Stephen Watson
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy
Education:
Ph.D., Duquesne
Areas of Interest:
Contemporary Continental Thought, 19th Century Philosophy, Aesthetics
Recent Articles
- “Hermeneutics and the Retrieval of the Sacred: Hegel’s Giotto (with an Eye Toward Mark Rothko’s),” The Review of Metaphysics, 72, June 2019
- “Paul Klee, ‘The Limits of Reason’ and the Music of Metaphysics”, Exhibition Catalogue, The Construction of Mystery, ed. Oliver Kase, Pinakotek der Moderne, Műnchen. Műnchen: Hirmer Verlag/ University of Chicago Press: 2018
- “Montaigne’s Of Cruelty and the Emergence of Hermeneutic and Intercultural Modernity: Three Rival Readings (Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Horkheimer,” The Journal of Chinese Philosophy (Special Supplement on Intercultural Hermeneutics), (2017).
- “On the Metamorphoses of Transcendental Reduction:” Merleau-Ponty and the Adventure of Constitutive Analysis”, in Essays in Honor of Jacques Taminiaux ed. Vernique Foti et al. (Berlin: Springer, 2017).
- “Van Gogh and the Absence of the Work: Remarks on a Hermeneutic Itinerary” in Van Gogh Among the Philosophers, ed. David Nichols (New York: Lexington, 2017)
Books
- Crescent Moon Over the Rational: Philosophical Interpretations of Paul Klee, 2009.
- In the Shadow of Phenomenology: Writings After Merleau-Ponty I, 2009.
- Phenomenology, Institution and History: Writings After Merleau-Ponty II, 2009.
- Ipseity and Alterity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Intersubjectivity, coed. 2004.
- Tradition(s): Refiguring Community and Virtue in Classical German Thought, 1997.
- Tradition(s) II: On Ethics, Hermeneutics and the Dispensation of the Good, 2001.
- Extensions: Essays on Interpretation, Rationality and the Closure of Modernism, 1992.