Stephen Watson

Stephen Watson

Professor of Philosophy

Contact Information

Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: (574) 631-7284
E-Mail: swatson@nd.edu

Offices:317 Malloy Hall
Office Hours: by appointment

Education:


Ph.D., Duquesne.

Areas of Interest:


Contemporary Continental Thought, 19th Century Philosophy, Aesthetics.

Selected Bibliography

Recent Articles:

  • "Interpretation, Dialogue, and Friendship: On the Remainder of Community," Research in Phenomenology (1997)
  • "Between Tradition and Oblivion: Foucault, the Complication of Form, the Literatures of Reason, and the Aesthetics of Existence," in G. Gutting, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Foucault (1994)
  • "Merleau-Ponty, The Ethics of Ambiguity and the Dialectics of Virtue," in P. Burke & S. Ijsseling eds., Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Perspective (1993)
  • "The Critical Tribunal," Cordozo Law Review (1990)
  • "Heidegger, Rationality, and the Critique of Judgment," Review of Metaphysics (1988)
  • "Lyotard and the Adventures of the Narrative," Continental Philosophy (1988)
  • "Levinas, The Ethics of Deconstruction and the Remainder of the Sublime," Man and World (1988)

Books:

  • Reinterpreting the Political: Continental Philosophy and Political Theory (1998)
  • Tradition(s): Refiguring Community and Virtue in Classical German Thought (1997)
  • Phenomenology, Interpretation, and Community (1995)
  • co-editor, Transitions in Continental Philosophy (1993)
  • Readings on Interpretation, Rationality and the Closure of Modernism (1992)