Philosophy Department Faculty

Gregory Fried

Professor; Convener of M.A. program in Philosophy, Law, and Policy

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Gregory Fried

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall North 243

Telephone: 617-552-4894

Email: gregory.fried@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Harvard University
  • M.A., University of Chicago
  • Ph.D., University of Chicago

Courses

Law and Interpretation

Philosophy of the Person

Liberalism and Its Critics

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Research Interests

Political philosophy,听Ethics: history,听Ethics: practical,听Philosophy and Law, Ancient philosophy,听Philosophy and race,听Just war theory,听20th century Continental

Office Hours

M 11:00 - 11:50 a.m.

T 10:30 - 11:50 a.m.

TH 1:45 - 2:45 p.m. and by appointment

Department

Philosophy

Profile

Professor Fried has taught at the University of Chicago, md传媒国产剧 University, California State University Los Angeles, and Suffolk University. He teaches and publishes in political philosophy, with a particular interest in responses to challenges to liberal democracy and the rise of ethno-nationalism. He also works in philosophy of law, especially law and hermeneutics; philosophy and race; practical ethics, including just war theory; public philosophy; the history of ethics; Ancient philosophy; and 20th听century Continental philosophy, especially Heidegger.

Other Professional Activities

Book series co-editor, 鈥淣ew Heidegger Research,鈥� Roman and Littlefield International

Co-founder and director, 鈥溾�澨�

Executive producer, 鈥�,鈥� directed by Derek Burrows听

Books

Towards a Polemical Ethics: Between Heidegger and Plato (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, forthcoming 2020).

Confronting Heidegger: A Critical Dialogue on Politics and Philosophy (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, forthcoming 2019).

With Charles Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010).

贬别颈诲别驳驳别谤鈥檚 Polemos: From Being to Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).

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Recent Publications

鈥淥dysseus on the Beach: Humanity between the Anthropocene and the Hubriscene,鈥� in The Task of Philosophy in the Anthropocene: Axial Echoes in Global Space, Richard Polt and Jon Wittrock, eds. (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, forthcoming 2018).

鈥淥n Beyond Heidegger,鈥� in After Heidegger? Gregory Fried and Richard Polt, eds. (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017).

鈥淲hitewashed with Moralism: On 贬别颈诲别驳驳别谤鈥檚 Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism,鈥� in Heidegger and Jewish Thought: Difficult Others, Elad Lapidot and Micha Brumlik, eds. (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017).

鈥淓pochale Polemik: Nach den Schwarzen Heften mit und gegen Heidegger denken,鈥� in Martin Heideggers 鈥楽chwarze Hefte鈥�: Eine philosophisch-politische Debatte (Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2016).

鈥淭he King Is Dead: Martin Heidegger after the Black Notebooks,鈥� in Reading 贬别颈诲别驳驳别谤鈥檚 Black Notebooks, 1931-1941, Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas, eds. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016).

鈥凌别迟谤颈别惫颈苍驳 辫丑谤辞苍锚蝉颈蝉: Heidegger on the Essence of Politics,鈥� Continental Philosophy Review 47:3 (September 2014).

鈥淗eidegger, politics and us: Towards a polemical ethics,鈥� Philosophy and Social Criticism 39:9 (November 2013) 863-75.

鈥淎 Freakish Whiteness: The Circassian Lady and the Caucasian Fantasy,鈥� The Mirror of Race (April 2013): available online at http://mirrorofrace.org/wp/circassian/.

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