Michael E. Zimmerman (born July 7, 1946) is an American
integral theorist whose interests include
Buddhism
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,
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th ce ...
,
Friedrich Nietzsche
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, and
Ken Wilber
Kenneth Earl Wilber II (born January 31, 1949) is an American philosopher and writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a philosophy which suggests the synthesis of all human knowledge and experience.
Life and career
Wilbe ...
. After a year as assistant professor at
Denison University
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, he was Professor of Philosophy at
Tulane University
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from 1975 to 2005, and Director of the Institute for Humanities and the Arts at Tulane. He is also affiliated with the
Integral Institute
Integral theory is a synthetic metatheory developed by Ken Wilber. It attempts to place a wide diversity of theories and models into one single framework. The basis is a "spectrum of consciousness," from archaic consciousness to ultimate spiri ...
. Together with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, he wrote a book on
integral ecology, ''Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World''. Since 2006, Zimmerman has been a faculty member at the
University of Colorado
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at Boulder.
Zimmerman is a specialist concerning 20th century German philosopher Martin Heidegger
and has published a number of books and peer-reviewed articles on Heidegger's work, and on other conventional philosophical topics.
Publications
Books
* ''Eclipse of the Self: The Development of Heidegger's Concept of Authenticity. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1981; second edition, 1986).
* ''Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity: Technology, Politics, and Art'' Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
** Portuguese translation: ''Confronto de Heidegger com a Modernidade: Política, Arte'', trans. João Sousa Ramos (Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2001).
* ''Contesting Earth’s Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity'' (The University of California Press, 1994).
** Chinese translation underway with tentative title: Li Nun Zheng Feng : Ju Jiao Di Qiu Wei Lai (Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publishing Company).
* ed. ''The Thought of Martin Heidegger,'' Tulane Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XXXII, (New Orleans, 1984).
* ed. ''Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1993). Second edition, 1998. Third edition, 2001. Fourth edition 2004.(?)
See also
*
Integral theory
Integral theory is a synthetic metatheory developed by Ken Wilber. It attempts to place a wide diversity of theories and models into one single framework. The basis is a "spectrum of consciousness," from archaic consciousness to Absolute (philo ...
References
External links
Official v.v. at University of ColoradoThe Z Files by Mary Ann Travisarticle on his work with his alien abduction phenomena
Interview with Laureano Ralón @ Figure/Ground
American philosophers
Heidegger scholars
Integral theory (Ken Wilber)
Living people
1946 births
Tulane University faculty
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
Continental philosophers
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