Babette Babich

Babette E. Babich (born November 14, 1956 in New York City) is an American philosopher known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, and Hölderlin as well as for her work in aesthetics, including music, philosophy of music, the history of ancient Greek sculpture, and Continental philosophy, especially continental philosophy of science and technology and including ancient science. She has also made substantive contributions to scholarly discussion of the role of politics in institutional philosophy as well as gender in the academy. A student of Hans-Georg Gadamer, she also worked with Jacob Taubes and Paul Feyerabend. In 1996, she founded (and edits) the journal New Nietzsche Studies in her capacity as Executive Director of the Nietzsche Society and as a tribute to the spirit of David B. Allison's The New Nietzsche.

Selected publications

Author

• The Hallelujah Effect. Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice and Technology. Surrey: Ashgate, 2013.
• La fin de la pensée? Philosophie analytique contre philosophie continentale. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2012.
• Nietzsches Wissenschaftsphilosophie. »Die Wissenschaft unter der Optik des Künstlers zu sehn, die Kunst aber unter der des Lebens«. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010.
• "Eines Gottes Glück voller Macht und Liebe." Beiträge zu Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Heidegger. Weimar: Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2009.
• Words in Blood, Like Flowers: Philosophy and Poetry, Music and Eros in Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006, paper: 2007.^[1]
• Nietzsche e la Scienza: Arte, vita, conoscenza. Translated by Fulvia Vimercati. Raffaello Cortina Editore. Milan. 1996.
• Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science: Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life. State University of New York Press. Albany. 1994.

Editor and contributor

• The Multidimensionality of Hermeneutic Phenomenology. Frankfurt am Main: Springer, 2013. [With Dimitri Ginev]
• Heidegger und Nietzsche. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. [With Holger Zaborowski and Alfred Denker]
• Nietzsche, Habermas, and Critical Theory. Amherst, New York. Prometheus Books Humanity Books Imprint. 2004.
• Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh's Eyes, and God: Essays in Honor of Patrick A. Heelan. S.J. [Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.] Dordrecht. Kluwer. 2002.
• Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge and Critical Theory: Nietzsche and the Sciences I [Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.] Dordrecht. Kluwer. 1999.
• Nietzsche, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Nietzsche and the Sciences II [Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.] Dordrecht. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1999.
• From Phenomenology to Thought, Errancy, and Desire: Essays in Honor of William J. Richardson, S.J. [Phænomenologica] Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht. 1995.

Notes

External links

• Babette Babich: Fordham University Faculty Web Page
• London School of Economics Review of Books
• The Birth of kd lang's "Hallelujah" out of the 'Spirit of Music' in: PerfectSoundForever Online Music Magazine October 2011 – Text version:
• "Between Impossible Wishes: An Interview with Babette Babich" by Nicholas Birns
• Interview: An Impoverishment of Philosophy in: Purlieu Fall 2011
• Inside Fordham "Professor sees Technology in Plato’s cave". Interview by Janet Sassi. November 30, 2009
• "Women and Status in Philosophy" in Radical Philosophy
• "A Philosophical Shock"
• "Greek Bronze"
• See Nicholas Birns's review of Words in Blood Like Flowers at Nietzschecircle.com