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Jere Paul O'Neill Surber
Professor
Sturm Hall 261
303-778-1024
jsurber@du.edu
Education
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B.A., M.A. Texas Christian University
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M.A. The Pennsylvania State University
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Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University/Rheinische Universitt-Bonn
Areas
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19th and 20th Century Continental Thought, Environmental Philosophy & Ethics, Critical Theory & Philosophy of Culture, Philosophy of Nature, Philosophy of Art, History of Philosophy
Courses Taught
- Culture and Critique
- Environmental Ethics
- Early Modern Philosophy: Rationalism
- German Idealism: From Kant to Hegel
- 20th Century Continental Philosophy
- Phenomenology and Existentialism
- Doctoral Colloquia on the History of Philosophy and Cultural Theory
- The Philosophy of Kant
- The Philosophy of Hegel
- The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
- The Concept of the 'Absolute' in German Idealism
- The Aesthetic Theory of German Idealism and Romanticism
- Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts
- Contemporary Trends in Continental Philosophy
Among Dr. Surber's booklength publications are:
Hegel's 'Differenzschrift': Translation and Commentary (1978, reissued 1990
and later)
Language and German Idealism: Fichte's Linguistic Philosophy (1996)
Culture and Critique: An Introduction to the Critical Discourses of Cultural
Studies (1998)
The Problems of Language in German Idealism: An Historical and Conceptual
Overview (2000)
Metacritique: The Linguistic Assault on German Idealism (2001)
He is also the author of a large number of essays, monographs, and lectures
dealing with such topics as German Idealism, phenomenology (Husserl, Levinas, Heidegger), ethical theory, aesthetics, ecophilosophy, and postmodernism. His principal current research and writing project is "A 'Non-Hegelian' History of German Idealism."
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