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ALAN DOUGLAS SCHRIFT
Department of Philosophy
(641) 269-3161 or 269-3157
FAX: 641-269-4414
EMAIL: SCHRIFT@GRINNELL.EDU
Present Position
F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College
Chair, Department of Philosophy, Grinnell College
Director, Center for the Humanities, Grinnell College
Other Professional Positions
General Editor, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Stanford University Press)
General Editor, The History of Continental Philosophy, 8 Volumes (Acumen Press)
Member, Committee for the Status of Women, Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy (2003-2006)
Member, Program Committee, American Philosophical Association Central Division (2006)
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Bulletin de la Société
Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française, New Nietzsche Studies
Member, Advisory Board, symploke.
Editorial Consultant, Continental Philosophy Review (formerly Man and World),
International Studies in Philosophy
Areas of Specialization
Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Philosophy of Literature
Publications
Books Authored
Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers (Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers, 2006).
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).
Books Edited
Modernity and the Problem of Evil, an interdisciplinary collection of new essays on the topic
by philosophers, religious studies and political theorists (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2005).
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
Nietzsche Society, 12 essays, 194 pages.
International Studies in Philosophy 33:3 (2001): Proceedings of the North American
Nietzsche 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
Articles
1) “The Effects of the Agrégation de Philosophie on Twentieth-Century French Philosophy,”
forthcoming in The Journal of the History of Philosophy: 52 ms pages.
2) “Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Genealogical Critique of Psychoanalysis: Between Church and
State,” in Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals,” ed. Christa Davis Acampora (Lanham,
MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), pp. 245-55.
3) “Deleuze Becoming Nietzsche Becoming Spinoza Becoming Deleuze: Toward a Politics of
Immanence,” in Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Volume 27,
ed. James Risser and Peg Birmingham, published in Philosophy Today (2006 Supplement):
187-94.
4) “Lyotard’s Turn from Nietzsche to Kant and Levinas,” in Jean-François Lyotard: Critical
Evaluations in Cultural Theory, ed. Victor E. Taylor and Gregg Lambert (London:
Routledge, 2006), Vol. II, pp. 396-419. (Reprint of Chapter 5 of Nietzsche’s French Legacy.)
5) “Le 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.
6) “Editor’s Introduction,” Modernity and the Problem of Evil (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2005), pp. 1-11.
7) “Friedrich Nietzsche,” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition, ed. Donald Borchert
(Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006), 607-17.
8) “Structuralism and Poststructuralism,” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition, ed.
Donald Borchert (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006), 273-79.
9) “Deconstruction,” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition, ed. Donald Borchert (Detroit:
Macmillan Reference USA, 2006), 661-62.
10) “Confessions of an Anthology Editor,” On Anthologies: The Politics and Pedagogy of
Anthologizing, ed. Jeffrey R. Di Leo (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004), pp. 186-204.
11) “Is There Such a Thing as ‘French Philosophy’? or Why Do We Read the French So Badly?”
lead essay in After the Deluge: New Perspectives on Postwar French Intellectual and
Cultural History, ed. Julian Bourg (Lantham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004), pp. 21-47.
12) “Arachnophile or Arachnophobe: Nietzsche and his Spiders,” in A Nietzschean Bestiary:
Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal, ed. Christa Acampora and Ralph Acampora
(New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), pp. 61-70.
13) “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).
14) “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.
15) “Spinoza versus Kant: Have I Been Understood?” forthcoming in Nietzsche and Post-
Postmodernism/Why Nietzsche Now, ed. Uschi Nussbaumer-Benz and Endre Kiss.
16) “Response to Don Dombowsky,” Nietzsche-Studien 31 (2002): 291-97.
17) “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.
18) “Confessions of an Anthology Editor,” special issue of symploke. 8:1/2 on “Anthologies,”
(Spring 2001): 164-76.
19) “Judith Butler: Une nouvelle existentialiste?” Philosophy Today (Spring 2001): 12-23.
20) “Nietzsche for Democracy?” Nietzsche-Studien 29 (2000): 220-33.
21) “Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze, and the Subject of Radical Democracy,” Angelaki: journal of
the theoretical humanities, Special Issue “Rhizomatics, Genealogy, Deconstruction,” ed.
Constantin Boundas, 5:2 (Summer 2000): 151-61.
21a) “Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze, and the Subject of Radical Democracy,” reprinted in
Event Gilles Deleuze. Essays from Angelaki (Manchester: Manchester University Press,
forthcoming).
21b) “Nietzsche, Deleuze, Foucault ve Radikal Demokrasinin Öznesi,” Turkish translation
by Sureyyya Evren, Siyahi (October 2004):
22) “Nietzsche Studies Today,” invited title essay for special issue on Nietzsche of the journal
Eidos, XIV, 2 (1997): 3-14.
23) “Nietzsche’s Contest: Nietzsche and the Culture Wars,” in Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections
on Drama, Culture, and Politics, ed. Alan D. Schrift (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2000), pp. 184-201.
24) “Introduction: Why Nietzsche Still?” editorial introduction in Why Nietzsche Still?
Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics , ed. Alan D. Schrift (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2000), pp. 1-12.
25) “Spinoza, Nietzsche, Deleuze: An Other Discourse of Desire,” in Philosophy and Desire,
ed. Hugh A. Silverman (New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 173-85.
26) “Jean-François Lyotard,” entry article in the Second Edition of The Cambridge Dictionary of
Philosophy , (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 523-24.
27) “Nietzsche for Democracy,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XXXVII Supplement
(1999): “Spindel Conference 1998: Nietzsche and Politics,” ed. Jacqueline Scott: 167-73.
28) “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. 1/2
(Winter 1999): 129-44.
29) “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, 2001), pp. 47-62.
30) “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), pp. 205-18.
31) “Introduction: Why Gift?” in The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity, (New
York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 1-22.
32) “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): 153-59.
33) “Friedrich Nietzsche”: update article commissioned for the Supplement to the Encyclopedia
of Philosophy (Macmillan, 1967, 1996), pp. 376-77.
34) “Poststructuralism”: entry article commissioned for the Supplement to the Encyclopedia of
Philosophy (Macmillan, 1967, 1996), pp. 452-53.
35) “Nietzsche’s French Legacy,” in Cambridge Companions to Philosophy: Friedrich
Nietzsche, ed. Bernd Magnus and Kathleen Higgins (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1996), pp. 323-55.
35a) “Nietzsche’nin Fransýz Mirasý,” Turkish translation by Ali Utku, Tezkire, no. 35
(November-December 2003): 156-84.
36) “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.
37) “Putting Nietzsche to Work: The Case of Gilles Deleuze,” in Nietzsche: A Critical Reader,
ed. Peter R. Sedgwick (London: Basil Blackwell, 1995), pp. 250-75.
38) “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.
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), pp. 185-99.
40) “On the Gift-Giving Virtue: Nietzsche’s Feminine Economy,” International Studies in
Philosophy, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Summer 1994): 33-44.
41) “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), pp. 210-29.
42) “Between Church and State: Nietzsche, Deleuze and the Critique of Psychoanalysis,”
International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer 1992): 41-52.
43) “Staging the End of Individualism: Sloterdijk’s Postmetaphysical Dramaturgy,” Studies in
Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 1991): 357-72.
44) “Editors’ Introduction,” in The Hermeneutic Tradition: From Ast to Ricoeur, ed. A. D.
Schrift and G. L. Ormiston (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990), pp. 1-38.
45) “Editors’ Introduction,” in Transforming the Hermeneutic Context: From Nietzsche to
Nancy, ed. A. D. Schrift and G. L. Ormiston (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990), pp. 1-42.
46) “The becoming-post-modern of Philosophy,” in After the Future: Postmodern Times and
Places, ed. Gary Shapiro (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990), pp. 99-113.
47) “Nietzsche and the Critique of Oppositional Thinking,” History of European Ideas, Vol. 11
(1989): 783-90.
48) “Genealogy and the Transvaluation of Philology,” International Studies in Philosophy, Vol.
20, No. 2 (1988): 85-95.
49) “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), pp. 131-49.
49a) “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),
pp. 278-92.
50) “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), pp. 193-213.
51) “A Question of Method: Existential Psychoanalysis and Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical
Reason,” Man and World 20 (1987): 399-418.
52) “Between Perspectivism and Philology: Genealogy as Hermeneutic,” Nietzsche-Studien,
Band 16 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1987): 91-111.
52a) “Between Perspectivism and Philology: Genealogy as Hermeneutic,”reprinted in
Friedrich Nietzsche: Critical Assessments, Vol. I, ed. Daniel W. Conway (London:
Routledge, 1998), pp. 360-80.
53) “Language, Metaphor, Rhetoric: Nietzsche’s Deconstruction of Epistemology,” Journal of
the History of Philosophy, Vol. 23, No. 3 (July 1985): 371-95.
54) “Reading, Writing, Text: Nietzsche’s Deconstruction of Author-ity,” International Studies in
Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 2 (1985): 55-64.
55) “Reading Derrida Reading Heidegger Reading Nietzsche,” Research in Phenomenology, Vol.
14 (1984): 87-119.
56) “Parody and the Eternal Recurrence in Nietzsche’s Project of Transvaluation,” International
Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 16, No. 2 (1984): 37-40.
57) “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.
58) “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.
59) “Nietzsche’s Hermeneutic Significance,” Auslegung, Vol. 10, No. 1-2, (Fall 1983): 39-47.
60) “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.
61) “Nietzsche’s Conception of Nihilism,” Eros, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1979): 1-18.
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
Selected Presentations
“Trends in French Philosophy: Fashion? ou autre chose?” Juried Symposium paper,
presented at the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association Eastern
Division Meeting, Washington, DC, December 29, 2006
“Translating the Colli-Montinari Kritische Studienausgabe.” Invited lecture at special
session on “Nietzsche and Translation” at the annual meeting of the North American
Nietzsche Society, in conjunction with the APA Eastern Division Meeting, Washington,
DC, December 27, 2006
“Rethinking the ‘New Nietzsche’: An Institutional Analysis.” Invited lecture “Nietzsche in
New York 2,” Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York,
May 31, 2006.
“Deleuze Becoming Nietzsche Becoming Spinoza Becoming Deleuze: Toward a Politics of
Immanence.”
Refereed paper presented at annual meeting of Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Utah Valley State College, Salt Lake City, UT, October 22, 2005.
Invited lecture “Nietzsche in New York 2,” Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City
University of New York, April 9, 2005.
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.
“Trends in the Agrégation de Philosophie in the 20th Century.” Invited paper presented to
meeting of the seminar of Professor Jean-Louis Fabiani on “Sociologie historique de la
philosophie,” L'École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, June 8, 2005.
“Nietzsche, Democracy, and Evil,” Willamette University. Invited Lecture. October 18,
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 20th 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.
Refereed major paper 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
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.
Invited paper presented at Institute for Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium,
April 17, 2001.
Invited paper presented to the Departments of Politics and German, University of Wales,
Swansea, UK, February 28, 2001.
Plenary Address at the annual meeting of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain,
September 8, 2000.
“Recent Works,” Seminar presentation to the Nietzsche Werkgroep, Katholieke Universiteit,
Nijmegen, Holland, April 20, 2001.
“Nietzsche for Democracy?”
Invited paper presented to the Centre for Critical Theory, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, UK,
February 25, 2001.
Invited paper presented at “Nietzsche, Value, and ‘Revaluation’” Centenary Conference, Allerton
Conference Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Oct. 15, 2000.
Invited paper presented at 1998 Spindel Conference on “Nietzsche and Democracy,” University of
Memphis, October 3, 1998.
“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.
“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’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.
Juried paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and
Literature, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, May 4, 1996.
“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.
“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.
Invited lecture delivered at Annual Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Clyne Castle,
University College of Swansea, Swansea, Wales, UK, April 16, 1994.
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.
“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 Prefiguration of Twentieth Century Hermeneutics.”
Invited lecture delivered at Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, Holland, February 11, 1994.
Two invited lectures at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July 20-22, 1992.
“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.
“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.
Invited lecture, presented at the Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon, Eugene,
Oregon, April 9, 1991.
“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.
Refereed paper presented at the annual meeting of The Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, October 15, 1988.
“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.
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.
“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.
“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 Author-ity,” 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.
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.
Work in Progress
Multi-Volume Works
General Editor, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Stanford University Press):
Overseeing the translation and publication of the remaining 16 volumes of the 19-volume
English translation of the Colli-Montinari critical edition of Nietzsche’s collected works
(Berlin: de Gruyter 1967).
General Editor, The History of Continental Philosophy, 8 volumes (Acumen Press).
Edited Books
Poststructuralism and Critical Theory: The Return of Master Thinkers, Volume 6 of The
History of Continental Philosophy (Acumen Press)
Articles
“Trends in French Philosophy: Fashion? ou autre chose?”
“Philosophy and its Institutions in France: Have they been misunderstood?”
“Is There Such a Thing as “French Philosophy”? Demythologizing Philosophy in France in
the 20th Century”
“French Nietzscheanism”
Education
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
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, 2004-2005; Program
Committee Chair: 1998-2004)
Friedrich Nietzsche Society (Great Britain)
International Association for Philosophy and Literature
Past 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
(1998-2004)
Awards and Honors
2006 Mellon Summer Research Grant: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
2005 ACM FaCE Project: “The Effects of the Agrégation de Philosophie on 20th Century
French Philosophy”
2004 Mellon Summer Research Grant: “The Influence of the Agrégation de Philosophie on
Twentieth-Century French Philosophy”
2005/4/3/2/1 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.
1999/8/7/6 Research Grant, Committee for the Support of Faculty Scholarship, 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.
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.
Areas of Teaching Competence
Twentieth Century French and German Philosophy
Nineteenth Century Philosophy
Aesthetics
History of Modern Philosophy
Social and Political Philosophy
Courses Taught
Graduate (at Purdue University)
Existentialism
Philosophy and Literature
Nietzsche
Undergraduate (at Grinnell College)
Introduction to Philosophy
Ethics and Contemporary Moral Issues
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy
Cultural Critique: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Beyond
Recent French Philosophy
Major Thinkers: Foucault and Derrida
Major Thinkers: Foucault and Lyotard
Senior Seminar: Nietzsche
Senior Seminar: Nietzshe and Twentieth Century Philosophy
Senior Seminar: Recent French Philosophy: "Gift and/as Ethical-Economic
Exchange”
Seminar: Recent French Philosophy: “Foucault and Deleuze”
Seminar: Twentieth Century Art and Philosophy in Dialogue
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Art
Philosophy and Literature
Existentialism
Existentialism and Literature
Great Ideas in Western Culture I and II
Independent Studies
Nietzsche and the Self
Nietzsche and Nihilism
Twentieth Century Marxism
Foucault (group independent)
Heidegger
Nietzsche: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Directed Reading in German)
Sartre (Directed Reading in French)
Sartre and Foucault (Directed Reading in French)
Twentieth Century Critiques of Nineteenth Century Philosophy
Theories of Twentieth Century Art
Literature and 19th-20th Century Philosophy
Hesse and Nietzsche
Philosophy and European Literature
Phenomenology
History of Phenomenology
Honor’s Theses Directed
Adam Schwartz: “What Can Anybody Do? Or Life and Death and Spinoza” Spring 2005
Sarah Hansen: “Language/Nexus: Hebraism and Hellenism in Derrida’s ‘Violence and
Metaphysics’” Spring 2004
Jared Swanson, “Practices of Freedom/Games of Truth: Foucault's Political Ethos” Spring
2004
Jeffrey Bergman: “The Coherent Deformation: Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics, and the Style
of History” Spring 2003
Matthew Wilson: “Heidegger’s Ostkehre: Wanderings along the Tao of Being” Spring 2003
Gregg Whitworth, “Artistry and Psychic Life: Nietzschean Reflections on Power and
Subjection” Spring 2000
Skye Langs, “Butch/Femme Identity and the Subversion of Gender Roles in the Film Bound"
Spring 2000
Susanna Drake, “Ideas of Freedom in Berlin and Foucault” Spring 2000
Hannah Lobel, “Negotiating the Past: Hannah Arendt on the Ethical Complexity of
Historiography and Historical Identity” Spring 1998
Andre Darlington, Spring 1998
Gabriel Rockhill, “Movements in Time” Spring 1995
Departmental Committee Work
Department Chair, Department of Philosophy, Grinnell College, 1994-2000, 2003-2007.
Member: Convocation Speaker’s Committee, 2004-2007.
Chair, Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Humanities Steering Committee, 1998-2000.
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: Tutorial Committee, 2001-2002.
Member: Noun Program Review Committee, 2001-2002.
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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