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Theodore George

 

Education

Ph.D., Villanova University, 2000
Fulbright Scholar, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 1998
M.A., Villanova University, 1996
B.A., Whitman College, 1993

Areas of Interest

European Philosophy since Kant
Hermeneutical Philosophy
Philosophy of Art
Classical American Philosophy

 

Associate Professor George focuses on continental European philosophy since Kant with an emphasis on current receptions of classical German philosophy, hermeneutical philosophy, and the philosophy of art.  He is the author of Tragedies of Spirit:  Tracing Finitude in Hegel’s Phenomenology (SUNY Press, 2006; paperback, 2007) and numerous articles in his areas of interest.  His translation work includes the Günter Figal, Objectivity:  The Hermeneutical and Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2010).  He currently serves as the Associate Editor of Epoché:  A Journal for the History of Philosophy and Director of the 2011 session of the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Italy.  His research has been supported by the Fulbright Commission, the Goethe Institute, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), as well as by the Rothrock Fellows Program and the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University.  A recipient of the Texas A&M Association of Former Students College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, George holds a Ph.D. from Villanova University.

For information online about Epoché:  A Journal for the History of Philosophy, please visit: http://secure.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/journal?openform&journal=pdc_epoche

For information online about the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, please visit: http://www.collegiumphaenomenologicum.org/