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Prof. Dr. Richard Eldridge

Philosophie, Ästhetik und Kulturwissenschaften
Swarthmore College
Okt. 09 - Juli 2010

Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Albertstr. 19
79104 Freiburg im Breisgau

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CV

 

A.B., Philosophy and History (Double Major), Middlebury College, 1975, Magna cum laude, High Honors in History, Phi Beta Kappa; MA, Philosophy, The University of Chicago, 1976; Ph.D., Philosophy, The University of Chicago, 1981;  Positions: Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy,Swarthmore College, 2004-present; Professor; 1996-2004; Chair, 1994-2008; Acting Chair, 1992-3; Associate Professor 1988-1996; Assistant Professor 1982-8; Gastprofessor, Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Philosophie, Universität Erfurt, Jan.-July, 2005; June 2007; Visiting Professor, Kulturwissenschaften, University of Bremen Jan.-Feb. 1999; Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1993-4; Visiting Lecturer, Philosophy, University of Essex (England), Spring-Summer, 1991; Fields of Research: Aesthetics and Theory of Criticism, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy and Literature, German Idealism, Wittgenstein; Author of Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (ed.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009); Literature, Life, and Modernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008); An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art,(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003); Stanley Cavell (ed.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003); The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and Literature,(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001);
Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997); Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination (ed.)(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); On Moral Personhood: Philosophy, Literature, Criticism, and Self-Understanding (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989); approximately 68 articles in journals, collections, encyclopedias, etc.; approximately 52 book reviews.

 

Selected Publications

 

  • Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
  • Literature, Life, and Modernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008)
  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).  Finnish translation forthcoming.
  • Stanley Cavell (ed.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
  • The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and Literature, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
  • Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)
  • Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination (ed.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
  • On Moral Personhood: Philosophy, Literature, Criticism, and Self-Understanding (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989)
  • “’Human beings don’t know how to use these homes of theirs’: Strategies of Poetic Dramatization in The Master Builder,” Ibsen Studies (forthcoming)
  • “Dewey’s Aesthetics,” in The Cambridge Companion to Dewey, ed. Molly Cochran, forthcoming

 

FRIAS Research Project

 

Image of History: Kant, Benjamin, and the Nature of Experience
 


Using the writings on history of Kant and Benjamin as focal points, I consider the arguments for and political significance of a) a gradualist-reformist view of history (Kant), and b) a punctual-ruptural view of history. I will attempt to integrate these views with each other by developing a conception of human experience as having both conceptual-discursive content, present to reflective awareness, and nonconceptual-somatic content that is largely implicit.  This conception of experience motivates picture of human beings as having an interest in both the gradual reform of institutions and sudden insights motivating commitment to something new.