Alan White

 

Education

 

PhD 1980, MA 1976, Pennsylvania State University

BA 1972, Tulane University

Languages: German, French, Italian, Spanish; some Greek, Latin, Japanese

 

Professional Experience

 

Boston University

            John Findlay Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Fall 2005

Williams College

            Mark Hopkins Professor of Philosophy, 2000-

Director, Williams College Oxford Programme, 1997-1999

Department Chair, 1994-1997, 1999-2003

Professor of Philosophy, 1993-2000

Associate Professor of Philosophy, 1990-1993

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1986-1990

The Graduate Faculty, The New School for Social Research

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1982-86

Acting Department Chair, 1984-85

East Tennessee State University. Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1981-82

Davidson College. Visiting Assistant Professor in Humanities, Spring 1981

 

Publications

 

Books

 

Absolute Knowledge: Hegel and the Problem of Metaphysics. Series in Continental Thought, Vol. 4. Ohio University Press, 1983

 

Hegel.  The Philosophy of Right.. Translator and Editor.  Focus Press, 2002

 

Schelling: An Introduction to the System of Freedom. Yale University Press, 1983

 

Within Nietzsche’s Labyrinth. Routledge, 1990

 

            In progress:

 

Heidegger and Aristotle.  Completion had been planned for 2005, but work on this project is now on hold, pending completion of Structure and Being / Struktur und Sein (see below)

 

Motherblood. A three-part novel resetting Aeschylus’s Oresteia in the present. First part, Revenge, collecting dust (after a near-miss with an agent who thought he could sell it...) 

 

Nothing Matters. A Philosophical Romance. A novel wherein figure prominently Proust, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. Collecting some rejection slips (some raves, no takes)

 

Structure and Being.  Framework for a Systematic Philosophy. Lorenz B. Puntel (Munich); translated by and in collaboration with Alan White.  Penn State University Press.  Forthcoming Fall 2008

 

Articles

 

An Appalling or Banal Reality.  Borges's “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.”  Variaciones Borges (April 2003). 

 

Hegel or Schelling? Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. (1994)

 

Nietzsche and Transcendental Philosophy.  Forthcoming in International Studies in Philosophy

 

Nietzschean Nihilism: A Typology. International Studies in Philosophy, XIX/2 (1987), pp. 29-44

 

Of Grammatolatry: Deconstruction as Rigorous Phenomenology? In W. R. McKenna and J. C. Evans (eds.), Derrida and Phenomenology, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1995), pp. 103-119

 

Orgasmic Idealism. The Owl of Minerva, Spring 1985

 

Reconstructing Husserl: A Critical Response to Derrida’s Speech and Phenomena. Husserl Studies 4 (1987), pp. 45-62

 

Schelling. In L. Embree et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, Kluwer Academic Publisers (1997), pp. 634-636

 

Schelling’s Idealism. In The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy

 

The Youngest Virtue. In R. Schacht (ed.), Nietzsche’s Postmoralism: Reassessments of Nietzsche’s Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1999

 

Una Realidad Atroz o Banal. In El fragmento infinito. Estudios sobre ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ de J. L. Borges. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2006

 

Presentations

 

An Appalling or Banal Reality.  Borges's 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.  Williams College (February 2002)

 

Can Philosophy Be Systematic, and Ought It to Be?  Clark University (September 2005), Boston University (September 2005), Williams College (March 2006)

 

Deconstruction as Rigorous Phenomenology? Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (April 1989)

 

The End of Philosophy.  Faculty Lecture, Williams College (February 1991). 

 

Eternal Return Revisited. Trinity College (October 1988), SUNY/Purchase (February 1989)

 

Everything Flows. Berkshire Athanaeum (October 2000), Williams College (November 2000), Trinity College, San Antonio (February 2000), SUNY/Purchase (October 2003), Boston University (October 2005)

 

Freedom as Autonomy.  Williams College (October 1986)

 

The Ideal of Pure Reason.  Tennessee Philosophical Association (October 1981), The New School for Social Research (March 1982)

 

The Insignificant Other: Toward a Postmodern Aristotelian Humanism.  Williams College Faculty Seminar (April 1988).  

 

Hegel on Antigone.  SUNY/Purchase (March 1997)

 

Heidegger’s Evasion of Community. Fordham University (February 2003), SUNY/Purchase (October 2003)

 

Nietzsche and Transcendental Philosophy.  Panel participant, North American Nietzsche Society (March 2003)

 

Nietzschean Nihilism: A Typology.  Vassar College (November 1985), Fordham University (December 1985), North American Nietzsche Society (December 1985), Williams College (February 1986)

 

Principles in a Pluralistic Society.  The Stoneleigh-Burnham School (February 1988)

 

Reconstructing Husserl: A Response to Derrida.  Society for Systematic Philosophy (December 1983)

 

Schopenhauer as Educator.  North American Nietzsche Society (December 1991)

 

Socrates:  The First Psychiatrist?  1999 Annual Fall Meeting of the New York State Capital District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association (October 1999)

 

Truing:  Aristotle and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance. Vassar College (October 2001)

 

Within Nietzsche’s Labyrinth: Genealogies.  Pennsylvania State University (September 1989)

 

Within Nietzsche’s Labyrinth: Nobility and Nobilities.  SUNY/Purchase (November 1989)

 

The Youngest Virtue.  Nietzsche Sesquicentennial Confererence, University of Illinois (October 1995)