Michael E. Zimmerman

Integral thought
Influences Aurobindo Ghose Jean Gebser Haridas Chaudhuri Ramchandra Gandhi Indra Sen George Leonard
Integral thinkers Don Beck Allan Combs Said E. Dawlabani Sean Esbjörn-Hargens Jennifer Gidley Marilyn Hamilton Franklin Jones Ervin László Elza Maalouf Donella Meadows Steve McIntosh Michael Murphy Joe Perez Michel Saloff Coste Charlene Spretnak Brian Swimme William Irwin Thompson Ken Wilber Yasuhiko Kimura Michael E. Zimmerman Sarah Nicholson
Themes Integral theory (Ken Wilber) Emergence Evolution, Involution Integral education Integral yoga Transdisciplinarity Value system
Organizations California Institute of Integral Studies Esalen Institute Integral Institute Antioch University Midwest John F. Kennedy University Institute of Transpersonal Psychology Fielding Graduate University

Michael E. Zimmerman (born July 7, 1946) is an American integral theorist whose interests include Buddhism,^[1] Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ken Wilber. After a year as Assistant Professor at Denison University, he was Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University^[2] from 1975 to 2005, and Director of the Institute for Humanities and the Arts at Tulane. He is also affiliated with the Integral Institute. Together with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, he wrote a book on integral ecology, Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World. Since 2006, Zimmerman has been a faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Zimmerman is a specialist on Heidegger^[3] and has published a number of books and peer-reviewed articles on his work, and on other conventional philosophical topics.

Publications

Books

• Eclipse of the Self: The Development of Heidegger's Concept of Authenticity. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1981; second edition, 1986).
• Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity: Technology, Politics, and Art Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
  • Portuguese translation: Confronto de Heidegger com a Modernidade: Política, Arte, trans. João Sousa Ramos (Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2001).
• Contesting Earth’s Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity (The University of California Press, 1994).
  • Chinese translation underway with tentative title: Li Nun Zheng Feng : Ju Jiao Di Qiu Wei Lai (Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publishing Company).
• ed. The Thought of Martin Heidegger, Tulane Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XXXII, (New Orleans, 1984).
• ed. Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1993). Second edition, 1998. Third edition, 2001. Fourth edition 2004.(?)

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

References

External links

• Official v.v. at University of Colorado
• The Z Files by Mary Ann Travis article on his work with his alien abduction phenomena