John Sallis

John Sallis (born 1938) is an American philosopher. He is currently the Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He has previously taught at Vanderbilt University and Pennsylvania State University.

[edit] Education

Sallis obtained his doctorate from Tulane University in 1964. His dissertation was entitled "The Concept of World."

Sallis is well known for his work on imagination and his careful readings of Plato. He has also written on phenomenology, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and Friedrich Nietzsche, among many other figures and topics. He is the founding editor of the journal Research in Phenomenology.

His curriculum vitae, including a full list of publications, is available here.

The Verge of Philosophy (2007)
Topographies (2006)
Platonic Legacies (2004)
On Translation (2002)
Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental (2000)
Chorology: On Beginning in Plato's "Timaeus" (1999)
Shades: Of Painting at the Limit (1998)
Double Truth (1995)
Stone (1994)
Crossings: Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy (1991)
Echoes: After Heidegger (1990)
Spacings—Of Reason and Imagination. In Texts of Kant, Fichte, Hegel (1987)
Delimitations: Phenomenology and the End of Metaphysics (1986; 2nd edn. 1995)
The Gathering of Reason (1980; 2nd. edn. 2005)
Being and Logos: The Way of Platonic Dialogue (1975; 2nd edn. 1986; 3rd edn. Being and Logos: Reading the Platonic Dialogues, 1996)
Phenomenology and the Return to Beginnings (1973; 2nd edn. 2002)

Kenneth Maly (ed.), The Path of Archaic Thinking: Unfolding the Work of John Sallis (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995). Including contributions from Walter Biemel, Peg Birmingham, Walter Brogan, Françoise Dastur, Jacques Derrida, Parvis Emad, Eliane Escoubas, Bernard D. Freydberg, Rodolphe Gasché, Michel Haar, John Llewelyn, Kenneth Maly, Adriaan Peperzak, James Risser, and Charles E. Scott, as well as a response by Sallis.