James Conrad Risser (born 1946) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He was Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair of Humanities between 1991 and 1994 and the president of the North American Society of Philosophical Hermeneutics (2012–2015).[1]
James C. Risser | |
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| Born | 1946 |
| Education | Duquesne University (PhD) |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy |
| Institutions | Seattle University |
| Thesis | Truth and Aesthetic Experience in Kant's Critique of Judgement (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Sallis |
Main interests | hermeneutics |
Books
edit- The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012)
- (Edited) American Continental Philosophy. Edited by Walter Brogan and James Risser. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000)
- (Edited) Heidegger Toward the Turn: The Work of the 1930s. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999)
- Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-reading Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997)
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