Matthias Fritsch, PhD
- Professor, Philosophy
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Sign in to editResearch areas: Contemporary European Philosophy (in particular Critical Theory, Deconstruction); Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics; Environmental Philosophy
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Biography
Education
Humboldt Scholar, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main (2010-2011)
Ph.D., Villanova University, Department of Philosophy (1994-1999)
Doctoral Research, Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Philosophy (1997-1998)
M.A., New York University, Department of Philosophy (1993-1994)
B.A., Universität zu Köln, Departments of Philosophy and of English (1990-1993)
Teaching activities
I teach courses in Social and Political Philosophy, Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of History, and Continental-European Philosophy
Publications
Most significant research contributions
Eco-Deconstruction. Derrida and Environmental Philosophy. Co-edited with Phil Lynes and David Wood (Fordham University Press 2018)
The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2005
Reason and Emancipation. Essays in Honour of Kai Nielsen (co-editor), Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007.
Martin Heidegger, Phenomenology of Religious Life (co-translator), Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004.