GARY SHAPIRO

 

 

 

Professor of Philosophy         

Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities-Philosophy, Emeritus            

Department of Philosophy

University of Richmond                                                                                  

Richmond, Virginia 23173                         

Fax     804-287-6053

email   gshapiro@richmond.edu                                                                                                 mailing address: 2116 Floyd Ave., Richmond VA 23220

 

 

 

            1970                Ph.D. Columbia University, Philosophy

 

Selected fellowships and awards

            1976-77           School of Criticism and Theory, University of California-Irvine

            1978-79           American Council of Learned Societies

            1985                Wesleyan University Humanities Center

            1993-94           National Humanities Center

            2000-01           Clark Art Institute fellowship; Dedalus Foundation fellowship

            2001                 Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Italy

 

Biographical Listings: Who’s Who in America,  Directory of American Scholars

 

 

Selected publications

 

 Books

 Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying, University of Chicago Press, 2003, 438 pp., 29 illustrations

 

Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art After Babel, University of California Press, 1995; xiv + 271 pp.

 

Alcyone:  Nietzsche on Gifts, Noise, and Women, State University of New York Press, 1991; xii + 158 pp.

 

Nietzschean Narratives, Indiana University Press, 1989; x + 179 pp.

 

Edited books

After the Future:  Postmodern Times and Places, State University of New York Press, 1990, 360 pp. (collection of original essays)

 

Hermeneutics: Questions and Prospects, co-editor (with Alan Sica) University of Massachusetts Press, 1984, 310 pp.; paperback edition, Fall 1988. (collection of original essays)

 

Forthcoming articles

 

 "Casey Comes to the Edge: Borders, Boundaries, Diagrams, Art, and Islands," in The Voice of Place (essays on the work of Ed Casey), ed. Azucena Cruz-Pierre et al

 

            "Then and Now, Here and There: On the Grounds of Aesthetics," in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, issue from 50th anniversary SPEP meeting

Four entries on Nietzsche in Nietzsche Lexicon, ed. Christian Niemeyer (WBG, 2009): Erde, Glückselige Inseln, Grosse Mittag, Jünger

 

“Beyond Peoples and Fatherlands: Nietzsche’s Geophilosophy and the Direction of the Earth,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies 35 (2008). pp. 9-27 and in  Friedrich Nietzsche: International library of essays in the history of social and political thought, ed. Tracy Strong (Ashgate, 2009)

 

Co-editor, Journal of Nietzsche Studies 35 (2008), special issue on Nietzsche and contemporary political thought

 

“Assassins and Crusaders: Nietzsche After 9/11” Nietzsche at the Margins ed A.Hicks and A. Rosenberg (Purdue University Press, 2007), pp. 186-204

 

“Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Religion,” in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, ed. Chad Meister (Routledge, 2007), pp. 170-180

 

 

“Nietzsche on Geophilosophy and Geoaesthetics,” in the Blackwell Companion to Nietzsche, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson (Blackwell, 2006), pp. 477-494.

 

“Territories, Landscapes, Gardens: Toward Geoaesthetics”; Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 9:2 (2004), pp. 103-115

 

“Modernity, Ego, Earth: Notes on Robert Gooding-Williams’s Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism,” International Studies in Philosophy, 2004, 99-115

 

“Friends and Readers: On David Allison’s Reading the New Nietzsche,” in Symposium, Spring 2004, pp. 37-51

 

“Geometry, Gardens, Gender: Writing Aesthetics After Nietzsche,” New Nietzsche Studies, Winter 2003/Spring 2004, pp. 194-207 (response to symposium on  Archaeologies of Vision and other writings)

 

“Dogs, Domestication, and the Ego,” and “The Halcyon Tone as Birdsong,” in Christa and Ralph Acampora, eds. A Nietzschean Bestiary (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), pp. 53-60 and 83-88         (Italian online version of "Dogs," http://www.liberazioni.org/liberazioni/articoli/ShapiroG-01.htm)

 

“Ariadne’s Thread: Walter Benjamin’s Hashish Passages,” in High Culture: Reflections on Addiction and Modernity, ed. Anna Alexander and Mark Roberts (State University of New York Press, 2003), pp. 59-74           

 

“Building, Timing, Thinking: Reversible Destiny After Hegel, Heidegger and Smithson” Interfaces  2003, 21/22, vol. 1, pp. 103-112

 

“Hegel,” in Chris Murray, ed. Key Writers on Art : From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2003), pp. 160-167

 

“Shades and Shining: Thoughts on John Sallis’s Shades - of Painting at the Limit,” Continental Philosophy Review, March 2002, pp. 87-96

 

“Nietzsche’s Story of the Eye: Hyphenating the Augen-Blick,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Autumn 2001, pp. 17-35

 

             “Mapping the Labyrinth,” New Nietzsche Studies, Winter 2000-01, pp. 143-154

 

“‘This is not a Christ’: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Archaeology of Vision,” in Alan Schrift, ed. Why Nietzsche Still? (University of California Press, 2000), pp. 79-98

 

“‘Give Me a Break!’ Emerson on Fruit and Flowers,” in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 1999, pp. 98-113

 

 “Nietzsche and Visuality” in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford, 1998), vol.3, pp. 364-366

           

“French Aesthetics: Contemporary Painting Theory,” in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford, 1998), vol. 2, pp. 235-240

 

“Diasporas,” in Jacob Golomb, ed. Nietzsche and Jewish Culture (Routledge, 1997), pp. 244-262

 

“The Metaphysics of Presents: The Debt to Emerson, Nietzsche’s Gift, Heidegger’s Values,” in Alan Schrift, ed. The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity

(Routledge, 1997),  pp. 274-291

 

“Pipe Dreams: Simulacrum and Eternal Recurrence in Foucault’s Ekphrasis of Magritte,” in Word and Image, Jan-March 1997, pp. 69-76

 

“Übersehen: Nietzsche and Tragic Vision,” in Research in Phenomenology, 1995, pp. 27-44

           

“Jean-Luc Nancy and the Corpus of Philosophy,” in Juliet Flower MacCannell and Laura Zakarin, eds. Thinking Bodies (Stanford University Press, 1994), pp. 52-62

 

“Go Figure! Refiguring Disfiguring,” (Review essay of Mark Taylor’s Disfiguring”), Philosophy Today, Fall 1994, pp. 326-333

 

“Debts Due and Overdue: Beginnings of Philosophy in Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Anaximander,” in Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, Richard Schacht, ed. (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), pp. 358-375 

           

“Art and its Doubles: Danto, Foucault and their Simulacra,” in Mark Rollins, ed., Danto and his Critics (Blackwell’s, 1993),  pp. 129-141

 

“L’abime de la vision,” Revue d'esthetique, 24/93, pp. 21-26

 

“Deaths of Art:  David Carrier’s Metahistory of Artwriting,” in Leonardo, vol. 25, no. 2, 1992, pp. 189-195

 

“Subversion of System/Systems of Subversion,” (on Hegel), in Writing the Politics of Difference, Hugh J. Silverman, editor (State University of New York Press, 1991), pp. 1-12

 

“Translating, Repeating, Naming:  Foucault, Derrida and the Genealogy of Morals,” in Nietzsche and Postmodernism, edited by Clayton Koelb (State University of New York Press, 1990) pp. 39-55

 

“Nietzsche and the Future of the University,” in Journal of Nietzsche Studies , vol. 1, no. 1, 1990, pp. 15-28 

 

“To Philosophize is to Learn to Die,” in Signs in Culture:  Roland Barthes Today, edited by Steven Ungar and Betty McGraw, University of Iowa Press, 1989, pp. 3-31

 

“High Art, Folk Art, and Other Social Distinctions,” in The Folk, edited by Robert Smith and Jerry Stannard (University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology, no. 17, 1989), pp. 73-90.

 

“Entropy and Dialectic:  The Signatures of Robert Smithson,” Arts Magazine, Summer 1988, pp. 99-104

 

“What was Literary History?” Social Epistemology, 1988, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 3-19.

 

“Canons, Careers and Campfollowers: John Herman Randall and the Historiography of Philosophy,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Winter 1987, pp. 31-43.

 

“On Economies of Interpretation:  Reading Nietzsche,” Discorsi:  ricerche di storia della filosofia, 1986:  2, pp. 249-265

 

“An Ancient Quarrel in Hegel’s Phenomenology,” The Owl of Minerva, Spring 1986, pp. 165-180.

 

“Gadamer, Habermas, and the Death of Art,” The British Journal of Aesthetics, Winter 1986, pp. 39-47.

 

“From the Sublime to the Political,” in New Literary History, 1985 (XVI:2), pp. 213-235.

 

“British Hermeneutics and the Genesis of Empiricism,” in Phenomenological Inquiry, October 1985, pp. 29-44

 

“The Man of Letters and the Author of Nature:  Hume on Philosophical Discourse,” in The Eighteenth Century:  Theory and Interpretation, 1985 (26:2), pp. 115-137

 

“Nietzschean Aphorism as Art and Act.” in Man and World, (now Continental Philosophy Review) 17:  3-4 (1984), pp. 399-429 and in Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (Nijhoff, 1985), pp. 159-190

 

“Peirce and Derrida on First and Last Things,” in University of Dayton Review, Spring 1984 (Hermeneutics issue), pp. 33-38

 

“Nietzsche on Envy,” in International Studies in Philosophy, 1983 (Nietzsche issue), pp. 3-12

 

“Some Genres of Post-Hegelian Philosophy,” Metaphilosophy, July-October, 1982, pp. 269-276

 

“Nietzsche Contra Renan,” History and Theory, 1982, 2, pp. 193-222

 

“Hegel and Peirce on Absolute Meaning,” Proceedings of the International C. S. Peirce Conference, Texas Tech University, 1981, pp. 259-263

 

“Styling Nietzsche,” (a review essay of Jacques Derrida,  Eperons/Spurs) Man and World, 1981, pp. 428-437

 

“Nietzsche's Graffito:  A Reading of the Antichrist” Boundary 2, Spring/Fall 1981 (Nietzsche issue), pp. 119-140 and in Why Nietzsche Now?  Daniel O'Hara, editor (Indiana, 1984), pp. 19-140

 

“Peirce’s Critique of Hegel’s Phenomenology and Dialectic,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Summer 1981, pp. 269-275

 

“Reading and Writing in the Text of Hobbes’s Leviathan,” The Journal of the History of Philosophy, April 1980, pp. 147-157

 

“Notes on the Animal Kingdom of the Spirit,” Clio, Spring 1979, pp. 323-338

 

“The Owl of Minerva and the Colors of the Night,” Philosophy and Literature, Fall 1977, pp. 276-294

 

“Hegel’s Dialectic of Artistic Meaning,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Fall 1976, pp. 23-35

 

“Hegel on the Meanings of Poetry,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, Spring 1975, pp. 88-107; published also in Art and Logic in Hegel's Philosophy, edited by W. Steinkraus and K. Schmitz, Humanities Press, 1980, pp. 35-54

 

“Intention and Interpretation in Art: A Semiotic Analysis,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Fall 1974, pp. 33-42

 

“Choice and Universality in Sartre’s Ethics,” Man and World (now Continetal Philosophy Review), February 1974, pp. 20-36

 

“Habit and Meaning in Peirce’s Pragmatism,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Winter 1973, pp. 24-40

 

 

 

Reviews

            Over 50 book reviews for scholarly journals

 

Conference presentations and invited lectures

            At least 100 conference presentations and papers including invited main program symposia at Eastern, Central, and Pacific Divisions of the American Philosophical Association and invited plenary sessions at other national and international conferences, including American Society for Aesthetics, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Shapiro’s writings have been the subject of two symposia at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (1992 and 2005, SPEP: the major US professional organization in continental philosophy), of one at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (2003, IAPL: the major international Anglophone professional organization for this disciplinary conjunction), and one at Jyväskylä University, Finland
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            Invited  talks at colleges, universities, museums, and cultural centers, including: Brown University, Vassar College, Pennsylvania State University, University of Chicago, Williams College, Northwestern University, DePaul University, Warwick University, State University of Rio de Janeiro, University of California-Santa Cruz, State University of New York-Stony Brook, University of North Carolina, Mary Washington University, University of Kansas, Wesleyan University, Bennington College, Guggenheim Museum, California College of the Arts, CENDEAC (Spain: national center for research in contemporary art), State University of Rio (UERJ), Museu Vale (Vila Velha, Espirito Santo, Brazil), Collegium Phenomenologicum (Italy), International Phenomenology Symposium (Italy), Pontifical Catholic University (Rio de Janeiro)

 

 

Editorial work

 

Editorial Boards: Journal of the History of Philosophy, Clio, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, New Nietzsche Studies

Advisory Board, Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and Literature (Northwestern University Press)

Advisory Board, International Nietzsche Studies, University of Illinois Press, 1993-

 

 

Reader (selected presses and journals): Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Philosophy and Literature, Clio, Philosophy Research Archives, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, The Owl of Minerva, Poetics Today, Political Theory, Inquiry, Epoché, Continental Philosophy Review, Mosaic, Contemporary Aesthetics, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, American Political Science Review, Hypatia 

Duke University Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Indiana University Press, Yale University Press, Routledge, MIT University Press, University of Chicago Press, University of California Press, Kansas University Press, State University of New York Press, Temple University Press, Macmillan, University of Minnesota Press, University Press of Virginia, Open Court Press, Cornell University Press, Blackwell’s, Columbia University Press

 

 

Selected professional activities

Outside examiner, Wesleyan University College of Letters, 2007

Evaluator, National Humanities Center, 2004-

American Philosophical Association (APA), Committee on Lectures, Publication and Research, 1985-88

Outside examiner, Swarthmore College Honors Program, May 1993

APA, Schutz Lecture Committee, 1991

Executive Committee, North American Nietzsche Society, 1983-89, 1999-2002

Outside honors examiner, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1985

 

 

 

 

 

Courses taught at the University of Richmond, 1991-  (partial list)

*=introduced course     **=co-taught

Core 101 and 102: Exploring Human Experience

Phil. 200: Introduction to Philosophy                        Phil. 353    Philosophical Methods**

Phil. 271   Ancient Greek Philosophy*                     Phil. 357    Nietzsche*

Phil. 272   Modern Western Philosophy                  Phil. 359    Thinking and Seeing*

Phil. 275    Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud*                 Phil. 380     Philosophy and Literature**

Phil.  281   Philosophy of Art*                                   Phil. 380     The Gift: Rhetoric and Philo.**

Phil.  344   20^th Century Continental Philosophy     Phil. 380     Seeing Across Cultures: Art and

                                                                                                            Philo.**

Phil 350    Derrida*                                                    Phil. 380     Philosophy and Theater**

Phil 350    Deleuze and Derrida*                             Phil. 380     Philosophy After 9/11*

 Phil 380   Thus Spoke Zarathustra*                        Phil 380      Territory, Terror, and Empire                 

 

Faculty seminars directed, University of Richmond

Multiculturalism, 1994

Seeing Across Cultures, 1997 (co-directed with Stephen Addiss)

Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, 2002

Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil fall 2009

 

Philosophy workshop, University of Richmond: Nietzsche’s New Politics, 2007

 

Film series, University of Richmond: Thinkers on Film, 2008