Dr. Gary Shapiro

Nietzsche’s Earth: Great Events, Great Politics, University of Chicago Press, September 2016

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.

After the Future: Postmodern Times and Places, State University of New York Press, 1990, 360 pp. (Collection of original essays)

Nietzschean Narratives, Indiana University Press, 1989; x + 179 pp.

Hermeneutics: Questions and Prospects, co-editor (with Alan Sica) University of Massachusetts Press, 1984, 310 pp.; paperback edition, Fall 1988 (Collection of original essays)

"Earth Art in the Great Acceleration: Times/Counter-Times, Monuments/Counter-Monuments," Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 38:1, 2024, pp, 47-61

“Public Art: Monuments, Memorials, Earthworks” in A Companion to Arthur Danto, ed. Lydia Goehr and Jonathan Gilmore (Blackwell, 2022)

“George Quasha’s Words of Wonder,” in Zero Point Poiesis: George Quasha;s Axial Art, ed. Burt Kiimmelman (Aporeia, 2022)

“’Who Shall be Lord of the Earth?’: Nietzsche, Schmitt, and Thinking ‘Beyond the Line’” in Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2021

“Times of the Multitude and the Antichrist,” in European/Supra-European: Cultural Encounters in Nietzsche’s Philosophy, ed. Michael McNeal et. al. (de Gruyter, 2020)

"Reading Dostoevsky in Turin: The Antichrist's Accelerationism," in Nietzsche and the Antichrist: Religion, Politics, and Culture in Late Modernity, Daniel Conway, ed. (Bloomsbury, 2019)

“Nietzsche and Anaximander: The Innocence of Becoming, or Life Without a Mortgage," in Mark Conard, ed. Nietzsche and the Philosophers (Routledge, 2017)

"Beasts, Sovereigns, Pirates: Melville's 'Enchanted Isles' Beyond the Picturesque," in Melville Among the Philosophers, Corey McCall and Tom Nurmi, eds. (Lexington, 2017) 

"World, Earth, Globe: Geophilosophy in Hegel, Nietzsche, and Rosenzweig," iyyun, 2015

“States and Nomads: Hegel’s World and Nietzsche’s Earth,” in Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life, ed. Vanessa Lemm (Fordham, 2014)

“The End of the World and Other Times in ‘The Future,’” in Leonard Cohen and Philosophy, ed. Jason Holt (Open Court, 2014)

“Kairosand chronos in the Time of the Multitude: Nietzsche and the Time of the Political,” in Nietzsche’s Political Thought, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson (Continuum, 2013)

"Earth's Garden Happiness: Nietzsche's Geoaesthetics of the Anthropocene," Nietzsche-Studien, 2013

“Speaking a Word for Nature: Thoreau’s Philosophical Saunter,” in Ethics, Art, and Representations of the Holocaust (Festschrift for Berel Lang), ed. Carol Gould et. al. (Lexington, 2013)

“Then and Now, Here and There: On the Grounds of Aesthetics,” in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2012 

“Reading on the Edge of Oblivion: Virgil and Virgule in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron” in Literary Studies and the Practice of Reading, Festschrift for Clayton Koelb, ed. Eric Downing et. al. (Camden, 2012)

“Then and Now, Here and There: On the Grounds of Aesthetics,” in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2012 

“The Absent Image: Translation as Impossible and Necessary,” Journal of Visual Culture (April 2007) pp. 13-24 (lead article)

“Territories, Landscapes, Gardens: Toward Geoaesthetics,” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 9:2 (2004), pp. 103-115

“‘Give Me a Break!’ Emerson on Fruit and Flowers,” in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 1999, pp. 98-113 

"Pipe Dreams: Eternal Recurrence and Simulacrum in Foucault's Ekphrasis of Magritte." Word & Image 13, no. 1 (January 1997)

“Diasporas,” in Jacob Golomb, ed. Nietzsche and Jewish Culture (Routledge, 1997) 

“Jean-Luc Nancy and the Corpus of Philosophy,” in Juliet Flower MacCannell and Laura Zakarin, eds. Thinking Bodies (Stanford University Press, 1994) 

“Go Figure! Refiguring Disfiguring,” (Review essay of Mark Taylor’s Disfiguring”), Philosophy Today, Fall 1994

“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)

“Art and its Doubles: Danto, Foucault and their Simulacra,” in Mark Rollins, ed., Danto and his Critics (Blackwell’s, 1993)

“L’abime de la vision,” Revue d'esthetique, 24/93

“Deaths of Art: David Carrier’s Metahistory of Artwriting,” in Leonardo, vol. 25, no. 2, 1992 

“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) 

“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

“Entropy and Dialectic: The Signatures of Robert Smithson,” Arts Magazine, Summer 1988

“What was Literary History?” Social Epistemology, 1988, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 3-19 

“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 

“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 Contra Renan,” History and Theory, 1982, 2, pp. 193-222

“Reading and Writing in the Text of Hobbes’s Leviathan,” The Journal of the History of Philosophy, April 1980, pp. 147-157

“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

“The Owl of Minerva and the Colors of the Night,” Philosophy and Literature, Fall 1977, pp. 276-294

“Notes on the Animal Kingdom of the Spirit,” Clio, Spring 1979, pp. 323-338.

“Hegel’s Dialectic of Artistic Meaning,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Fall 1976, pp. 23-35

"Reading Dostoevsky in Turin: The Antichrist's Accelerationism," in Nietzsche and the Antichrist: Religion, Politics, and Culture in Late Modernity, Daniel Conway, ed. (Bloomsbury, 2019)

"Beasts, Sovereigns, Pirates: Melville's 'Enchanted Isles' Beyond the Picturesque," in Melville Among the Philosophers, Corey McCall and Tom Nurmi, eds. (Lexington, 2017)

“Casey Comes to the Edge: Borders, Boundaries, Diagrams, Arts, Islands,” in A. Cruz-Pierre and D. Landes, eds. Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey (Bloomsbury, 2013)

"Nietzsche and Anaximander: The Innocence of Becoming, or Life Without a Mortgage," in Mark Conard, ed. Nietzsche and the Philosophers (Routledge, 2017)

 “States and Nomads: Hegel’s World and Nietzsche’s Earth,” in Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life, ed. Vanessa Lemm (Fordham, 2014)

“The End of the World and Other Times in ‘The Future,’” in Leonard Cohen and Philosophy, ed. Jason Holt (Open Court, 2014)

“Kairos and chronos in the Time of the Multitude: Nietzsche and the Time of the Political,” in Nietzsche’s Political Thought, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson (Continuum, 2013)

“Speaking a Word for Nature: Thoreau’s Philosophical Saunter,” in Ethics, Art, and Representations of the Holocaust (Festschrift for Berel Lang), ed. Carol Gould et. al. (Lexington, 2013)

“Reading on the Edge of Oblivion: Virgil and Virgule in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron” in Literary Studies and the Practice of Reading, Festschrift for Clayton Koelb, ed. Eric Downing et. al. (Camden, 2012)

“Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art 1840-1900,” in History of Continental Philosophy II, ed. Daniel Conway (Acumen, 2010)

“The Philosophy of Central Park: The Pragmatic Picturesque,” in Gardening: Philosophy for Everyone, ed. Dan O’Brien (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)

“Assassins and Crusaders: Nietzsche After 9/11” Nietzsche at the Margins ed A. Hicks and A. Rosenberg (Purdue University Press, 2007), pp. 186-204

“Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Religion,” in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, ed. Chad Meister (Routledge, 2007), pp. 170-180

“Nietzsche on Geophilosophy and Geoaesthetics,” in the Blackwell Companion to Nietzsche, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson (Blackwell, 2006), pp. 477-494

“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

“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

“Diasporas,” in Jacob Golomb, ed. Nietzsche and Jewish Culture (Routledge, 1997), pp. 244-262

“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

“Art and its Doubles: Danto, Foucault and their Simulacra,” in Mark Rollins, ed., Danto and his Critics (Blackwell’s, 1993), pp. 129-141

“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

“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