Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky

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Stefan Bird-Pollan

Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY, 40508

Professional

·  Associate Professor of Philosophy— University of Kentucky 2016-

·  Assistant Professor of Philosophy— University of Kentucky, 2010- 2016

·  Lecturer— Harvard University, 2007-2010

·  Adjunct Professor — University of New Hampshire, Durham, 2005

Education

·  PhD., (Philosophy) Vanderbilt University, 2008 (“Subject, Normativity, World” a Hegelian Critique of Recent Kantian Work in Moral Philosophy)

·  D.Phil., (German Literature) Oxford University, 2003 (“Franz Kafka; a Dialectical Approach”)

·  BA., (History with honors), UC San Diego, 1996

Selected Publications

Books:

·  Fanon, Hegel and Freud; The Dialectic of Emancipation. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015.

·  Kant, Subjectivity and Practical Reason, in manuscript.

Edited Book

·  Hegel, Aesthetics and Absolute Spirit, co-edited with Vladimir Marchenkov, in manuscript

Articles:

·  (14) “An Anti-Realist View of the Moral Law”, in Nature and Freedom, Akten des XII. Kant-Kongresses 2018. Berlin: de Gruyter. (forthcoming)

·  (13) “What Hegel Saw in Kant”. Forthcoming, Hegel Jahrbuch. (forthcoming)

·  (12) “McDowell’s Two Readings of Kant” in Die klassische deutsche Philosophie und ihre Folgen. ed. Michael Hackl and Christian Danz. Vienna: Vienna University Press, 2017.

·  (11) “Thinking Through the Negative; Adorno’s Reading of Hegel” in Creolizing Hegel, ed. Michael Monahan. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017.

·  (10) “Reason’s Search for the Unconditioned and the Standpoint of the Subject in Kant” in Der “innere Gerichtshof” der Vernunft; Normativität, Rationalität und Gewissen im deutschen Idealismus, ed. Coben, Kok and Josifovic. Critical Studies in German Idealism. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016.

·  (9) “Begriffliche Inkompatibilität und Freiheitskampf; Kant und Hegel mit Freud und Fanon”. In Ethnopsychoanalyse revisited. Ed. Johannes Reichmayr. Geiße: Psychosocial-Verlag, 2016.

·  (8) “Fanon, Freud and the Psychological Origins of Colonial Oppression”. Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. 20.1 (2015)

·  (7) “Taking People as People; Kant, Judgments of Beauty and Judgments of Morality”. Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics. 5. (2013)

·  (6) “Kant, Genius and Moral Development”. Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Kant-Kongresses 2010. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013. vol. 4.

·  (5) “Purposiveness, Need and Critique; A Kantian Reading of Marcuse”. Radical Philosophy Review. 16.1 (2013)

·  (4) “Fanon, Colonialism and the Critical Ideals of German Idealism”. Critical Horizons. 13.3. (2012)

·  (3) “Hegel’s Grounding of Intersubjectivity in the Master-Slave Dialectic”. Philosophy and Social Criticism. 38.3 (2012).

·  (2) “Some Normative Implications of Korsgaard’s Theory of the Intersubjectivity of Reason”. Metaphilosophy. 42.4 (2011).

·  (1) “Rawls on Construction and Justification”. Public Reason, 1.2 (2009).

Major Fellowships

·  Fulbright University of Vienna Visiting Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences— Awarded for the fall/winter semester, 2014/2015.

·  Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Fellowship — Awarded for the academic year 2003-2004 for study and work on dissertation in Berlin at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Visiting Professor

·  Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan, May 2014.

Conference Presentations (Selected)

·  Conference: “German Classical Philosophy and Naturalism”: “Teleology as the Completion of Kant’s Critical Project”, Georgetown University, December 2017.

·  Conference: “Hegel Roundtable”, invited speaker: “Circumventing Hegel’s End of Art thesis: Cavell’s Film Ontology”, Xavier University, OH, April 2017.

·  Radical Philosophy Association, Lexington KY: “Fanon’s Return to the Polis and Hegel’s End of Art Thesis”, November 2016.

·  University of Ottawa, invited paper: “Reading Kant’s Transcendental Analytic through the B-Preface”, September 2016.

·  Conference, “Hegel im Kontext II”; invited speaker: “Reason and Necessity; from Metaphysics to the Copernican Turn”, University of Cologne, July 2016.

·  University of Vienna, invited paper: “Thinking Through the Negative; Adorno’s Reading of Hegel”, June 2016.

·  Conference: “Athens Hegel Roundtable”; invited speaker: “The Necessity of Art and the End of Art; Cavell’s Rejection of the End of Art Thesis”, Ohio University, April 2016.

·  Conference: “Europe and the Memory of Violence”; invited speaker: “Narcissistic Violence at the Core of Liberal Democracy”, Lexington, Kentucky, February, 2016.

·  Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, New Brunswick, NJ: “Adorno’s Freudian Critique of Hegel”, October 2015.

·  International Kant Congress, Vienna: “An Anti-Realist View of the Moral Law”, September 2015.

·  University of Padua, invited paper: “The Recognitive Structure of Social Reality: “Autonomy as the Ground of Recognition in Hegel and Freud”. June 2015.

·  University of Montpellier: “Voir les choses dans leur ensemble; Kant, la raison practique et la finalité”. May 2015.

·  Conference: “The Recognitive Structure of Social Reality; invited speaker: “Autonomy as the Ground of Recognition in Hegel and Freud”. Parma, Italy, April 2015.

·  Conference: “Der Deutsche Idealismus und seine Folgen”; invited speaker: “McDowell’s Two Readings of Kant”. Vienna, Austria, March 2015.

·  Ben Gurion University, Israel, invited paper: ““Reason’s Search for the Unconditioned and the Standpoint of the Subject in Kant”, February 2015.

·  Conference: “Der ‘innere Gerichtshof’ der Vernunft; Normativität, Rationalität und Gewissen im Deutschen Idealismus”, Tilburg University, invited speaker: “Reason and the Auto-Critique of Reason”, December 2014

·  Conference: Kant on Purposiveness, Leuven University, Keynote speaker: “From Purposiveness to the Moral Law”, November, 2014.

·  University of Leipzig, invited paper: “From Purposiveness to the Fact of Reason”, November, 2014.

·  Philosophical Colloquium Evian, “Internalism, Progress, Critique”, Evian, France, July 2014.

·  Hegel Congress 2014, University of Vienna: “What Hegel Saw in Kant”, April 2014.

·  International Marcuse Conference, University of Kentucky, “The Role of the Economic in Psychoanalysis and Marxism: The Case of Marcuse”, November 2013.

·  Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Rutgers University, NJ, “The Role of the Economic in Psychoanalysis and Marxism: The Case of Marcuse”, November 2013.

·  European Society for Aesthetics, Prague, “Treating People as People; Kant’s Judgments of Beauty and Judgments of Morality”, June 2013.

·  University of Houston, Downtown, invited Lecture: "From the Master-Slave Dialectic to the Super-Ego: Fanon's Theory of the Revolutionary Subject", April 2013.

·  Villanova University, Philadelphia, invited lecture: "From the Master-Slave Dialectic to the Super-Ego: Fanon's Theory of the Revolutionary Subject", February, 2013

·  University of Massachusetts, Boston, invited lecture: “Fanon’s Psychoanalysis of Colonial Psychopathology”, November, 2012.

·  University of Toronto, invited lecture: “Fanon’s Psychoanalysis of Colonial Psychopathology”, September 2012.

·  Sigmund Freud University, invited lecture: “Freud, Fanon and the ‘Normal Structure” in Psychoanalytic Practice”, June 2012.

·  Law and Society Conference: “The Antinomy of Law: Why Liberalism Needs Kelsen’s Basic Norm and why Kelsen Need’s Kant”, June 2012.

·  American Philosophical Association: “Hegel and Fanon’s Philosophies of History”, December 2011.

·  Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society: “The Disappearance of Need and the Failure of Authority in Marx and Freud”, November 2011.

·  International Herbert Marcuse Society: “Purposiveness, Need and Critique; A Kantian Reading of Marcuse”, October 2011.

·  Oxford University, invited lecture: “Reason, Sociality, and the Idea of Tolerance in Spinoza, Mendelssohn and Kant, June 2011.

·  Sigmund Freud Universität, invited lecture: “Freud, Kant and the Origins of Normativity”, June 2011.

·  Harvard University, invited lecture: “Fanon, Hegel and the Ideals of German Idealism”, February 2011.

·  Association for Political Theory: “Reason, Sociality and the Idea of Tolerance in Spinoza and Mendelssohn”, October 2010.

·  German Studies Association: “Kant, Adorno and the Primacy of the Practical”, October 2010

·  International Kant Congress, Pisa: “Kant, Genius and Moral Development”, May 2010.

·  American Philosophical Association, Central Division: “Kant and the Practical Implications of Genius”, February, 2010.

·  North New England Philosophical Association: “Korsgaard and Hegel on the Intersubjectivity of Reason”, October 2009.

·  International Social Philosophy Conference: “Unifying Kant on Ethics and History”, July 2009.

·  World Phenomenological Association: “Kant and Heidegger and on Judgment and Genius”, May 2009.

·  Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Studies Association: “Rousseau, Hegel and Marx; the Category of Labor as the Basis for Social Critique”, April 2009.

·  Southern Political Science Association: “Hegel on Poverty and Marginalization”, January 2009.

·  John Cabot University Critical Theory Conference: “Adorno’s Theory of Practical Reason”, May 2008

·  Mills College, invited lecture: “Hegel’s Moral Psychology and the History of Freedom”, February 2008

·  Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society: “Freud and Hegel: The Melancholy Master and the Mourning Slave”, November 2007

·  Midwest Society for Political Science: “Rawls and the Limits of Constructivism”, April 2006

·  University of New Hampshire— invited lecture: “Nietzsche and Kant: the Breakdown of Genealogy”, April 2006

Translations (Selected)

·  Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics. ed. Jay Bernstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Translation of ‘Kallias Letters’ by Friedrich Schiller, ‘Letter to Hegel’, ‘Oldest Programme for a System of German Idealism’, ‘Being Judgment Possibility’, ‘The Significance of Tragedy’ and ‘Remarks on Oedipus’ by Friedrich Hölderlin, and excerpt from ‘On the Artistic Imitation of the Beautiful’ by Karl Phillip Moriz.

·  Cambridge Companion to Adorno. ed. Tom Huhn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Translation of ‘The Critical Theory of Society as Reflective Sociology’ by Stefan Müller-Doohm and ‘Adorno’s Tom Sawyer Opera Singspiel’ by Rolf Tiedemann.

Professional Activities

·  Co-organizer of “Hegel Roundtable”, Xavier University, Cincinnati Ohio, April 2017.

·  Co-organizer of “Athens Hegel Roundtable”, Ohio University, April 2016.

·  Co-organizer of “Europe and the Memory of Violence”, University of Kentucky, February 2016.

·  Organizer of Aesthetics Conference, “Perspectives in the Philosophy of Art”, University of Kentucky, March 2012.

Languages

·  English— native speaker

·  German— native speaker

·  French— fluent

·  Italian— good reading knowledge and basic conversation