219 Ronan Drive Department of Philosophy

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DENNIS J. SCHMIDT

219 Ronan Drive Department of Philosophy

State College, PA 16801 240 Sparks Bldg, Penn State

Telephone: 1.814.278.7798 University Park, PA 16802

email:

EDUCATION

1980 Ph.D. Boston College

1974 B.A. Bucknell University

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2007 Visiting Professor of Humanities, Università Roma, La Sapienza, Italy

2006 Visiting Professor of Classics and Philosophy, Universität Freiburg, Germany

2005-2007 Co-Director, Institute for Arts and Humanities at Penn State University

2005- Professor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and German at Penn State University

2003-2005 Director of Graduate Studies, Philosophy, Penn State University

2004-2007 Advisory Board, Rock Ethics Institute

2003-  Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Penn State University

1994-2002 Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University

1992-1994 Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Binghamton University

1993 Visiting Chair of Christian Philosophy, Villanova University (Fall semester)

1992 Visiting Chair in Philosophy, Villanova University (mini-course)

1990-1994 Director of Graduate Studies, Philosophy, Binghamton University

1987-1992 Associate Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Binghamton University

1988-1989 Co-Director, Philosophy, Literature, Culture Graduate Program in Comparative Literature

1983-1987 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SUNY-Binghamton

1982-1983 Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SUNY-Binghamton

1976-1981 Teaching Fellow, Boston College

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

2007  The Difficulties of Ethical Life, edited and introduced with Shannon Sullivan, (Fordham

University Press: New York), forthcoming.

2005 Lyrical and Ethical Subjects: Essays on the Periphery of the Word, Freedom, and History, (SUNY Press: Albany), 2005, xi + 238 pp.

2001 On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life, (Indiana University Press: Bloomington, IN, 2001), xviii + 327 pp.

German translation in preparation: Deutschen und andere Griechen: Über Tragödie und

Sittlichkeit, Mohr Verlag, forthcoming, 2008.

2000 Hermeneutische Wege: Hans-Georg Gadamer zum Hundertsten, edited and introduced

with G. Figal, (Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen), 2000, 375 pp.

1988 The Ubiquity of the Finite: Hegel, Heidegger and the Entitlements of Philosophy,

(MIT Press: Cambridge, MA), 1988, xix + 241 pp.

1986  Natural Law and Human Dignity, a translation of Naturrecht und menschliche Würde by Ernst Bloch, (MIT Press: Cambridge, MA), 1986, pp. xxx + 323

SPECIAL YEARBOOK ISSUES EDITED:

1990 Hermeneutics and the Poetic Motion, (SUNY/CRIT, 1990), 173 pp.

SERIES EDITOR:

"Contemporary Continental Philosophy" (SUNY Press)

Over 122 volumes have already been published or are forthcoming in my series. The series list includes works by Heidegger, Schelling, Gadamer, Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy, as well as some of the more significant English language works in Continental philosophy. The series seeks to represent both younger and more established figures, and to publish works that represent a wide range of views and themes.

“Penn State Series in the Arts and Humanities” (Penn State University Press), Co-editor

This is a new series. The first volumes are now being prepared.

ARTICLES AUTHORED:

2007  “Hermeneutics and Original Ethics,” in The Difficulties of Ethical Life, Fordham University Press, New York, 2007, 21 pp. ms.

“Dialectic,” in Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, ed. Lachs and Talisse, Routledge, London, 2 pp. ms

“Über das Tragische: Ein Versuch zu Schelling,” in Schelling und Heidegger, Schellingiana, Frommann-Holzboog Verlag, Stuttgart, 2007, 20 pp. ms.

AWozu Hermeneutik: Über Dichtung und Politik,@ in Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, Stuttgart,

Band 6, 2007, pp. 1-16.

2006  “Derrida: In Memorium,” in Research in Phenomenology, pp. 1-3.

“What we owe the dead,” in Heidegger and the Greeks, ed. Hyland and Manoussakis, Indiana University Press, 2006, pp. 11-126.

“Anything but a series of footnotes,” in Epoche, Vol. 11, Nr. 1, Fall 2006, pp. 275-286.

“Conversation, Solidarity, and Danger,” in Toward Greater Human Solidarity, ed. Anindita Baslev, Dasgupta & Co., Kolkata, India, 2006, pp. 43-60.

“O poezjik, filozofiji in politihem: Čemu hermeneutikia?” in Phainoma, XV, 55-56, 2006, pp. 193-207.

“The Relevance of Tragedy,” in Journal Nova Revija. Slovak translation being prepared.

2005  “Riveted to a Monstrous Site: Anarchy and Principles,” in Research in Phenomemology,

pp. 327-343.

“Kant und die Subjektivierung der Aesthetik,” in Klassiker Auslegen, ed. Höffe, Akademie Verlag, pp. 29-42.

2004  AHermeneutics,@ in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition. Detroit: MacMillan Reference

AWhat we owe the living,@ in Between Description and Interpretation, ed. Wierciński. Toronto Press, pp. 401-409.

AOn the Incalculable,@ in Research in Phenomenology, Vol 34, 2004, pp. 31-45.

AÜber Sprache und Freiheit aus Hermeneutischer Sichtpunkt,@ in Heidegger Jahrbuch, Frankfurt: Klostermann Verlag, pp. 59-73.

2003 AOn Tragedy and Ethical Life,@ in Phenomenology Today: The Schuwer SPEP Lectures 1998-2002, Pittsburgh: Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, 2003, pp. 38-53.

AOn Counting, Stars, and Music,@ in The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, III, 2003, pp. 179-191.

AWhat we cannot say,@ in Moderns and Continentals, ed. S. Daniel, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, pp. 240-254.

AHans-Georg Gadamer: In Memorium, in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 33, 2003, pp 1-3.

ASartre without the nausea,@ in Postmodernism and Ethics, forthcoming (16 pages).

2002 AThe Baby and the Bathwater: On Heidegger and Politics,@ in Heidegger and Practical Philosophy, ed. Raffoul and Pettigrew, SUNY Press, Albany, pp. 159-172.

AWhat difference does a shade make?@ in Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 35, No. 1,

pp. 77-86.

AWhy is spirit such a slow learner?@ in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 32, 2002, pp. 26-43.

2001 ANeither Better Off Nor Better,@ Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 15. No.3, pp. 190-194.

AH Erimeneutike kai h poietike kinese,@ in O Logos tes Metaphrases, Ellenika Grammata, Athens, 2001, pp. 100-109.

2000 ASokrates mit Gehstock,@ in Begegnungen mit Hans-Georg Gadamer, Reclam Verlag, Leibzig,

pp. 137-146.

Italian translation: ASocrate con il bastone,@ in Incontri con Hans-Georg Gadamer,

Tascabili Bompiani, pp. 108-115.

English translation: ASocrates with a Cane,@ in South African Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp.223-227.

AWas wir nicht sagen können: Reflexionen zur Sprache und Freiheit,@ in Hermeneutische Wege, Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen, pp. 161-175.

AStrategies for a Possible Reading: On Heidegger=s AContributions,@ in Companion to Heidegger=s Contributions to Philosophy, ed. Scott, et. al., Indiana University Press, Bloomington, pp. 32-47.

AOn the Significance of Nature for the Question of Ethics,@ in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. XXI, pp. 62-77.

1999 AStereoscopic Thinking: Aristotle on Metaphor and the Law of Resemblance,@ in American Continental Philosophy, ed. Brogan and Risser, Indiana University Press, pp. 66-94.

AOn the Dark Side of the Moon: Voice and the Event of the Word,@ in Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 33. No. 3, pp. 289-299.

"Ruins and Roses: Hegel and Heidegger on Mourning, Sacrifice and History," in Endings: The Question of Memory in Hegel and Heidegger, eds. McCumber & Comay, Northwestern University, Press, pp. 97-113, and pp. 227-229.

AWhat we didn't see: Blindness and Justice in the Ancient World," in The Presocratics After Heidegger, ed. Jacobs, SUNY Press, pp. 153-170.

1998 ABlank pages, Storms and Other Images of History,@ in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. XXIX, pp. 13-30.

AHeidegger and the Greeks / History, Catastrophe and Community," in Heidegger Toward the Turn: Essays on Texts of the 1930's, ed. Risser, SUNY Press, pp. 75-92.

1997 "Gadamer," in Companion to Continental Philosophy, ed Critchley, Blackwell Publishers, pp. 433-444.

"Soalve et Coagula: Something other than an exercise in dialectic," in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. XXVI, pp.259-271.

"What we owe the dead," in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. XXVII, pp. 190-8.

1996 "Beauty," Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement, Macmillian Publishing Co.

"The Ordeal of the Foreign," Philosophy Today, Vol. 40, No. 1/4, pp. 188-196.

"Lyrical and Ethical Subjects: Kant and the Question of Judgment" in Proceedings of the Kant-Kongress, ed. Robinson, Marquette University Press, pp. 1-8.

1995 "What we didn't see," in The Silverman Lectures, Duquesne University Press, pp. 39-53.

"Putting Oneself in Words...," in Library of Living Philosophers, ed. L. Hahn, Open

Court Press, pp. 483-495.

"Lyrical and Ethical Subjects: Gadamer and Kant on Art and Ethical Life," in Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Vol. I, pp. 147-158.

1994 "Can Law Survive?" in Toledo Law Review, Vol. 26., No. 1, Fall 1994, pp. 147-158.

"Among the Ways: Heidegger after Gadamer," Introduction to Gadamer's Heidegger's Ways, SUNY Press, pp. xv-xxiii.

AWhy I am so happy,@ in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. XXIV, pp. 3-14.

1993 "Toward Another Time," in Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XXXII, pp. 56-64.

"On the Memory of Last Things," in Research in Phenomenology, pp. 92-104.

"Fission and Fusion: Gadamer, Hegel and Heidegger on History and Language," in Skepteon, Vol. I, No. 2, pp. 1-13.

"Acoustics: Nietzsche on Words and Music," in Dialectic and Narrative, eds. Flynn and Judowitz, SUNY Press, pp. 83-99, 319-323.

"Black Milk and Blue/Bodies: Heidegger and Celan on the Politics of Language," in Word Traces, ed Fiorettos, Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 81-103, 251-253.

1992 "Between the Meridian and Other Lines," in Proceedings of the Celan Conference, ed.

Block, pp. 30-38.

1991 "Changing the Subject: Heidegger, `the' National and `the' Epochal," in Graduate Faculty Journal of the New School, Vol. 14, No. 2 – Vol. 15,No. 1, pp. 441-464.

1990 "Economies of Production," in Crises in Continental Philosophy, eds. by Dallery and

Scott, SUNY Press, pp. 145-57 + pp. 265-8.

"Poetry and the Political," in Festivals of Interpretation, ed. by Wright, SUNY Press, pp. 209-228.

1989 "Strangers in the Dark: On the limits of praxis in Heidegger," in Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 43-51.

"Hermeneutics and the Poetic Motion," in Hermeneutics and the Poetic Motion: Translation Perspectives, V, pp. 1-10.

"In Heidegger's Wake: Belonging to the Discourse of the Turn," in Heidegger Studies Vol. V, pp. 145-158.

Review of Die Heidegger Kontroverse (ed. J. Altwegg), International Studies in Philosophy Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 90-93.

1988 "Circles – Hermeneutic and Otherwise," in Writing the Future, ed. by Wood, Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp. 67-77.

"The Hermeneutic Dimension of Translation," in Translation Perspectives IV, ed. Rose, SUNY/CRIT, pp. 5-17.

Review of Die Religionsphilosophie Hegels (by W. Jaenske), International Studies in Philosophy Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 93-4.

Review of Reason in the Age of Science (by H.G. Gadamer), International Studies in Philosophy, Vol 19, No. 1, pp. 80-81.

Review of Kant's Critical Philosophy (by G. Deleuze), International Studies in Philosophy, Vol 19, No. 1, pp. 81-83.

Review of Between Kant and Hegel (by Giovanni and Harris), International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 19, No.1, pp. 83-84.

1987  "Kunst, Kritik und die Sprache der Philosophie," Philosophische Rundschau, Vol. 34, pp. 299307.

Review of Der Spielraum des Verhaltens (by B. Waldenfels), Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 98100.

Review of Kierkegaard's Relation to Hegel (by N. Thulstrup), International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 100-101

1986 "Heine, History, and Revolution," Foreword to the English edition of Heinrich Heine, Religion and Philosophy in Germany, SUNY Press, pp. viixxii.

"In the Spirit of Bloch," Introduction Bloch's Natural Law and Human Dignity pp. viixxv,

Press, pp vii-xxv.

Review of Adorno und Heidegger (by H. Mörchen), International Studies in Philosophy Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 106108.

1984 "Some Reflections on Translating Philosophy," in Translation Papers II, pp. 2834.

1982 "Between Hegel and Heidegger," Man and World 15, pp. 5771.

"On the Obscurity of the Origin," Philosophy Today Vol. 26, Winter, pp. 322331.

ARTICLES TRANSLATED:

1995 "Replies," by H.-G. Gadamer in Library of Living Philosophers, Open Court Press,

(co-translated with M. Lütkehermölle), 78 pp.

1993 "To Diotima," "On tawny leaves...," "In the middle of life," and "Ripe are the

fruits," by Friedrich Hölderlin in Graham House Review, translated with L. Rosenberg,

No. 17, Fall 1993, pp. 108-111.

1990 "In Praise of Theory," by H.-G. Gadamer in Ellipsis Vol. I, No. 1, pp. 85-100.

(co-translated with J. Steinwand).

1989 "Culture and the Word," by H.-G. Gadamer in Hermeneutics and the Poetic Motion SUNY/CRIT, pp. 11-23.

1988 "Reply to Nicholas White," by H.G. Gadamer in Platonic Writings/Platonic

Readings, Routledge, pp. 258-266 (co-translated with R. Norton).

1986 "Text and Interpretation," by H.G. Gadamer in Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy, SUNY Press, pp. 377396. Expanded version reprinted in Dialogue and Deconstruction, SUNY Press, pp. 21-51 (co-translated with R. Palmer).

1984 "Morality and Religion in Kant," by H. Wagner in Contemporary German Philosophy, Vol. 3, pp. 7588.

"On Plato's Unwritten Doctrine," by T. Gerstmeyer in Contemporary German Philosophy, Vol. 4, pp. 312319.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CONFERENCE AND INVITED PAPERS:

2007  Seattle University, The Touchstone Lecture, “On Birth, Death, and Ethical Life”

DePaul University, “On the Possibility of an Original Ethics”

Dallas Texas, The Owsley Memorial Lecture, “On the Unbidden: Heidegger and the Greek Sense of Nature”

2006 New Delhi, India, “On the Possibility of Solidarity”

New School for Social Research, New York City, “Reimagining the Tragic”

APA Eastern Division, (Invited address): “On Birth, Death, and Ethical Life”

Heidegger Circle, Boston University, “Aristotle and physis”

NAHS, Boston, Keynote Address, “The Task of Interpretation”

Studium Generale, Universität Freiburg, “Über das Tragische: Ein Versuch zu Schelling”

Universität Freiburg, “Über das Fremde”

Penn State, “Aristotle and the Ethics of Ontology”

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, “Can Ethics be Original?”

Ancient Philosophy Society, DePaul University, Chicago, “Aristotle and the Ethics of Ontology”

2005 SPEP, Salt Lake City, Utah, “On Plato’s Many Legacies”

Duquesne University, “On the Possibility of an Original Ethics”

Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy, “On the Problem Posed by Memory and

Responsibility”

Brock University, St. Catherines, Canada, “On Founding”

University of Oregon, “Inventing Socrates”

IAH Luncheon Series, “Back From Syracuse”

Universität Freiburg, “Geschichte und Ethos”

2004 Comparative Literature, Penn State, Luncheon Series, “The Relevance of Tragedy”

American University, AHow to Remember@

Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Italy:

“On the Claims of Taste”

“From the Aesthetic to the Teleological”

“Judgment and Freedom”

SPEP, Memphis, Tennessee, “Riveted to a Monstrous Site”

2003 Vassar College, AWhat we owe the dead@

Heidegger Gesellschaft, Messkirch, Germany, AÜber Sprache und Freiheit@