Curriculum Vitae
DR SIMON GLENDINNING
London School of Economics and Political Science
Full Name: Simon Benjamin Glendinning
Present Appointments: Fellow in European Philosophy at Reader level, European Institute.
Director of the Forum for European Philosophy, European Institute.
Date of Birth: December 13th 1964
Nationality: British
Address: 112 Ashmore Road,
London, W9 3DQ
Telephone: 020 8969 7165 (home)
020 7955 7630 (office)
020 7955 7546 (fax)
Email:
Education
198894Oxford University, The Queen’s College
1990-94DPhil in Philosophy (supervisors A.C.R.G. Montefiore and A. Avramides)
1988-90BPhil in Philosophy (supervisor S. Mulhall)
198487 York University
BA Honours in Philosophy, 1st Class
Previous Appointments
2004-Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, The University of Reading
1997-2004Lecturer in Philosophy, The University of Reading
1993-97Lecturer in Philosophy, The University of Kent at Canterbury
199293College Lecturer, The Queen’s College, Oxford
Research
1. Research Awards:
2003/4Mind Association Fellowship – for book project on Continental Philosophy.
2001/2University of Reading research trust fund – for start-up research on Levinas.
2. Research Students:
I am currently supervising two PhD students, one overseas and one fully-funded home. I have previously supervised three successful PhD students.
3. Academic Publications:
(a) Books:
Forthcoming: Author, The Movement of Phenomenology, London: Routledge (MS with publishers)
2006: Author, The Idea of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh: EUP (in proof)
2001: Editor, Arguing with Derrida, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 1-143. (Includes editor’s preface pp. 1-8 and contributing essay, pp. 9-35.)
1999: Editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh: EUP, pp. xiii + 683. (Includes editor’s introduction, pp. 3-20.)
1998: Author, On Being with Others: Heidegger-Derrida-Wittgenstein, London: Routledge, pp. x + 173.
(b) Journal Articles and Contributions to Books:
(* refereed article, † commissioned work, ‡ published proceedings)
Forthcoming: ‡‘Merleau-Ponty and the Genius of Man’, in Reading Merleau-Ponty, ed. T. Baldwin, London: Routledge, 2006.
Forthcoming: †‘Cavell and Other Animals’, in Skepticism in Context, ed. J. Conant, London: Routledge, 2006.
2006: * ‘Le plaisir de la lecture: Reading the Other Animal’, parallax, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 81-95.
2005: †‘Analytic Philosophy’, in The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, ed. J. Protevi, Edinburgh: EUP, pp. 24-28.
------: †‘The Everydayness of Don Giovanni’, in Philosophy as Film, ed. R. Read and J. Goodenough, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 94-113.
------: *‘Thinking about (going to) the university’, in Critical Quarterly, Vol. 47, Nos. 1-2, pp. 111-117.
2004: †‘Language’ in Understanding Derrida, eds. J. Reynolds and J. Roffe, London: Continuum, pp. 5-13.
------: †‘What is Phenomenology?’ in THINK, the Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, Summer 2004, pp. 33-41.
------: ‡‘Philosophy as Nomadism’, ‘State of the Art’ contribution to What Philosophy Is, eds. H. Carel and D. Gamez, London: Continuum, pp. 155-167.
------: †‘Wittgenstein and Heidegger on The End of Philosophy’ in Cambridge History of Philosophy, ed. T. Baldwin, Cambridge University Press, pp. 563-575.
2003: †‘Continental Philosophy’ in Fundamentals of Philosophy, ed. J. Shand, London: Routledge, pp. 408-442.
2002: ‡‘Wittgenstein’s Apocalyptic Librarian’ in Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy: A Reassessment after 50 years, eds. R. Haller and K. Puhl, Vienna: öbv&hpt, pp. 71-80.
2001: †‘Heidegger’, in Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, eds. B. Gaut and D. Lopes, London: Routledge, pp. 107-118.
------: ‘Inheriting “Philosophy”: The Case of Austin and Derrida Revisited’ in Arguing with Derrida, ed. S. Glendinning, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 9-35.
2000: ‡‘Communication and Writing: A Public Language Argument’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 100, pp. 271-286.
------: *‘From Animal Life to City Life’, Angelaki, Vol. 5, No 3. pp. 19-30.
1999: ‡‘The Ethics of Exclusion’, in Questioning Ethics, eds. R. Kearney and M. Dooley, London: Routledge, pp. 120-131.
------: ‘What is Continental Philosophy?’, Introduction to Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, ed. S. Glendinning, Edinburgh: EUP, pp. 3-20.
1998: *‘John McDowell on Experience: Open to the Sceptic?’, Metaphilosophy, pp. 20-33. (Joint-authored with Max de Gaynesford. Major contribution, first named author.)
------: *‘Perception and Hallucination’, Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 314-318.
1997: ‡‘Analytical and Continental Philosophy’, Filosoficky Casopis, Vol. 44, pp. 257-276. (article translated into Czech.)
1996: *‘Heidegger and the Question of Animality’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 pp. 67-86.
(c) Reviews:
2005: A. Tannesini, Wittgenstein: A Feminist Interpretation, G. Kitching, Wittgenstien and Society: Essays in Conceptual Puzzlement. Radical Philosophy, 130, pp. 36-40.
2004: S. Wheeler, Deconstruction as Analytic Philosophy, Philosophical Books, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 51-3.
2003: R.D. Cumming, Phenomenology and Deconstruction (4 Vols), TLS. No. 5239, p. 7.
2001: Critical Notice, ‘Much ado about Nothing’ on H. Phillipse, Heidegger’s Philosophy of Being, Ratio, Vol. XIV no. 3, pp. 281-288.
2001: D. Moran, Introduction to Phenomenology, and R. Sokolowski, Introduction to Phenomenology, Mind, Vol.110, No. 438, pp. 516-523.
2000: J. Derrida, The Monolingualism of the Other, and C. Howells, Derrida, TLS. no. 5092, p. 32. (Reprinted in The Hindu Times, Sunday December 3rd 2000, Literary Review section p. XI.)
1996: J. McDowell, Mind and World, Radical Philosophy 73, pp. 40-1.
1995: J. Derrida, Aporias, Radical Philosophy 69, pp. 46-7.
1993: P. Fenves (ed.), Raising the Tone of Philosophy, TLS, No. 4712, p. 22.
1990: D. Pears, The False Prison, Vol. II, Philosophical Books, Vol. 31, No. 3., pp. 156-8.
Teaching
In the European Institute my option course ‘The Idea of Europe’ recruits strongly in a competitive field. I also contribute lectures to the ‘Jurisprudence’ course in the Law Department.
I am initiator and convenor of a new MSc degree ‘European Identities’. This programme aims to respond to the increasingly important public debate on the meaning and limits of Europe; the domestic impact of the European Union for citizenship, and the relationship between civil society and the state; the relevance of a transnational sociology; and the policy implications of ethnic diversity and migration. The programme offers students interested in philosophically informed social analysis the opportunity to investigate a wide range of issues around the intersections of European society and identity. The MSc will run for the first time in 2005/6.
Business and Community Activities
Director of the Forum for European Philosophy (2004- )
The Forum for European Philosophy was created in the Spring of 1996 with the aim of promoting wider dialogue and exchange in three areas: (a) between philosophers working within the so-called ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’ traditions in Britain; (b) between philosophers in Britain and in the rest of Europe, and (c) between those working within academic institutions and the wider public. I have been centrally involved with the Forum from its inception, becoming its Director in 2004, based in the European Institute of the LSE. I have organised and participated in numerous Forum events, giving and chairing countless public talks. As Director I have steered the Forum towards foregrounding its public understanding remit. It is now gaining widespread recognition for its work as an initiator and sponsor of engaging and thoughtful events open to the general public. Today, in all of its activities the Forum aims to encourage wider participation and promote thought-provoking discussion on issues connected with contemporary cultural and intellectual life in Europe. Since taking over the post of Director I have consolidated the previously diverse activities of the Forum into six distinctive event strands that now characterise the Forum’s core activities:
Provocations
In this series we invite distinguished thinkers and scholars – thought provokers in their own right – to introduce a short text which has special significance to them. The Provocations series is held monthly at the Institute Français in South Kensington between October and June.
Borderlines
We have teamed up with Borders bookstore to provide a showcase for authors of non-fiction and academic texts to present their latest ideas to an audience that might not otherwise come across them. Held monthly between October and June, Borderlines events take place in the flagship Borders store on Charing Cross Road in London.
Dialogues
Bringing well-known public intellectuals to the LSE for a candid hour and a half interview, this series offers a unique mix of insights into both the biographical and intellectual development of our most distinguished thinkers. These events regularly draw audiences of 80-100, packing out rooms five or six times a year. Previous Dialogues have been held with Anthony Kenny, Ronald Dworkin, Onora O'Neill, Leszek Kolakowski, Etienne Balibar, Kit Fine, Ian Hacking, Dagfinn Follesdal, and Quentin Skinner among others
Public Lectures
Many people do not have the time to attend conferences lasting a day or more, but public lectures on a topic given by a line up of enthusiastic guest speakers allows greater flexibility. In 2006 the Forum’s lecture series will be held at the LSE on ‘The Lives of Animals’ and is organised in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy at Rice University, Texas. There will be a second ‘leg’ of the series at Rice in the Autumn, the Forum’s first foray into America.
Public Conferences
Since taking up the post of Director in 2004 I have organised five major conferences: ‘Thinking in Public’, ‘What is Terror?’, ‘For Derrida’, ‘Work and Idleness’ and ‘Shakespeare and Philosophy’. (Details below.)
Special Initiatives
In addition to these event strands the Forum has developed a number of special events in collaboration with external sponsors. In 2004 I organised a panel discussion on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas funded by Merrill Lynch. In 2005 I organised a panel discussion at the ICA on ‘The Trouble with Boys’ funded by the Wellcome Trust. I have four major projects in development: ‘Science and its Limits’ and ‘Medicalised Childhood’ in collaboration with the Medical Research Council, the former drawing on expertise and support from the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method; ‘The Heart of Europe’ in collaboration with the European Institute, funded by the School’s Deputy Director’s Fund; and a major lecture series to be held at the LSE in 2007 on ‘Secularism’ with private funding.
Chair of the Society for European Philosophy (2003- )
The Society for European Philosophy held its inaugural conference in 1997, holding annual events every year since then. It started its life as a splinter group, formed by some British philosophers dissatisfied with the direction of the Forum for European Philosophy. SEP aimed to see so-called ‘continental philosophers’ striking a rather more independent stance. The SEP conference is now a crucial annual event for students and scholars working in the field of Modern European Philosophy. During the last two years it has become increasingly clear that its relationship to the FEP is not in the least conflictual. Reconciliation with the FEP was cemented when I was elected Chair of SEP in 2003. I initiated and organised a highly successful joint conference in September 2005 under the title ‘What is Terror?’. The three day conference was the largest event aimed at researchers and others interested in Modern European Philosophy in the UK. It is set to become an important feature of the academic calendar.
Outreach Publications
2005: ‘My Family and Other Animals’, in Naked Punch. Invited essay written for this new journal. In the essay I explore the way my own family has accommodated (in more than one sense) animals in its midst.
------: ‘The Excluded Favourite’, reflections on the life and the death of Jacques Derrida, The Philosophers Magazine, Issue 29, pp. 26-28.
2003: ‘A Different Difference: Humans and Animals’ invited contribution to a special edition on the relationship between humans and non-human animals in The Philosophers Magazine, Issue 23, pp. 35-7.
2002: ‘The Analytic and the Continental’ interview in New British Philosophy: The Interviews, eds. J. Baggini and J. Strangroom, London: Routledge, pp. 200-215. The editors ‘showcase’ sixteen British philosophers ‘of interest to many more people than just those taking philosophy degrees’. The list ‘was drawn up by consultation with peers in the profession’ seeking to include ‘a representative range of the brightest philosophers among the premier league of British philosophers’; those ‘few undoubted stars’ who ‘will lead the subject in the years to come’.
------: Feature essay as part of a group of four ‘leading young British philosophers’ in The Philosophers Magazine under the title ‘The New Vanguaard’, Issue 18, p. 43. The others in this group comprise two Professors and an Oxford Fellow.
2001: ‘Making Something out of Nothing’ in Nothing, eds. G. Gussin and E. Carpenter, London: August Media. pp. 286-7. Refereed paper in an edited collection. Most of the other contributions are by the artists involved in the exhibition accompanying the book.
2000: ‘The Urban Nomad’ in Breathing Cities, ed. N. Barley, London: August Media, pp. 122-125. Refereed paper in an edited collection on contemporary city life by artists, architects…and a philosopher.
Outreach Lectures
2006: ‘Artworks, Craftworks and the Cultivation of Place’ (Lecture, Thames Valley University School of Art and Design, Reading)
2004: ‘The Essence of the University’ (Lecture, Harrow School, London)
------:‘Retrieving the Body for Pain’ (Lecture, ICA, London)
2003: ‘Joseph Losey’s Don Giovanni’ (Film Through Philosophy, Lecture to FEP Conference at the Tate Modern, London)
------: ‘My Family and Other Animals’ (Wotton Society Lecture, Eton College, Berkshire)
1999: ‘If things were simple word would have gotten round’ (The Perils of Popularisation, Routledge Publishers Debate, at Borders of Oxford Street, London)
------: ‘Cities on the Move’ (Cities on the Move, Lecture at the Hayward Gallery, London)
Other Administration
(a) European Institute:
Departmental Coordinator of Teaching and Learning, the European Institute (2004- ).
Departmental Coordinator, Cumberland Lodge Workshop (2004-)
(b) External Examining:
MA External Examiner, University of Sussex (2000-4)
MA External Examiner, University of Southampton (1999-2003)
PhD Thesis External Examiner: Manchester (2004), Essex (2002), UCL (2001) Cardiff (2000) Sussex (1997)
MPhil Thesis External Examiner: University of London.
(c) Editing and Publishing:
Series Editorial Board, Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy (2000- )
The series (currently with 30 titles) aims to bring high quality research monograph publishing back into focus for authors, the international library market, and student, academic and research readers. I am part of the ‘international editorial advisory board of acclaimed scholars from across the philosophical spectrum’. I am the only member of the board who is not a full professor.
Publishers Referee
I regularly write reports on manuscripts for publishers, most recently for OUP, CUP, Routledge and EUP.
Conference Organisation
2006: Thinking in Public, 10th Anniversary Conference of the Forum for European Philosophy. Speakers include: Stephen Mulhall, Alan Montefiore, Catherine Audard and filmmaker Hilary Lawson.
2005: What is Terror? Joint Conference of the Forum and Society for European Philosophy held at the University of Reading. Speakers included Joseph Margolis, Peter Caws, Elleke Boehmer, Paul Davies, Michael Dillon, and Herman Rapaport
For Derrida, Series of four evening sessions held throughout February at the Tate Modern, organised under the auspices of the Forum for European Philosophy. Speakers included Geoffrey Bennington, Tom Baldwin, Marion Hobson, Simon Critchley, Ernesto Laclau, Christopher Johnson, Peggy Kamuf, Michael Naas, Alex Calinicos a, Nick Royle and Rachel Bowlby.
Work and Idleness, conference organised under the auspices of the Forum for European Philosophy, held at the LSE. Speakers included Richard Sennett, Sean Sayers, Stephen Mumford and Morag Shiach.
2004: Shakespeare and Philosophy, annual conference of the Forum for European Philosophy, held at the LSE. Speakers included Simon Critchley, Andrew Bowie, John Joughin and Ewan Fernie.
1999: Arguing with Derrida organised under the auspices of the international journal of philosophy Ratio, at the University of Reading. Speakers included J. Derrida, G. Bennington, A.W. Moore, T. Baldwin, S. Mulhall. The transcript of this conference, which I edited, was published as a book by Blackwell.
1997: Europe and the Assumptionof Democracy organised under the auspices of the Centre for Modern Cultural Studies, University of Kent. Speakers included T. Docherty, M. Dhanda, G. Bennington and A. Montefiore.
Major Conference Papers
(† refereed contribution, ‡ invited contribution)
2005: ‡‘The Odd Couple: Heidegger and Shapiro on Van Gogh’s “Old Shoes with Laces”’ (Keynote speaker, Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries, Cardiff University, UK)
------: ‡‘The Genius of Man’ (Plenary speaker, Merleau-Ponty et ‘La Phenomenologie De La Perception’, Soixante Ans Apres, Collège de France, France)
2004: ‡‘Thinking about (going to) the university’ (Plenary speaker, The University: Is it Finished?, LSE, UK)
2003: ‡‘Le Plaisir de la lecture’ (Plenary speaker. Levinas and Wittgenstein, Indiana University, USA)
2002: ‡‘Wittgenstein’s Nomadism’ (Reply to plenary speaker Cora Diamond, Accounting for Literary Language, University of East Anglia, UK)
------: ‡‘On the Very Idea of Continental Philosophy’ (Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series, Cardiff University, UK)
2001: †‘Wittgenstein’s Apocalyptic Librarian’ (Centenary Symposium of the Austrian Wittgenstein Society, Austria)
2000: ‡‘Cavell and Other Animals’ (Reply to plenary speaker Stanley Cavell, Skepticism and Interpretation, Amsterdam, Holland)
------: ‡‘Accommodating Others’ (Plenary speaker. Being-in-London: Anglophone and European Philosophy of Mind, The Forum for European Philosophy and the University of London School of Advanced Study, London, UK)
1999: †‘What is Continental Philosophy?’ (The Crisis in Analytic Philosophy, University of Southampton, UK)
1995: †‘Heidegger and the Question of Animality’ (Plenary Speaker. Heidegger, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland)
I have also given research papers at seminars in Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brighton, Cork, Durham, Edinburgh, Essex, LSE, KCL, Keele, Kent, Middlesex, Nottingham, Oxford, St. Andrews, Sussex, Swansea, TCD, UCD, UCL.
Academic Referees
Professor John Cottingham, Department of Philosophy, The University of Reading, RG6 6AA, UK. Tel: +44 (0)118 987 5123. Email:
Professor Simon Critchley, Department of Philosophy, Room 240B, The New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003, USA. Tel: (212) 229-5707, ext. 3078. Email:
Dr Stephen Mulhall, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, New College, Holywell Street, Oxford
OX1 3BN, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1865 279555, Email:
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