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Richard Velkley, Ph.D.


Velkley

Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 1978


Celia Scott Weatherhead Professor of Philosophy


Department of Philosophy


Email: rvelkley@tulane.edu

Office: 109 Newcomb Hall

Phone: (504) 862-3391

Office Hours: M/W 2:30-3:45


Academic Interests:


  • European philosophy since Kant
  • Political philosophy
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of art and culture


Books:


  • Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 1989).
  • Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question (University of Chicago Press, 2002).


Books edited:


  • The Unity of Reason: Essays on Kant's Philosophy by Dieter Henrich (Harvard University Press, 1994).
  • Freedom and the Human Person. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, vol. 48 (Catholic University of America Press, 2007).


Selected Articles:


  • "Freedom from the Good: Heidegger's Idealist Grounding of Politics," Logos and Eros: Essays Honoring Stanley Rosen, ed. N. Ranasingh (St. Augustine's Press, 2006), 243-59.
  • "Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Of the Social Contract (1762): Transforming Natural Man into Citizen," The Classics of Western Philosophy: A Reader's Guide, eds. Gracia, Reichberg and Schumacher (Blackwell, 2003), 316-25.
  • "On Possessed Individualism: Hegel, Socrates' Daimon and the Modern State," Review of Metaphysics, vol. 59, 3 (2006), 577-99.
  • "On Possibility in Concepts: A Note on the Metaphysical Problem in Kant," Kant und die Berliner Aufklaerung. Akten des IX. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses (W. de Gruyter, 2001), 506-11.




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