Education
- B.S. in English literature (honors), DePauw University (1965)
- M.A. in philosophy and religion, DePauw University (1969)
- Ph.D. in philosophy and religion, Union Institute and University (1974)
Research Interests
My chief interest is political philosophy. Particularly I am curious about the role that the artistic/poetic imagination plays in both supporting and threatening the production of a more just society (see "From Ethnos to Polis: The Furies and Apollo," "Ethnic Cleansing: The Erinyes are Still Angry," papers published in Spring Journal, "Render and Surrender: Fundamentalist Monotheism Confronts the Separation of Church and State" published in The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy; and my book "Poeticized Culture: The Role of Irony in Rawls's Liberalism," published by Rowman & Littlefield). The content of my writing is usually concerned with racial and sexual violence, especially when that violence is produced by a breakdown of what I call "poetic understanding."
I am also drawn to "the hard problem," the relationship between the mind and the world; of particular interest to me is the recent debate between Hubert Dreyfus and John McDowell regarding how deep conceptualizing permeates the human experience with the world (see "A Model for McDowell").
Selected Publications
- Poeticized Culture: The Role of Irony in Rawls’s Liberalism (Rowman & Littlefield/University Press), 2005
- “De la Etnia a la Polis,” Mediterranio Mitico, November, 2003.
- “Render and Surrender: Fundamentalist Monotheism Confronts the Separation of Church and State” The Journal of the Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy: Philosophy Facing World Problems, in Istanbul, Turkey, August, 2003.
- “Ethnic Cleansing: The Erinyes are Still Angry,” Spring: Journal of Archetype and Culture (#53), 1993.
- “Hegel and Nationalism,” Akmee (Moscow), 1993.