Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Texas, 2000
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David Sherman
Areas of Interest
- Continental Philosophy (Kant through Poststructuralism)
- Social, Ethical, and Political Theory
Courses Taught
- The Political Philosophies of Kant and Hegel (Phil 503)
- Continental Paradigms in Political Theorizing (Phil 502)
- Ethical and Political Implications of Poststructuralism (Phil 502)
- Modernity and its Discontents (Phil 495)
- Derrida (Phil 467)
- Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School (Phil 467)
- Sartre (Phil 467)
- Marx: Before and After Marxism (Phil 465)
- Schopenhauer and Nietzsche (Phil 465)
- Hegel (Phil 465)
- Kant and Hegel (Phil 465)
- History of Modern Philosophy (Phil 252)
- Ethics: The Great Traditions (Phil 200)
- Introduction to Existentialism (Phil 105)
- Introduction to Philosophy (Phil 100)
Professional Information
I have been a professor in the Philosophy Department at The University of Montana since 2000. My research interests run the gamut of the continental tradition, but focus, in particular, on 19th century German Idealism, existential phenomenology, and critical theory (understood, specifically, in terms of the school of thought emanating from the thinkers of the Frankfurt School).
Publications
Books
- Camus (Great Minds Series), Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming
- Sartre and Adorno: The Dialectic of Subjectivity, State University of New York Press, 2007
- Reading Negri (co-editor with S. Pierre LaMarche and Max L. Rosenkrantz), Open Court Press, forthcoming
- The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy (co-editor with Robert C. Solomon), Blackwell Publishers, 2003
- Hegel’s Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness (with Leo Rauch), State University of New York Press, 1999
Articles in Refereed Journals
- "Sartre, Critical Theory, and the Paradox of Freedom," Philosophy Today 50: 2, pp. 198-211 (Summer 2006)
- "The Ontological Need: Positing Subjectivity and Resistance in Hardt and Negri's Empire," Telos 128 (Summer 2004), pp. 143-170
- "Adorno's Kierkegaardian Debt," Philosophy & Social Criticism 27(1): 77-106 (Winter 2001), reprinted in Theodor Adorno (Masters in Social Thought series), Sage Publications, 2005.
- "Aristotle and the Problem of Particular Injustice,"The Philosophical Forum 30(4): 235-248 (Fall 1999)
- "Camus's Meursault and Sartrian Irresponsibility,"Philosophy and Literature 19(1): 60-77 (April 1995)
Articles and Chapters in Books
- "Self-Deception, Deception, and the Way of the World," in The Philosophy of Deception, Oxford University Press, forthcoming
- "Metapolitics Now: Negri, Critical Theory, Praxis," in Reading Negri, Open Court Press, forthcoming
- "The Frankfurt School," in The Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Sage Publications, forthcoming
- Introduction to Husserl's Cartesian Meditations, in Classics of Western Philosophy, Hackett Publishers, forthcoming
- "The Absurd," in The Blackwell Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, Blackwell Publishers, 2006
- "Existentialism," in The Companion to Modern French Thought, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2004
- "Jean-Paul Sartre," in The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell Publishers, 2003
- "Critical Theory," in The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell Publishers, 2003
Book Reviews
- Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard (by Stephen Mulhall), Mind, vol. 112, no. 445: 166-170 (January 2003)
- Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation (by Gillian Rose), Dialogue XXXVIII, No. 2: 458-460 (1999)
- Hegel's Hermeneutics (by Paul Redding), Canadian Philosophical Review XVI, No. 6: 433-435 (1996)
Selected Papers Presented
- "Sartre: The Singular Universal," North American Sartre Society (NASS), November 2006
- "Sartre's Phenomenology and Critical Theory," North American Sartre Society (NASS), February 2005
- "Nietzsche's Shadow," Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), October 2004
- "Nietzsche, Naturalism and the Making of the Modern Self," American Philosophical Association (APA) Colloquium Paper: Pacific Meeting, March 2004
- "Antonio Negri and the Critical Theoretic Tradition," Radical Philosophy Association (RPA), November 2002
- "Adorno, Habermas and the Idea of a Dialectic of Enlightenment," Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), October 2001
- "Deleuze's Nietzsche and Hegelian Self-Consciousness," American Philosophical Association (APA) Colloquium Paper: Eastern Meeting, December 1998
- "Adorno and Kierkegaard," Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), October 1998
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