Richard Velkley

Richard L. Velkley
Born (1949-03-17) March 17, 1949
Education Pennsylvania State University (Ph.D.)
Cornell University (B.A.)
Awards NEH Fellowship
Earhart Foundation Fellowship
Bradley Foundation Fellowship
ACLS Fellowship
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Continental
Institutions Tulane University
Thesis Kant as Philosopher of Theodicy (1978)
Doctoral advisor Thomas Seebohm
Doctoral students Michael Joseph O'Neill[1]
Chad Engelland[2]
Samuel Stoner[3]
Paul Wilford[4]
Main interests
political philosophy, post-Kantian philosophy
Website https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/departments/philosophy/people/richard-velkley

Richard L. Velkley (born March 17, 1949) is an American philosopher and Celia Scott Weatherhead Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University.[5] Velkley is known for his expertise on Kant, Rousseau, and post-Kantian philosophy. He was associate editor of The Review of Metaphysics (1997-2006) and is president of the Metaphysical Society of America (2017-18).

Philosophy

Velkley's writing treats questions about the status of philosophic reason and its relation to society and politics since the late 18th century: the principles of Enlightenment thought and their revision, criticism and sometimes complete rejection; conceptions of freedom and their role in attempts to address social and psychic division and alienation; the turn to aesthetic experience and aesthetic education; criticisms of modernity inspired by ancient thought; the meaning and the consequences of the historical turn in modern philosophy; accounts of crisis in the philosophical tradition and critical analyses of the grounds of the tradition. He conceives the study of the history of philosophy as a way to become aware of persisting perplexities in human life that remain unresolved in the modern period. His historical inquiry starts from Rousseau's criticism of modern philosophy and considers responses of later thinkers to it, in the first place Kant.[6][7][8][9][10][11] He has lectured widely in the U.S. and abroad (Canada, France, Germany, China, Belgium, Brazil, Italy, Denmark) on these topics.

Books

References

  1. Michael Joseph O’Neill, The Intelligibility of Human Nature in the Philosophy of R.G. Collingwood, Catholic University of America, 2004
  2. Chad Anthony Engelland, Heidegger on Judgment in Leibniz and Kant: Overcoming Rationalism through Transcendental Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, 2006
  3. Samuel Stoner, On Kant’s Philosophical Authorship: An Essay in Autopoetics, Tulane University, 2014
  4. Paul Wilford, The Duality of Geist: Political and Theological Intersubjectivity in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Tulane University, 2016
  5. Lynch, Christopher and Marks, Jonathan, eds. (2016) Principle and Prudence in Western Political Thought, SUNY Press, p. 382.
  6. Chance, Brian (27 February 2013). "Review of Kant's Observations and Remarks: A Critical Guide". ISSN 1538-1617.
  7. Velkley, Richard (18 August 2015). "Review of Rousseau and Hobbes: Nature, Free Will, and the Passions". ISSN 1538-1617.
  8. Velkley, Richard (14 February 2017). "Review of Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom and the Human Subject". ISSN 1538-1617.
  9. Zank, Michael (3 September 2013). "Review of Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy: On Original Forgetting". ISSN 1538-1617.
  10. German, Andy (1 November 2013). "What is 'First Philosophy'? Comments on Richard Velkley's Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy". History of European Ideas. 39 (6): 899–915. doi:10.1080/01916599.2013.765080. ISSN 0191-6599. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  11. Harold, Philip (27 January 2012). "Review of "Freedom and the Human Person" edited by Richard Velkley". Journal of Markets & Morality. 11 (2). ISSN 1944-7841. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
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