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Curriculum Vitae
Kathleen Wright
Department of Philosophy
Haverford College
Haverford, PA 19041
(610) 896-1054
kwright@haverford.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Boston College, 1977 (Director: Jacques Taminiaux)
"The Role of Reflection in the Formation of Hegel's Concept of Speculation”
M.A. University of Heidelberg, 1972 (Director: Hans-Georg Gadamer)
"Heidegger's Reversal from Dasein to Es gibt"
B.A. Vassar College, 1966, cum laude
EMPLOYMENT:
1994-present Haverford College, Full Professor
1984-1994 Haverford College, Associate Professor
1978-1984 Haverford College, Assistant Professor
1977-78 Gustavus Adolphus College, Instructor
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2004 Haverford College Faculty Research Grant for the study of
Mandarin Chinese
1997 Andrew Mellon Grant to develop a Tri-College course on the origins
of aesthetics in China, Greece, and Modern Europe
1991-1992 Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
1991-1992 Whitehead Faculty Development Grant, Haverford College
1991-1992 Alternate, Woodrow Wilson Center
1988 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Interpretation
in the Sciences and the Humanities, UC Santa Cruz
1985-1986 Andrew Mellon Faculty Development Fund, Haverford College
1985-1986 American Association of University Women Educational Foundation
Fellowship
1984 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished
Teaching
1984 Ford Foundation Grant to develop a Tri-College interdisciplinary
course on
German and English Romantic poetry and philosophy
1981-1982 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College
Teachers
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Festivals of Interpretation: Essays on Hans-Georg Gadamer's Work,
ed. and introduced by Kathleen Wright (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990).
Essays and Articles (selected):
2003 “Die “Erläuterungen zu Hölderlins Dichtung”
und die drei Hölderlin Vorlesungen (1934/35, 1941/42, 1942): Die
Heroisierung Hölderlins,” in Heidegger Handbuch, ed. Dieter
Thomä (Verlag J.B. Metzler), pp. 213-230.
2003 “Engendering Dialogue: Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics
and Feminist Thought,” in Rereading the Canon: Hans-Georg Gadamer,
ed. Lorraine Code (Pennsylvania State University Press), pp.39-56.
2001 "Hans-Georg Gadamer," in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
ed. Thomas Baldwin (Routledge Press), pp.827-831.
2000 “Gestimmtheit, Vorurteil, und Horizontverschmelzung,”
in Wege der Hermeneutki: Hans-Georg Gadamer zum Hundersten, eds. Jean
Grondin, Günther Figal, Dennis Schmidt [Mohr Siebeck Verlag], pp.
281-292.
2000 “The Fusion of Horizons: Hans-Georg Gadamer and Wang Fu Chih,”
in Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 33, No.3, (July), pp. 345-358.
1999 "Heidegger on Hegel's Antigone: The Memory of Gender and the
Forgetfulness of the Ethical Difference," in Endings: Questions of
Memory in Hegel and Heidegger, eds. Rebecca Comay and John McCumber (Northwestern
University Press), pp. 160-173.
1998 "Art and Understanding," in Vol. 3 of Encyclopedia of Aesthetics,
ed. Michael Kelly (Oxford University Press), pp. 261-264.
1998 "Heidegger and Hölderlin," in Vol. 3 of Encyclopedia
of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly (Oxford University Press), pp. 383-386.
1996 “Pluralism on the Undergraduate Level: The Case of Haverford
College,” in
Proceedings and Addresses of the APA, 70.2, pp. 179-187.
1996 "Gewaltsame Lektüren deutungsloser Zeichen: Heidegger liesst
Hölderlins 'Andenken'," in Texte und Lektüren: Perspektiven
in der Literaturwissenschaft, ed. Aleida Assmann (Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag),
pp. 229-246
1994 "Heidegger and the Authorization of Hölderlin's Poetry,"
in Martin Heidegger: Politics, Art, Technology, eds. Karsten Harries and
Christoph Jamme (New York: Holmes and Meier), pp. 164-174.
1993 "Heidegger's Hölderlin and the Mo(u)rning of History,"
in Philosophy Today 37.4 (Winter), pp. 423-435.
1992 "Heidegger und die Ermächtigung der Dichtung Hölderlins,"
in Kunst-Politik-Technik, eds. Christoph Jamme and Karsten Harries (Munich:
Wilhelm Fink Verlag), pp. 85-94.
[1994 Chinese translation of “Heidegger und die Ermächtigung
der Dichtung Hölderlins” in Ubersetzung der Philosophie, No.
3, pp, 62-66.]
1991 "Grenzen der Weisheit," in Weisheit, ed. Aleida Assmann
(Munich:
Wilhelm Fink Verlag), 537-546.
1990 "Literature and Philosophy at the Crossroads," in Festivals
of Interpretation,
ed. Kathleen Wright (Albany: SUNY Press), pp. 229-248.
1987 “Kant und der Kanon der Kritik," in Kanon und Zensur,
eds. Aleida and
Jan Assmann (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag), pp. 326-335.
1986 "Gadamer: The Speculative Structure of Language," in Hermeneutics
and
Modern Philosophy, ed. Brice Wachterhauser (Albany: SUNY Press), pp. 193-
218.
1984 “The Place of the Work of Art in the Age of Technology,"
in The Southern
Journal of Philosophy 22, 4, pp. 565-582.
[Reprinted in 1992 in Martin Heidegger: Critical Assessments, vol. 4,
ed. Christopher McCann (London: Routledge), pp. 247-265.]
1983 "Hegel: The Identity of Identity and Non-Identity," in
Idealistic Studies 13, 1, pp. 11-32.
INVITED LECTURES (selected):
"Ein Gespräch sind wir: Conversation and Play in Gadamer's Truth
and Method" (Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July 1980).
"Dichterische Sprache und Technische Sprache" (Inter-University
Centre, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, spring 1982).
"Der Andere: Die Sprache" (Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik,
Yugoslavia, spring 1984).
"The Place of the Work of Art in the Age of Technology" (Heidegger
Conference, Wisconsin, spring 1984).
"Kant on Canon and Censorship" (Wissenschaftskolleg/Institute
for Advanced Studies, Berlin, Germany, spring 1985).
"Heidegger's Eccentric Reading of Antigone" (Werner-Reimars-Stiftung,
Bad Homberg, Germany and also at Middlesex Polytechnic, London, England,
spring 1987).
"Literature and Philosophy at the Crossroads" (Universities
of Oslo and Trondheim, Norway, fall 1987).
"The Mo(u)rning of History" (Conference on Speculative Philosophy
and Hermeneutics at Yale University, fall 1987).
"Heidegger and Hölderlin" (Conference on Heidegger and
the Work of Art at University of California, Berkeley, fall 1988).
"Reading Heidegger/Reading Hölderlin" (Conference on Art/Politics/Technology
at Yale University, fall 1989).
"On Heidegger and Hölderlin" (Conference on Heidegger and
Politics at Cornell University, spring 1990).
"Heidegger on Antigone and the Essence of Poetry" (APA, Eastern
Division Meeting, Dec. 1991). Repeated (Conference on Philosophy and the
Voice of Poetry at SUNY Binghamton, April 10-11, 1992).
“On the ‘Free use of One’s Own’,” (Conference
on Gadamer and Poetry, University of Heidelberg, Germany, July 1993).
COURSES TAUGHT ON THE UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL:
(* indicates that I am presently teaching these courses on a
regular basis).
Introductory Courses:
Philosophy 101a Historical Introduction to Philosophy: Ancient
Philosophy101b Historical Introduction to Philosophy: Modern
Philosophy 105 Love, Friendship, and the Ethical Life*
Philosophy 106 The Philosophy of Consciousness and the Problem of Embodiment*
Intermediate Courses:
Philosophy 223a Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
Philosophy 223b Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason and The
Critique of Judgment
Philosophy 225 Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit
Philosophy 226 Nietzsche*
Philosophy 227 The Linguistic Turn in Modern European Philosophy*
Philosophy 228 The Logos and the Tao*
Philosophy 229 Nineteenth Century Philosophy
Philosophy 243 Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy
Philosophy 225 The Problem of Freedom and the Dialectic of the Master
and Slave*
Advanced Courses:
Philosophy 301 Aesthetics and Philosophy of Literature (1985) [also taught
at Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges]
Philosophy 322 Topics in Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy
Topic: Heidegger and Nazism (1994)
Philosophy 322 Topics in Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy
Topic: Heidegger’s Poetic Thinking and Asian Thought (1997)
Philosophy 322 Topics in Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy
Topic: Hans-Georg’s Gadamer’s Truth and Method) (2000)
Philosophy 335 Topics in Modern European Philosophy:
Topic: Kant and Heidegger*
Philosophy 336 Topics in Post-Kantian Philosophy:
Topic: Hegel and the Problem of Modernity*
Philosophy 357: Origins of Aesthetics: China, Greece, and Modern Europe
[taught at Bryn Mawr College in 1998]
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Philosophical Association
American Association of University Women
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
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