Frederick M. Dolan (born March 17, 1955) is Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley and Professor of Humanities at the California College of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco. He teaches and writes on the relationship between political theory and the philosophical tradition, theories of interpretation, aesthetics, and such figures as Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault.
At Princeton University, he studied under Sheldon S. Wolin and Richard Rorty.
Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics. Cornell University Press, 1994.
Between Freedom and Terror: Philosophy, Political Theory, and Literature Speak to Modernity. Co-edited with Simona Goi. Lexington Books, 2006.
Rhetorical Republic: Governing Representations in American Politics. Co-edited with Thomas L. Dumm. University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.
Articles
“The Paradoxical Liberty of Bio-Power: Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault on Modern Politics.” Philosophy and Social Criticism 31:3 (2005).
“An Ambiguous Citation in Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition.” The Journal of Politics 66:2 (2004).
“Nietzsche’s Gnosis of Law.” Cardozo Law Review 24:2 (2003).
“Worldly Pleasures: Nietzsche, Arendt, Stevens and ‘Political’ Consciousness.” Polity 22:4 (2001).
“Arendt on Philosophy and Politics.” The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt ed. Dana R. Villa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
“The Banality of Love and the Meaning of the Political: Ettinger and Villa on Arendt and Heidegger.” Theory and Event 1:2 (1997).
“The Philosophical Laughter of Michel Foucault.” Qui Parle 6:2 (1993).
“Political Action and the Unconscious: Arendt and Lacan on Decentering the Subject.” Political Theory 23:2 (1995).
“The Poetics of Postmodern Subversion: The Politics of Writing in William S. Burroughs’s The Western Lands.” Contemporary Literature 32:4 (1991).
“Fear of Simulation: Life, Death, and Democracy in Postwar America.” The Massachusetts Review 32:1 (1991).
“Deconstruction’s Object.” Text and Performance Quarterly 11:3 (1991).
“Representing the Political System: American Political Science in the Age of the World Picture.” Diacritics 20:2 (1990).
“Hobbes and/or North: The Rhetoric of American National Security.” The Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 12:3 (1988).
“Political Modernism and Postmodernity in the Art of David Askevold.” vanguard 17:1 (1988).
“Nietzsche as Aristotelian: On Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue.” The New Orleans Review 13:1 (1986).
https://frederickdolan.academia.edu
