Hugh J. Silverman
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Hugh J. Silverman (born August 17, 1945 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American philosopher and cultural theorist whose writing, lecturing, teaching, editing, and innovative international conferencing has created a postmodern network that reaches around the world. He is Executive Director of The International Association for Philosophy and Literatureand Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University (New York, USA) where he is also affiliated with the Department of Art and the Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. He is also co-founder and co-director of the International Philosophical Seminar (Alto Adige, Italy). His work draws upon deconstruction, hermeneutics, semiotics, phenomenology, aesthetics, art theory, film theory, and the archeology of knowledge.
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[edit] Biography
Silverman was awarded the inaugural Fulbright-Distinguished Chair in the Humanities at the University of Vienna(Austria) for 2000-01 and a Distinguished Fellowship at the La Trobe University Institute for Advanced Study (Melbourne, Australia) for June-July 2008. He was honored with the University of Helsinki Medal in 1997 and was Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen/Institute for the Human Sciences, Vienna, AUSTRIA in 1998. He received the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (NEH) Fellowship in 1980-81.
Since 1980, he has held visiting professorships at the universities of Warwick and Leeds (UK), Torino and Rome-Tor Vergata (Italy), Vienna and Klagenfurt (Austria), Helsinki and Tampere (Finland), Sydney and Tasmania (Australia), Trondheim (Norway), and Nice (France). He has given over 375 invited lectures around the world in North and South America, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, Korea, and Taiwan.
[edit] Publications'
In addition to publishing over a hundred articles and book chapters, he is the author of Textualities: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (Routledge, 1994), translated into German as Textualitäten: Zwischen Hermeneutik und Dekonstruktion (Turia + Kant, 1979), Italian as Testualità tra ermeneutica e deconstruzione (Spirali, 2003), and Arabic, and Inscriptions: After Phenomenology and Structuralism (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 2nd ed., Northwestern University Press, 1997). He is also known for his published translations of Merleau-Ponty into English. His more than twenty-three edited and co-edited books in English, German, Spanish, and Korean include studies of Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Sartre, Piaget, Žižek, hermeneutics, deconstruction, and postmodern theory.
As Editor of the Routledge Continental Philosophy series, volumes are both edited and introduced by Professor Silverman. Titles include Philosophy and Non-Philosophy since Merleau-Ponty (1988/1997), Derrida and Deconstruction (1989), Postmodernism--Philosophy and the Arts (1990), Gadamer and Hermeneutics (1991), Questioning Foundations: Truth / Subjectivity / Culture (1994), Cultural Semiosis: Tracing the Signifier (1998), Philosophy and Desire (2000) and Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics, and the Sublime (2003).
[edit] Book Series Editor
In addition to the Routledge Continental Philosophy Series, he is editor of the Humanity Books Philosophy and Literary Theory series and co-editor of the Humanity Books Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences , he is also editor of the Rowman & Littlefield - Lexington Books New Frameworks for Continental Philosophy series and the IAPL Lexington Books TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture book series.
Earlier series edited by Professor Silverman with a number of published books in each include Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and Literature (SUNY Press) and the Philosophy. Literature, Culture Series (Northwestern University Press)
[edit] Intellectual Links
Professor Silverman writes and teaches particularly in the areas of continental philosophy, aesthetics, postmodern ethics, and cultural / art / film / social theory. He is regarded as one of the principal philosophers and theorists whose work builds upon the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and is in dialogue with major contemporary figures such as Julia Kristeva, Gianni Vattimo, Mario Perniola, and Carlo Sini. His writings draw upon the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Paul Ricoeur.
