Dr. Gary Shapiro
Professor of Philosophy
Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities
216 North Court
Office: (804) 289-8693
Fax: (804) 287-6053
Teaching:
19th and 20th Century European Philosophy
Philosophy of Art
American Philosophy
Research:
Nietzsche
Foucault
Philosophy of Art
Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University
B.A., Columbia College
Selected Publications:
Books
Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying, University of Chicago Press, 2003, 438 pp., 29 illustrations
Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art After Babel, University of California Press, 1995; xiv + 271 pp.
Alcyone: Nietzsche on Gifts, Noise, and Women, State University of New York Press, 1991; xii + 158 pp.
Nietzschean Narratives, Indiana University Press, 1989; x + 179 pp.
Edited Works
After the Future: Postmodern Times and Places, State University of New York Press, 1990, 360 pp. (collection of original essays)
Hermeneutics: Questions and Prospects, co-editor (with Alan Sica) University of Massachusetts Press, 1984, 310 pp.; paperback edition, Fall 1988. (collection of original essays)
Guest editor, special issue of Clio on Hegel, Literature and the Arts, Fall 1982. (collection of original essays)
Forthcoming (completed and in press)
“Toward an Archaeology of Vision: Painting and Thinking in Foucault and Merleau-Ponty,” in Continental Philosophy 9 (Routledge, 2008?)
Articles and Book Chapters
“Assassins and Crusaders: Nietzsche After 9/11” Nietzsche at the Margins ed A.Hicks and A. Rosenberg (Purdue University Press, 2007)
“Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Religion,” in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, ed. Chad Meister (Routledge, 2007) pp. 170-180
“The Absent Image: Translation as Impossible and Necessary,” Journal of Visual Culture (April 2007) pp. 13-24 (lead article)
Response to review essay by Krzysztof Ziarek of Shapiro, Archaeologies of Vision, 15pp. Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature, (Volume 6, No. 1) online at http://www.brynmawr.edu/bmrcl.
“Nietzsche on Geophilosophy and Geoaesthetics,” in the Blackwell Companion to Nietzsche, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson (Blackwell, 2006), pp. 477-494.
“Territories, Landscapes, Gardens: Toward Geoaesthetics”; Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 9:2 (2004), pp. 103-115
“Modernity, Ego, Earth: Notes on Robert Gooding-Williams’s Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism,” in International Studies in Philosophy, vol 36:3, 2004. pp. 99-115
“Friends and Readers: On David Allison’s Reading the New Nietzsche,” in Symposium, Spring 2004, pp. 37-51
“Building, Timing, Thinking: Reversible Destiny After Hegel, Heidegger and Smithson” Interfaces 2003, 21/22, vol. 1, pp. 103-112
“Geometry, Gardens, Gender: Writing Aesthetics After Nietzsche,” New Nietzsche Studies, Winter 2003/Spring 2004, pp. 194-207 (response to symposium on Archaeologies of Vision and other writings)
“Dogs, Domestication, and the Ego,” and “The Halcyon Tone as Birdsong,” in Christa and Ralph Acampora, eds. A Nietzschean Bestiary (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), pp. 53-60 and 83-88
“Ariadne’s Thread: Walter Benjamin’s Hashish Passages,” in High Culture: Reflections on Addiction and Modernity, ed. Anna Alexander and Mark Roberts (State University of New York Press, 2003), pp. 59-74
“Hegel,” in Chris Murray, ed. Key Writers on Art : From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2003), pp. 160-167
“Shades and Shining: Thoughts on John Sallis’s Shades - of Painting at the Limit,” Continental Philosophy Review, March 2002, pp. 87-96
“Nietzsche’s Story of the Eye: Hyphenating the Augen-Blick,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Autumn 2001, pp. 17-35
“Mapping the Labyrinth,” New Nietzsche Studies, Winter 2000-01, pp. 143-154
“‘This is not a Christ’: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Archaeology of Vision,” in Alan Schrift, ed. Why Nietzsche Still? (University of California Press, 2000), pp. 79-98
“‘Give Me a Break!’ Emerson on Fruit and Flowers,” in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 1999, pp. 98-113
“Nietzsche and Visuality” in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford, 1998), vol.3, pp. 364-366
“French Aesthetics: Contemporary Painting Theory,” in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford, 1998), vol. 2, pp. 235-240
“The Metaphysics of Presents: The Debt to Emerson, Nietzsche’s Gift, Heidegger’s Values,” in Alan Schrift, ed. The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity (Routledge, 1997), pp. 274-291
“Pipe Dreams: Simulacrum and Eternal Recurrence in Foucault’s Ekphrasis of Magritte,” in Word and Image, Jan-March 1997, pp. 69-76
“Diasporas,” in Jacob Golomb, ed. Nietzsche and Jewish Culture (Routledge, 1997), pp. 244-262
“Übersehen: Nietzsche and Tragic Vision,” in Research in Phenomenology, 1995, pp. 27-44
“Jean-Luc Nancy and the Corpus of Philosophy,” in Juliet Flower MacCannell and Laura Zakarin, eds. Thinking Bodies (Stanford University Press, 1994), pp. 52-62
“Go Figure! Refiguring Disfiguring,” (Review essay of Mark Taylor’s Disfiguring”), Philosophy Today, Fall 1994, pp. 326-333
“L’abime de la vision,” Revue d'esthetique, 24/93, pp. 21-26
“Debts Due and Overdue: Beginnings of Philosophy in Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Anaximander,” in Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, Richard Schacht, ed. (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), pp. 358-375
“In the Shadows of Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Question of Vision,” in Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision, David Michael Levin, ed. (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 124-142
“Art and its Doubles: Danto, Foucault and their Simulacra,” in Mark Rollins, ed., Danto and his Critics (Blackwell’s, 1993), pp. 129-141
“Deaths of Art: David Carrier’s Metahistory of Artwriting,” in Leonardo, vol. 25, no. 2, 1992, pp. 189-195
“Subversion of System/Systems of Subversion,” (on Hegel), in Writing the Politics of Difference, Hugh J. Silverman, editor (State University of New York Press, 1991), pp. 1-12
“Nietzsche and the Future of the University,” in Journal of Nietzsche Studies , vol. 1, no. 1, 1990, pp. 15-28
“Translating, Repeating, Naming: Foucault, Derrida and the Genealogy of Morals,” in Nietzsche and Postmodernism, edited by Clayton Koelb (State University of New York Press, 1990) pp. 39-55.
“To Philosophize is to Learn to Die,” in Signs in Culture: Roland Barthes Today, edited by Steven Ungar and Betty McGraw, University of Iowa Press, 1989, pp. 3-31.
“High Art, Folk Art and Other Social Distinctions,” in The Folk, edited by Robert Smith and Jerry Stannard (University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology, no. 17, 1989), pp. 73-90.
“Entropy and Dialectic: The Signatures of Robert Smithson,” Arts Magazine, Summer 1988, pp. 99-104.
“What was Literary History?” Social Epistemology, 1988, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 3-19.
“Canons, Careers and Campfollowers: John Herman Randall and the Historiography of Philosophy,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Winter 1987, pp. 31-43.
“On Economies of Interpretation: Reading Nietzsche,” Discorsi: ricerche di storia della filosofia, 1986: 2, pp. 249-265.
“An Ancient Quarrel in Hegel’s Phenomenology,” The Owl of Minerva, Spring 1986, pp. 165-180.
“Gadamer, Habermas, and the Death of Art,” The British Journal of Aesthetics, Winter 1986, pp. 39-47.
“British Hermeneutics and the Genesis of Empiricism,” in Phenomenological Inquiry, October 1985, pp. 29-44.
“The Man of Letters and the Author of Nature: Hume on Philosophical Discourse,” in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 1985 (26:2), pp. 115-137.
“From the Sublime to the Political,” in New Literary History, 1985 (XVI:2), pp. 213-235.
“Nietzschean Aphorism as Art and Act.” in Man and World, (now Continental Philosophy Review) 17: 3-4 (1984), pp. 399-429 and in Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (Nijhoff, 1985), pp. 159-190.
“Peirce and Derrida on First and Last Things,” in University of Dayton Review, Spring 1984 (Hermeneutics issue), pp. 33-38.
“Nietzsche on Envy,” in International Studies in Philosophy, 1983 (Nietzsche issue), pp. 3-12.
“Some Genres of Post-Hegelian Philosophy,” Metaphilosophy, July-October, 1982, pp. 269-276.
“Nietzsche Contra Renan,” History and Theory, 1982, 2, pp. 193-222.
“Hegel and Peirce on Absolute Meaning,” Proceedings of the International C. S. Peirce Conference, Texas Tech University, 1981, pp. 259-263.
“Styling Nietzsche,” (a review essay of Jacques Derrida, Eperons/Spurs) Man and World, 1981, pp. 428-437.
“Nietzsche's Graffito: A Reading of the Antichrist” Boundary 2, Spring/Fall 1981 (Nietzsche issue), pp. 119-140 and in Why Nietzsche Now? Daniel O'Hara, editor (Indiana, 1984), pp. 19-140.
“Peirce’s Critique of Hegel’s Phenomenology and Dialectic,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Summer 1981, pp. 269-275.
“Reading and Writing in the Text of Hobbes’s Leviathan,” The Journal of the History of Philosophy, April 1980, pp. 147-157.
“The Rhetoric of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra,” in Philosophical Style, edited by Berel Lang (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1980), pp. 347-385, and in Boundary 2, Winter 1980.
“Notes on the Animal Kingdom of the Spirit,” Clio, Spring 1979, pp. 323-338.
“The Owl of Minerva and the Colors of the Night,” Philosophy and Literature, Fall 1977, pp. 276-294.
“Hegel’s Dialectic of Artistic Meaning,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Fall 1976, pp. 23-35.
“Hegel on the Meanings of Poetry,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, Spring 1975, pp. 88-107; published also in Art and Logic in Hegel's Philosophy, edited by W. Steinkraus and K. Schmitz, Humanities Press, 1980, pp. 35-54.
“Intention and Interpretation in Art: A Semiotic Analysis,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Fall 1974, pp. 33-42.
“Choice and Universality in Sartre’s Ethics,” Man and World (now Continetal Philosophy Review), February 1974, pp. 20-36.
“Habit and Meaning in Peirce’s Pragmatism,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Winter 1973, pp. 24-40.
Academic and Professional Activities:
At least 100 conference presentations and papers including invited main program symposia at Eastern, Central, and Pacific Divisions of the American Philosophical Association and invited plenary sessions at other national and international conferences, including American Society for Aesthetics, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, International Association for Philosophy and Literature. My writings have been the subject of two symposia at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP: the major US professional organization in continental philosophy) and of one at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL: the major international Anglophone professional organization for this disciplinary conjunction).
Invited talks at colleges, universities, museums, and cultural centers, including Vassar College, Pennsylvania State University, University of Chicago, Williams College, Northwestern University, DePaul University, Warwick University, State University of Rio de Janeiro, University of California-Santa Cruz, State University of New York-Stony Brook, University of North Carolina, University of Kansas, Wesleyan University, Bennington College, Guggenheim Museum, California College of the Arts
Fellowships and Appointments:
1976-77 - Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Criticism and Theory, University of California at Irvine
1977 - Participant NEH summer seminar in aesthetics, “The Concept of Style,” University of Colorado
1978-79 - Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies
1985 - Senior Research Fellow, Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities (Fall 1985)
1988 - American Council of Learned Societies International Travel Grant
1988 - Faculty, Collegium Phenomeologicum (Perugia, Italy), summer 1988, topic “Nietzsche in Retrospect and Prospect”
1993-94 - Fellow, National Humanities Center
2000-01 - Dedalus Foundation Fellowship
2000-01 - Research Fellow, Clark Art Institute
2000-01 - Faculty, Collegium Phenomenologicum, “Art, Earth, and the Body”
2000-01 - Visiting Professor, State University of Rio de Janeiro, “Philosophical Phantasms: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Archaeology of Vision”
2001 - Resident fellow (one month), Rockefeller Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy