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Gregory Schufreider
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D.: University of California, Santa Barbara, 1975
Phone: 225-578-2275
Email: gschufr@lsu.edu
Office: 116 Coates
Biography
Greg Schufreider received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1975. He has been a member of the philosophy faculty at 海角社区 since 1979. In 1995 he founded the 海角社区 Program for the Study of the Audiovisual Arts and directed it until 2004. Since then he has served as the Director of Graduate Studies for philosophy. Dr. Schufreider served the Department as Chair from 2016 until 2021.
Areas of Interest
Professor Schufreider鈥檚 areas of special interest include the history of philosophy, recent continental philosophy (especially Heidegger), and the philosophy of art (including audiovisual arts and the philosophy of film). His research has centered especially on Heidegger, and he is at work on a two-volume study of Heidegger and Mondrian.
Courses Offered:
- PHIL 3001 Existentialism
- PHIL 3002 Philosophy and Film
- PHIL 4948 Phenomenology
- PHIL 4936 19th Century Philosophy
Selected Publications
Books
- Confessions of a Rational Mystic: Anselm's Early Writings. Purdue University Series in the History of Philosophy. Purdue University Press, 1994. 408 pages.
- An Introduction to Anselm's Argument. Philosophical Monographs. Temple University Press, 1978. xvii + 113 pages.
Articles
- 鈥淚conoclastic Images.鈥� The Yearbook for Comparative Literature, forthcoming.
- 鈥淭he Art of Truth.鈥� Research in Phenomenology 40 (Fall 2010): 331-64.
- 鈥淗eidegger's Hole: The Space of Thinking.鈥� Research in Phenomenology 31 (2001): 203-29.
- 鈥淢ondrian's Opening: The Space of Painting.鈥� Invited lecture delivered in the Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University, April 1997. Published on the website for the 鈥淎fter Postmodenism Conference鈥�:
- 鈥淭he Onto-Theo-Logical Nature of Anselm's Metaphysics." Philosophy Today 40.4/4 (Winter 1996): 449-63.
- 鈥淎 Classical Misunderstanding of Anselm's Argument.鈥� American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1992): 489-99.
- 鈥淗eidegger's Contribution to a Phenomenology of Culture.鈥� The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 17.2 (1986): 166 83.
- 鈥淥verpowering the Center: Three Compositions by Mondrian.鈥� The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism44.1 (1985): 13 28.
- 鈥淭he Logic of the Absurd.鈥� Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44.1 (1983): 61 83.
- 鈥淩eunderstanding Anselm's Argument.鈥� The New Scholasticism 57.3 (1983): 384 409.
- 鈥淜ierkegaard on Belief Without Justification.鈥� International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12.3 (1981): 149 64.
- 鈥淗eidegger on Community.鈥� Man and World 14.1 (1981): 25 54.
- 鈥淲hat is it for God to Exist?鈥� The New Scholasticism 55.1 (1981): 77 94.
- 鈥淎rt and the Problem of Truth.鈥� Man and World 13.1 (1980): 57 84.
- 鈥淭he Metaphysician as Poet Magician.鈥� Metaphilosophy 10.3-4 (1979): 265 88.
- 鈥淭he Identity of Anselm's Argument.鈥� The Modern Schoolman 54.4 (1977): 345 61.
Essays
- 鈥淪ticking Heidegger with a Stela: Lacoue-Labarthe, Politics, and Art.鈥� Pages 187-214 in French Receptions of Heidegger. SUNY Press, 2008.
- 鈥淩e:Thinking Facticity.鈥� Pages 345-74 in Rethinking Facticity. SUNY Press, 2008.
Other
- 鈥淭he Art of Dying.鈥� In Yoshinobu, catalogue for a show at the Approdi Cultural Arts Center, Rome, Italy. May, 1999.
- 鈥淭he Electric Chair.鈥� In Leofreddi: Human Being 1999, catalogue for a show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington D.C. April, 1999.