Education

University of Wisconsin - Madison        (1987-95)       PhD in Philosophy; May 1995

University of Bonn, Germany                (1991-92)

Carleton College                                   (1983-87)       B.A. in Philosophy; June 1987,

magna cum laude

Employment

Professor at Trinity University                                       2008- present

Associate Professor at Trinity University                        2002- 2008

Assistant Professor at Trinity University                         1996-2002

 

Academic Awards and Honors

Trinity University Academic Leave award                      2009

Trinity University Summer Stipend for research              2006

Trinity University Academic Leave award                      2003-4

AAUW American Postdoctoral Fellowship                   2003-4

Trinity University Summer Stipend for research             2002

Trinity University Summer Stipend for research             1999

Trinity University Summer Stipend for research             1997

Fulbright / GSA Grant for study in Germany                  1991-92

DAAD Fellowship for study in Germany (declined)       1991

University of Wisconsin Academic Fellowship               1989-90

Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities                              1987-89 and 1992-93

Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society                                   1987

 

Publications:

 

Book:

·        Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman, ed., The New Schelling (Continuum Publishers, 2004).

 

Articles and Chapters:

·        “The Work of Art in German Romanticism” in Karl Ameriks and Jürgen Stolzenberg, eds., Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus, vol. VI (forthcoming, 2008).

·        “Philosophy of History” (with Alistair Welchman) in Alfred Denker and Michael Vater, eds. Reading Schelling: New Interpretative and Critical Essays (forthcoming).

·        “Hegel and the German Romantics” in Stephen Houlgate, ed. Hegel and the Arts, (Northwestern University Press, 2007).

·         “Willing and Time in Schelling and Nietzsche” in Norman and Welchman, ed. The New Schelling (Continuum Publishers, 2004).

·        “The New Schelling” (with Alistair Welchman) in Norman and Welchman, ed. The New Schelling (Continuum Publishers, 2004).

·        “Nietzsche and Early Romanticism,” in Journal of the History of Ideas 63.3 (2002), pp. 501-519.

·        “The Logic of Longing: Schelling’s Philosophy of Will,” in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 10. 1 (2002), pp. 89-107.

·        “Ages of the World: Metaphysics as Epic,” in Christoph Asmuth, ed., Schelling: Between Fichte and Hegel, (Grüner Verlag, 2001), pp. 169-83.

·        “Nietzsche contra Contra: Difference and Opposition,” in Continental Philosophy Review 33 (2000), pp. 189-206.

·        “Squaring the Romantic Circle: Hegel’s Critique of Schlegel’s Theories of Art” in William Maker, ed., Hegel and Aesthetics (SUNY Press, 2000), pp. 131-144.

·        “Utilitarianism” in Steven Luper, ed., Living Well (Harcourt Brace, 1999), pp. 36-41.

 

Translations:

 

Book translations:

·        The World as Will and Representation, vol. 1, by Arthur Schopenhauer (Cambridge University Press), co-translated with Alistair Welchman; current project. 

·        The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, The Case of Wagner, and Nietzsche Contra Wagner, by Friedrich Nietzsche (Cambridge University Press, 2005). [Finalist in the Texas Institute of Letters’ Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation of a Book, 2005.]

·        Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

·        Ages of the World by F.W.J. Schelling, for The Abyss of Reason / Ages of the World by Slavoj Zizek and F.W.J. Schelling (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).

 

Article Translations:

·        “Dialectical Idealism in Transition to Materialism: Schelling’s Idea of a Contraction of God and its Consequences for the Philosophy of History” by Jürgen Habermas (co-translated with Nick Midgley) for Norman and Welchman, ed. The New Schelling (Continuum Publishers, 2004).

·        “Several Connections Between Aesthetics and Therapeutics in 19^th Century Philosophy” by Odo Marquard for Norman and Welchman, ed. The New Schelling (Continuum Publishers, 2004).

·        “Schelling and Sartre on Being and Nothingness” by Manfred Frank for Norman and Welchman, ed. The New Schelling (Continuum Publishers, 2004).

·        “The Master / Slave Dialectic” from the Phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel for Steven Luper, ed., Living Well (Harcourt Brace, 1999), pp. 155-58; and also Steven Luper, ed., Existing: An Introduction to Existential Thought (Mayfield Press, 1999), pp. 27-30.

 

Reviews

·        The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism by Manfred Frank in European Romantic Review, vol. 19, no. 1 (Jan 2008) pp. 65-68.

·        Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel’s Philosophy by Alison Stone in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=3801), 9/6/2005. 

·        Philosophie des Remis: Der junge Hegel und das ‘Gespenst des Skepticism’ by Klaus Vieweg in the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain vol. 51/52 (Winter 2005).

·        Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and Philosophy by Jos de Mul in Philosophy in Review vol. XX no. 2 (April 2000) pp. 93-95.

·        Fichte’s Transcendental Philosophy: The Original Duplicity of Intelligence and Will by Günter Zöller in the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie vol. 82 (Dec. 2000) pp. 356-358.  

·        The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters by Slavoj Zizek in Philosophies of Nature, a publication of Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, vol. 8 (1999) pp. 179-182.

 

Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entries:

·         “Fichte,” “German romanticism,” “transcendental ego,” and “Romantic irony” in John Protevi, ed., A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy (Yale University Press, 2006); also published as Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2005).

·        “Schelling” in Robert L. Arrington, ed., A Companion to the Philosophers, ed., (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1998), pp. 503-05.

 

Politics

·        Op-ed in the San Antonio Express-News (“…Palestinians, Jews dream of the same peace”), 8/24/06.

·        “The Nature of the Israel / Palestine Conflict” in La Voz de Esperanza, vol. 19, issue 6, July / August 2006.

 

 

Presentations

 

Philosophy:

 

·        “Romantic Resistance to Metaphysics” presented at a Symposium of the Central Division APA, 2005. 

·        Reply to Bart Vandenabeele: “The Sublime is Not Now: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in Dispute” presented at the Central Division APA, 2003.   

·        Reply to Fred Rush: “Irony and Idealism” presented at the conference “Issues of Autonomy in Idealism and Romanticism” at the University of Notre Dame, March 2000.

·        “Nietzsche contra Contra: Difference and Opposition” presented at the conference ‘Nietzsche and Post-Analytic Philosophy’ at the University of Southampton, September, 1999

·        Chair of session: “Kantian Subjects” at the conference of the Society for European Philosophy at Anglia Polytechnic University, September, 1999

·        “Absolute Fichte” at Georgia State University, February, 1999

·        “Teaching Philosophy to Dance: Nietzsche contra Wagner” presented at the 10^th International Conference on 19^th-Century Music at the University of Bristol in July 1998

·        “Nietzsche and the Practice of Music” presented at the Theoros Conference at the University of Dundee in May 1998

·        “Squaring the Romantic Circle: Hegel’s Critique of Schlegel’s Theories of Art,” presented at the Hegel Society of America in October 1996

·        “The Problem of Knowledge in Schelling’s Ages of the World,” presented at the seminar: Schelling: Between Fichte and Hegel at Pont de Cirou, France in October 1996

·        “Intellectual Intuition and the Problem of Representation,” presented at a meeting of the

     North American Fichte Society in March, 1995

 

Politics:

 

·        “A Pro-Peace Perspective on Current Events in Israel / Palestine” part of a panel: “The Other Jewish Voice” at the University Presbyterian Church in Austin, Jan, 2007; also at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, July 2006; also at the Americans for Informed Democracy  Town Hall meeting at St. Mary’s University, Sept. 11, 2006. 

·        “War in the Holy Land: A Jewish Perspective” at the conference “Women and War” in San Marcos, TX, May 3, 2003.

·        “Women in the Global Economy” at the Texas conference of the National Organization of Women (NOW) on Oct. 13, 2001.

 

Art:

 

·        “Modern Art and the ‘I-Don’t-Get-It’ Syndrome” at the McNay Museum of Art in San Antonio, TX, Sept. 8, 2005

 

Other

 

·        Editor of Jewish Peace News: 2002 – present; www.jewishpeacenews.net

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