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 2009):
- FOCUS 99FCS.09, SPECIAL TOPICS IN FOCUS
- SEE INSTRU, Th 06:00 PM-07:30 PM
- POLSCI 123FCS.01, INTRO TO POL PHILOSOPHY (C)
- Perkins 307, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- POLSCI 226S.01, NIETZSCHE'S POLIT PHILOS
Synopsis
- Perkins 307, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
- GERMAN 276S.01, NIETZSCHE'S POLIT PHILOS
Synopsis
- Perkins 307, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
- POLSCI 398.02, SEL TOP GOVERNMENT/POL
- Perkins 2-070, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
- 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, "Hegel," The International Encyclopedia of Political Science, ed. George Kurian et al (Washington, DC: CQ Press, forthcoming). (2009) .
- M.A. Gillespie, "Afterword", in Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus (2008) .
- M.A. Gillespie, “Nihilism,” Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2009) (2008) .
- 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 .
- Geoffrey Brennan and Michael Gillespie, Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus, Public Choice, Special Issue (2008) .