John Sallis

Professor Emeritus

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John Sallis

Ph.D.

Education

  • Ph.D., Universitat Freiburg
  • Ph.D., Tulane University

Courses

German Idealism

Plato's Statesman

Heidegger and the Question of Truth

Phenomenology and Deconstruction

Research Interests

Ancient Philosophy

Philosophy of Art, especially in relation to questions of imagination

Kant and German Idealism

Recent Continental Philosophy

Curriculum Vitae

Department

Philosophy

Profile

Professor Sallis held Chairs at Pennsylvania State, Vanderbilt University, Loyola University of Chicago, and Duquesne University. He was a member of the Philosophy department at Boston College from 2005 to 2024. He was the founding editor of the journal Research in Phenomenology, and General Editor of "Studies in Continental Thought" (Indiana University Press). He lectured extensively in Europe, Asia, and North and South America, and was the author of more than 20 books, many translated into other languages.

Publications

Kant and the Spirit of Critique (2020)

Songs of Nature (2020)

The Logos of the Sensible World (2019)

Elemental Discourses (2018)

The Return of Nature (Indiana University Press, 2016)      

The Figure of Nature (Indiana University Press, 2016)

Senses of Landscape (Northwestern University Press, 2015)

Klee's Mirror (SUNY Press, 2015)

Light Traces (Indiana University Press, 2014)

Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art (University of Chicago Press, 2008)

The Verge of Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 2007)

Topographies (Indiana University Press, 2006)

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