Bruce Wilshire
Bruce W. Wilshire is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the Rutgers University philosophy department, where he started teaching in 1970. He received his B.A from the University of Southern California and his M.A and Ph.D from New York University. In 2001 he was awarded the Herbert Schneider Award from the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.[1] He is also well known for his criticisms of analytic philosophy and his interest in Native American philosophy.
Select publications
- Role Playing and Identity: The Limits of Theatre as Metaphor (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) (Indiana University Press, 1982) (ISBN 0253205999, ISBN 978-0253205995). Wilshire places theatre at the center of his study of human phenomenology.
- Romanticism and Evolution: The Nineteenth Century (New York: Capricorn Books, 1968) is volume VI in The Spirit of Western Civilization, "a series of independent but related volumes on the dominant ideas of the great ages of Western Civilization." Wilshire wrote a 20-page introduction and brief commentaries on selections from Rousseau, Kant, Schiller, Blake, Wordsworth, Goethe, Coleridge, Emerson, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Darwin, Spencer, James, Baudelaire, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, etc.
- Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy (ISBN 0791454290) is a collection of nine related essays. Wilshire criticizes the impersonal nature of analytic philosophy, and how it is overwhelmingly accepted by contemporary academia. The book has been criticized for neglecting to clearly define the analytic methods it criticizes,[2] and for misrepresenting various authors and groups.[3]
- Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em!: Genocide, Terrorism, Righteous Communities (ISBN 0739112791) advances a comprehensive theory of genocide and terrorism, attempting to explain their motivations and receptions psychologically. Throughout the book, Wilshire analyzes five historical cases of genocide: "Nazis' in Europe, Serbs' in Bosnia, Pol Pot's group's in Cambodia, Hutus' in Rwanda, [and] whites' in California."[4]
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