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Curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

 Université de Paris-Nanterre, Doctorat de 3e Cycle, 1970. Thesis : “Wittgenstein, Heidegger et la pensée du langage.”
 University of Notre Dame, (Indiana) Ph.D., 1966. Thesis : “Logos and Eidos : A Study in the Phenomenological Meaning of ‘Concept’ According to Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.”
 University of Notre Dame, M.A., 1961.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, 1983-present.
 Acting Chair, Spring 2004.
 Fulbright Lecturer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 1991-92.
 Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Fall Semester, 1982.
 Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, 1978-82.
 Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, 1975-76.
 Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, 1973-83.
 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, 1970-73.
 Lecteur, U.E.R. d’Anglais, Université de Paris, 1969-70.
 Lecturer in Philosophy, St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba, Canada, 1963-66.
 Teaching Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 1961-63.

MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

 American Philosophical Association
 Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Co-Secretary, 1975-77)
 Local Organizer, 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Kentucky, October 1997 (400 participants).
 Husserl Circle
 Kentucky Philosophical Association
 Advisory Board Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
 Comité d’Honneur : Alter, Revue de phénoménologie.

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Grants and Awards :

 University of Kentucky Research Committee, travel grant for research in Freiburg, work on Volumes 3 and 4 of Die letzte phänomenologische Werkstatt Freiburg : Eugen Finks Mitarbeit bei Edmund Husserl, Manuskripte und Dokumente, to be published by Alber Verlag, May through June, 2003.
 University of Kentucky Research Committee, travel grant for research in Freiburg, work on Volumes 3 and 4 of Die letzte phänomenologische Werkstatt Freiburg : Eugen Finks Mitarbeit bei Edmund Husserl, Manuskripte und Dokumente, to be published by Alber Verlag, June, 2002.
 DAAD Short-Term Study Grant, editorial and archival work in Freiburg on Die letzte phänomenologische Werkstatt Freiburg (see the next entry), May-July, 2000.
 University of Kentucky Research Committee, travel grant for research in Freiburg, work on Volumes 3 and 4 of Die letzte phänomenologische Werkstatt Freiburg : Eugen Finks Mitarbeit bei Edmund Husserl, Manuskripte und Dokumente, to be published by Alber Verlag, May through July, 2000.
 Research Professorship, University of Kentucky, 1996-97. Japan-United States Educational Commission (Fulbright Program), Lecturing Award, Tohoku University, September 1991-July 1992.
 National Endowment for the Humanities, Interpretative Research/Project Grant. “A Historico-Critical Study of the Fink Collaboration in the Final Phase of Husserlian Phenomenology, 1928-1938,” Three semesters, 1988-89.
 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, for research at the Eugen-Fink-Archiv, Freiburg, and the Husserl-Archiv, Louvain, 1985-86.
 National Endowment for the Humanities, for research and translation work in Freiburg and Louvain, Eugen Fink, “6th Cartesian Meditation,” Spring semester 1983.
 Fritz Thyssen Foundation, for research and translation work in Freiburg and Louvain, Eugen Fink, “6th Cartesian Meditation,” Spring semester 1983.
 University of Kentucky Research Committee, travel grant for research in Freiburg and Louvain, Eugen Fink, “6th Cartesian Meditation,” Spring semester 1983.
 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, for research at the University of Koln, Husserl Archiv, 1977-78.
 University of Kentucky Research Foundation, grant to assist the translation of Marx, penseur de la technique, by Kostas Axelos (Paris : Minuit, 1961), 1974.
 University of Kentucky Research Foundation, summer travel grant for research, 1973.
 University of Kentucky Research Foundation, grant to assist the preparation of the translation of Marx, penseur de la technique, 1972.
 Bourse du Gouvernement Français, 1967-68, for research and study in Paris. Research Grant, Canada Council, 1966-67, for research and study in Paris.

A. Books

 1. Phänomenologische Werkstatt, Eugen-Fink-Gesamtausgabe an edition of the complete research notes and working drafts by Eugen Fink during his years as assistant with Husserl and through to the end of World War II, in 4 volumes, under way from Alber Verlag, Freiburg ; vol. 1 (Eugen Fink Gesamtausgabe [EFG] 3.1) was published in 2006 9431 pages), vol. 2 (EFG 3.2) is scheduled for 2008, with vols. 3-4 (EFG 3.3 and 3.4) to follow as they are finalized.
 2. Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink, 1928-1938:Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology, New Haven : Yale University Press ; 2004, 658 pages.
 3. Translation with introduction : Eugen Fink, Sixth Cartesian Meditation : The Idea of a Transcendental Theory of Method, with Textual Notations by Edmund Husserl, Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 1995. Selected as a Choice Outstanding Book for 1995.
 4. Coedited with Bruce Wilshire (Rutgers University), Phenomenology : Dialogues and Bridges (Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, 8), Albany : State University of New York Press, 1982.
 5. Coedited with Bruce Wilshire (Rutgers University), Crosscurrents in Phenomenology (Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, 7), The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff, 1978.
 6. Translation with critical introduction : Kostas Axelos, Marx, penseur de la technique, Paris : Minuit, 1961 - under the title : Alienation, Praxis, and Techne in the Thought of Karl Marx, University of Texas Press, 1976.
 7. Logos and Eidos : The Concept in Phenomenology, Janua Linguarum, Series Minor, 93, The Hague : Mouton and Co., 1970.

B. Articles in Books

 1. “Hermeneutics : Another Look, and Other Questions,” in Pol Vandervelde, ed. Issues in Interpretation Theory, Milwaukee : Marquette University Press, 2006. pp. 73-99.
 2. “Natur und Geist in der Phänomenologie des Lebens : Ein Denkweg durch Fink und Merelau-Ponty,” in Hans Rainer Sepp and Ichiro Yamaguchi, eds., Leben als Phänomen : Die Freiburger Phänomenologie im Ost-West-Dialog, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2006, pp. 129-40.
 3. “Hinter der ausgeschriebenen Finkschen Meditation : Meontik ¬– Pädagogik,” in Anselm Böhmer, ed., Eugen Fink : Sozialphilosophie - Anthropologie - Kosmologie - Pädagogik - Methodik. Zum 100. Geburtstag von Eugen Fink, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2006.
 4. “Die zweifache metaphysische Lücke im Kosmos : Eugen Fink und die philosophischen Hauptfragen einer Bildung,” in Annette Hilt und Cathrin Nielsen, eds., Bildung im technischen Zeitalter : Sein, Mensch und Welt nach Eugen Fink, Freiburg : Alber Verlag, 2005, pp. 266-89.
 5. “Leben in der Welt, Welt im Leben ? Thesen zwischen Landgrebe, Fink und Patočka,“ in Lebenswelten. Ludwig Landgrebe - Eugen Fink - Jan Patocka, Publikationen der Reihe der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Phänomenologie, Frankfurt : Peter Lang, 2003, pp. 29-43.
 6. “Construction in Phenomenology,” in The Reach of Reflection, ed. by Steven Crowell, Samuel J. Julian, and Lester Embree, Boca Ragon : CARP and Electronpress.com, 2001, pp. 46-71.
 7. “Eugen Fink and Maurice Merleau-Ponty : The Philosophical Lineage in Phenomenology,” in Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Husserl, edited by Lester Embree and Ted Toadvine, Contributions in Phenomenology, Dordrecht/Boston/London : Kluwer, 2002, pp. 173-200.
 8. “Ideas for Redoing the Phenomenology of Time in the Freiburg Workshop,” essay contributed (January, 2000) to a collection, Zeitanalysen, edited by Hans Rainer Sepp, for Alber Verlag, in preparation.
 9. “The Aporia of Time-analysis : Reflection Across the ¬Transcendental Divide,” in Japanese and American Phenomenology, ed. Marylou Sena and Burt Hopkins, Continuing Contributions to Phenomenology, Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 105-132.
 10. “Phénoménologie et critique chez Fink et Husserl,” in Eugen Fink, Actes du Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, 23-30 juillet 1994, ed. Natalie Depraz and Marc Richir, Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1997, pp. 89-111.
 11. “Die Auseinandersetzung Fink-Heidegger : Das Denken des letzten Ursprungs,” Perspektiven der Philosophie, Neues Jahrbuch, 1996, 22, 1996, pp. 29-57
 12. “Antworten und Fragen : Edmund Husserl und Eugen Fink in der Freiburger Zeit”, in Freiburger Phänomenologie, hrsg. Ernst Wolfgang Orth, Phänomenologische Forschungen Bd. 30, Freiburg/München : Alber, 1995, pp. 33-64.
 13. “Ideas for Raising the Question of the World Within Transcendental Phenomenology : Freiburg, 1930,” in Japanese and Western Phenomenology, ed. Philip Blosser, Eiichi Shimomisse, Lester Embree, and Hiroshi Kojima, Dordrecht : Kluwer, 1993, pp. 93-114.
 14. “Last Philosophy : Ideas for a Transcendental Phenomenological Metaphysics—Eugen Fink with Edmund Husserl, 1928-1938,” in Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy, ed. D.P. Chattopadhyaya, Lester Embree, and Jitendranath Mohanty, New Delhi : Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 1992, pp. 270-289.
 15. “Hinter der Ausgeschriebenen Finkschen Meditation : Meontik-Pädagogik,” in Grundfragen der Phänome¬nologischen Methode und Wissenschaft, ed. S. Fink, F. Graf, & F-A. Schwarz, Freiburg : Eugen-Fink-Archiv, 1990, pp. 5-40. (Original of b.3.)
 16. “Gegensätzlicher Einfluss-Integrierter Einfluss : Die Stellung Heideggers in der Entwicklung der Phänomenologie,” in Zu Philosophischer Aktualität Heideggers, ed. D. Papenfuss & Otto Pöggeler, Vol. 2, Frankfurt : Klostermann, 1990, pp. 142-160.
 17. “Architectura architecturans—World(s) in the Making,” in Lifeword and Technology, ed. Lester Embree and Timothy Casey, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology & University Press of America, 1990, pp. 201-220.
 18. ”Unterwegs zur Letzten Meditation,” in Eugen-Fink-Symposion 1985, Ed. Ferdinand Graf, Schriftenreihe der Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg (Freiburg : Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, 1987), pp. 70-90.
 19. ”The Problem of Language for Transcendental -Reflection in Husserl’s Phenomenology,” Phenomenology in a Pluralistic Context, ed. by William McBride and Calvin O. Schrag, (Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy 9), (Albany : SUNY Press, 1983), pp. 205-215 and 304-308.
 20. ”Art and Architecture, Ancient and Modern,” in Research in Philosophy and Technology, ed. Paul T. Durbin, Vol. 5, Greenwich : JAI Press, 1982, pp. 163-187.
 21. ”Comments on the Philosophy of Technology of Hans Jonas,” in Research in Philosophy and Technology, ed. Paul Durbin, Vol. 5, Greenwich, Conn : JAE Press, 1982, pp. 152-159.
 22. ”Via Negativa/Via Monstrativa : Thinking Through Language in the Investigations,” in Wittgenstein and His Impact on Contemporary Thought, Proceedings of the 2nd International Wittgenstein Symposium, 29 August- September 4, 1977, Kirchberg (Austria), Wien : Holder-Duchler-Temsky, 1978, pp. 287-89. (Abstract)
 23. ”Heidegger on the Metaphor and Philosophy,” in Heidegger and Modern Philosophy, Critical Essays, ed. Michael Murray, New Haven : Yale University Press, l978, pages l84-200.
 24. ”Eidos : Universality in the Image or in the Concept ?”, in Crosscurrents in Phenomenology, ed. Bruzina and Wilshire, pp. l44-165.
 25. ”Commentary on ‘Sounds, Words, Sentences’,” in Language and Language Disturbances, The 5th Lexington Conference on Pure and Applied Phenomenology, ed. Erwin W. Straus, Pittsburgh : Duquesne University Press, 1974, pp. 106-110.
 26. ”Merleau-Ponty and Husserl : The Idea of Sciences,” in The Horizons of the Flesh : Critical Perspectives on the Thought of Merleau-Ponty, ed. Garth Gillan, Carbondale : University of Southern Illinois Press, 1973, pp. 160-174, 194-195.

C. Articles in Journals and Yearbooks

 1. “Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, Moving beyond the Paradigm,” Review essay of Jean Petitot, Francisco J. Varela, Bernard Pachoud, Jean-Michel Roy, eds, Naturalizing Phenomenology, Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science (Stanford : Stanford University Press, 1999), in Husserl Studies, 20 (2004), 43-88.
 2. Translation of Jacques Derrida, “Phenomenology and the Closure of Metaphysics : Introduction to the Thought of Husserl (1966),” in The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 3 (2003), 103-120.
 3. “The Future Past and Present—and Not Yet Perfect—of Phenomenology,” in Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 30, 2000, pp. 40-53.
 4. “Redoing the Phenomenology of the World in the Freiburg Workshop, 1930-1934,” in Alter (Paris) No. 6 (1998), pp. 39-118.
 5. “Jan Patočka—Eugen Fink, Gesprächspartner im Denken über den Schein hinaus,” Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Vol. 1, 1998 (but appearing in 1999), pp. 110-124.
 6. “The Transcendental Theory of Method in Phenomenology ; the Meontic and Deconstruction,” in Husserl Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1997, pp. 75-94.
 7. “Method and Materiality in the Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity,” in Philosophy Today, 41, supplement 1997, “Remembrance and Responsibility, Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Vol. 23,” ed. Linda Martín Alcoff, Debra Bergoffen, and Merlold Westphal, pp. 127-133.
 8. “Language in Lifeworld Phenomenology : The `Origin of Geometry’ Was Not the Final Word !” in Philosophy Today, 40 (no. 1), spring 1996, “Phenomenology and Beyond, Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Vol. 21,” ed. John D. Caputo and Lenore Langsdorf, pp. 91-102.
 9. “Ningen no kitei to genshôgakuteki keijijôgaku,” Shisô, 7 (1994), pp. 95-110 (“The Determination of the Human, and Phenomenological Metaphysics”).
 10. “The Revision of the Bernau Time-Consciousness Manuscripts : New Ideas—Freiburg, 1930-1933,” Alter No. 2 (1994), pp. 367-395 (Paris).
 11. “The Revision of the Bernau Time-Consciousness Manuscripts : Status Quaestionis—Freiburg, 1928-1930,” Alter, No.1. (1993) 357-383.
 12. “La structure phénoménologique du monde, une révision,” Les Cahiers de Philosophie, 1992, No. 15/16, pp. 89-110 (actually published 1993).
 13. “Many Voices, One Phenomenon,” invited comment to Françoise Dastur, “Finitude and Repetition in Husserl and Derrida,” Spindel Conference 1993, “Derrida’s Interpretations of Husserl,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 32 Supplement 1994, pp. 131-139.
 14. “Sakai no genshôgakuteki kôzô—dainino mikata,” Shisaku, No. 25 (October), 1992, The Association of Philosophical Studies, Tohoku University. [Japanese translation of the immediately preceding.]
 15. “Different Words, Different Worlds : On Learning Another Language,” Tohoku Association for American Studies Newsletter No. 21, October, 1992.
 16. Comments on “On The Ordering of Things : Being and Power in Heidegger and Foucault,” by Hubert Dreyfus, in Heidegger and Praxis, Southern Journal of Philosophy, 28, Supplement (1989) 97-104.
 17. “Solitude and Community in the Work of Philosophy : Husserl and Fink, 1928-1938,” Man and World 22 (1989), pp. 287-314.
 18. “Die Notizen Eugen Finks zur Umarbeitung von Edmund Husserls Cartesiani¬schen Meditationen,” Husserl Studies 6 (1989), pp. 97-128.
 19. “The Enworlding of Transcendental Phenomenological Reflection : A Study of Eugen Fink’s Sixth Cartesian Meditation,” Husserl-Studies 3, 1986, pp, 3-29.
 20. “Dependence on Language and the Autonomy of Reason : An Husserlian Perspective,” in Man and World 14, 1981, pp. 355-368.
 21. “Toward a Philosophy of Technology : Reflections on Themes in the Work of Erwin Straus,” in Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Fall, 1976, pp. 78-94.
 22. “Heidegger on the Metaphor and Philosophy,” in Cultural Hermeneutics I, #3, November, 1973, pp. 305-324.

D. Encyclopedia entries

 1. “Experience,” “Intentionality,” “NeoKantianism,” “Eugen Fink,” entries commissioned and submitted for The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, in editorial progress from Edinburgh University press Ltd.
 2. “Eugen Fink,” entry commissioned and submitted for the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition, edited by Donald M. Borchert, announced for 2005 from Macmillan Reference USA.

E. Reviews

 1. Leonard Lawlor, Derrida and Husserl : The Basic Problem of Phenomenology, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2002, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 42 (2004), 234-35.
 2. Nader El-Bizri, the Phenomenological Quest between Avicenna and Heidegger, Binghamton : Global Pulications, 2000, in Trancendent Philosophy, 3 (no. 1, March 2002), pp. 95-104.
 3. Edmund Husserl, Briefwechsel, ed. Karl and Elisabeth Schuhmann, Husserliana Dokumente III/1-10, 10 V., Journal of the History of Philosophy, 34 (no. 1), January 1996, pp.154-156.
 4. Burt Hopkins, Intentionality in Husserl and Heidegger ; The Problem of the Original Method and Phenomenon of Phenomenology, Contributions to Phenomenology 11, Dordrecht : Kluwer, 1993, Husserl Studies, 12 (1995), pp. 227-234.
 5. Tom Rockmore, On Heidegger’s Nazism and Philosophy, Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992, Review of Metaphysics, June 1996, pp. 943-944.
 6. Drew Leder, The Absent Body (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990), in Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 11, 1991, pp. 334-336.
 7. Review article : Eugen Fink, VI. Cartesianische Meditation, Teil I : Die Idee einer Transzendentalen Methodenlehre, ed. Hans Ebeling, Jann Holl, and Guy van Kerckhoven, Teil II : Ergänzungsband, ed. Guy van Kerckhoven, Husserliana Dokumente II/1 and II/2, Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publications, 1988, in Research in Phenomenology, 20 (1990 ; published in 1991), pp. 167-184.
 8. John C. Sallis, Giuseppina Moneta & Jacques Taminiaux, The Collegium Phaenomenologicum ; The First Ten Years (Norwell, MA : M. Nijhoff, 1990) in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 9, 1989, 468-472.
 9. Robert S. Gall, Beyond Theism and Atheism : Heidegger’s Significance for Religious Thinking (Dordrecht : M. Nijhoff, 1987), in Philosophy of Religion 27, 1990, 185-186.
 10. Wesley, Trimpi, Muses of One Mind : The Literary Analysis of Experience and its Continuity, Princeton : Princeton Univ. Press, 1983, in Classical and Modern Literature 5, No. 2, 1985, pp. 113-117.