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Teaching Philosophy Writing Books Giving Lectures on Hermeneutics |
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Liberal Arts Education Lectures and Seminars on Philosophical Hermeneutics in 2004 in China, Taiwan, Peru, Mexico and the U.S. Books Articles Reviews |
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Worldwide |
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Philosophical Hermeneutics Interpretation Theory |
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American Philosophical Association Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Husserl Circle American Heidegger Circle American Gadamer Circles both in America and in Germany |
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1959-1999 Professor at MacMurray College 1972-1980 Professor of Literature and European Philosophy 1980-1999 Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Department 1976- Spring Qtr.: Professor of Humanities, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 2000- 2003 Part time Distinguished Professor, Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL 2002-2004 Professor of Philosophy in Odyssey Program |
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Wife: Louise Wheaton Palmer- active in Peace Brigades International since 1989. Team Member in Guatemala, 1989-1994. Director in Toronto, 1994-1999 Daughter: Kay Palmer Dyer, born September 25, 1957- Teacher of Spanish at Quincy High School, Quincy Illino |
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BA- magna cum laude in Music History and Theory: University of Redlands 1955 MA in European Comparative Literature- University of Redlands 1956 Ph.D. in Comparative Literature English, Spanish, French, German- University of Redlands 1959 |
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The Odyssey Dantes Divine Comedy Tolstoy War and Peace Heideggers Origin of the Work of Art, Gadamer The Artwork in Word and Image, Thoreaus Walden John Foxs Journal |
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Germany. Basically I do not take vacations other than visits with family. My travel is in order to present lectures or seminars on hermeneutics, often in foreign countries, or to attend professional meetings |
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Playing the Piano Accompanying Singers Dixieland Band |
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Hans-Georg Gadamer, Heidelberg, Germany |
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1. Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer 1969 Available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, and Farsi 2. co-editor and co-translator, Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter 1989 3. co-translator, Husserl, Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Confrontation with Heidegger 1927-1931 1997 4. editor and translator, Gadamer in Conversation 2001 5. editor and translator, The Gadamer Reader: A Bouquet of the Later Writings at publisher, forthcoming 2006 |
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5 books 60 articles 30 translations 75 reviews My career goal has been to translate and interpret the philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. I have lectured on his hermeneutical philosophy in France, Hungary, Italy, Germany, China, Taiwan, Peru, Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. |
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1. 1955-1959 - Ford Foundation Fellowship for participation in the Intercollegiate Program of Graduate Study in the Humanities Tuition, Room, Board, Fees, Travel 2. 1964-65 - American Council of Learned Societies Interdisciplinary Fellowship for study in Zurich, Switzerland 8 months, and Heidelberg, Germany 5 months 3. 1971-72- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Younger Humanists 4. 1977- NEH Summer Seminar with Geoffrey Hartmann, Yale University 5. 1978- NEH Summer Stipend for Research in Hermeneutics at Yale University 6. 1980- NEH Summer Seminar with Stanley Fish, Johns Hopkins University 7. 1985- NEH Summer Seminar with Bernd Magnus, University of California, Riverside 8. 1989- Dewey E. Wilkins Award for Excellence in Teaching, MacMurray College 9. 1991-92- Fulbright Research Fellowship for study with Gadamer in Heidelberg, Germany 10. 1993- Named Joseph R. Harker Distinguished Professor, 1993- 11. 1995-95- Fulbright Research Fellowship for study with Gadamer in Heidelberg, Germany 12. 2005- Named President Joseph R. Harker Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, MacMurray C. |
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I am a Quaker and committed to nonviolence and the civil rights of Blacks, women, poor people, and gays. I think military thinking is narrow and fails in the long run. I follow Heidegger and Gadamer in their critique of technology. I try to live simply and without ostentation. |
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Further research, lectures, and publication in the area of hermeneutics |
