Dr. Jeffrey Powell (2013-2014)

Dr. Jeff Powell earned an A.B. in Psychology from Ohio University in 1981, an M.A in Psychology from Duquesne in 1984, an M.A. in Philosophy from Loyola of Chicago in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Depaul University in 1994. He has been a member of the Marshall faculty in the Department of Philosophy within the College of Liberal Arts since 1996 and presently holds the rank of Professor. He has organized three major conferences at Marshall; two concerning postmodernism in 1998 and 1999, and the international Heidegger Circle meeting in 2000. He is also responsible for bringing renowned philosopher, John Sallis, the Frederick J. Adelmann S.J. Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, to the Marshall campus in April of 2017. Jeff has published numerous scholarly articles on a wide range of figures from the history of philosophy, but especially on the thought of Martin Heidegger. He has published Heidegger and Language (Indiana University Press, 2013), translated Heidegger’s Die Geschichte des Seyns (The History of Beyng) for the Indiana University Press (with Will McNeill of DePaul University), and he has an edited collection that was indeed published in 2018 by SUNY Press, entitled Aesthetic Imagination and Imaginative Freedom: Friedrich Schiller and Philosophy. He is currently working on two book manuscripts, one concerning Heidegger’s contribution to aesthetic inquiry, and another concerning aesthetics and politics in Heidegger and Walter Benjamin. He is currently editor of Heidegger’s Ontological Project: On Being and Time, which is currently in production and scheduled to appear in the fall of this year with Indiana University Press.

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