Michael Gelven, (1937-2018) was a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at
Northern Illinois University
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, where he taught for 46 years. Gelven held a Ph.D. in philosophy from Washington University, penned a well known commentary on Martin Heidegger's ''Being and Time'', and wrote several books as well as numerous scholarly articles. Gelven was primarily interested in continental philosophy and had a wide range of specialties including: ontology, metaphysics,
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 centur ...
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Kant
Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German Philosophy, philosopher and one of the central Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemolo ...
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Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, Prose poetry, prose poet, cultural critic, Philology, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philo ...
, philosophy in literature, and the philosophy of war.
Bibliography
Books
*A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time (1st edition) (1970)
*Winter, friendship, and guilt; the sources of self-inquiry (1973)
*A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time (2nd edition) (Sep 1989)
*Truth and Existence: A Philosophical Inquiry (Nov 1990)
*Spirit and Existence: A Philosophical Inquiry (Aug 1990)
*Why Me?: A Philosophical Inquiry into Fate (Nov 1991)
*The Quest for the Fine (Jan 1996)
*The Risk of Being: What It Means to Be Good and Bad (Nov 1997)
*This Side of Evil (Jun 1999)
*Truth and the Comedic Art (Sep 2000)
*War and Existence: A Philosophical Inquiry (Jan 30, 2000)
*The Asking Mystery: A Philosophical Inquiry (Mar 2000)
*What Happens to Us When We Think: Transformation and Reality (Jul 2003)
*Judging Hope: A Reach to the True and the False (Jun 2004)
Articles
*“Language as Saying and Showing,” Journal of Value Inquiry (1983)
*“The Literary and the True,” Man and World (1984)
*“Nietzsche's Existential Methodology,” Proceedings of the Heraclitean Society (1985)
*“Is Sacrifice a Virtue,” Journal of Value Inquiry (1987)
See also
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American philosophy
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List of American philosophers
This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States.
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External links
Gelven's NIU website
American philosophers
Living people
Heidegger scholars
Year of birth missing (living people)
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