ALAN DOUGLAS SCHRIFT

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Present Position

Professor, and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Grinnell College.
Director, Center for the Humanities, Grinnell College

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Other Professional Positions

Chair, Program Committee, North American Nietzsche Society  (1998-2004)
Member, Program Committee, American Philosophical Association Central Division (2003)
Editor, International Studies in Philosophy, Annual North American Nietzsche Society issue
Member, Committee for the Status of Women, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (2003-2006)
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the History of Philosophy
Member, Editorial Board, New Nietzsche Studies
Member, Advisory Board, symploke
Editorial Consultant, Continental Philosophy Review (formerly Man and World)
Editorial Consultant, International Studies in Philosophy

Academic Background

Ph.D.:  1983  Department of Philosophy, Purdue University.
Dissertation:  “Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation:  Hermeneutics, Deconstruction, Pluralism”
Chairman:  Calvin O. Schrag

M.A. :  1980  Department of Philosophy, Purdue University.
B.A. :  1977  Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Honors Thesis:  “Aspects of Nietzsche’s Philosophy in Sartre’s Nausea”
Adviser:  Professor Richard Schmitt

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Areas of Specialization

Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy:  Existentialism, Poststructuralism, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Philosophy of Literature

Areas of Teaching Competence

Aesthetics
History of Modern Philosophy
Social and Political Philosophy
Philosophical Anthropology

Publications

Books Authored

Nietzsche’s French Legacy:  A Genealogy of Poststructuralism, an examination of post-1960 French appropriations of Nietzsche by Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Hélène Cixous  (New York: Routledge, 1995).

Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation:  Between  Hermeneutics and Deconstruction, a comparative analysis of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida’s interpretations of Nietzsche, examining these interpretations as exemplary of their respective approaches to the history of philosophy (New York: Routledge, 1990).

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Books Edited

Why Nietzsche Still?  Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, an interdisciplinary anthology of new essays on Nietzsche  (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2000).

The Logic of the Gift:  Toward an Ethic of Generosity, an interdisciplinary anthology of articles by philosophers, anthropologists, and literary theorists (New York:  Routledge, 1997).

The Hermeneutic Tradition:  From Ast to Ricoeur, an anthology of readings on the issues and themes of 19th and 20th century philosophical hermeneutics, edited with an introduction by Alan D. Schrift and Gayle L. Ormiston (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990).

Transforming the Hermeneutic Context:  From Nietzsche to Nancy, an anthology of recent contributions to interpretation theory, situating these contributions within the hermeneutic tradition, edited with an introduction by Alan D. Schrift and Gayle L. Ormiston (Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1990).

Journal Volumes Edited

International Studies in Philosophy 36:3 (2004): Proceedings of the North American Nietzsche Society, 12 essays, 196 pages.

International Studies in Philosophy 35:3 (2003): Proceedings of the North American Nietzsche Society, 11 essays, 196 pages.

International Studies in Philosophy 34:3 (2002): Proceedings of the North American Nietzche Society, 12 essays, 194 pages.

International Studies in Philosophy 33.3 (2001) Proceedings of the North American Nietzche Society, 9 essays, 149 pages.

International Studies in Philosophy 32:3 (2000): Proceedings of the North American Nietzsche Society, 11 essays, 156 pages.

International Studies in Philosophy 31:3 (1999): Proceedings of the North American Nietzsche Society, 12 essays, 156 pages.

International Studies in Philosophy 30:3 (1998): Proceedings of the North American Nietzsche Society, 12 essays, 149 pages.

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Articles

“Confessions of an Anthology Editor,” forthcoming in On Anthologies: The Politics and Pedagogy of Anthologizing, ed. Jeffrey R. Di Leo (Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 2004).

“Is There Such a Thing as ‘French Philosophy’? or Why Do We Read the French So Badly?” lead essay forthcoming in After the Deluge:  New Perspectives on Postwar French Intellectual and Cultural History, ed. Julian Bourg (Lantham, MD:  Lexington Books, 2004): 38 MS pages.

“A Nietzschean Transvaluation of Democracy” forthcoming in Nietzsche, Value And Values: Essays on Nietzsche's Revaluations of Values, ed. Richard Schacht (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2004): 32 MS pages.

“Arachnophile or Arachnophobe: Nietzsche and his Spiders,” in Nietzsche’s Animals, ed. Christa Acampora and Ralph Acampora (New York:   Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), pp. 61-70.

“Le Mépris des Anti-Sémites: Kofman’s Nietzsche, Nietzsche’s Jews,” forthcoming in Reading Sarah Kofman’s Corpus, ed. Tina Chanter and Pleshette DeArmitt (SUNY Press).

“Spinoza versus Kant: Have I Been Understood?” forthcoming in Nietzsche and Post-Postmodernism/Why Nietzsche Now, ed. Uschi Nussbaumer-Benz and Endre Kiss.

“Response to Don Dombowsky,” Nietzsche-Studien 31 (2002): 291-97.

“Nietzschean Agonism and the Subject of Radical Democracy,” Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Volume 27, ed. Stephen Galt Crowell and Margaret Simons, published in Philosophy Today (2001 Supplement): 153-63.

“Logics of the Gift in Cixous and Nietzsche: Can we still be generous?” Angelaki:  journal of the theoretical humanities, Special Issue: “The Gift: Theory and Practice,” ed. Constantin Boundas, 6:3 (August 2001): 113-123.

“Les mépris des Anti-Sémites: Nietzsche, Kofman, and the Jews,” forthcoming lead essay in special issue of New Nietzsche Studies on “Nietzsche and the Jewish Question,” ed. Debra Bergoffen and Babette Babich.

“Confessions of an Anthology Editor,” special issue of symplok‘ 8:1/2 on “Anthologies,” (Spring 2001): 164-76.

“Judith Butler: Une nouvelle existentialiste?” Philosophy Today (Spring 2001): 12-23.

“Nietzsche for Democracy?” Nietzsche-Studien 29 (2000): 220-33.

“Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze, and the Subject of Radical Democracy,” Angelaki:  journal of the theoretical humanities, Special Issue “Rhizomatics, Genealogy, Deconstruction,”  edited by Constantin Boundas, 5:2 (Summer 2000): 151-61.

“Nietzsche Studies Today,” invited title essay for special issue on Nietzsche of the journal Eidos, XIV, 2 (1997): 3-14.

“Nietzsche’s Contest:  Nietzsche and the Culture Wars,” in Why Nietzsche Still?  Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, edited by Alan D. Schrift (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), pp. 184-201.

“A disputa de Nietzsche: Nietzsche e as guerra culturais,” Portuguese translation of “Nietzsche’s Contest:  Nietzsche and the Culture Wars” by Sandro Kobol Fornazari in cadernos Nietzsche 7, São Paulo (1999): 3-26.

“Introduction: Why Nietzsche Still?” editorial introduction in Why Nietzsche Still?  Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, edited by Alan D. Schrift (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), pp. 1-12.

“Spinoza, Nietzsche, Deleuze:  An Other Discourse of Desire,”  in Philosophy and Desire, ed. Hugh A. Silverman (New York:  Routledge, 2000), pp. 173-85.

“Jean-François Lyotard,” entry article in the Second Edition of The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 523-24.

“Nietzsche for Democracy,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XXXVII Supplement (1999): “Spindel Conference 1998: Nietzsche and Politics,” ed. Jacqueline Scott: 167-73.

“Respect for the Agon and Agonistic Respect: A Response to Hatab and Olkowski,” contribution to “Book Symposium Section” on my book Nietzsche’s French Legacy: A Genealogy of Poststructuralism (Routledge, 1995) in New Nietzsche Studies, Vol. 3, Nos. ½ (Winter 1999): 129-144.

“Rethinking the Subject, or How One Becomes-other than What One Is,” in Nietzsche’s Postmoralism:  Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future,  ed. Richard Schacht (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000): 26 MS pages.

“Kofman, Nietzsche, and the Jews,” in Enigmas: A Collection of Essays on Sarah Kofman, ed. Penelope Deutscher and Kelly Oliver (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999): 205-218.

“Introduction: Why Gift?” in The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity, (New York: Routledge, 1997): 1-22.

“Foucault’s Reconfiguration of the Subject:  From Nietzsche to Butler, Laclau/Mouffe, and Beyond,” in Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Volume 22, ed. John Caputo and Debra Bergoffen, published in Philosophy Today 41:1 (Spring 1997):153-159.

“Will to Power, Productive Power, Desiring Production:  The Nietzschean Heritage of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze,” forthcoming in Nietzsche’s Happy Returns, ed. Duncan Large (London:  MacMillan, 2001):  27 MS pages.

“Friedrich Nietzsche”:  update article commissioned for the Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Philosophy (MacMillan, 1967, 1996): 376-77.

“Poststructuralism”:  entry article commissioned for the Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Philosophy (MacMillan, 1967, 1996): 452-53.

“Nietzsche’s French Legacy,” in Cambridge Companions  to Philosophy:  Friedrich Nietzsche, ed. Bernd Magnus and Kathleen Higgins (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1996):  323-355.

“Nietzsche'nin Fransýz Mirasý,” Turkish translation by Ali Utku, Tezkire, no. 35 (November-December 2003):

“Rethinking Exchange:  Logics of the Gift in Cixous and Nietzsche,” in Phenomenology and Beyond: Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Volume 21, ed. John Caputo and Lenore Langsdorf, published in Philosophy Today 40:1 (Spring 1996): 197-205.

“Putting Nietzsche to Work:  The Case of Gilles Deleuze,” in Nietzsche:  A Critical Reader, ed. Peter R. Sedgwick (London: Basil Blackwell, 1995):  250-275.

“Reconfiguring the Subject as a Process of Self:  Following Foucault’s Nietzschean Trajectory to Butler, Laclau/Mouffe, and Beyond,” new formations:  a journal of culture/theory/politics, special issue on Michel Foucault, No. 25 (Summer 1995): 28-39.

“Reconfiguring the Subject:  Foucault’s Analytics of Power,” in Reconstructing Foucault:  Essays in the Wake of the 80s, ed. Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso and Silvia Caporale-Bizzini (Amsterdam/Atlanta:  Rodopi Press, 1995):  185-199.

“On the Gift-Giving Virtue:  Nietzsche’s Feminine Economy,”  International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Summer 1994):  33-44.

“On the Gynecology of Morals:  Nietzsche and Cixous on the Logic of the Gift,” in Nietzsche and the Feminine, ed. Peter J. Burgard (Charlottesville:  University of Virginia Press, 1994):  210-229.

“Between Church and State:  Nietzsche, Deleuze and the Critique of Psychoanalysis,” International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer 1992):  41-52.

“Staging the End of Individualism:  Sloterdijk’s Postmetaphysical Dramaturgy,”Studies in Twentieth Century  Literature, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 1991): 357-72.

“Editors’ Introduction,” in The Hermeneutic Tradition:  From Ast to Ricoeur, ed. A. D. Schrift and G. L. Ormiston (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990):  1-38.

“Editors’ Introduction,” in Transforming the Hermeneutic  Context:  From Nietzsche to Nancy, ed. A. D. Schrift and G. L. Ormiston (Albany:  SUNY Press, 1990):  1-42.

“The becoming-post-modern of Philosophy,” in After the Future:   Postmodern Times and Places, ed. Gary Shapiro (Albany:  SUNY Press, 1990):  99-113.

“Nietzsche and the Critique of Oppositional Thinking,” History  of European Ideas, Vol. 11 (1989):  783-90.

“Genealogy and the Transvaluation of Philology,” International  Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1988):  85-95.

“Foucault and Derrida on Nietzsche and the ‘end(s)’ of ‘man,’” in Exceedingly Nietzsche:  Aspects of Contemporary Nietzsche-Interpretation, ed. David F. Krell and David Wood (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1988):  131-49.

“Foucault and Derrida on Nietzsche and the ‘end(s)’ of ‘man,’” reprinted in Michel Foucault: Critical Assessments, Vol. II, ed. Barry Smart (London: Routledge, 1994): 278-92.

“Genealogy and/as Deconstruction: Nietzsche, Derrida, and Foucault on Philosophy as Critique,” in Postmodernism and Continental Philosophy, ed. Hugh Silverman and Donn Welton (Albany: SUNY Press, 1988):  193-213.

“A Question of Method:  Existential Psychoanalysis and Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason,” Man and World 20 (1987):  399-418.

“Between Perspectivism and Philology:  Genealogy as Hermeneutic,” Nietzsche-Studien, Band 16 (Berlin:  de Gruyter, 1987):  91-111.

“Between Perspectivism and Philology:  Genealogy as Hermeneutic,” reprinted in Friedrich Nietzsche: Critical Assessments, ed. Daniel W. Conway (London: Routledge, 1998).

“Language, Metaphor, Rhetoric: Nietzsche’s Deconstruction of Epistemology,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 23, No. 3 (July 1985):  371-395.

“Reading, Writing, Text:  Nietzsche’s Deconstruction of Authority,” International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 2 (1985):  55-64.

“Reading Derrida Reading Heidegger Reading Nietzsche,” Research  in Phenomenology, Vol. 14 (1984):  87-119.

“Parody and the Eternal Recurrence in Nietzsche’s Project of Transvaluation,” International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 16, No. 2 (1984):  37-40.

“Violence or Violation?  Heidegger’s Thinking ‘about’ Nietzsche,” Tulane Studies in Philosophy, special issue on “The Thought of Martin Heidegger,” Vol. XXXII (Fall 1984):  79-86.

“Towards a Theory of Reading:  A Sartrean Contribution to Reader-Response Criticism,” The Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. III, Nos. 1-2 (Fall/Winter 1984):  135-148.

“Nietzsche’s Hermeneutic Significance,” Auslegung, Vol. 10, No. 1-2, (Fall 1983):  39-47.

“Nietzsche’s Psycho-Genealogy:  A Ludic Alternative to Heidegger’s Reading of Nietzsche,” The Journal of the  British Society for Phenomenology, special issue on “The Philosophy of Nietzsche,” Vol. 14, No. 3 (1983):  283-303.

“Nietzsche’s Conception of Nihilism,” Eros, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1979):  1-18.

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Translations

Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Freud, Marx” from Nietzsche:  Cahiers du Royaumont (Paris: 1964), in Transforming the Hermeneutic Context:  From Nietzsche to Nancy, eds. Alan D. Schrift and Gayle L. Ormiston (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990):  59-67.

Presentations

“Deleuze Becoming Nietzsche Becoming Spinoza Becoming Deleuze: Toward a Politics of Immanence.”  Invited Presentation at International Conference on the work of Gilles Deleuze:  “Experimenting with Intensities: Science, Philosophy, Politics, Arts,” May 12-15, 2004.  Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.  May 14, 2004.

“A Nietzschean Transvaluation of Democracy?”  University of Richmond.  Invited Lecture.  February 24, 2004

“Pierre Bourdieu:  Logics of the Gift” University of Richmond. Invited Seminar Presentation to Honor’s Seminar taught by Gary Shapiro and Mari Lee Mifsud. February 25, 2004

“Is There Such a Thing as “French Philosophy”?  Demythologizing Philosophy in France in the 20^th Century” invited lecture, Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, February 21, 2003.

“The Ethics of The Gift,” invited lecture as part of a panel on “The Ethics of the Gift,” Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School University, Feb. 5, 2003 

“Response to Shannon Sullivan,” APA Eastern Division meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 30, 2002.      

“Nietzsche and German Expressionism,” Gallery Talk in conjunction with exhibition “Walking a Tightrope: German Expressionist Printmaking 1904-1928,” Falconer Gallery, Grinnell College, April 11, 2002.

“Nietzsche for Democracy?  Thoughts on the Subject of Radical Democracy,” invited paper presented at Lewis University Philosophy Conference, February 21, 2002.

“Nietzsche for Democracy?  Thoughts on the Subject of Radical Democracy,” refereed major paper to be presented at annual meeting of Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, October 5, 2001.

“Le Mépris des Anti-Sémites: Kofman’s Nietzsche, Nietzsche’s Jews,” invited paper to be presented at Colloquium “Reading Sarah Kofman's Corpus,” DePaul University, October 12, 2001.

“Nietzsche and the Subject of Radical Democracy” invited paper presented at the annual Nietzsche Workshop, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, June 5-7, 2001.

“Recent Works,” Seminar presentation to the Nietzsche Werkgroep, Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, Holland, April 20, 2001.

“Nietzsche and the Subject of Radical Democracy” invited paper presented at Institute for Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, April 17, 2001.

“Nietzsche and the Subject of Radical Democracy” invited paper presented to the Departments of Politics and German, University of Wales, Swansea, UK, February 28, 2001.

“Nietzsche for Democracy?” invited paper presented to the Centre for Critical Theory, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, UK, February 25, 2001.  

“Nietzsche for Democracy?” invited paper presented at “Nietzsche, Value, and ‘Revaluation’” Centenary Conference, Allerton Conference Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Oct. 15, 2000.

“Arachnophile or Arachnophobe: Nietzsche and his Spiders,” juried paper presented in session on “Nietzsche’s Animals” at annual meeting of Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, Oct. 7, 2000

“Nietzsche and the Subject of Radical Democracy,” Plenary Address at the annual meeting of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain, September 8, 2000.

“Le Mépris des Anti-sémites: Nietzsche, Kofman, and the Jews,” juried paper presented at the annual meeting of the Nietzsche Society in conjunction with the meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Eugene, Oregon, October 7, 1999.

“Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze, and the Subject of Radical Democracy,” invited paper presented at conference on “Rhizomatics, Genealogy and Deconstruction,” Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, May 21, 1999.

“Nietzsche’s Corpus as Postmodern Site,” invited paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, May 13, 1999.

“Nietzsche for Democracy,” invited paper presented at 1998 Spindel Conference on “Nietzsche and Democracy,” University of Memphis, October 3, 1998.

“Nietzsche’s Contest:  Nietzsche and the Culture Wars,” invited paper presented at a special session of the North American Nietzsche Society in conjunction with the 1998 World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, Massachusetts, August 11, 1998.

“Reply to Olkowski and Hatab,” invited paper presented at “Recent Research” session devoted to my Nietzsche’s French Legacy, at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, October 16, 1997.

“Kofman, Nietzsche, and the Jews,” invited paper presented at session titled “Marginal Politics/Politics at the Margins: The Case of Nietzsche” at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, May 8, 1997.

“Performance Check: A Brief Genealogy and Some Questions for Judith Butler,” invited paper presented at a Scholar’s Session on the work of Judith Butler at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, October 12, 1996.

“Logics of the Gift in Cixous and Nietzsche: Can we still be generous?” invited lecture presented at an international conference on “The Gift: Theory and Practice,” Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, May 17, 1996.

“Nietzsche’s Contest:  Nietzsche and the Culture Wars,” juried paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, May 4, 1996.

“The Enigma of Sarah Kofman,” invited introductory remarks at special session on the works of Sarah Kofman, annual meeting of Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, DePaul University, October 14, 1995.

“Kofman, Nietzsche, and the Jews,” invited lecture presented at Commemorative Conference Enigmas:  On the Works of Sarah Kofman (1934-1994), held at the University of Warwick, Warwick, England, March 18, 1995.

“Rethinking the Subject, or How One Becomes-other than What One Is,” invited lecture presented at “Nietzsche at 150:  His Philosophical Thought and Its Contemporary Significance,” Nietzsche Sesquicentennial Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, October 13, 1994.

“Foucault’s Reconfiguration of the Subject:  From Nietzsche to Butler, Laclau/Mouffe, and Beyond,” juried paper presented at a panel titled “To Do Justice to Foucault,” at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Seattle, Washington, September 30, 1994.

“Nietzsche’s French Legacy,” invited lecture delivered at the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, May 5, 1994.

“Genealogy, Power, and the Reconfiguration of the Subject:  Foucault’s Nietzschean Heritage,” invited lecture delivered to the Philosophy Section and the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK, April 22, 1994.

“Nietzsche’s French Legacy,” invited lecture delivered at Annual Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Clyne Castle, University College of Swansea, Swansea, Wales, UK, April 16, 1994.

“Nietzsche’s Prefiguration of Twentieth Century Hermeneutics,” invited lecture delivered at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, Holland, February 11, 1994.

“Derrida’s Supplement to Hermeneutics,” invited lecture delivered at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, Holland, February 11, 1994.

“Rethinking Exchange:  Logics of the Gift in Cixous and Nietzsche,” presented at annual meeting of Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, New Orleans, LA, October 23, 1993.

“On the Gift-Giving Virtue:  Nietzsche’s Feminine Economy,” presented at special session on “Nietzsche and Feminism” at the meeting of the North American Nietzsche Society in conjunction with the APA, Washington, DC, December 28, 1992.

“Nietzsche’s French Legacy,” invited keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the Nietzsche Society in conjunction with the meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, 1992.

“Nietzsche’s Prefiguration of Twentieth Century Hermeneutics,” two invited lectures at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July 20-22, 1992.

“Reconfiguring the Subject:  Foucault’s Analytics of Power,” presented at “Passions, Persons, Powers” conference, University of California, Berkeley, California, May 1, 1992.

“Rethinking Nietzsche’s Economy:  On the Gift-Giving Virtue,” invited paper presented at conference “Between Heidegger and Nietzsche:  Poetry, Technology, Thought,” University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy, April 16, 1992.

“Nietzsche’s French Legacy:  Remarks on Foucault, Deleuze and Lyotard,” invited lecture, presented to the Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, February 27, 1992.

“Nietzsche’s becoming-Deleuze:  Genealogy, Will to Power, and other Desiring Machines,” invited lecture, presented to the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, April 18, 1991.

“Nietzsche’s French Legacy:  Remarks on Foucault, Deleuze, and Lyotard,” invited lecture, presented at the Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, April 9, 1991.

“Between Church and State:  Nietzsche, Deleuze and the Critique of Psychoanalysis,” invited lecture, presented at the meeting of the North American Nietzsche Society in conjunction with the APA, San Francisco, California, March 30, 1991.

“Nietzsche’s becoming-Deleuze:  Genealogy, Will to Power, and the Critique of Psychoanalysis,” invited lecture, presented to the Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, February 28, 1991.

“Nietzsche and the Critique of Oppositional Thinking,” invited lecture, presented to the Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, February 21, 1991.

“Foucault’s Analytics of Power:  A Model for Postmodernity?” presented at the annual meeting of the Twentieth Century French Studies Association, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, April 19, 1990.

“Foucault and Nietzsche Rethinking Subjectivity,” presented at the annual meeting of The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 13, 1989.

“Foucault and Nietzsche:  Genealogy as a ‘Curative Science,’” presented at the meeting of the North American Nietzsche Society in conjunction with the APA, Chicago, Illinois, April 27, 1989.

“Nietzsche’s becoming-Deleuze:  Genealogy, will to power, and other desiring machines,” presented at the annual meeting of The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, October 15, 1988.

“Nietzsche and the Critique of Oppositional Thinking,” invited paper presented to session on Nietzsche’s influence on contemporary philosophical issues at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Rai Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 27, 1988.

“The becoming-post-modern of philosophy,” presented to the University of Iowa Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, March 15, 1988.

“Derrida, Nietzsche, and the History of Philosophy,” presented to the Philosophy Department at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, February 8, 1988.

“Nietzsche and the becoming-post-modern of philosophy,” presented at the Iowa Philosophical Society meeting, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, November 7, 1987.

“The becoming-post-modern of philosophy,” presented at conference on Postmodernism organized by the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, May 2, 1987.

“Genealogy and the Transvaluation of Philology,” presented at the meeting of the North American Nietzsche Society in conjunction with the APA, St. Louis, Missouri, May 1, 1986.

“Derrida, Nietzsche, and the History of Philosophy,” presented to the St. Lawrence Valley Philosophy Colloquium, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, March 19, 1986.

“Genealogy and/as Deconstruction:  Nietzsche, Derrida, and Foucault on Philosophy as Critique,” presented in Philosophy Lecture Series, Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, January 27, 1986.

“Between Perspectivism and Philology:  Genealogy as Hermeneutic,” presented at the meeting of The Nietzsche Society, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 1985.

“Foucault and Derrida on the ‘end(s)’ of ‘man’” presented to the Purdue University Philosophy Colloquium, February 11, 1985.

“Genealogy and/as Deconstruction:  Nietzsche and Derrida on Philosophy as Critique,” presented at the annual meeting of The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, October 20, 1984.

“Foucault and Derrida on Nietzsche and the ‘End(s)’ of ‘Man,’” invited paper presented at the 1984 summer workshop in recent Continental philosophy on The New Nietzsches at the University of Warwick, Coventry, England, July 1, 1984.

“Reading, Writing, Text:  Nietzsche’s Deconstruction of Authority,” presented at the meeting of the North American Nietzsche Society in conjunction with the APA, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 27, 1984.

“Nietzsche’s Hermeneutic Significance,” read at conference on Contemporary European Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, April 26, 1983.

“Eternal Recurrence and Parody in Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” read at the meeting of the North American Nietzsche Society in conjunction with the APA, Columbus, Ohio, April 29, 1982.

“Philosophical Perspectives on Aesthetics” presented to the Ceramics Department, Purdue University, April, 1981.

“Perspectivism/Rigorous Philology:  Nietzsche and The Question of Interpretation,” read at the annual meeting of The Nietzsche Society, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, November 6, 1980.

“Toward a Theory of Reading,” read at a symposium on Sartre at the annual conference of The International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, May 9, 1980.

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Book Reviews

David B. Allison, Reading the New Nietzsche (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), Review of Metaphysics 55 (March 2002): 615-17.

Wolfgang Müller-Lauter:  Nietzsche.  His Philosophy of Contradictions and the Contradictions of His Philosophy (University of Illinois Press, 1999), Journal of the History of Philosophy 38:3 (July 2000): 453-54.

Alain Badiou, Manifesto for Philosophy (SUNY Press, 1999):  Reviews in Philosophy 20/1 (February 2000): 6-8.

Daniel W. Conway, Nietzsche’s Dangerous Game: Philosophy in the Twilight of the Idols (Cambridge U Press, 1997): Reviews in Philosophy 18/4 (August 1998): 246-48.

Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut, eds., Why We Are Not Nietzscheans (U Chicago Press): New Nietzsche Studies 2:3/4 (Summer 1998): 112-16.

Douglas Smith, Transvaluations: Nietzsche in France, 1872-1972 (Oxford U Press): Journal of the History of Philosophy 36:3 (July 1998): 477-79.

Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut, eds., Why We Are Not Nietzscheans (U Chicago Press): Philosophy in Review 17:5 (October 1997): 328-30.

Keith Ansell-Pearson, An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker:  The Perfect Nihilist (Cambridge UP, 1994): The Journal of the History of Philosophy 34:3 (July 1996):  470-71.

Ernst Behler, Confrontations:  Derrida/Heidegger/Nietzsche (Stanford:  Stanford UP, 1991): International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Fall 1994): 96-97.

John McGowan, Postmodernism and its Critics (Ithaca:  Cornell UP, 1991): World Literature Today, (Autumn 1992).

Henry Staten, Nietzsche’s Voice (Ithaca:  Cornell UP, 1991): International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer 1992): 136-37.

Luce Irigaray, Marine Lover.  Of Friedrich Nietzsche,  (New York:  Columbia UP, 1990): International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer 1992): 127-28.

Leslie Paul Thiele, Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul:  A Study of Heroic Individualism, (Princeton:  Princeton UP, 1990): Ethics, Vol. 102, No. 1 (October 1991): 207-08.

Laurence A. Rickels, Looking After Nietzsche (Albany:  SUNY P, 1990): International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1991): 142-44.

Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong, eds., Nietzsche’s New Seas (Chicago:  U Chicago P, 1988): Canadian Philosophical  Review/Revue Canadienne de Comptes Rendus en Philosophie (November 1989):  437-39.

Charles E. Scott, The Language of Difference (Atlantic Highlands, NJ:  Humanities, 1988) International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 23, No. 1 (1991): 144-45.

Ingtraud Görland, Die Konkrete Freiheit des Individuums bei Hegel  und Sartre (Frankfort a.M.:  Klostermann, 1978) Clio, Vol. X, No. 4 (1981): 427-29.

Douglas Collins, Sartre as Biographer (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1980) in Eros, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1981): 122-28.

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Work in Progress

Books

Twentieth Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers (Blackwell Publishers), forthcoming 2005

Modernity and the Problem of Evil, an edited collection of new essays on the topic (contract signed with Indiana University Press), forthcoming 2005.

Articles

“Deleuze Becoming Nietzsche Becoming Spinoza Becoming Deleuze: Toward a Politics of Immanence.”

“Editorial Introduction: Evil after the Death of God” for the anthology I am editing on Modernity and the Problem of Evil.

“Friedrich Nietzsche” entry for Second Edition of The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (MacMillan, 2005)

“Structuralism and Poststructuralism” entry for Second Edition of The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (MacMillan, 2005)

“Deconstruction” entry for Second Edition of The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (MacMillan, 2005)

“Nietzsche and the Political” for The Nietzsche Companion, edited by Keith Ansell Pearson (forthcoming from Blackwell).

“Nietzsche on Humanity and Over-Humanity” for Blackwell anthology on The Human, edited by Matthew Calarco and Peter Atterton.

“Philosophy and its Institutions in France: Have they been misunderstood?”

“Is There Such a Thing as “French Philosophy”?  Demythologizing Philosophy in France in the 20^th Century”

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Awards and Honors

	2004	Mellon Summer Research Grant: “The Influence of the Agrégation de Philosophie on Twentieth-Century French Philosophy”
	2003/2/1	Research Grant, Committee for the Support of Faculty Scholarship, Grinnell College
	2002/1	Research Grant, Committee for the Support of Faculty Scholarship, Grinnell College
	2001	National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Stipend: “Twentieth Century French Philosophy: A Historical Introduction.”
	2000	Tenured Faculty Study Leave, Grinnell College .
	1998	The Rosenblum Fund for Interdisciplinary Projects in the Arts:  “20th Century Art and Philosophy in Dialogue.”
	1997	National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for College Teachers, “The Dialectic of Enlightenment: Fifty Years After,”  Director: James Schmidt.
	1995	Travel Grant, Noun Program in Women’s Studies, Grinnell College.
	1995/4/3	Western European Studies Travel Grant for research in Europe.
	1992	National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute on Ethics and Aesthetics, UC/Berkeley.  Directors:  Anthony Cascardi and Charles Altieri.
	1991	Western European Studies Travel Grant for research in Europe.
	1991	External Fellow, Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon at Eugene.
	1990-91	Harris Faculty Fellowship, Grinnell College.
	1989	The Pew Foundation, Grant to develop integration of foreign language texts into non-foreign language courses.
	1988	Curriculum Development Grant, Noun Program in Women’s Studies, Grinnell College.
	1987	Research Grant, College Grant Board, Grinnell College.
	1987	National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for College Teachers, “The Postmodern Turn:  Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Rorty,” Director:  Bernd Magnus.
	1985-86	American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship for Studies in Modern Society and Values (awarded January, 1985).
	1984	American Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grant.
	1981-83	David Ross Research Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University.
	1980	David Ross Summer Research Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University.
	1978-79	Purdue University Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University.
	1977	Baccalaureate Honors Degree, Brown University.

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Professional Memberships

American Philosophical Association
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Nietzsche Society (Program Committee, 1989-91; Chair, 1989-90)
North American Nietzsche Society (Program Committee, 1990-1993; Program Committee Chair 1998-2003)
Friedrich Nietzsche Society (Great Britain)
International Association for Philosophy and Literature

Teaching Experience

Visiting Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, Spring, 1994.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Liberal Studies, Clarkson University, Fall, 1985-Spring, 1987.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University, Fall, 1983-Spring, 1985.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University at Kokomo, Fall, 1984.

Graduate Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University, Fall, 1980-Spring, 1982.

Courses Taught

Departmental Committee Work

Department Chair, Department of Philosophy, Grinnell College, 1994-2000, 2003-.

Member: Convocation Speaker’s Committee, 2004-.

Chair, Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Humanities Steering Committee, 1998-

Faculty Advisor: Grinnell College Study Abroad at the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, 1993-.

Member: Gender and Women’s Studies Concentration Committee, 1988-.

Member: Foreign Language Across the Curriculum Committee, Academic Computing Committee, Grinnell College, 1988-91.

Member: “Great Ideas” Committee, Liberal Studies Advising Committee, Philosophy and Politics Caucus, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Clarkson University, 1985-86.

Member: Aesthetics Examination Committee, Colloquium/Speakers Committee, Faculty Committee, Search Committee, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University, 1983-84.

Editor, Eros: A Journal of Philosophy and Literary Arts. Department of Philosophy, Purdue University. 1980-1983.

Graduate Student Representative to The Colloquium Committee (1981-83), The Faculty and Graduate Committee (1979-80), Department of Philosophy, Purdue University.

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References