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Gregory Schufreider

Gregory Schufreider

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D.: University of California, Santa Barbara, 1975

Phone: 225-578-2275
Email: gschufr@lsu.edu 
Office: 116 Coates

Biography

Greg Schufreider received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1975. He has been a member of the philosophy faculty at LSU since 1979. In 1995 he founded the LSU Program for the Study of the Audiovisual Arts and directed it until 2004. Since then he has served as the Director of Graduate Studies for philosophy. Dr. Schufreider served the Department as Chair from 2016 until 2021.

 

Areas of Interest

Professor Schufreider’s areas of special interest include the history of philosophy, recent continental philosophy (especially Heidegger), and the philosophy of art (including audiovisual arts and the philosophy of film). His research has centered especially on Heidegger, and he is at work on a two-volume study of Heidegger and Mondrian.

Courses Offered:

  • PHIL 3001 Existentialism
  • PHIL 3002 Philosophy and Film
  • PHIL 4948 Phenomenology
  • PHIL 4936 19th Century Philosophy

 

Selected Publications

Books

  • Confessions of a Rational Mystic: Anselm's Early Writings. Purdue University Series in the History of Philosophy. Purdue University Press, 1994. 408 pages.
  • An Introduction to Anselm's Argument. Philosophical Monographs. Temple University Press, 1978. xvii + 113 pages.

Articles

  • “Iconoclastic Images.” The Yearbook for Comparative Literature, forthcoming.
  • “The Art of Truth.” Research in Phenomenology 40 (Fall 2010): 331-64.
  • “Heidegger's Hole: The Space of Thinking.” Research in Phenomenology 31 (2001): 203-29.
  • “Mondrian's Opening: The Space of Painting.” Invited lecture delivered in the Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University, April 1997. Published on the website for the “After Postmodenism Conference”: http://www.focusing.org/Schuf.html
  • “The Onto-Theo-Logical Nature of Anselm's Metaphysics." Philosophy Today 40.4/4 (Winter 1996): 449-63.
  • “A Classical Misunderstanding of Anselm's Argument.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1992): 489-99.
  • “Heidegger's Contribution to a Phenomenology of Culture.” The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 17.2 (1986): 166 83.
  • “Overpowering the Center: Three Compositions by Mondrian.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism44.1 (1985): 13 28.
  • “The Logic of the Absurd.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44.1 (1983): 61 83.
  • “Reunderstanding Anselm's Argument.” The New Scholasticism 57.3 (1983): 384 409.
  • “Kierkegaard on Belief Without Justification.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12.3 (1981): 149 64.
  • “Heidegger on Community.” Man and World 14.1 (1981): 25 54.
  • “What is it for God to Exist?” The New Scholasticism 55.1 (1981): 77 94.
  • “Art and the Problem of Truth.” Man and World 13.1 (1980): 57 84.
  • “The Metaphysician as Poet Magician.” Metaphilosophy 10.3-4 (1979): 265 88.
  • “The Identity of Anselm's Argument.” The Modern Schoolman 54.4 (1977): 345 61.

Essays

  • “Sticking Heidegger with a Stela: Lacoue-Labarthe, Politics, and Art.” Pages 187-214 in French Receptions of Heidegger. SUNY Press, 2008.
  • “Re:Thinking Facticity.” Pages 345-74 in Rethinking Facticity. SUNY Press, 2008.

Other

  • “The Art of Dying.” In Yoshinobu, catalogue for a show at the Approdi Cultural Arts Center, Rome, Italy. May, 1999.
  • “The Electric Chair.” In Leofreddi: Human Being 1999, catalogue for a show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington D.C. April, 1999.

 

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