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J. Walters, Jr. Lecture Series in Political Thought
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Terry Walters, Michael Gillespie, and Amy Walters |
Dr.
Michael A. Gillespie
Duke University
“Where
Have all the Evils Gone?”
Location: Furman University, Watkins Room, University Center
April 11, 2006
Michael A.
Gillespie is the Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor
of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.
He is also Director of the Gerst Program in Political, Economic
and Humanistic Studies, which, as a result of a major NEH grant,
has recently been permanently endowed as The Center for American
Values and Institutions at Duke University. Professor Gillespie
received his A.B. from Harvard University and Ph.D. from the University
of Chicago. He also spent three years in Bochum, Germany as a Research
Fellow at Ruhr Universität-Hegel Archives.
Professor Gillespie
is the author of over 30 articles and book chapters dealing especially
with modern continental political philosophy. His articles have
appeared in the Journal of Politics, Political Theory, The History
of Political Philosophy, and Revue Internationale de Philosophie
(among others), and several have been translated into German. To
date, he has authored four books. His first, Hegel, Heidegger,
and the Ground of History, and his most recent, Nihilism
Before Nietzsche, were both published by the University of
Chicago Press (1984, 1995). He has also co-edited two editions of
political essays: Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy,
Aesthetics and Politics with Tracy B. Strong (University of
Chicago Press, 1988), and Ratifying the Constitution with
Michael Lienesch (University Press of Kansas, 1989). He is currently
revising the manuscript for his fifth book, The Theological
Origins of Modernity.
In addition
to giving numerous invited lectures, activity in a number of professional
organizations, and extensive participation in national and international
colloquia, Gillespie has served on the editorial boards of several
of the leading journals in Political Science, such as the American
Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Theory,
and Political Research Quarterly. He has been the
recipient of many grants and fellowships, including several from
both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Templeton
Foundation. Professor Gillespie won the American Political Science
Association's Leo Strauss Award for the best dissertation in Political
Theory in 1982, and in 2003 was admitted to the Bass Society of
Fellows at Duke University, an honor that is extended to faculty
members who are gifted teachers as well as scholars.
The Walters family and friends
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