Robert Bernasconi

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Robert L. Bernasconi is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is well known as a reader of Martin Heidegger and for his work on the concept of race.

1 Career
2 Interests
3 Bibliography
4 See also

[edit] Career

Bernasconi received his doctorate from Sussex University in England. He taught at the University of Essex for thirteen years before coming to the University of Memphis.

[edit] Interests

Bernasconi has written extensively on the work of Martin Heidegger, as well as Hans-Georg Gadamer, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jacques Derrida. His command of the Heideggerian corpus is perhaps unmatched amongst scholars in the United States. More recently he has developed an interest in the concepts of race and racism, especially as they relate to the history of philosophy, editing and publishing an enormous amount of primary material.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Books authored

How to Read Sartre (2007).
Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing (1993).
The Question of Language in Heidegger's History of Being (1985).

[edit] Books edited

Race and Anthropology (2003).
Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy (2003). With Sybol Cook.
American Theories of Polygenesis (2002).
The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2002). With Simon Critchley.
Concepts of Race in the Eighteenth Century (2001).
Race (2001).
In Proximity: Emmanuel Levinas and the Eighteenth Century (2001). With Melvin New & Richard A. Cohen.
Re-Reading Levinas (1994). With Simon Critchley.
The Provocation of Levinas (1988). With David Wood.
Derrida and Différance (1985; 1988 in United States). With David Wood.
Time and Metaphysics (1982). With David Wood.

[edit] Selected articles

"Sartre's Response to Merleau-Ponty's Charge of Subjectivism," Philosophy Today, 50 (2006): 113-125.
"Levinas and the Struggle for Existence," in Eric Sean Nelson, Antje Kapust & Kent Still (eds.), Addressing Levinas (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2005).
"Lévy-Bruhl among the Phenomenologists: Exoticisation and the Logic of ‘the Primitive’," Social Identities 11 (2005): 229–45.
"No Exit: Levinas’ Aporetic Account of Transcendence," Research in Phenomenology 35 (2005): 101–17.
"The Assumption of Negritude: Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, and the Vicious Circle of Racial Politics," Parallax 8, 2 (2002): 69–83.
"The Invisibility of Racial Minorities in the Public Realm of Appearances," in Kevin Thompson & Lester Embree (eds.), Phenomenology fo the Political (Netherlands: Kluwer, 2000): 169–87.
"'We Philosophers': Barbaros medeis eisito," in Rebecca Comay & John McCumber (eds.), Endings: Questions of Memory in Hegel and Heidegger (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1999).
"Different Styles of Eschatology: Derrida's Take on Levinas' Political Messianism," Research in Phenomenology 28 (1998): 3–19.
"Eckhart's Anachorism," Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 19, 2–20, 1 (1997): 81–90.
“Opening the Future: The Paradox of Promising in the Hobbesian Social Contract,” Philosophy Today 41 (1997): 77–86.
"The Violence of the Face: Peace and Language in the Thought of Levinas," Philosophy and Social Criticism 23, 6 (1997): 81–93.
"The Double Face of the Political and the Social: Hannah Arendt and America's Racial Divisions," Research in Phenomenology 26 (1996): 3–24.
"Heidegger and the Invention of the Western Philosophical Tradition," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 26 (1995): 240–54.
“‘I Will Tell You Who You Are.’ Heidegger on Greco-German Destiny and Amerikanismus,” in Babette E. Babich (ed.), From Phenomenology to Thought, Errancy, and Desire: Essays in Honor of William J. Richardson, S. J. (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995).
“On Heidegger’s Other Sins of Omission: His Exclusion of Asian Thought from the Origins of Occidental Metaphysics and His Denial of the Possibility of Christian Philosophy,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 69 (1995): 333–50.
"Sartre's Gaze Returned: The Transformation of the Phenomenology of Racism," Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 18, 2 (1995) 201–21.
"Repetition and Tradition: Heidegger's Destructuring of the Distinction Between Essence and Existence in Basic Problems of Phenomenology," in Theodore Kisiel & John van Buren (eds.), Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in His Earliest Thought (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994).
"On Deconstructing Nostalgia for Community within the West: The Debate Between Nancy and Blanchot," Research in Phenomenology 23 (1993): 3–21.
"Locke's Almost Random Talk of Man: The Double Use of Words in the Natural Law Justification of Slavery," Perspektiven der Philosophie: Neues Jahrbuch 18 (1992): 293–318.
"No More Stories, Good or Bad: de Man's Criticisms of Derrida on Rousseau," in David Wood (ed.), Derrida: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
"The Ethics of Suspicion," Research in Phenomenology 20 (1990): 3–18.
"The Heidegger Controversy," German Historical Institute London Bulletin 12 (1990): 3–9.
"Rousseau and the Supplement to the Social Contract: Deconstruction and the Possibility of Democracy," Cardozo Law Review 11 (1990): 1539–64.
“Heidegger’s Destruction of Phronesis,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 28 supp. (1989): 127–47.
"Seeing Double: Destruktion and Deconstruction," in Diane P. Michelfelder & Richard E. Palmer (eds.), Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989).
"Deconstruction and Scholarship," Man and World 21 (1988): 223–30.
“Technology and the Ethics of Praxis,” Acta Institutionis Philosophiae et Aestheticae (Tokyo) 5 (1987): 93–108.
"The Good and the Beautiful," in W. S. Hamrick (ed.), Phenomenology in Practice and Theory (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985).
"Levinas Face to Face—With Hegel," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 13 (1982): 267–76.