William Schroeder

E-mail:

wschroed@uiuc.edu

Professor; Associate Chair (Ph.D. Michigan)

CV

Interests include a wide variety of figures and topics in Continental philosophy (especially phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, poststructuralism, Hegel, Nietzsche, Scheler, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty). Also explores philosophy in an of literature and film, especially the ideas of Stanley Cavell. Affiliated with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the Cinema Studies Program. Books: Sartre and His Predecessors: The Self and The Other (Routledge, 1984); and Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach (Blackwell, 2005). Co-edited The Blackwell Companion to Continental Philosophy with Simon Critchley and is in the process of editing the second edition to this volume (twice the size) for 2009 publication. In progress: books on Nietzsche’s ethics and Max Scheler’s ethics. Currently also interested in the analysis of specific types of mental states in both philosophical traditions (e.g., emotion, imagination, perception, and self-deception). Regularly consults on the films of Toronto documentary filmmaker Ron Mann.

Courses

 

FALL 2008

  • PHIL 412 - Classical Modern Philosophers - Topic: Nietzsche

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