CURRENT
RESEARCH
John has recently completed two books. The first, Emerson and Self-Culture,
appeared in 2008 from Indiana University Press. The second, co-authored with
Paul Lysaker and entitled The Fate of the Self in Schizophrenia,appeared
in 2008 from Oxford University Press. Future work involves culture criticism
in the
style of Theodor Adorno and further developments of his dialogical
theory of the self.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books:
The Fate of the Self in Schizophrenia,
Oxford University Press (2008 -- co-authored with Paul Lysaker)
Emerson and Self-Culture. Indiana University Press (2008)
You Must Change Your Life:
Poetry, Philosophy, and the Birth of Sense. The Pennsylvania State
University Press (2002)
Selected Articles:
"Extoling Art in an Intolerable
World" Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol 21, No. 1, 2007
"Enactment in schizophrenia: Capacity for dialogue and the experience
of the inability to commit to action" Psychiatry 69 (1) Spring
2006: 81-93 (with Paul Lysaker & L.W. Davis)
"Schizophrenia and the
Experience of Intersubjectivity as Threat" Phenomenology
and the Cognitive Sciences. Volume 4: No. 3. 335-352: 2005
(with Paul Lysaker & JK Johnannesen)
"Being Interrupted: The
Self and Schizophrenia" Journal of Speculative Philosophy,
Vol. 19. No. 1. 2005 (with Paul Lysaker)
"Taking Emerson Personally" The
Georgia Review Vol. LVIII. No. 4. Winter, 2004: (832-850)
"White Dawns, Black Noons, Twilit
Days: Charles Simic's Poems Before Poetry" TriQuarterly. Issue
110/111. Fall, 2001
"Heidegger's Absolute Music: What Are Poets for When the End of Metaphysics
is at Hand" Research in Phenomenology, Volume XXX, 2000:
(180-210)
"Lenin, Nancy, and the Politics of Total War" Philosophy
Today, Volume 43, 1999: (186-195)
"Friendship at the End of Metaphysics" Soundings, Vol. LXXIX,
No. 3-4, 1996: (511-540)
"Between Impotence and Illusion: Adorno's Art of Theory and Practice"
New German Critique, No. 57, 1992: (87-122 with Michael Sullivan)
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TEACHING INTERESTS
John has taught courses engaging
many 20th century continental figures, e.g. Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida,
Nancy, Foucault, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Habermas, as well as 19th century
figures like Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche. John also teaches the work
of various American figures including Emerson, the classical pragmatists,
and contemporary thinkers like Stanley Cavell and Richard Rorty. While
some of these courses have been devoted to the work of one or two authors,
others are oriented towards various problem areas in philosophy, e.g.
aesthetics/philosophy of art, social and political philosophy, metaphysics,
and philosophical psychology.
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COURSE LINKS
Fall 2008
PHIL
110 Human
Nature
PHIL
607 Philosophy and Teaching
Winter 2009
PHIL 407/507 Sem
Sources of Self
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