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Daniel Conway

 

Education

Ph.D.	Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, 1985
B.A.	Philosophy, Tulane University, 1979

Faculty Appointments

2006-	Texas A&M University
1989-2006	Penn State University
1988-1989	Harvard University
1985-1988	Stanford University

Teaching and Research Interests

19th-Century European Philosophy, especially Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche

Political Philosophy, especially the critique of modernity

Philosophy of Religion, especially the "new atheism"

American Philosophy, especially the theme of wilderness

Philosophy of Literature, especially the novels of J.M. Coetzee

Recent Courses

Teaching Practicum

Recent Publications

Reader’s Guide to Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. London: Continuum Books, 2008.

“Abraham’s Final Word,” in Ethics, Love, and Faith in Kierkegaard: Philosophical Engagements, ed. Edward F. Mooney. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008, pp. 175-195, 264-265.  

“The Birth of the State,” in Nietzsche, Power & Politics. Rethinking Nietzsche’s Legacy for Political Thought, eds. Herman Siemens and Vasti Roodt. Berlin: Walter deGruyter, 2008, pp. 37-67.

“Does That Sound Strange to You?: Education and Indirection in Essay III of On the Genealogy of Morals,” in Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Future of Philosophy, ed. Jeffrey Metzger. London: Continuum Books, 2009, pp. 79-101, 181-84, 202-03.

“For Whom the Bell Tolls,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Issue 36, 2008, pp. 88-105.

“The Last time I Saw Bob Solomon,” forthcoming, International Studies in Philosophy.

“Whither the Good Europeans? Nietzsche’s New World Order,” forthcoming, South Central Review.

Recent Presentations

“Whither the Good Europeans? Nietzsche’s New World Order.” Intellectuals, Nationalisms, and European Identity. College Station, TX, February 2008.

“The Last Time I Saw Bob Solomon.” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division. Pasadena, CA, March 2008.

“Death and the Culture of Life.” Nietzsche and the Philosophical Life, Texas Christian University. Forth Worth, TX, April 2008.

“For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Nietzsche in New York, Hunter College/CUNY Graduate Center/New York Public Library. New York, NY, May 2008.

 “Kierkegaard and his Pseudonyms: Toward a Critique of Modernity.” Zeno Lecture Series, Department of Philosophy, Universiteit Leiden. Leiden, The Netherlands, May 2008.

“The Name of the Father: Charting the Evolution of the Ascetic Priest.” Nietzsche Research Group, Department of Philosophy, Universiteit Leiden. Leiden, The Netherlands, May 2008.

“Dionysian Piety.” Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology. Pittsburgh, PA, October 2008.

“And So I Tell My Life to Myself: The Autobiography of an Immoralist.” Plenary address, Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo: A Centenary Conference, University of London, School of Advanced Study, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies. London, England, November 2008.

“Life at World’s End.” Keynote address, Salisbury University Philosophy Symposium, When Worlds End: Living Well in a Time of Extinction, Salisbury, MD, April 2009.

“The Community Organizer and the Provincial Governor: Beholding Nietzsche in Ecce Homo.” Nietzsche in New York, Hunter College, New York, NY, May 2009.

“Nietzsche’s Post-Zarathustran Rhetoric: Staging the Entr’acte of Late Modernity.” Invited lecture, Northwestern University Center for Global Culture and Communication, 2009 Summer Institute in Rhetoric and Political Theory: Nietzsche, Rhetoric, and After, Evanston, IL, July 2009.

“The Rhetorical-Dramatic Structure of On the Genealogy of Morality, Essay III.” Invited seminar presentation, Northwestern University Center for Global Culture and Communication, 2009 Summer Institute in Rhetoric and Political Theory: Nietzsche, Rhetoric, and After, Evanston, IL, July 2009.

Biographical Information

A native of Terre Haute, Indiana, Daniel Conway received his B.A. in Philosophy and Economics from Tulane University, and his PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego. He has held faculty appointments at Stanford University, Harvard University, The Pennsylvania State University, and Texas A&M University, where he is Professor and Head of the Philosophy department. He has lectured and published widely on topics pertaining to 19th Century Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, and Philosophy of Religion. He is the author of three books, the editor or co-editor of eleven volumes, and the author of eighty philosophical articles and essays. His recent publications include essays on Nietzsche and Kierkegaard and a book-length commentary on Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. His research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Oregon Humanities Center, the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), the Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities at Harvard University, and the National Humanities Center. He is the proud father of two young feminists.