Professor of Philosophy

Ph.D., University of Texas, 2000

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David Sherman

Areas of Interest

• Continental Philosophy (Kant through Poststructuralism)
• Social, Ethical, and Political Theory

Courses Taught

• The Political Philosophies of Kant and Hegel (PHL 503)
• Continental Paradigms in Political Theorizing (PHL 502)
• Ethical and Political Implications of Poststructuralism (PHL 502)
• Justice: Rawls, Nozick, Communitarianism (PHL 499)
• Modernity and its Discontents (PHL 495)
• Derrida (PHL 468)
• Critical Theory: The First Generation (PHL 468)
• Critical Theory: Habermas and Beyond (PHL 468)
• Sartre (PHL 468)
• Marx (PHL 391)
• Nietzsche (PHL 465)
• Hegel (PHL 465)
• Kant and Hegel (PHL 465)
• History of Modern Philosophy (PHL 262)
• Ethics: The Great Traditions (PHL 110E)
• Introduction to Existentialism (PHL 105)
• Introduction to Philosophy (PHL 102)

Professional Information

I have been a professor in the Philosophy Department at The University of Montana since 2000. My research interests run the gamut of the continental tradition, but focus, in particular, on 19th century German Idealism, existential phenomenology, and critical theory (understood, specifically, in terms of the school of thought emanating from the thinkers of the Frankfurt School).

Publications

Books

• Camus (Great Minds Series), Blackwell Publishers, 2009
• Sartre and Adorno: The Dialectic of Subjectivity, State University of New York Press, 2007

• Passion, Sprituality, and Death: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Solomon (Co-editor with Kathleen Higgins), Springer Press, forthcoming
• Reading Negri (co-editor with S. Pierre LaMarche and Max L. Rosenkrantz), Open Court Press, 2011
• The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy (co-editor with Robert C. Solomon), Blackwell Publishers, 2003
• Hegel’s Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness (with Leo Rauch), State University of New York Press, 1999

Articles

• "Between Existentialism and the Human Sciences: Solomon's Cognitive Theory of the Emotions," in Passions, Spirituality and Death, Springer Press, forthcoming
• "Self-Deception, Deception, and the Way of the World," in The Philosophy of Deception, Oxford University Press, 2009
• "Metapolitics Now: Negri, Critical Theory, Praxis," in Reading Negri, Open Court Press, 2011
• "Sartre, Critical Theory, and the Paradox of Freedom," Philosophy Today 50: 2, pp. 198-211 (Summer 2006)
• "The Ontological Need: Positing Subjectivity and Resistance in Hardt and Negri's Empire," Telos 128 (Summer 2004), pp. 143-170
• "Adorno's Kierkegaardian Debt," Philosophy & Social Criticism 27(1): 77-106 (Winter 2001), reprinted in Theodor Adorno (Masters in Social Thought series), Sage Publications, 2005.
• "Aristotle and the Problem of Particular Injustice,"The Philosophical Forum 30(4): 235-248 (Fall 1999)
• "Camus's Meursault and Sartrian Irresponsibility,"Philosophy and Literature 19(1): 60-77 (April 1995)

Entries and Chapters in Books

• "The Ethics of Jean-Paul Sartre" in International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming)
• "Existentialism and Politics" in Continuum Companion to Existentialism, Continuum Publishing Co., 2011
• "The Frankfurt School," in The Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Sage Publications, 2007
• Introduction to Husserl's Cartesian Meditations, in Classics of Western Philosophy, Hackett Publishers, 2007
• "The Absurd," in The Blackwell Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, Blackwell Publishers, 2006
• "Existentialism," in The Companion to Modern French Thought, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2004
• "Jean-Paul Sartre," in The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell Publishers, 2003
• "Critical Theory," in The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell Publishers, 2003

Book Reviews

• Philosophy and Real Politics (by Raymond Geuss), Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 35: No. 3, 490-497 (July 2009)
• Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard (by Stephen Mulhall), Mind, vol. 112, no. 445: 166-170 (January 2003)
• Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation (by Gillian Rose), Dialogue XXXVIII, No. 2: 458-460 (1999)
• Hegel's Hermeneutics (by Paul Redding), Canadian Philosophical Review XVI, No. 6: 433-435 (1996)

Selected Papers Presented

• "Rereading Adorno's Critique of Huxley's Brave New World From Our 'Postmodern' Point of View," Radical Philosophy Association, November 2008
• "Reply to Commentators," Book Session on Sartre and Adorno: The Dialectics of Subjectivity, North American Sartre Society, April 2008
• "Sartre: The Singular Universal," North American Sartre Society (NASS), November 2006
• "Sartre's Phenomenology and Critical Theory," North American Sartre Society (NASS), February 2005
• "Nietzsche's Shadow," Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), October 2004
• "Nietzsche, Naturalism and the Making of the Modern Self," American Philosophical Association (APA) Colloquium Paper: Pacific Meeting, March 2004
• "Antonio Negri and the Critical Theoretic Tradition," Radical Philosophy Association (RPA), November 2002
• "Adorno, Habermas and the Idea of a Dialectic of Enlightenment," Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), October 2001
• "Deleuze's Nietzsche and Hegelian Self-Consciousness," American Philosophical Association (APA) Colloquium Paper: Eastern Meeting, December 1998
• "Adorno and Kierkegaard," Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), October 1998

 

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