Georgetown Professor to Discuss Authenticity
William Blattner, Georgetown University
Please join the department of philosophy in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences for “Heidegger, Taylor and the Ideal of Authenticity” by William Blattner of Georgetown University on Friday, March 30, at 4 p.m., Old Main, Room 417.
Blattner (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1989) is the author of Heidegger's Being and Time: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Books, 2006) and Heidegger's Temporal Idealism (Cambridge University of Press, 1999). His current research focuses on Heidegger's conceptions of authenticity and historicality, as well as the relation between Heidegger and Kant.
He is a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University where he has been on faculty since 1989. Blattner teaches Heidegger's early philosophy, Kant's first Critique, modern European philosophy, existentialism, as well as assorted introductory courses, including his most recent addition to the introductory philosophy line-up: Philosophy of Sport.
He currently serves as director of the International Society for Phenomenological Studies, a professional society devoted to the study of phenomenology, existentialism and hermeneutics.
Contacts
Sherry Sparks,
Department of Philosophy
479-575-3551,
ssparks@uark.edu
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