1999
"Jane Austen and Shakespeare: Responsibility and Freedom", Tucson, AZ, October 1998
"Liberty and Literature", Charleston, SC, July 20-26, 1998
"Liberty and Sin in Bach's St. Matthew's Passion", New York, NY, February 12-15, 1998
"Nietzsche and Nihilism", Center for Human Values, Princeton University, February 12, 1998
"Plato's Trilogy", Minneapolis, MN, April 16-19, 1998
"St. Augustine's Confessions", Pasadena, CA, May 7-10, 1998
"The American University as a Model for Higher Education: Lessons for German University Reform", University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, July 9, 1998
"The Political Philosophy of William and Ockham", Park City, UT, June 18-21, 1998
"Niezsche Today", Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, April 10-12, 1997
"The Culture of Hope", Provo, UT, July 10-13, 1997
"The Medieval University", Colorado Springs, CO, November 20-23, 1997
"Ford Foundation Colloquium in Political Philosophy", Carleton College, May 20-21, 1996
"Freedom and Responsibility in the Age of Technology", St. Paul, MN, June 27-30, 1996
"The Future of Higher Education", Harvard University, November 7-10, 1996
"Tyranny, Wisdom, and Responsibility", Tucson, AZ, January 4-7, 1996
"Ethics in Everyday Life: Leadership", New York, NY, April 7, 1995
"Nihilism in Philosophy and Literature", University of Warwick, England, November 4-5, 1995
"Socrates as a Teacher", Colorado Springs, CO, November 30-December 3, 1995
"Excellence in Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics", St. Paul, MN, August 18-21, 1994
"Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy", Tronoto, Canada, June 9-12, 1994
"The Political and Aesthetic Education of Romanticism", Durham, NC, November 1994
"Education and Responsibility", Colorado Springs, CO, December 9-12, 1993
"Oakeshott on Philosophy and Politics", Indianapolis, IN, January 7-10, 1993
"Plato's Laws", St. Paul, MN, June 25-28, 1992
"America, the West and the Liberal Arts", Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, February 20-23, 1991
"Ancient and Modern Ideas of Education", Colorado Springs, CO, October 3-November 3, 1991
"Liberty and Modern Science--The Influence of Descartes", Aspen, CO, May 2-5, 1991
"Pluralism in the Writings of Isaiah Berlin", Indianapolis, IN, October 18-20, 1991
"Aquinas on Natural Law and Liberty", Colorado Springs, CO, November 1-4, 1990
"Faulkner's Go Down Moses", Annapolis, MD, March 15-17, 1990
"Hamilton as Founder", Newport Beach, CA, January 18-21, 1990
"Nihilism", Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois, April 10, 1990
"Technology and Politics", Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, May 10-13, 1990
"The Future of Political Parties", Ashland University, Ashland, OH, November 10, 1990
"The Socratic Movement", Duke University, Durham, NC, April 6-7, 1990
"Restoring American Education", The Madison Center, Washington, D.C., October 27-29, 1989
"Revelation, Reason, Imagination and Social Justification", Annapolis, MD, June 8-11, 1989
"The Legacy of Lament for a Nation", Ottawa, Canada, Spetember 22-24, 1989
"Michael Oakeshott on Learning and Teaching", Colorado Springs, CO, November 3-6, 1988
"Reason, Choice, and Responsibility", Jackson Hole, WY, September 29-October 2, 1988
"The Ratifying Conventions: Elliot's Debates", Savannah, GA, April 14-17, 1988
"Liberty and Tyranny", Charleston, SC, March 19-22, 1987
"The Resurgence of Conservatism in Britain, Canada, and the United States", Chateau Lake Louise, Canada, May 1986
“Plato and Nietzsche on Warriors”, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2007, 2007
“Sovereign States and Sovereign Individuals”, University of Toronto, April 2007, 2008

Publications

Books

  1. M.A. Gillespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity, Chinese edition with a new Preface (2011), Human Science adn Technology Press.
  2. Geoffrey Brennan and Michael Gillespie, eds., Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus, Public Choice, Special Issue (2008).
  3. M.A. Gillespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity (2008; paper 2009; Chinese ed. 2011), University of Chicago Press.
  4. M.A. Gillespie, Nihilism Before Nietzsche (1995), Chicago: University of Chicago Press (Greek translation from Patakis Publishing, 2004.).
  5. Ratifying the Constitution, edited by Michael Gillespie and Michael Lienesch (1989), Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
  6. Nietzsche's New Seas: Exploration in Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics, edited by Michael Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong (1988), Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
  7. M.A. Gillespie, Hegel, Heidegger, and Ground of History (1984), Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Chapters in Books

  1. M.A. Gillespie, On Debt, 21st Century Studies (2012), University of Inidana Press.
  2. M.A. Gillespie, Nihilism, in , Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy (2011), : Edinburgh University Press.
  3. M.A. Gillespie, The Tragedy of the Goods and the Pursuit of Happiness, in The Idea of the Good, edited by Ruth Grant (2011), University of Chicago Press.
  4. M.A. Gillespie, The Tragedy of the Goods and the Pursuit of Happiness, in In Purusit of Goodness, edited by Ruth Grant (2010).
  5. M.A. Gillespie, Hegel, in The International Encyclopedia of Political Science,, edited by George Kurian et al (2009).
  6. M.A. Gillespie, Afterword, in Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus (2008).
  7. M.A. Gillespie, Players and Spectators: Sports and Ethical Training in the American University, in Debating Moral Education, edited by Elizabeth Kiss and Peter Euben (Forthcoming 2009), Duke University Press.
  8. M.A. Gillespie, Nietzsche, in The International Encyclopedia of Political Science, edited by George Kurian et al (Forthcoming 2009), CQ Press.
  9. M.A. Gillespie, Plato and Nietzsche on Warriors, in Nietzche's Nihilistic Anti-egalitarianism, edited by Jeffrey Metzger (Forthcoming 2009), Continuum.
  10. M.A. Gillespie, Sovereign Selves and Sovereign States: Political Theory for a New Millenium, in Freedom and the Human PErson, edited by Richard Velkley (2007), Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. M.A. Gillespie, Sovereign Selves and Sovereign States: Political Theory for a New Millenium, in Freedom and the Human Person, edited by Richard Velkley (2006), Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press.
  14. M.A. Gillespie, Where Did All the Evils Go, in Moral Judgment and the Problem of Evil, edited by Ruth Grant (2006), Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  15. M.A. Gillespie, Forward, Stanley Rosen, in The Mask of Enlightenment: Nietzsche's Zarathustra (2005), New Haven: Yale University Press.
  16. M.A. Gillespie, Nietzsche, Friedrich, in The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, edited by Hans Hillerbrand (2003), New York: Routledge.
  17. M.A. Gillespie, American Public Philosophy After the Cold War, in Public Philosophy and Political Science: Crisis and Reflection (2002), Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  18. M.A. Gillespie, Liberal Education and the Idea of the West, in The West and the Liberal Arts, edited by Ralph Hancock (1999), Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  19. M.A. Gillespie, Descartes and the Question of Toleration, in Early Modern Skepticism and the Origins of Toleration, edited by Alan Levine (1999), Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  20. M.A. Gillespie, Political Parties and the American Founding, in American Political Parties and Constitutional Politics, edited by Peter Shramm and Bradford Wilson (1993), pp. 17-43, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  21. M.A. Gillespie, George Grant and the Tradition of Political Philosophy, in By Loving our Own: George Grant and the Legacy of the Lament for a Nation (1990), Ottawa: Carleton University Press.
  22. M.A. Gillespie, Masschusetts: Creating Consensus, in Ratifying the Constitution, edited by Michael Allen Gillespie and Michael Lienesch (1989), Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
  23. M.A. Gillespie, Death and Desire: War and Bourgoisification in the Thought of Hegel, in Understanding the Political Spirit, edited by Catherine Zuckert (1988), New Haven: Yale University Press.
  24. M.A. Gillespie with Michael Lienesch, Religion and the Resurgence of Conservatism, in The Resurgence of Conservatism in Anglo-American Democracies, edited by Barry Cooper, William Mishler, and Allan Kornberg (1988), Durham: Duke University Press.
  25. M.A. Gillespie, Nietzsche's Musical Politics, in Nietzsche's New Seas, edited by Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong (1988), Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  26. M.A. Gillespie, Martin Heidegger, in The History of Political Philosophy, edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey (1987), Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Journal Articles

  1. M.A. Gillespie and John Harpham, Sherlock Holmes, Crime and the Anxieties of Globalization, Critical Review (January, 2012).
  2. M.A. Gillespie, "March Madness", The Point (2011).
  3. M.A. Gillespie, Response to my Critics, Review of Politics (Fall, 2010) (As part of a colloquium on my The Theological Origins of Modernity.).
  4. M.A. Gillespie and Luc Perkins, Political Anti-Theology: Mark Lilla’s The Stillborn God, Critical Review (Spring, 2010).
  5. 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.
  6. M.A. Gillespie, Philosophy and Rhetoric in Kant's Third Antinomy, Political Science Reviewer, vol. 30 (2001), pp. 7-33.
  7. M.A. Gillespie, Martin Heidegger's Aristotelian National Socialism, Political Theory, vol. 28 no. 2 (April, 2000), pp. 140-66.
  8. M.A. Gillespie, Nietzsche and the Anthroplogy of Nihilism, Nietzsche Studien, vol. 28 (1999), pp. 141-55.
  9. M.A. Gillespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity, Critical Review, vol. 13 (1999), pp. 1-30.
  10. M.A. Gillespie, Nietzsche and the Premodernist Critique of Postmodernity, Critical Review, vol. 2 no. 2 (Fall, 1997), pp. 537-54.
  11. M.A. Gillespie, The New Hegel, Political Theory, vol. 25 no. 4 (August, 1997), pp. 584-97.
  12. M.A. Gillespie, Beyond East and West: A Reply to Isaac, Political Theory, vol. 23 no. 4 (November, 1995), pp. 670-74.
  13. M.A. Gillespie, Liberal Democracy and Liberal Education, Academic Question, vol. 3 no. 4 (1990), pp. 65-68.
  14. M.A. Gillespie, History and Temporality in the Thought of Heidegger, Revue Internationale de Phiosophie, vol. 43 (1989), pp. 33-51.
  15. M.A. Gillespie, Heidegger's Nietzsche, Political Theory, vol. 15 no. 3 (August, 1987), pp. 424-35.
  16. M.A. Gillespie, Montaigne's Humanistic Liberalism, Journal of Politics, vol. 47 no. 1 (February, 1985), pp. 40-59.

Papers Accepted

  1. M.A. Gillespie and Keegan Calanan, Toward Noon: Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, in A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by Paul Bishop (2012), Camden House.
  2. M.A. Gillespie and Lucas Perkins, Vattimo's Hermeneutic Marxism, in Renewing Communism through Hermeneutics? On Vattimo and Zabala’s Hermeneutic Communism, edited by Silvia Mazzini (2012), Continuum Press.
  3. M.A. Gillespie, Machiavelli's Modernity and the Christian Tradition, in The Modern Turn (2012), Catholic University Press.
  4. M.A. Gillespie, Martin Heidegger between Philosophy and Political Theology, in Religion and Modern European Thought,, edited by Graham Ward, George Pattison and Nicholas Adams (2012), Oxford University Press.
  5. M.A. Gillespie, Radical Hopes: Apocalyptic Longings in Nineteenth Century Philosophy, in The Apocalyptic Complex – Origins, Histories, Permanence, edited by Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Matthias Riedl, David Marno (2012), CEU Press.
  6. M.A. Gillespie, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: Murder, Madness, and Suicide. Nihilism and the Doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence, in Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, edited by Jeffrey Metzger (2012), Continuum Press.
  7. M.A. Gillespie, Martin Heidegger, in The Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought (2012), Cambridge University Press.
  8. M.A. Gillespie, The Anti-Trinitarian Origins of Liberalism, in Boston University Series on Religion and Politics (2012).

Papers In Preparation

  1. M.A. Gillespie and John Harpham, Life and Thought: The Structure of Montaigne's Essays and the Idea of the Self (2012).
  2. M.A. Gillespie, The Inevitable Entanglement of Religion and Politics (2012) (Delivered at the North Florida Ethics Conference, Nov. 5-7, 2009; revised at Yale University, March 2010; revised at Boston College.).

Other

  1. M.A. Gillespie, Budget Pain Must Fall on All, Raleigh News and Observer, op ed (July 30, 2011).
  2. M.A. Gillespie, Just One of Those We Lost, Raleigh News and Observer, oped (Sept. 11, 2011).
  3. M.A. Gillespie, Interview, Tehran Times (2010).
  4. M.A. Gillespie, Science and the Humanities (2010) (On the Human, A Project of the National Humanities Center.) [available here].
  5. M.A. Gillespie, Response to Robert Pippin (2010) (On the Human, A Project of the National Humanities Center.) [available here].
  6. M.A. Gillespie, “Backgammon Anyone?” A response to Alexander Rosenberg’s “The Disenchanted Naturalist’s Guide to Reality” (2009) (On the Human, A Project of the National Humanities Center.) [#comment-500].
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