Name Robert Bernasconi | Education University of Sussex | |
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Books How to Read Sartre, Heidegger in question, The question of language Similar People Simon Critchley, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Immanuel Kant, Francois Bernier | ||
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Robert L. Bernasconi (born 1950) is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is well known as a reader of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas, and for his work on the concept of race. He has also written on the history of philosophy.
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- Robert bernasconi may 1 2015 heidegger
- eisenmenger the third heidegger s antisemitism in broad historical by robert bernasconi 2014
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eisenmenger the third heidegger s antisemitism in broad historical by robert bernasconi 2014
Career
Bernasconi received his doctorate from Sussex University. He taught at the University of Essex for thirteen years before taking up a position at the University of Memphis. In the fall of 2009 he moved from Memphis to the philosophy department at Pennsylvania State University. Bernasconi comes from an academic family and was born in Newcastle, United Kingdom. His brother John is the Director of Fine arts at the University of Hull. The family are of Swiss background.
Interests
In addition to extensive work on Heidegger and Levinas, Bernasconi has written on Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hannah Arendt, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Jacques Derrida, and numerous others.
In the early 1990s Bernasconi began to develop an interest in the concepts of race and racism, particularly in relation to the history of philosophy. In addition to writing many articles on race, racism, slavery, African philosophy and related topics, he has also edited and published an enormous amount of primary material relating to these themes.