Professor Richard M. Shusterman

 

 

PERSONAL               Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Florida Atlantic University

777 Glades Road

Boca Raton , Florida 33431-0991

Telephone (561)297-0851  Fax (561) 297-2095

E-mail: shuster1@fau.edu; richard.shusterman@gmail.com

 

 

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AND DEGREES

B.A. in Philosophy and English at Hebrew University of Jerusalem .  Degree awarded magna cum laude.

 

M.A. in Philosophy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem .  Degree awarded magna cum laude.

 

D. Phil. in Philosophy at St. John’s College , Oxford University .  Dissertation title: “The Object of Literary Criticism; supervisor:  J.O. Urmson; examiners: Stuart Hampshire and Patrick Gardiner.

 

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

1980-82           Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Philosophy and Comparative Literature

1980-81           Lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem

1981-83           Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1983-87           Senior Lecturer with tenure at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Philosophy and Comparative Literature

1984-85           Visiting Fellow at St. John’s College , Oxford University

1985-87           Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Temple University

1987-92           Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Temple University , tenured in 1988

1990, 1992      Directeur d’Études Associé, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris

1991-2004       Full Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Temple University

1992-95           Correspondent, Collège International de Philosophie

1993-2004       Recurrent Visiting Professor, Dept. of Liberal Studies, Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research

1995-96           Fulbright Professor in Philosophy and American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

1995 -2001      Directeur de programme, Collège International de Philosophie, Paris ; Correspondent, Collège International de Philosophie, 2001-

1996-97           Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecturer, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Princeton University

1998-2004       Chair of Philosophy Department, Temple University

2002-2003       Visiting Research Professor, Hiroshima University , Japan

2004-               Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University

2006 (May)     Visiting Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Oslo

2006 (Fall)      Visiting Professor, University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne

 

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND COMPETENCE

American Philosophy, Aesthetics, Ethics and Political Theory, Philosophy of Language and Mind, Somatic Philosophy, Contemporary Continental Philosophy

 

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Hebrew University Philosophy Department Pepita Haezrahi Prize, 1973

Research Grant from the Israeli National Lottery for graduate work in philosophy, 1975

NEH Interpretation Institute, Summer 1988

ACLS Travel Grant to XI International Aesthetics Congress, 1988

NEH Senior Research Fellowship, 1990

IREX Grant for travel to conference in Prague

DAAD Grant for study in Germany , 1994

Fulbright Professorship in Philosophy and American Studies in Berlin , 1995-1996

Co-Director (with John Stuhr) of NEH Summer Seminar on American Pragmatism and Culture 2001

Rockefeller Foundation Team Residency Fellowship at Bellagio , Italy , 2004

Alexander von Humboldt TransCoop Fellowship 2006-2009

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Associate Director of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, 1993-2004

Trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics, 2000-2003

Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1999 -

Member of the Editorial Board of Metaphilosophy, 1994 -

Member of the Editorial Board of Constellations, 1994 -

Member of the Editorial Board of The Yeats Eliot Review, 1989 -

Member of the Editorial Board of Poetics Today, 1995 -

Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2000

Member of the Editorial Board of Theory, Culture, and Society, 2004-

Member of the Editorial Board of Body and Society, 2004-

Member of the Editorial Board of Bulletin de la Société Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Française, 2004 -

Member of the Editorial Board for Indiana University Press, American Philosophy series, 2002-

Member of the Editorial Board for Penn State University Press, book series in European and American Philosophy, 1997 -

Member of the Editorial Board for Rodopi’s Studies in Pragmatism and Values, 2004-

Member of the Editorial Board for Akademie Verlag ( Berlin ) series in Philosophische Anthroplogie

Guest editor of a special issue of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 24, 1987.

Guest editor of a special issue of Poetics Today, vol. 14, 1993.

Guest editor of a special issue of Metaphilosophy on “Internationalism in Philosophy”, vol. 28, 1997.

Delegate member of the UNESCO project Philosophy and Democracy in the World, 1995.

Director of UNESCO project MUSIC: Music, Urbanism, Social Integration and Culture, 1997 -

Member of International Advisory Board, International Institute of Applied Aesthetics (based in Finland ), 1996 -

Director of “Dialogues on the Square”, a philosophy discussion series at Barnes and Noble, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia , 1998 – 2004.

Director of Temple University Institute for Aesthetics and Cultural Studies, 1991 – 2004.

Board Member of Temple University Institute for the Study of Literature, Literacy, and Culture, 1997- 2000, Institute Fellow 1997-1999

   

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

BOOKS

 

1.                  The Object of Literary Criticism (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1984).

 

2.                  Aesthetics: vol. 5 of Sources for the Study of Philosophy in High School (in Hebrew), edited with D. Heyd, Y. Mathias and S. Scolnicov (Jerusalem: Ministry of Education, 1986).

 

3.                  T. S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism (London and New York: Duckworth and Columbia University Press, 1988).

 

4.                  Analytic Aesthetics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989).

 

5.                  The Interpretive Turn: Philosophy, Science, Culture, edited with D. Hiley and J. Bohman (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991).

 

6.                  Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).

 

6a.       L’art à l’état vif: la pensée pragmatiste et l’esthétique populaire (Paris: Minuit, 1991), a French translation of Pragmatist Aesthetics, with a special French Preface.

 

6b.       Kunst Leben: die Ästhetik des Pragmatismus (Frankfurt: Fischer, 1994), a German translation of Pragmatist Aesthetics, with a special German Preface.

 

6c.       Taide, elämä ja estetiika: Pragmatistinen filosofia ja estetiika (Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 1997), a Finnish translation of Pragmatist Aesthetics, with a special Finnish Preface by the author.

 

6d.       Vivendo a Arte: O Pensamento Pragmatistist e a Estética Popular (Sao Paolo: Editora 34, 1998), a Portugese translation of Pragmatist Aesthetics, with special Preface for Brazil and a new Appendix by the author.

 

6e.       Estetyka pragmatyczna: Zywe piekno i refleksja nad sztuka (Wroclaw: University of Wroclaw Press, 1998), a Polish translation of Pragmatist Aesthetics, with a special Polish Preface by the author and Introductions by Adam Chmielewski and Leszek Koczanowicz.

 

6f.        Japanese translation of Pragmatist Aesthetics (Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 1999), with a special Japanese Preface by the author and an Introduction by Fuminori Akiba.

 

6g.       Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art. 2nd Edition, enlarged with a new introduction and an additional chapter, ( New York : Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).

 

6h.        Korean translation of  Pragmatist Aesthetics, 2nd. Edition  ( Seoul : Yejun, 2002), with a special Korean Preface by the author.

 

6i.        Chinese translation of Pragmatist Aesthetics, 2nd Edition, with a special Chinese Preface by the author and an Introduction by Peng Feng ( Beijing : The Commercial Press, 2002).

 

6j.        Estética Pragmatista ( Barcelona : Idea Books, 2002), Spanish translation of Pragmatist Aesthetics, with a special Spanish Preface by the author.

 

6k.       Estetika Pragmatizmu ( Bratislava : Kalligram, 2003), Slovakian Translation of Pragmatist Aesthetics, with a special Slovakian Preface by the author and an Afterword by Zdenka Kalnická.

 

6l.        Pragmatista Esztétika (Poszony: Kalligram, 2003), Hungarian Translation of Pragmatist Aesthetics, with a special Hungarian Preface by the author and an Afterword by Jószef Kollár.

 

6m.      Estetica Pragmatistă ( Iaşi : Institutul European, 2004), Romanian Translation of Pragmatist Aesthetics, with a special Romanian Preface by the author.

 

7.        Sous l’interprétation, (Paris: Éditions de l’éclat, 1994).

 

7a.      Vor der Interpretation: Sprache und Erfahrung in Hermeneutik, Dekonstruktion und Pragmatismus
           ( Vienna:Passagen, 1996), with a special German Preface.


 

 

 

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