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Martin Beck Matuštík, Lincoln Professor of Ethics & Religion

Division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies

New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

Arizona State University

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AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING SPECIALIZATION

Critical Theory, Social and Political Philosophy

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy

Continental Philosophy of Religion      

 

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Philosophy and Literature

East Central European Thought

 

EDUCATION

J. W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a/M, Germany,

     Ph.D. Fulbright student of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Habermas,

     Fulbright-Hays Grant (with one grant renewal), September 1989 - July 1991.

Fordham University, New York, Ph.D., Philosophy, May 1991.

     Thesis: "A Study in Communicative and Existential Ethics."

     Director: Merold Westphal (Fordham);

     readers: James L. Marsh (Fordham);

     Richard J. Bernstein (New School for Social Research).

New School for Social Research, New York, summer 1987,

     graduate work with Ernesto Laclau and Joel Whitebook.

St. Louis University, M.A. (thesis/Research), Philosophy, May 1985.

Loyola Marymount University, B.A., Philosophy, May 1981.

Charles University, Prague, Psychology, September 1976 - July 1977.

"Charta 77" -- a student signatory of the Czechoslovak manifesto for human rights;

     issued in Prague by Jiří Hájek, Václav Havel, and Jan Patočka, January 1977.

"Jan Patočka's Flying University," Prague, Czech Republic, May 1976 - April 1977;

     underground interdisciplinary seminars founded by the dissident movement

     for human rights, "Charta 77."

Gymnásium (with focus on English & Russian) maturity final exams, Sladkovského n. 8, Prague,

     Czech Republic, September 1972 - May 1976.

PROFESSIONAL TEACHING CAREER

Arizona State University, August 2008- present.

Purdue University, Professor of Philosophy, August 2000 - August 2008.

Purdue University, tenured Associate Professor of Philosophy, August 1996 - June 2000

Purdue University, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, August 1991 - June 1996.

Charles University, Prague, Fulbright Lectureship Grant, January - December 1995.

Fordham University, New York, Teaching Fellow, September 1987 - May 1989.

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Instructor, September 1985 - May 1987.

 

PUBLICATIONS

B O O K S

A. PUBLISHED SINGLE-AUTHOR BOOKS

FORTHCOMING SPRING 2008: Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

 

Neklid doby: Eseje o radikálním zlu a jiných úzkostech dneška. (Discontents of Our Times: Essays about Radical Evil and Other Anxieties of Today). Book of eight philosophical essays. In Czech. Prague: Philosophia, publisher of the Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, 2006. Pp. 176 + iii.

 

Jürgen Habermas: A Philosophical-Political Profile. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Spring 2001. Series: 20th Century Political Thinkers, general editors, Elisabeth Ehlstein and Kenneth Deutsch. Pp. 339 + xxxvii.

 

 

Major Reviews of Jürgen Habermas

*Peter Beilharz, Thesis Eleven, No. 83 (2005) 143-146. Matustik-Habermas-review-05.pdf

*Gopal Barakrishnan," Overcoming Emacipation." New Left Review (2003).

* Danny Postel, "The Life and the Mind." The Chronicle of Higher Education (2002).

*Alan Ryan, "The Power of Positive Thinking." The New York Review of Books (2003). 

*" Matuštík, "The New York Review of Books 'POSITIVE THINKING'.  Response to Ryan."

*The book was selected for the "Current Research Session" of SPEP (Boston, November 6-8, 2003). 

 

 

Specters of Liberation: Great Refusals in the New World Order.  Albany, N.Y.: State  University of New York Press, 1998. Pp. 360 + xxi.

Review of  Specters of Liberation:  Andrew Feenberg, "Civilizational Politics and Dissenting Individuals: A Comment on Martin Matustik's Specters of Liberation."

 

Postnational Identity: Critical Theory and Existential Philosophy in Habermas, Kierkegaard, and Havel. New York & London: the Guilford Press, 1993. Pp. 329 +xxii..

Review article: "TOWARDS AN EXISTENTIAL POLITICS: A Conversation with Martin Matustik"

Bernard Murchland

 

Mediation of Deconstruction. Bernard Lonergan’s Method in Philosophy. Lanham: University Press of America, 1988. Pp. 214 + xv.

 

B. GENERAL CO-EDITOR OF THE BOOK SERIES

New Critical Theory, General Series Co-Editor of the newly established book- series at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Contract for the Series was signed in September 1998.

C. PUBLISHED CO-EDITED BOOK

 

Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity. Co-edited with Merold Westphal. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. 304 + xv. Series: Studies in Continental Thought, series ed. John Sallis.

 

Calvin O. Schrag and The Task of Philosophy After Postmodernity. Festschrift in honor of Calvin O. Schrag. Co-edited with William L. McBride. Northwestern University Press, 2002.

 

A R T I C L E S

D. PUBLISHED REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS

Reading ‘Kierkegaard’ as a Drama.” A concluding chapter in the book series, International Kierkegaard Commentary. Vol. 22, The Point of View. Ed. Robert Perkins. Mercer UP, 2010, 411-430.

 

Afterword, Radislav Matuštík: Ján Mathé, hľadač dobra. Bratislava, Result and Východoslovenská galeria

Košice, 2010. Copyright of the text, Radislav Matuštík, 2005. Bratislava, Afterword, p. 262.

“Více než všichni ostatní.” Myšlení Jana Patočky očima dnešní fenomenologie. Ed. Ivan Chvatík. Praha: Filosofia, 2009, 311-326.

"The God Who Refuses to Appear on Philosophy’s Terms.” In Gazing Through a Prism Darkly: Reflections on Merold Westphal's Hermeneutical Philosophy. Ed. B. Keith Putt. Fordham University Press, 2009, 86-99.

More Than All the Others: Meditation on Responsibility." In Kierkegaard and Levinas: Ethics, Politics, and Religion.  Eds. Aaron Simmons and David Wood. Indiana University Press, 2008, 244-256.

"Evil and Progress." In Imagining Law: On Drucilla Cornell. SUNY Press, 2008. 161-172. Contribution to the volume on Drucilla Cornell’s work. With response by Drucilla Cornell. (An earlier version was invited as a plenary paper for Drucilla Cornell’s conference that did not take place. The paper was selected as a plenary presentation for the Prague conference in May 2003.)

“The Scarcity of Singular Individuals in the Age of Globalization: A Kierkegaardian Response to

Fundamentalism.“ In Kierkegaard and Great Philosophers, Acta Kierkegaardiana. Eds.    Roman Kralik et al.  Vol. 2., pp. 141-160. Mexico City - Barcelona – Šaľa, 2007.

”Between Hope and Terror: Derrida and Habermas Plead for the Im/Possible,” Epoche 9:1 (2004) 1-18. In Lasse A. Thomassen, ed. The Derrida-Habermas Reader. Edinburgh UP, 2006, 278-296.

“Mezi nadějí a terorem. Habermas a Derrida žádají nemožné.” Czech trans. “Between Hope and Terror” (q.v.). Trans. Martin Brabec and Alena Bakesova. In Spor o Evropu: Postdemokracie, nebo predemokracie? ed. Marek Hrubec, Prague: Philosophia, 2006, 247-275.

"Violence and Secularization, Evil and Redemption." In Modernity and the Problem of Evil. Ed. Alan Schrift. Indiana UP, 2005, 39-50.

"Jürgen Habermas." A new entry on Habermas commission by The Encyclopedia Britannica (both in published and on-line versions). 2002, 1000 words.

"Back to the Future: Marcuse and New Critical Theory." Foreword to New Critical Theory: Essays on Liberation. Ed. William Wilkerson and Jeffrey Paris. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001, vii-xiii.

"Introduction." Co-authored with William L. McBride, included in Calvin O. Schrag and The Task of Philosophy After Postmodernity. Festschrift in honor of Calvin O. Schrag. Co-edited by Martin Beck Matuštík and William L. McBride. Northwestern University Press, 2002.

"The Critical Theorist as Witness: Habermas and the Holocaust." Perspectives on Habermas. Edited by Lewis E. Hahn. Open Court, 2000, 339-366.

"Kierkegaard's Existential Philosophy and Praxis as the Revolt Against Systems." The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy. Ed. Simon Glendinning. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999, 115-127.

"Kierkegaard on Authoring and Identity from the Perspective of Havel's Existential Revolution and Nonpolitical Politics." Reinterpreting the Political: Continental Philosophy and Political Theory. Vol. 20 of Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Eds., Lenore Langsdorf and Stephen Watson with Karen A. Smith. Albany, N.Y.: the State University of New York Press, 1998, 1-18.

"Ludic, Corporate, and Imperial Multiculturalism: Impostors of Democracy and Cartographers of the New World Order." Theorizing Multiculturalism: A Guide to the Current Debate. Ed., Cynthia Willett. London: Basil Blackwell, 1998, 100-17.

"Kierkegaard's Radical Existential Praxis or: Why the Individual Defies Liberal, Communitarian, and Postmodern Categories." Included in Matuštík and Westphal, Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity (q.v.), 239-264.

"Introduction." Co-authored with Merold Westphal, included in Matuštík and Westphal, Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity (q.v.), vii-xii.

E. PUBLISHED REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Dangerous Memory of Hope.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy: A Quarterly Journal of History, Criticism, and Imagination 23/4 (2009): 350-363. This is an article-length response to the critical discussion of my Radical Evil    and the Scarcity of Hope (Indiana UP, 2008) by John Stuhr (328-339) and Patrick Burke (340-449).

“Becoming Human, Becoming Sober.” Continental Philosophy Review 42 (2009) 249-274.

"Habermas, Jürgen" / "Jürgen Habermas” The Encyclopedia Britannica, online article, 2009. Revised from the 2002 printed version in The Encyclopedia Britannica.

“Towards an Integral Critical Theory of the Present Age.” Integral Review: A Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Research, and Praxis (December 2007). Online journal at //http://integral-review.org/. An invited author forum (Spring 2008): review.org/forums/index.asp

”'More Than All the Others': Meditation on Responsibility." Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory 8(1) (August 2007) 47-60. 

“Identity or Roots, Idol or Icon? Towards a New Critical Theory of Race,” commentary on Lucius Outlaw’s work. Radical Philosophy Review 9/1 (2006) 65-77.

"Singular Existence and Critical Theory.” Radical Philosophy Review.  8/2 (2005) 211-223. Major statement on Habermas’s Kyoto Award speech in November 2004.  This paper is part of the Review Forum on my Jürgen Habermas: A Philosophical-Political Profile , with two preceding papers by David S. Owen, Critical Theory and Learning from History (187-195) and Max Pensky, Jürgen Habermas: Existential Hero? (192-209)

"Sorrowing Loneliness, Joyful Solitude." Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture 40/3 (2005) 207-227.

Habermas’ Turn?Philosophy & Social Criticism 32/1 (2006) 21-36. Major statement on

Habermas’s work since September 11, 2001.

”Between Hope and Terror: Derrida and Habermas Plead for the Im/Possible.” To Jacques Derrida in memoriam (1930-2004). Epoche 9/1 (Fall 2004) 1-18.

Interview with Calvin O. Schrag." A series of interviews with prominent U.S. Continental philosophers. Symposium 8/1 (2004) 117-133.

“Habermas’s Philosophical-Political Profile: A Critical Appraisal of the Biographical Argument.” Filosofický časopis 52/2 (Prague, 2004) 207-29. Czech translation by Ota Vochoč. Special issue on Habermas

"How Unfinished Should the Humanist Project Be?" Theory, Culture, and Society 20/4 (2003) 143-152.

"Witnessing and Recognition in an Antiredemptory Age: Destroyed Peoples and Our Memorial Problem." Filozofický asopis 50/5 (Prague, 2002) 811-828. Czech translation by Ota Vochoč. Commentary by Michael Pullmann, pp. 828-830.

"Existential Social Theory After the Poststructuralist and Communication Turns." Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences 25 (2002) 146-164.

"Contribution to a New Critical Theory of Multiculturalism." Response to Drucilla Cornell and Sara Murphy’s essay, "Antiracism, Multiculturalism, and the Ethics of Identification." Philosophy and Social Criticism 28/4 (2002) 473-482.

"Fragments from the Future: Remembering the Impossible." Radical Philosophy Review 2/2 (1999) 170-82.

"Existence and the Communicatively Competent Self." Philosophy and Social Criticism 25/3 (May 1999) 93-120.

"What Does Critical Theory Have to Do with It?: In Retrospect and Prospect." Radical Philosophy Review 1/1 (1998) 46-53 & 1/2 (1998) iv-v.

"Derrida and Habermas on the Aporia of the Politics of Identity and Difference: Towards Radical Democratic Multiculturalism." Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 1/3 (January 1995) 383-398.

"Derrida a Habermas o aporiích politiky identity a diference: k radikálnímu demokratickému multikulturalismu." The Czech translation of the above essay by Stanislav Polášek. Filosofický  časopis 43/4 (August 1995) 633-652.

"Democratic Multicultures and Cosmopolis: Beyond the Aporias of the Politics of Identity and Difference." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 12 (1994) 63-89.

"Post-National Identity: Habermas, Kierkegaard, and Havel." Thesis Eleven, No. 34 (March 1993) 89-103.

"Habermas's Reading of Kierkegaard: Notes from a Conversation." Philosophy and Social Criticism 17/4 (August 1991, issue appeared August 1992) 313-323.

"Identity and Power: Contribution to the Debate between the Postmodernity of Michel Foucault and the Critical Modernism of Jürgen Habermas." Filosofický časopis 39/2 (Prague, February 1992) 177-198.  Written in Czech.

"Merleau-Ponty On Taking the Attitude of the Other." The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 22/1 (January 1991) 44-52.

"Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Sympathy." Auslegung 17/1 (January 1991) 1-25.

"Havel and Habermas On Identity and Revolution." Praxis International 10/3-4 (October 1990-January 1991) 261-277.

"Habermas On Communicative Reason and Performative Contradiction." New German Critique, No. 47 (Spring/Summer 1989) 163-92.

F. PUBLISHED REFEREED REVIEW ARTICLES

"Jan Patočka and His Promise." Essay on Edward F. Findlay’s Caring for The Soul in a Postmodern Age: Politics and Phenomenology in the Thought of Jan Patočka. SUNY, 2002. American Political Science Review/Perspectives on Politics 1/3 (September 2003): 587-588.

"`If Pigs Could Fly' or the Consolations of Philosophy After 1989." Review of William L. McBride's Philosophical Reflections of the Changes in Eastern Europe. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Phänomenologie 13 (2000): 75-78.

"Kierkegaard as Socio-Political Thinker and Activist." An essay discussing recent literature on Kierkegaard's view of politics, community, and the present age, focus on George B. Connell and C. Stephen Evans, eds., Foundations of Kierkegaard's Vision of Community: Religion, Ethics, and Politics in Kierkegaard. Humanities Press, 1992. Man and World 27/2 (April 1994) 211-224.

"Post/Modern Social Theory: Beyond the Polemic." Co-authored with Patricia J. Huntington. An essay on Bill Martin's Matrix and Line: Derrida and The Possibilities of Postmodern Social Theory. SUNY Press, 1992. Radical Philosophy Review of Books, No. 8 (December 1993) 4-12.

A review essay on The Corsair Affair, Vol. 13 of the International Kierkegaard Commentary, ed. by Robert L. Perkins, Macon: Mercer UP, 1990. Man and World 26 (1993) 93-97.

"Jürgen Habermas at 60." A feature essay on the German publication of the Habermas Festschrift. Philosophy and Social Criticism 16/1 (1990) 61-80 and 16/2 (1990) 159-60.

"Transcendental-Phenomenological Retrieval and Critical Theory." A feature review-article on Post-Cartesian Meditations: An Essay in Dialectical Phenomenology by James L. Marsh, Fordham UP, 1988. Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 8/1 (March 1990) 94-105.

G. BOOK REVIEWS

Review of The New Kierkegaard . Ed. Elsebet Jegstrup. Indiana UP, 2004.
Philosophy in Review (April 2005). 

Jan-Olav Henriksen, The Reconstruction of Religion: Lessing, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. Eerdmans, 2001, 208 pp. The Theological Studies 63/3 (2002) 646-647.

Ronald L. Hall. Word and Spirit: A Kierkegaardian Critique of the Modern Age. Indiana UP, 1993. Theological Studies 55/3 (September 1994) 553-54.

Robert L. Perkins, ed., The Corsair Affair, International Kierkegaard Commentary, vol. 13. Macon: Mercer UP, 1990. International Philosophical Quarterly 32/4 (December 1992) 524-26.

Rüdiger Bubner. Essays in Hermeneutics and Critical Theory. Columbia UP, 1988. Auslegung 16/1 (January 1990) 116-23.

Jürgen Habermas. Observations on "The Spiritual Situation of the Age." MIT, 1984. Auslegung XIV/2 (Summer 1988) 225-28.

H. OTHER PUBLICATIONS OF GENERAL AND SCHOLARLY INTEREST

Literární noviny is a Czech intellectual weekly published in Prague. From 2004, all articles are available on-line at http://www.literarky.cz/ or by clicking on the active links below.

 "Hope – Scarce and Uncanny" - on line essay. Tikkun, May 1, 2008.

"Velvet Revolution in Iran?" LLogos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture (Winter 2006)./ "Sametová demokracie v Iránu?" Literární noviny (November 13, 2006). Comparative analysis of dissident prodemocracy movements and civil societies in Iran and pre-1989 Eastern Europe . The article was plugged on Arts & Letters Daily www.aldaily.com run by the Chronicle of Higher Education and reprinted in The International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law (an online quart. devoted to civil society, NGOs, philanthropy & the law.

 “Žert a svatokrádež.” (“Joke and Sacrilege”).”). Article on the Danish cartoon controversy.  Literární noviny, February 20, 2006.

“Mýtus, nábońenství a politika strachu.” ("Myth, Religion, and Politics of Fear.”).Analysis of the relation between myth, social ethics, and political culture.  Literární noviny. December 28, 2005.

“Nábońenství a násilí.” (“Religion and Violence”). Is the relation between religion and violence            something essential or merely historical?  Literární noviny, October 31, 2005.

“Terorismus je postmoderní svou hodnotovou prázdnotou.” (“Terrorism is Postmodern Because It Lacks Values.”). Conversation about my work, teaching, public engagements & contemporary social and moral issues. Interview with Jan Kuneš, Literární noviny, No. 31, 2005.

"Cti Otce a Matku Svou--- Ale Co Kdyz Byli Komuniste?" "(Honor Your Father and Mother --- But What if They Were Communists?").?"). Just as in Germany during the 1960s, so also in Eastern Europe , there are now difficult inter-generation questions. Literární noviny, February  2005.

"Jeste kolik minut?" ("How Many More Minutes?"). Reflection on the Tsunami, Time, and             Death. Literární noviny, January 24, 2005.

"Nábońenství bez  nábońenství: Vánoční dopis." ("Religion Without Religion: Christmas letter.") A Christmas inter-religious article.  Literární noviny, December 20, 2004.

"Vliv na demokratizaci" (Original title "American Philosophy Professor.") Literární noviny, December 16, 2004.

"Sametová demokracie a jiné změny režimů." (English title: "From 'velvet revolution' to 'velvet jihad?' ") Literární noviny, November 15, 2004. / The English version, Open democracy, November 18, 2004.

"Doktorem filosofie v U.S.A." ("American Ph.D."). Literární noviny, November 1, 2004.

“Politika a strach” (“Politics and Fear”). Literární noviny, September 20, 2004. Reflection on the Greek notion of courage and its application to the current events. Correction: Letter to the Editor,   October 4, 2004.

“Jedinec a generace” (“Individual and Generation”). Literární noviny, August 16, 2004. Article on the anniversary of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

“Nesnesitelná lehkost začátků” (“Unbearable Lightness of Beginnings”). Literární noviny, July 12, 2004. Article about memorials, the memory work, and truth commissions.

“Manželství jako občanská nepošlusnost” (“Marriage as Civil Disobedience). Literární noviny, two parts in two journal issues: June 14, 2004 & June 21, 2004. Article about the gay marriage debate in the U.S.

“Modlitba pro Ameriku” (“America’s Prayer”). Literární noviny, May 17, 2004. Article about the Abu Ghraib prison abuse. The English version, Open democracy, June 3, 2004.

"Nebezpečná paměť" ["Dangerous Memory"] Literární noviny, No 50. December 8, 2003. Czech intellectual weekly. Front-page article exposing president Vaclav Klaus's recent attack on Vaclav Havel and of his attempt at the historical revision of the East European dissent under communism.

"Letter” in response to the review article [“The Power of Positive Thinking,” by Alan Ryan, The New York Review of Books, January 16, 2003, pp 43-46)] on my book on Habermas (q.v.), published in The New York Review of Books, February 27, 2003, p. 49.

“Books for Prague.” A joint article about the book donations for the Prague philosophy library that lost 40 thousand volumes in the floods of 2002. Literární časopis (July 2003).

"Kierkegaard a existenciálna revolúcia," in Slovak, [Kierkegaard and Existential Revolution] Kultúrny život (Slovak intellectual bi-weekly in the genre of The New York Review of Books, Bratislava, January 1991) 6-7.

"Post/moderní pokoušení," in Czech, [Post/modern Tempting]. The anniversary issue on the revolutionary events of November 1989. Tvar, No. 36 (intellectual bi-weekly, Prague, November 8, 1990) 1, 4-5.

I. PUBLISHED TRANSLATION

Translation and Notes (with Patricia J. Huntington) of Jürgen Habermas, "Kommunikative Freiheit und negative Theologie" (Theunissen Festschrift, Suhrkamp, 1992). A chapter included in Matuštík and Westphal, Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity (q.v.), 182-198.

K. WORK J. WORK IN PROGRESS      

 (A) The Question of the Unforgivable (study of the phenomena affecting truth and reconciliation commissions, imprescriptible crimes against humanity, and the relation of perpetrators, victims and bystanders in crimes against humanity).

(B) Transhumanism, Self, and Spirituality (existential and spiritual questions raised by emerging technologies: If privacy is increasingly owned by emerging technologies, what can we still call the self? If G-d is increasingly pushed out or absorbed by cyberspace, biotechnologies & other emerging technologies, are there existential and spiritual limits to be set to transhumanism & emerging technologies?).

(C) Out of Silence: A Memoir of a Survivor’s Child. Book ms. in progress, 350 pp.

                  (D) “The Mitzvoth of Love: Returns of the Religious after Religion.” Article ms, 20 pp.

 

RECENT AND FORTHCOMING LECTURES AT CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS

2011

Invitations:

*William McBride’s Consolations of Philosophy. Book chapter and conference presentation.

*Keynote and workshop at the undergraduate Philosophy & Religious Studies conference (California State University - Bakersfield, April 29-30).

* "How Can One Forgive G-d for Being G-d?" The Future of God. An interdisciplinary conference organized by Dean  of the Gonzaga-in-Florence Institute and Marc Manganaro, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at              Gonzaga University in Spokane  (Florence, February 23-26).

* "Unforgiving Memory & Counter-Redemptive Hope: Transgenerational Moral Remainders and Postmemorials." Nordic Summer University, Denmark or Island. Lead a week-long summer session workshop on my work  (July 31 to August 6, 2011 or the same in 2012). 

* Memory & Countermemory: Monuments, Museums, Memorialization of an Open Future. A Research Symposium, Arizona State University, November 6-8. Program concept and chair.

2010

*Organized and presented at the panel on Unforgiveness, conference on New Approaches to Trauma, October 7-9, Arizona State University. http://traumaconference.newcollege.asu.edu/

*”Difficult Unforgiveness.” Critical Theory Panel: International Society for Religion, Literature and

 Culture. The Faculty of Theology, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford (23rd-26th September)                                    

*“The Mitzvoth of Love.” The Panel on Religiously Encouraged Love of the Other of the Judaism section: International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture. The Faculty of Theology, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford (23rd-26th September).

 

*”The Difficulty of the Unforgivable. SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1” Invited Plenary – International Levinas Association (Toulouse, France, July 4).

 

*”Where Do People Go? Postsecular Meditations on Vaclav Havel's Leaving. “ The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, after-performance symposium on Havel’s legacy. May 30.           

 2009

*“Reading ‘Kierkegaard’ as a Drama.” Kierkegaard and Culture Group, AAR (Montreal, Nov.7.

*Radical Evil & The Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations. Book selected for one of Current

Research sessions, Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy (Washington, D.C.,

October 29, 2009).

*The Possibility of Redemptive Critical Theory. Plenary presentation at the international

Conference on Philosophy of Social Science (Prague, Czech Republic, May 13-17) .     

* Invited keynote address at Penn State University (College State, PA, April 17).

2008

Invited Keynote address at the international conference, Beyond Reification: Critical Theory and  the Challenge of Praxis, John Cabot University (Rome, Italy May 21-23).

2007

*The Gannon Lecture. The Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations on Radical Evil.” The Gannon lecture in one of the most premier lecture series at Fordham University--endowed by the class of 1951. The Gannon Lecture Series, which began in the fall of 1980, brings distinguished individuals to Fordham University to deliver public lectures on topics of their expertise. It is named in honor of the Rev. Robert I. Gannon, S.J., President of Fordham from 1936-1949, an outstanding and popular speaker. (New York, October 9).

*”’More Than All the Others’: Meditations on Responsibility,” an international conference on the occasion of Patočka's centennial of birth, thirty year anniversary of his death, and also thirty years since I signed “Charta 77” and later fled into exile. That human rights Manifesto was inspired by Dostoyevsky’s hyperbolic thought that “I am more guilty, more responsible than others.” The conference meets with the Husserl Circle (The Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University & the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, 22-28 April).   

2006

*"Integral Critical Theory of the Present Age," SPEP (Philadelphia, October 14).      

*Dialogue with Ken Wilber : Might there be a need for a third, transversal axis, in addition toWilber's states and stages of consciousness, to account for Kierkegaard's spheres of existence? Integral Spirituality Center, one hour on line audio conversation on the topics ranging from my autobiography to social ethics, politics, inter-religious dialogue, and the problem of violence (worldwide webcast, Boulder-Chicago, September 23). Listen to audio: Part 1 & Part 2

*”Becoming Human, Becoming Sober,” invited keynote address at the Kierkegaard conference, “Kierkegaard & Religion,” Lewis University (Romeoville, February 23-24.

2005

Presentations during the year-long sabbatical leave

*”Radical Evil: Is It a Religious or Secular Phenomenon?” Discussion panel with Prof. Václav

BŤlohradský,” conference of moral and political philosophy the Czech Academy of Science

(Prague, November 28).

 

*”Radical Evil: How to Speak about It in Postsecular Age?”(invited presentation at a three-hour

colloquium with the Czech Catholic, Orthodox, and protestant bishops; moderated by Prof.

Rev. Tomáš Halík; Czech Christian Academy, Emauzy monastery, Prague, November 23).

 

*”Derrida and Lévinas On Religion and Violence,” the International Congress "Person and

Society: Perspectives for the XXIst Century,” (the Faculdade de Filosofia da Universidade

Católica, Braga , Portugal , Nov. 16-20).

 

*"Religion, Secularization, and Violence," presentation at the Center for Theoretical Study

(Prague , November 4).

 

*”Between Terror and Hope,” presentation to Philosophical Institute of the Czech Academy of

Science (Prague, November 3).

 

*"Myth, Religion, and Politics of Fear,” (Czech Christian Academy, Karlovy Vary, Czech

 Republic, Oct. 10).

 

*”Religion and Violence,” major discussion panel with Dean Jan Sokol and Prof. Tomáš Halík

(aula of Charles University, Prague, Oct. 20).

 

*"Singular Existence and Critical Theory.” The annual Prague gathering of critical theorists

(Prague, May 20).

 

*"Habermas in Retrospect & Prospect." Look at Habermas's work since 9/11 (Inter-University

Center Dubrovnik, March 15).

2004

*"Evil, Cruelty, and Progress," revised version of the previously presented paper (Villanova University, January 22, Purdue University, February 6, Loyola University of Chicago, March 22).

*“Identity or Roots, Idol or Icon? Towards a New Critical Theory of Race,” commentary on Lucius Outlaw’s work (SPEP invited scholar’s session, Memphis, October 28).

*“Violence & Religion: Reading Derrida with Kierkegaard,” SPEP session of Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Memphis, October 25)

*Biographical Introduction to Jürgen Habermas's presentation (Purdue, October 15). View the video of Habermas's lecture : Part 1 & Part 2

2003

*"Between Hope and Terror: Derrida and Habermas Plead for the Im/Possible," conference on the new shape of the European Union, the Czech Academy of Science, Prague (November 26).

*"Violence and Secularization, Evil and Redemption," Kierkegaard Society's session at the APA, Cleveland (April 27) & the AAR meeting in Atlanta (November 22).

*"Habermas's Turn?" Response to two critical commentaries on my book, Jürgen Habermas: A Philosophical-Political Profile, selected for the Current Research Session," SPEP, Boston (November 6).

*"Evil and Progress," plenary presentation at the international Conference on Philosophy of Social Science, Prague, Czech republic (May 20).

2002

*"Writing Habermas’s Intellectual Biography," Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (March 13) & St. Louis University (October 25).

*"How Unfinished Should the Humanist Project Be?" Invited SPEP paper on Lorenzo Simpson’s book, Unfinished Project. Book panel with Robert Bernasconi and Lorenzo Simpson. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago (October 10).

2001

*"Habermas’s Philosophical-Political Profile: A Critical Appraisal of the Biographical Argument," the APA book panel with Max Pensky, David Owen and Eduardo Mendieta as critics, Atlanta (December 27).

*"Habermas’s Response to Fundamentalism," American Academy of Religion, Kierkegaard section, panel on Kierkegaard and Postnationalism, Denver (November 17).

*Review of James L. Marsh, Process, Praxis, and Transcendence, SPEP, Baltimore (October 20).

*"Existential Variants of Critical Theory," invited colloquium paper, The Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Croatia (April 10).

*Original conception and co-introduction with T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting for Critical Theory & Race: Contesting The Racial Contract, an interdisciplinary symposium sponsored by Purdue University’s African American Studies and Research Center and English & Philosophy Ph.D. Program (March 22-24).

2000

*"The Scarcity of Hope? Untimely Sartrean-Marcusean Meditations," The Sartre Society, Waterloo, Canada (Sept. 15).

*"Can There Be Witnesses if the Past is Closed?" Invited symposium paper for Ivan Havel’s Center for Theoretical Study, Prague, the Czech Republic, international celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Center (created on the model of the Princeton Center in 1990), with participation of Václav Havel, President of the Czech Republic (August 30).

*"The Critical Theorist as Witness: Habermas and the Holocaust," IAPL -- International Association of Philosophy and Literature, the State University of New York at Stony Brook (May 10).

*"The Scarcity of Hope? A Sartrean-Marcusean Challenge," The Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Croatia (April 11).

*Original conception and co-introduction with William L. McBride for The Task of Philosophy After Postmodernity, national conference in honor of Calvin O. Schrag, Purdue University (April 1).

1999

*"The Difficulty of Proving the Claim, `Truth is Subjectivity'," presentation on Merold Westphal's work. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, an invited session sponsored by SPEP's executive committee, Eugene, OR (October 10).

Conference, "Latin American Liberation Thought: Educational and Activist Philosophies," held at Lewis University (February 23).

1998

*"Fragments from the Future: Remembering the Impossible," book-symposium on Specters of Liberation (q.v.), by Andrew Feenberg, Bill Martin, and Cynthia Willett, with a response by the author, at American Philosophical Association, Washington, D.C. (December 27).

*"Back to the Future: Marcuse and New Critical Theory," Marcuse and the Prospects for Critical Theory, panel in honor of Marcuse's 100th birthday, Third National Conference of the Radical Philosophy Association, San Francisco State University (6 November).

*"Existential Social Theory After the Poststructuralist and Communication Turns," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Denver (October 8).

 

PHILOSOPHY TEACHING EXPERIENCE

A. ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, Phoenix

SPRING 2011  

PHI 324 Existential Ethics

PHI 32 Faculty reading salon on Gabriele Schwab’s Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma (Columbia University Press, 2010). Philosophy, Rhetoric and Literature Faculty Research Cluster.

 IAS 194: Food 4 Thought (designed a new course)

FALL 2011  

ASU-Tempe Campus: REL 598/494: Critical Theory: Memory, Mourning, Memorialization (Mondays 2.00-4.50 PM). Suitable for students and/or concurrent-listings with Jewish Studies, History, JHR, MAIS, PHI & qualified seniors.

ASU- West Campus: REL 300: Research, Writing, and Thinking in Religion and Applied Ethics  (Wednesdays, 4;40-7:30 PM).  This course is suitable as a general elective for students in religious studies, philosophy, literature, liberal arts.

FALL 2010  

Team-taught with Patricia Huntington as 2  consecutive 7 week courses (14 weeks = 6 credit hours) - Tuesdays 5.40 – 8.30 PM in class & weekly online discussion:

AEP 550/ REL 585: Ethical and Spiritual Issues in Pastoral Care &

AEP 598/ REL 598: Philosophical and Spiritual Issues in Death & Dying

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REL 300: Research, Writing, and Thinking in Religion and Applied Ethics                                  This course is suitable as a general elective for students in religious studies, philosophy, literature, liberal arts. The readings differ slightly from those used in Spring and Fall 2009 for this course.

SPRING 2010  

ASU-Tempe Campus:

REL 598/494: The Post-Holocaust Ethics Studes in Critical Theory: Post-Holocaus Ethi

ASU- West Campus:

AEP 502 Foundations of Ethics II  

FALL 2009  

REL 300: Research, Writing, and Thinking in Religion and Applied Ethics     This course is suitable as a general elective for students in religious studies, philosophy, literature, liberal arts. The readings differ slightly from those used in Spring 2009 for this course.

PHI 324: Existential Ethics                                                                           Suitable Elective for students interested in major texts at the intersection of philosophy, literature & spirituality            

AEP 501: Foundations of Ethics I                                                                                  ASU-wide graduate-level seminar in the new M.A. in Applied Ethics & the Professions - suitable as a general elective for students in interested in the intersection of philosophy, religious studies, critical social theory,  moral theory, applied ethics, and ethical & spiritual issues in care and social work. (The course continues in a year-long sequence in AEP 502.)

SPRING 2009  

Spring 2009,   ASU- West Campus:

                        MAS 598/REL/PHIL 494: Studies in Critical Theory                                                             A new graduate course suitable to students in the Humanities, Human Rights, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Literature.

                        REL 300: Research, Writing, and Thinking in Religion and Applied Ethics      This course is suitable for students in religious studies, philosophy, and general liberal arts.

 

B. PURDUE UNIVERSITY, W. Lafayette 

            Fall 1991:       PHIL 110: Introduction to Philosophy; PHIL 219: Introduction to Existentialism

            Spring 1992:   PHIL 110; PHIL 680: Foucault & Dialectic of Enlightenment

            Fall 1992:       PHIL 219: Introduction to Existentialism; PHIL 520: seminar on Existentialism

            Spring 1993:   PHIL 303: 19th Century Philosophy; PHIL 680: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

            Fall 1993:       PHIL 110 (Honors); PHIL 219

            Spring 1994:   PHIL 110; PHIL 555: Marcuse & Adorno

            Fall 1994:       *Assigned Junior Research Leave

            Spring 1996:   PHIL 110; PHIL 219

            Fall 1996:       PHIL 555: Critical Theory & Michel Foucault

                                    *Director of the Ph.D. Program: in Philosophy & Literature

            Spring 1997:   PHIL 110; PHIL 580B: Topic--Hegel and Contemporary Social Ethics

            Fall 1997:       PHIL 540: Studies in Social and Political Philosophy: Foucault, Butler , Marcuse;

                                    PHIL 510: Phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty)

Spring 1998:   PHIL/ENG 576: Philosophy, Hermeneutics, and Literary Theory (team-taught with Geraldine Friedman);

                                    PHIL 610: Alterity & Identity: Lévinas, Ricoeur, Derrida (team-taught with

                                                Calvin O. Schrag)

                                    PHIL 590: Habermas: Between Facts and Norms (philosophy of law)

            Fall 1998 &  Spring 1999: sabbatical leave

            Fall 1999:       PHIL 555: Social and Political Philosophy; PHIL 219

            Spring 2000:   PHIL 309: 20th Century Philosophy;

                                    *Director of the Ph.D. Program: in Philosophy & Literature

            Fall 2000:       PHIL 510: Merleau-Ponty; PHIL 319: Classical and Contemporary Marxism 

Spring 2001:   PHIL 219; *Director of the Ph.D. Program: in Philosophy & Literature

Fall 2001:       Research grant

Spring 2002:   PHIL 219; PHIL 555

Fall 2002:       PHIL 319: Classical and Contemporary Marxism

Spring 2003:   PHIL 610: Seminar in Recent Continental Philosophy; PHIL 219

Fall 2003:       PHIL 555: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Radical Evil

                        *Director of the Ph.D. Program: in Philosophy & English

Summers 2001-2003:  Phil 219 E / Engl. 396 E ( Prague ): Czech Existential Literature & Drama

Spring 2004:    PHIL 206: Philosophy of Religion (large section lecture course);

                        PHIL 309: 20th Century Philosophy

Fall 2004:       PHIL 680:  20th Century returns to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit; PHIL 319

Spring 2005:   PHIL 610: Seminar in Recent Continental Philosophy

                        PHIL 590: Ethics and Religion in Lévinas & Kierkegaard

                        Summer 2005:  Phil 319 E / Fll 396 E ( Prague ): Existentialism in Czech Literature & Film   

                        Fall 2005-Spring 2006: sabbatical leave (Philosophical Institute of Charles University , Prague )

                        Fall 2006:        PHIL 510: Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty

                                                 PHIL 555: Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse  

                        Spring 2007    PHIL 610: Postsecular Turn in Contemporary Continental Philosophy:

                                                                        Janicaud, Heidegger, Marion, Derrida

                        Fall 2007:        PHIL 580B: Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

                                                Phil 293: Philosophy of Love

                        Spring 2008:    PHIL 580C: Seminar on Kierkegaard’s religious and social ethics

                                                PHIL 206Y: Philosophy of Religion (long distance, on line course).

                        C. CHARLES UNIVERSITY, Prague (Fulbright Grant - teaching in Czech)

Spring 1995:

Critical Theory and Recent U.S. Texts in the Field (graduate)

Existential Philosophy and Recent U.S. Texts (graduate)

Fall 1995:

Kierkegaard, selected texts (graduate)

Charles Taylor and Jürgen Habermas (graduate)

D. F0RDHAM UNIVERSITY, New York

1987-89: teaching assistant: Philosophy of Human Knowledge (4 semest.).

E. LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, Los Angeles

1985-87: lecturer: Moral Problems/Ethics (upper division - 4 semest.).

Philosophy of Human Nature (4 semest.).

F. INTERNATIONAL TEACHING AND VISITING LECTURESHIPS

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey; Philosophy, July 1995.

The Center for Theoretical Study, dir. Ivan M. Havel, Prague, the Czech Republic,

     Fulbright grant, February - December 1995.

The Central European University, The George Soros Foundation, Prague, the Czech

     Republic, February 1992.

Charles University, Prague, visiting lecturer, April 1990 & May 1991.

G. GRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM

*Purdue's Ph.D. Program in Philosophy and Literature:

1996 - 98; 1999 - 2005, program director (external review of the program, spring 1997).

1992 - 93, acting director of the program.

1991 - present, program staff and committee member:

     responsible for application reviews, graduate student counseling, specialized Ph.D.

     examinations, and the interdisciplinary course on Philosophy and Literature.

*Founder, Organizer, and Director of Purdue’s Prague Summer Program:

Six week summer program brings to Prague about 30 U.S. undergraduates who take

two classes out of four and participate in weekly cultural and historical excursions in the Czech

Republic. These are guided by a professor of Charles University. Three Czech professors and the U.S.

faculty teach on the program. About 10 Czech students from Charles University take classes and

participate in all activities of the summer program (summer 2001-).

Ph.D. Dissertations, M.A., and B.A. Theses

Arizona State University (August 2008-)

Primary advisor:

Greg Grobmier – "Transcendence and Immanence." MAIS M.A. program – capstone thesis in Continental philosophy of religion (May 2010).  

Michael Woal, James Bingham, Connie Sexton – M.A. projects for Pastoral Care Ethics & Spirituality (May 2011).

Reader:

Robert Berra – Three M.A. papers on the holy war, gay marriage, and religious arguments concerning torture. Religious Studies, ASU-Tempe.

*Dissertation Committees at Purdue University:

Primary advisor---completed dissertations:

Primary advis Tim Martell: Marx and Adorno (March 2001).

                        Debra Jackson: The Phenomenology of Sexual Assault (April 2002).

            Ryan Musgrave: Feminism and Adorno’s Aesthetics (April 2002).

Jack Mulder: Faith and Nothingness in Kierkegaard: A Mystical Reading of the God-relationship – Jack was a recipient of the 2003 summer grant from St. Olaf’s Kierkegaard Center (April 2004, with distinction).

Jari Niemi, Critical Theory of Technology (April 2004).

Ada S. Jaarsma: Troubling the Normal: Contemporary Encounters with Kierkegaard                  (December 2004)

Primary Advisor---current dissertations in progress:

Michael Michau: Self and Other in Kierkegaard and Lévinas (May 2008).

Eric Hansen: Ethics and Religion in Kant & Kierkegaard (in progress).

Shannon Nason: Motion, Change, and Activity in Aristotle & Kierkegaard. Recipient of 2007

            summer grant from St. Olaf’s Kierkegaard Center (August 2008).

Aaron Fehir: Postmetaphysical Investigations---Kierkegaard and Prayer. Recipient of 2007

            summer grant from St. Olaf’s Kierkegaard Center (in progress).

Reader:

Bill Pamerleau: Discourse Ethics and Sartre (May 1994).

Raj Thiruvengadam: Communication and Mass Democracy (May 1994).

Nick Meriwether: Habermas and MacIntyre (May 1995).

Thomas Spademan: Sartre and Marx – Philosophy of Law (May 1996).

Natalija Micunovic: Critique of Nationalism (May 1996).

Derek Buschman: Hegel (May 1997).

Jeff Paris: Critical and Feminist Socialist Theory (May1998)

Stephen Pluhácek: Plato and Derrida (May1999).

Sarah Robert: The Ethics of Gift – Lévinas, Kierkegaard, and Derrida (May 2000).

Tod Ferguson, Reconstructing Solidarity and Socio-Political Integration in the Twenty-First

            Century: Bridging the Divide Between Theory and Practice (May 2004).

Mango Meier: Ancient Thoughts on Tyranny: A Reading of Xenophon’s Hiero (May 2005).

Lazar Popov: Social and political philosophy of Deleuze (in progress).

Shane Wahl: A Political Philosophy of the Future: Overcoming Liberalism through Nietzschean

             Agonism.

*Member of other Dissertation Committees:

Robyn Brothers: Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Proust (Brown University, defended 1997).

 

H. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

*Editorial Board Memberships:

– Associate Editor of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and

Democratic Theory, eds. Nancy Fraser and Andrew Arato (Basil Blackwell, 1994-).

– Associate Editor, Radical Philosophy Review (Humanities Press, 1998-2002).

– Editorial Board, Radical Philosophy Association, books series (Prometheus Books, former Humanities Press, 1997-).

*Program Committee for the 4th International Conference of Radical Philosophy Association (Fall 2000, Loyola University of Chicago).

*Conferences Conceived and Organized at Purdue:

– Feminist Visions of the Future: Tina Chanter, Patricia Huntington, Kelly Oliver & Ewa Ziarek (Purdue, April 1999).

– Calvin O. Schrag Festschrift Conference, 14 invited guests (Purdue, April 2000).

– Critical Theory and Race: Contesting the Racial Contract, keynote by Charles Mills (Purdue, March 2001).

– the North American Sartre Society: International Conference, 60 panelists (Purdue, September 2003).

– "Faith and Identity," graduate student conference on the intersection of literature, philosophy and religion, keynote Merold Westphal (Purdue, February 5-6, 2004).

– Jürgen Habermas plenary (October 15, 2004).

– "The Problem of Evil" (April 1-3, 2005).

*International Book Donation Campaign:

– Organized the flood relief for the philosophy library in Prague, Czech Republic (3 tons of books were collected from all of the U.S. and shipped via Czech Embassy in Washington, D.C. to Prague, 2003).

– Organized donations of philosophy texts from the U.S. for Charles University, as part of the Fulbright Grant there. Over 400 books were shipped to Prague between October 1994 and March 1995.

*Manuscript and Grant Reviews:

--papers for International Philosophical Quarterly, Man and World, Constellations, Polity.

--three manuscripts for SUNY Press (1991-93); one for University of Pittsburgh Press (1996); one for Cornell University Press (1999).

--two grant applications, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1992, 1996).

*External Review of an Academic Program (member of a national team):

Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), on-site review of the Council's study abroad academic program at Charles University, Prague (March 23-27, 1997).

 

LANGUAGES

Czech and Slovak (both native)

German & Spanish: speak, read, and write

French, Polish and Russian: good in reading and speech comprehension

FOREIGN TRAVEL

Europe: all Central, Eastern, Southern, and Western countries except Albania.

Middle and Far East, Asia: Israel and Egypt, Asian part of Turkey, Thailand, Nepal, Japan.

Americas: North America, Guatemala, and Mexico.

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