Notes on Contributors
Dr. Randall Auxier
is Professor of Philosophy and Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over twenty books in philosophy, and also of many articles and book chapters. He combines the philosophy of culture with the philosophy of popular culture in an effort to show the general development of culture and its excrescences, such as “civilization.” He is a journalist, political activist, musician, and writer. In his spare time he is kept by several cats and a spouse.
Dr. Przemysław Bursztyka
is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy (previously the Institute of Philosophy), University of Warsaw, where he holds the position of the Chair of the Department of Philosophy of Culture. He was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2015 and 2016). His main interests include: philosophy of culture (its current status, methods as well as its relations with cultural studies and sociology of culture), philosophical psychology, philosophical anthropology (especially apophatic anthropology) and philosophy of subjectivity, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, existentialism (Kierkegaard, Nietzsche), hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), and philosophical theories of imagination. He is a founder and the editor-in-chief of the philosophical quarterly Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture.
Dr. Gary L. Herstein
(PhD in Philosophy, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) is a Whitehead scholar with research interests in the philosophies of science as well as logic. His publications include The Quantum of Explanation: Whitehead’s Radical Empiricism, with Randall E. Auxier, (Routledge, 2017) and Whitehead and the Measurement Problem of Cosmology (Ontos-Verlag, Frankfurt/Lancaster/New Brunswick, 2006). His articles include “Cosmology,” in The Handbook of Mereology (October, 2017), and “Davidson on the Impossibility of Psychophysical Laws” (Synthese, 2005). Dr. Herstein is currently also pursuing various fiction projects.
Dr. Andrew B. Irvine
was born and raised in Australia. He completed graduate studies in Boston, USA, before running a study abroad program in comparative religion and culture, traveling to Taiwan, India, Thailand, and Turkey. Since 2007, he has taught philosophy, religion, and general education at Maryville College in Tennessee, USA. He has published mainly on liberation philosophy and theology, postcolonial theory, and philosophy as a way of life, all from a perspective influenced by American pragmatist philosophy. He has recently resumed acting in amateur theatre.
Dr. Myron Moses Jackson
is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Western Carolina University. Previously the Besl Chair of Ethics/Religion and Society at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Jackson holds an M.A. in Political Science and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His interests include ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy and religion, philosophy of culture, public law, the history of political thought, aesthetics, and philosophy and race. Recent publications include “Unmasking the Fragility of Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, and Code-Switching on Campus” (Educational Theory), “Before and After School: Pragmatic Lessons in Disaster Didactics” (Dewey Studies).
Dr. Jared Kemling
is a tenured instructor of philosophy at Rend Lake College. He is the editor of The Cultural Power of Personal Objects: Traditional Accounts and New Perspectives, (SUNY Press, 2021), as well as a forthcoming book on Queen and Philosophy (Carus Books, 2022). He is an editor for Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought. His work has appeared in a number of journals, and he has presented at conferences across the United States.
Dr. Eli Kramer
is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ethics of the Institute of Philosophy, University Wrocław, Poland. He co-edits a new book series with Brill, “Philosophy as a Way of Life: Text and Studies,” which organizes new translations, as well as putting out new studies. His first single authored monograph is on the nature and role of the associated philosophical life (as distinct from philosophy as a discipline): Intercultural Modes of Philosophy, Volume One: Principles to Guide Philosophical Community (Brill, 2021). He has also co-edited and contributed to collections such as Rorty and Beyond (Lexington Books, 2019) and Contemporary Philosophical Proposals for the University: Toward a Philosophy of Higher Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Dr. Rudolf Makkreel
was Charles Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Emory University. He was an eminent humanist, a winner of the National Book Award for editing in the humanities, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, and an important scholar of Kant, Dilthey, hermeneutics, aesthetics, and German idealism. His books remain some of the most permanent and influential sources of close study and exemplary scholarship in his generation. He was also the mentor and beloved teacher of several generations of students. We are privileged to present his last essay in this volume.
Dr. Joseph Margolis
was Laura H. Carnell Chair of Philosophy at Temple University. At the age of 97, he was still teaching full-time when he passed away in June 2021. His contribution to this volume is among his final papers. He was a tireless researcher and writer in American philosophy over many decades, publishing over 30 books and countless articles. Professor Margolis was a senior fellow and supporter of the American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought, and numerous other organizations. He was a kind and generous mentor to many students over his long career and always among the most important voices in the philosophy of culture.
Dr. Laura J. Mueller
is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at West Texas A&M University. Her research interests pertain to Kant’s theories of personhood and sublimity, and philosophies of education and culture. Dr. Mueller’s research presents education as a process that both creates and sustains culture, as well as a process of self-cultivation – including moral cultivation. As such, she focuses on the relationship between pedagogy and personhood, and education, community, and cultural values. Recent publications pertain to what she deems “virtue philosophy,” a process of connecting moral theory with practical classroom strategies for moral cultivation, and educational practices that nourish what she calls an “American Bildung.” Dr. Mueller is an editor at Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, and is a fellow at the American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought.
Dr. Monika Murawska
is a philosopher and historian of art; Assistant Professor of Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She is a French-Polish translator, author of numerous articles on French phenomenology, and the following books: Problem innego (2005), Filozofowanie z zamkniętymi oczami (2011) and Jean Renoir – malarz kadrów (2012); her Fields of Interests: Aesthetics, French Phenomenology, Phenomenology.
Dr. Robert Cummings Neville
is professor emeritus of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology, dean emeritus of the School of Theology, and dean emeritus of Marsh Chapel and Chaplain of the University at Boston University. He is past president of the American Academy of Religion, the International Institute for Chinese Philosophy, the Metaphysical Society of America, the Charles S. Peirce Society, for 25 years was on the joint steering committee of the Society for the Study of Process Philosophies, and was defeated twice for the Presidency of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophy Association. He has published over thirty books and 300 articles.
Dr. Lucio A. Privitello
is Professor of Philosophy at the Philosophy and Religion Program of Stockton University in New Jersey. Privitello was raised and educated in Grammichele, Sicily, receiving a Diploma Superiore in Ceramics and Design, and was an apprentice to painter/sculptor Giuseppe Benassi in Parma, Italy. He received a B.F.A. in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design, an M.A. in Philosophy from Temple University, and an M.A., and Ph.D., in Philosophy from Villanova University. Publications and conference papers on Parmenides, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Bataille, Chauncey Wright, Royce, Nietzsche, Marcuse, Deleuze, Umberto Eco, G.H. Palmer, Santayana, Proust, Lacan, Adorno, Derrida, Sicilian literature, and the Philosophy of Culture.
Dr. Zofia Rosińska
is Professor Emerita, Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, where for over 25 years she held the position of the chair of the Department of Philosophy of Culture. She introduced psychoanalysis to the Polish philosophical scene as a method of reflecting on culture and the human person. Recently she has explored the possibility of dialogue between philosophy and psychiatry. She is the author of many books including: Freud (Warszawa, 1993), Jung (Warszawa, 1982), Psychoanalityczne myślenie o sztuce (Psychoanalytic Thinking About Art, Warszawa, 1985), Ruch myśli (Movement of Thought, Warszawa 2012). She is also editor or co-editor of many other books including: Psyhoterapia i kutura (Psychotherapy and Culture, Warszawa 1997), Pamięć w filozofii XX wieku (Memory in the XXth century Philosophy, Warszawa 2001) and Co to jest filozofia kultury? (What is Philosophy of Culture?, Warszawa 2006). She is also the chair of the Advisory Board of Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture.
Dr. Marcin Rychter
is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Culture at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw. He is a philosopher, translator, and editor. He is co-editor and co-author of the book: Między integracją a rozproszeniem. Doświadczenie estetyczne w kontekstach nowoczesności (Warszawa, 2018). His main fields of interest include: Philosophy of Music, Philosophy of Literature, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Culture, Contemporary Non-analytical Metaphysics, Contemporary American Prose. He is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief in Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture.
Dr. Matthew Sharpe
is the coauthor of Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions (Bloomsbury, 2021) and authors of Camus, Philosophe: To Return to Our Beginnings (Brill, 2020). He teaches philosophy at Deakin University, as well as being involved in various teaching initiatives bringing Stoicism into the community. He is also the author of Camus, Philosophe: to Return to Our Beginnings (Brill, 2015) and of many articles on and translations of Pierre Hadot and the history of philosophy as a way of life.
Dr. Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowroński
teaches Social Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Multiculturalism at the University of Opole, Poland, and serves as Scientific Affairs Manager at Berlin Practical Philosophy International Forum e.V., Germany. He has written, edited and co-edited around fifteen books on contemporary culture, philosophy, American pragmatism and George Santayana (Brill, Rodopi, Routledge, Fordham, Lexington Books, Cambridge Scholars, among others). He blogs at chrisskowronski.com.
Dr. Kenneth W. Stikkers
received his PhD from DePaul University and is currently Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at Southern Illinois University. He has been a visiting professor at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (Mexico), the University of Warsaw, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and Ca’Foscari University (Venice). His main areas of scholarly interest and publication are the historical and thematic connections between American pragmatism and German phenomenology, especially Max Scheler, and the philosophy of economics. His most recent books are Philosophy in the Time of Economic Crisis: Pragmatism and Economy (co-edited with Krzysztof Skowroński) and Pasado, presente y future de las ideas utópicas: repensar las bases éticas de la economía (Utopian Visions Past, Present, and Future: Rethinking the Ethical Foundations of Economy), and he has published over 80 articles and chapters.