Richard Velkley, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 1978

Celia Scott Weatherhead Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy

Email:
rvelkley@tulane.edu

Office:
111 Newcomb Hall

Phone:
(504) 862-3391

Academic Interests:

• European philosophy since Kant
• Political philosophy
• Phenomenology, Existentialism, Metaphysics
• Ancient philosophy
• Early Modern philosophy

Books:

• Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 1989).
• Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question (University of Chicago Press, 2002).
• Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy: On Original Forgetting (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming in 2011)

Books Edited:

• The Unity of Reason: Essays on Kant's Philosophy by Dieter Henrich (Harvard University Press, 1994).
• Freedom and the Human Person. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, vol. 48 (Catholic University of America Press, 2007).

Selected Articles:

• "Freedom from the Good: Heidegger's Idealist Grounding of Politics," Logos and Eros: Essays Honoring Stanley Rosen, ed. N. Ranasingh (St. Augustine's Press, 2006), 243-59.
• "Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Of the Social Contract (1762): Transforming Natural Man into Citizen," The Classics of Western Philosophy: A Reader's Guide, eds. Gracia, Reichberg and Schumacher (Blackwell, 2003), 316-25.
• "On Possessed Individualism: Hegel, Socrates' Daimon and the Modern State," Review of Metaphysics, vol. 59, 3 (2006), 577-99.
• "On Possibility in Concepts: A Note on the Metaphysical Problem in Kant," Kant und die Berliner Aufklaerung. Akten des IX. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses (W. de Gruyter, 2001), 506-11.