"HUGH J. SILVERMAN: Curriculum Vitae & Publications"

 

UNIVERSITY TEACHING

Hugh J. Silverman

 

 

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

TAUGHT AT STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY

 
 

Stony Brook University [since 1974]

[F= Fall Semester; S= Spring Semester; X= Summer Term]

 

PHILOSOPHY

  • PHI 100 Concepts of the Person    (S94, S00)

    PHI 103 Intro to Philosophy & the Humanities    (S85)

    PHI 109/ HUM 109 Philosophy & Literature in Social Context    (S97, F99, S03, F03)

    PHI 110 Literature and Artistic Creation (F92); Arts and Ideas (F05)

    PHI 209 Contemporary Philosophy       (S77, S83)

    PHI 264 Philosophy and the Arts       (F83, F85, F87, F91, S95)

    PHI 273 Literature and Philosophy     (S75, F80)

    PHI 292 The Philosophy of J-P Sartre    (S75, S76, S79)

    PHI 312 Derrida & Friends  (S97); Derrida Un-Limited (S06)

    PHI 320, 370 Philosophical Psychology     (F75, F76, F77)

    PHI 347 Hermeneutics and Deconstruction     (S93, F94, S02, F04)

    PHI 380 Literature and Philosophy     (S85)

    PHI 381 Aesthetics [also CLT 362: Aesthetics & Literature] (S90, F93, F96, S99)

    PHI 392 The Philosophy of J-P Sartre    (S81)

    PHI 420 Contemporary French Thought     (S84)

    PHI 421 Research Track Seminar in Philosophy and Literature     (F99)

    PHI 435 Senior Seminar: Philosophical Autobiography     (F82, F84)

    PHI 435 Senior Seminar: Philosophical Difference     (F90)

    PHI 435 Senior Seminar: Contemporary Continental Philosophy and its Differences     (F95)

    PHI 487/488/490 Readings and Research: Research Track in Philosophy and Literature     (S97-S00)

  • [PROGRAM DIRECTOR: Research Track in Philosophy and Literature     (1997-2000)]

 

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

  • CLT/PHI 109 Literature and Human Life     (F76, S84, F88)

  • CLT/PHI 109 The Scope and Limits of Autobiography    (F78, F79, F80)

  • CLT/PHI 110 Creating Utopias     (S78)

  • CLT 110 Quest for the Self     (F74, X75, X76)

  • CLT 110 Good and Evil     (F75)

  • CLT 111 The Artist's Consciousness     (S75, S76)

  • CLT 301 Theory of Literature     (F92, S94, S96, S99, F01, F02)

  • CLT 334 The Philosophical Essay     (F91)

  • CLT 362 Introduction to Structuralism     (F77)

  • CLT 362/ PHI 312 Contemporary European Philosophy & Criticism     (S83, S89, S91)

  • CSL 363 Modern/Postmodern Theory in the Arts     (S95, S97)

INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSES

  • COR 101, 102 Art, Literature, and Philosophy in Historical Perspective  (F86, S87)

 

GRADUATE SEMINARS

TAUGHT AT STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY

Stony Brook University [since 1974]

[F= Fall Semester; S= Spring Semester; X= Summer Term]

Master's Courses 

(SUNY/Stony Brook) [since 1974]

   PHILOSOPHY

  • PHI 527 The Philosophy of Sartre     (S78)

  • CEI 500 Foundations of the Humanities     (S86)

Doctoral Seminars

(Stony Brook University) [since 1974]

PHILOSOPHY

  • PHI 505 Aesthetics and Rhetoric     (F78)

  • PHI 505 Hermeneutics and Deconstruction     (S83)

  • PHI 610 Philosophy-Literature Interface     (F74)

  • PHI 610 Methodology in the Humanities     (F75)

  • PHI 610/ ARH546: Artists and Theorists on Art [with D. Kuspit]  (F02)

  • PHI 612 University Seminar on Structuralism - I     (F76)

  • PHI 612 University Seminar on Structuralism - II     (S77)

  • PHI 612 University Seminar on Post-Structuralism     (F77)

  • PHI 612 The Structuralism of C. Lévi-Strauss     (F79)

  • PHI 612 Literary Theory and Criticism since 1960     (S85)

  • PHI 621.31 Sartre: Saint Genet     (S75)

  • PHI 621.31 Sartre: Being and Nothingness     (S76)

  • PHI 621.31 Sartre: Critique of Dialectical Reason     (S78)

  • PHI 621.31 Semiotics: Umberto Eco     (F83, S84)

  • PHI 621.31 Deleuze: Anti-Oedipus /Thousand Plateaus     (F84, S85, F88)

  • PHI 621.31 Semiotics: Benveniste/ Eco/ Metz     (F85)

  • PHI 621.31 Gadamer: Truth and Method     (S91)

  • PHI 621.31 /ARH 546  Theory of the Avant-Garde [with D. Kuspit]     (F91)

  • PHI 644 The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty     (S96)

  • PHI 644 Postmodern Aesthetic Theory     (F97)

  • PHI 644 Aesthetic Theory     (F01)

  • PHI 643 Philosophies of Derrida     (F99)
  • CLT 501 Modern Trends in Literary Theory     (S79, S81, S87, S89)
  • CLT 504 Studies in Genre: Autobiography     (F82)
  • CLT 508 Literary Theory and Criticism (1917-60)     (F84)
  • CLT 601 Literary Theory: Derrida & Kristeva     (F85)
  • CLT 601/PHI 637 Aesthetics and Postmodernity     (S90)
  • CLT 601/ARH 546 Philosophy and Modern Art [with D. Kuspit]     (F90)
  • CLT 601/PHI 661 Deconstruction and Postmodern Theory     (S92)
  • CLT 601 Theory of Textual and Discursive Practices: Foucault/Derrida/ Eco     (S93)
  • CLT 601 Theory of Textuality     (F94)
  • CLT 601 Deconstruction and Criticism     (F04)
  • CLT 602 Text, Discourse and Language     (F83 , F86, F88)
  • CLT 602 Criticism & Theory in Contemporary Continental Thought     (F87)
  • CLT 602/ ARH 550 Art and Theory: Postmodern/Modern/Traditional [w/ D. Kuspit]     (F93)
  • CLT 602 Postmodern Theory and Practice     (F95, S02)
  • CLT 602 Derrida Interdisciplinary     (F96)
  • CLT 602 Postmodernisms     (S00, F03, F05)
 

 

SEMINARS & COURSES TAUGHT AT OTHER UNIVERSITIES
Includes (since 1978) Duquesne University (USA), New York University (USA), University of Warwick (UK), University of Leeds (UK), University of Turin (ITALY), University of Vienna (AUSTRIA), University of Nice (FRANCE), University of Helsinki (FINLAND), University of Rome- Tor Vergata (ITALY), University of Trondheim (NORWAY), University of Klagenfurt (AUSTRIA), University of Tampere (FINLAND), University of Tasmania (AUSTRALIA)]

[F= Fall Semester;  S= Spring Semester;  X= Summer Term]

 

"Sartre/Barthes/Foucault" Duquesne University, USA X78

"Philosophical Horizons of Comparative Literature"

 New York University, USA S79
"Recent Continental Philosophy" University of Warwick, ENGLAND S80
"Philosophy-Literature: Textual Studies University of Warwick, ENGLAND S80
"The Modern Philosophical Essay" New York University, USA F79, F80, S86
"Modern Continental Philosophy" University of Leeds, ENGLAND S88
"Eighteenth Century History of Ideas University of Leeds, ENGLAND S88
"Art and Truth" Università di Torino, ITALY W89
"Ästhetische Theorie und Postmodernes Denken" Universität Wien, AUSTRIA X93
"Dekonstruktion als Philosophie"[in German] Universität Wien, AUSTRIA X93
"Derrida lecteur de Husserl" [in French] Université de Nice, FRANCE W94
"Hermeneutik und Dekonstruktion: Probleme der Text und Bild Interpretation" [in German] Universität Wien, AUSTRIA X96
"Postmodern Textuality" University of Helsinki, FINLAND W97

"Postmoderne Ästhetik" [in German]

 Universität Wien, AUSTRIA X97

"Dekonstruktion und Ästhetik: Die Wahrheit in der Malerei" [in German]

 Universität Wien, AUSTRIA X97

"Deconstruction and Aesthetics"

 University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA X98
"Postmodern Textuality" University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA X98
"The Return of Postmodernism" University of Helsinki, FINLAND W99
"Dekonstruktion und Kulturtheorie" [in German] Universität Wien, AUSTRIA X00
"Derrida/Vattimo" [in German] Universität Wien, AUSTRIA X00
"Dekonstruktion Interdisziplinär" [in German] Universität Wien, AUSTRIA S01
"The Aesthetics of Deconstruction" [in English & Italian] Università di Roma II (Tor Vergata), ITALY S01
"Ethik der Beziehung: Freundschaft und Fremdheit" [in German] Universität Wien, AUSTRIA S 01
"The Philosophy of Postmodern Practices" University College, Cork, IRELAND W02
"The Powers of the Postmodern" University of Trondheim, NORWAY S02
"Postmoderne Ethik" [in German] IFF, Universität Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA X 03
“The Time of the Postmodern” University of Tampere , Tampere , FINLAND W04
“The Time of the Postmodern” University of Tasmania, Hobart, AUSTRALIA X04
"Postmoderne Ethik" [in German] IFF, Universität Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA X 05

 

DOCTORAL / Ph.D. DISSERTATIONS
Doctoral Thesis Director / Supervisor
1.
  • James Bernauer
1981 The Thinking of History in the Archeology of Michel Foucault Philosophy SUNY/Stony Brook
2.
  • Richard E. Hart
1983 Theories of Literature: A Comparative Metaphysical Study Philosophy SUNY/Stony Brook
3.
  • Bronia Karst
 1984 Theory of the Other in Sartre and Gombrowicz Comparative Literature SUNY/Stony Brook
4.
  • Dorothea Olkowski
1985 Art and the Orientation of Thought Philosophy Duquesne University
5.
  • Gary E. Aylesworth
1986

From Grounds to Play: A Comparative Analysis of Wittgenstein and Heidegger

 Philosophy SUNY/Stony Brook
6.
  • Maria Colavito
 1988 Pythagorean Philosophy in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Comparative Literature SUNY/Stony Brook
7.
  • Leonard Lawlor
 1988
  • Event and Iterability: The Confrontation between Ricoeur and Derrida
    		•  Philosophy SUNY/Stony Brook
    8.
    • James Barry Jr.
    		1988 The Obscure Authority of Appearance in the Perceptual Legacies of Early Modern Science Philosophy SUNY/Stony Brook
    9.
    • David Seelow
    		1990 Radical Modernism and Sexuality: A Study of Freud, Reich, and D. H. Lawrence Comparative Literature SUNY/Stony Brook
    10.
    • Ciro Sandoval
    		1991 Poetic and Dystopic Visions of Technological Society: The Essays of Aldous Huxley, Michel Serres, and Eduardo Caballero Calderón Comparative Literature SUNY/Stony Brook
    11.
    • Michael B. Naas
    		1991 Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy Philosophy SUNY/Stony Brook
    12.
    • Kyung Jay Lee
    		1991 Difference and Nothingness Comparative Literature SUNY/Stony Brook
    13.
    • Mao Chen
    		 1992 Hermeneutics and the Implied May Fourth Reader Comparative Literature SUNY/Stony Brook
    14.
    • Thomas P. Brockelman
    		1992 Rethinking Modernity through Modernism: A Psychoanalytic and Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Art and Architecture

    Philosophy

    (co-director)

    		 SUNY/Stony Brook
    15.
    • William D. Melaney
    		 1993 Deconstruction and the Poetic Text Comparative Literature SUNY/Stony Brook
    16.
    • Ana Moran
    		 1996 Medieval Amatory Discourses Comparative Literature SUNY/Stony Brook
    17.
    • Luca Somigli
    		1996 Towards a Theory of the Avant-Garde Manifesto Comparative Literature SUNY/Stony Brook
    18.
    • Yi-Chun (Tricia) Lin
    		1997 Translating Cultures and Re-Writing Boundaries: Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Comparative Literature SUNY/Stony Brook
    19.
    • Jin Young Park
    		1998 Postmodern Framing: Buddhism and Deconstruction Comparative Literature SUNY/Stony Brook
    20.  
    • Robert Kent Bunch
         		 1998 What is a Theory? A Systematic Inquiry into the Nature of Theories and How They Can Be Analyzed, Evaluated, and Compared Philosophy SUNY/Stony Brook
    21.
    • William Marderness
    		 2001 How to Read a Myth–The Case of Mythic Homeland Narratives Comparative Literature SUNY/ Stony Brook
    22.
    • Michael Sanders
    		2005 The Ethical Instant : Continuity, Corporeity, and the Ground of Ethics Philosophy Stony Brook University

     

    Stony Brook Doctoral Dissertation Committee Member

     

    Allen S. Weiss 1980 The Relation Between Ontology and Semiology in the Later Writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty Philosophy
    Richard White 1986 Nietzsche and Kant in the Tradition of Autonomy Philosophy
    Mark Roberts 1987 Jean-Francois Lyotard: Toward a Libidinal Aesthetics Philosophy
    Tina Chanter 1987 From Time to Time: Levinas to Heidegger Philosophy
    David Fortunoff 1987 Aeschylus, Euripides and Plato: From the 'Death' of Tragedy to the 'Birth' of the Lebensphilosophie" Philosophy
    Edward D'Angelo 1988 The Choreography of the Soul: Recursive Patterns in Psychology, Political Anthropology and Cosmology Philosophy
    James Hatley 1989 Impossible Mourning: Transcendent Loss and the Memory of Disaster Philosophy
    Roger Bell 1990 The Theme of Originary Expression in Genetic Phenomenology Philosophy
    Shareen Broido 1991 The Virtual Realm in Music and Literature: An Analysis of the Imaginal Dimension of Susanne Langer's Feeling and Form Comparative Literature

    George Noble

    		1993 Critical Interventions -- In and About Postmodernism Comparative Literature
    Damian Hey 1998 Postmodern Textuality: Rimbaud, Beckett, and the Internet Comparative Literature
    Isabel Hathorn 1998 Hellenistic Romances Comparative Literature
    Charles Johnson 1999 Being and Race: The Black Aesthetic Philosophy
    Max Statkiewicz 2000 Theatrum Platonicum: New Perspectives on the Old Quarrel Between Philosophy and the Theatre Comparative Literature
    Adrian Johnston 2000 Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive Philosophy
    Jong-In Kim 2002 Philosophical Contexts for Wonhyo's Interpretation of Buddhism

    Comparative Literature

    [Chair of Defense]
    Talia Welsh 2003 Original Experience: The Role of Psychology in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology Philosophy
    Michael Janis 2003 Quixotic Exoticism: From Modernism to Multiculturalism Comparative Literature
           
    Official External Dissertation Examiner
    Doctoral / Ph.D.Theses
    1.
    • Stephen H. Watson
    		 1980 Language and the Speaking Subject: An Examination of the Derrida/Searle Exchange Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
    2.
    • David Pollard
    		 1980 The Fine Spell of Words: Experience with Language in the Poetry of John Keats Philosophy University of Sussex, ENGLAND
    3.
    • Robert Glaberson
    		 1982 The Innatist Philosophy of William James Philosophy University of Sussex, ENGLAND
    4.
    • James Quick
    		 1991 The Dream of Reason: Deconstruction of Philosophy Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
    5.
    • Frank H. W. Edler
    		 1992 The Significance of Hölderlin for Heidegger’s Political Involvement with Nazism Philosophy University of Toronto, CANADA
    6.
    • Beatrice Pardossi-Sarno
    		 1999 L'Intemporel du visible. Écriture et peinture face à l’enigme de la continuité Philosophie Faculte des Lettres, Université de Nice, FRANCE
    7.
    • Kuisma Korhonen
    		 1999 The Essay and Textual Friendship Comparative Literature University of Helsinki, FINLAND
    8.
    • Joan McCarthy
    		 2001 The Narrative Self Philosophy University College, Cork, IRELAND
    9.
    • Marika Enwald
    		 2004

    Displacements of Deconstruction: The Deconstruction of Metaphysics of Presence, Meaning, Subject and Method

    		Philosophy University of Tampere, FINLAND
    10.
    • Apostolos Vasilakis
    		2005 Mnemotechnologies: Memory and Experience in Late 20th Century Philosophy and Literature Comparative Literature Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
    11.
    • Nicole Julie Anderson
    		2005 Ethics Under Erasure Cultural Studies University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
    Master's Theses
    1.
    • Corry Mayer Mirsk
    		 1999

    Dekonstruktion und die Wahrheit in Van Goghs Malerei

    		 Philosophy University of Vienna, AUSTRIA

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