Simon Glendinning
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Dr Simon Glendinning is an English philosopher currently teaching in the European Institute at the London School of Economics
. He is Director of the Forum for European Philosophy
.
Glendinning's work is characterised by the way in which it engages with thinkers and themes from both the 'analytic' and 'continental' traditions in philosophy. His first book, On Being With Others: Heidegger-Wittgenstein-Derrida, is an analysis of the problem of other minds. His later writings are largely concerned with the phenomenological tradition in philosophy. In the Name of Phenomenology is a detailed study of that tradition. The Idea of Continental Philosophy is a critique of the contemporary division between ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’ philosophy, and argues that phenomenological philosophy in particular should not be conceived as an exclusively ‘continental’ tradition.
His father is the Goya specialist, Nigel Glendinning. His mother is the author, Victoria Glendinning
. He is the youngest of four brothers. The eldest, Paul Glendinning, is a mathematician at the University of Manchester. The second is the photographer, Hugo Glendinning, and the third is sports journalist, Matthew Glendinning. He lives with his partner, Jennie Walmsley, and their three children, Martha, Stanley and Albert, in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, a small village in South Oxfordshire (for which he also plays cricket).
and at the University of York
.
Past and present careers
Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE, 2004- current
Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Reading, 1997–2004
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Kent, 1993–97
Author, In the Name of Phenomenology, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. xi + 268, 2007.
Author, The Idea of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh: EUP, pp. v + 144, 2006.
Author, On Being with Others: Heidegger-Derrida-Wittgenstein, London: Routledge, pp. x + 173, 1998.
Editor (with Robert Eaglestone), Derrida’s Legacies: Literature and Philosophy, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. xxvi + 155, 2008. Includes sole-authored full-length contributing essay as ‘Preface’, pp. xi-xxvi.
Editor, Arguing with Derrida, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 1–143. Includes editor’s preface pp. 1–8 and contributing essay, ‘Inheriting Philosophy: The Case of Austin and Derrida’, pp. 9–35, 2001.
Editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh: EUP, pp. xiii + 683. Includes editor’s introduction, ‘What is Continental Philosophy’, pp. 3–20, 1999.
‘Reply to Jack Reynolds’ Critical Notice of The Idea of Continental Philosophy’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies. Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 273–280, 2009.
‘Europa, secolarizzazione e democrazia liberale’, Teoria, XXVIII, 2, pp. 99–115, (in Italian), 2009.
‘From European Philosophy to Philosophy of Europe’, Oxford Literary Review, Vol. 28, pp. 37–52, 2008.
'What is Phenomenology?’, Philosophy Compass, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-21, 2008.
‘Le plaisir de la lecture: Reading the Other Animal’, Parallax, No. 38, pp. 81–95, 2006.
‘Thinking about (going to) the university’, Critical Quarterly, Vol. 47, Nos. 1-2, pp. 111–117, 2005.
‘Communication and Writing: A Public Language Argument’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 100, pp. 271–286, 2000.
‘From Animal Life to City Life’, Angelaki, Vol. 5, No 3. pp. 19–30, 2000.
‘John McDowell on Experience: Open to the Sceptic?’, (with Max de Gaynesford), Metaphilosophy, pp. 20–33, 1998.
‘Perception and Hallucination’, Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 314–318, 1998.
‘Analytical and Continental Philosophy’, Filosoficky Casopis, Vol. 44, pp. 257–276, (in Czech.), 1997.
‘Heidegger and the Question of Animality’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 pp. 67–86, 1996.
‘Merleau-Ponty and the Genius of Man’, in Reading Merleau-Ponty, ed. T. Baldwin, London: Routledge, 2007.
‘The Everydayness of Don Giovanni’, in Philosophy as Film, ed. R. Read and J. Goodenough, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 94–113, 2005.
‘Language’ in Understanding Derrida, eds. J. Reynolds and J. Roffe, London: Continuum, pp. 5–13, 2004.
‘Philosophy as Nomadism’, ‘State of the Art’ contribution to What Philosophy Is, eds. H. Carel and D. Gamez, London: Continuum, pp. 155–167, 2004.
‘The End of Philosophy as Metaphysics’ in Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945, ed. T. Baldwin, Cambridge University Press, pp. 563–575, 2004.
‘Continental Philosophy’ in Fundamentals of Philosophy, ed. J. Shand, London: Routledge, pp. 408–442, 2003.
‘Wittgenstein’s Apocalyptic Librarian’ in Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy: A Reassessment after 50 years, eds. R. Haller and K. Puhl, Vienna: öbv&hpt, pp. 71–80, 2002.
‘Heidegger’, in Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, eds. B. Gaut and D. Lopes, London: Routledge, pp. 107–118, 2001.
‘The Ethics of Exclusion’, in Questioning Ethics, eds. R. Kearney and M. Dooley, London: Routledge, pp. 120–131, 1999.
R. C. Solomon, Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts: Experience and Reflection in Camus and Sartre (OUP), Mind, Vol. 117, No. 468, pp. 1135–1139, 2008.
B. Leiter and M. Rosen, The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy, TLS, No. 5502, p. 23, 2008.
J. Powell, Jacques Derrida: A Biography, THES, 20 April 2007.
A. Tannesini, Wittgenstein: A Feminist Interpretation, G. Kitching, Wittgenstein and Society: Essays in Conceptual Puzzlement, Radical Philosophy, 130, pp. 36–40, 2005.
S. Wheeler, Deconstruction as Analytic Philosophy, Philosophical Books, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 51–3, 2004.
R.D. Cumming, Phenomenology and Deconstruction (4 Vols.), TLS. No. 5239, p. 7, 2003
Critical Notice of H. Phillipse, Heidegger’s Philosophy of Being, Ratio, Vol. XIV no. 3, pp. 281–288, 2001.
D. Moran, Introduction to Phenomenology, and R. Sokolowski, Introduction to Phenomenology, Mind, Vol.110, No. 438, pp. 516–523, 2001.
J. Derrida, The Monolingualism of the Other, and C. Howells, Derrida, TLS. No. 5092, p. 32, 2000. (Reprinted in The Hindu Times, Sunday December 3, 2000.)
J. McDowell, Mind and World, Radical Philosophy 73, pp. 40–1, 1996.
J. Derrida, Aporias, Radical Philosophy 69, pp. 46–7, 1995.
P. Fenves (ed.), Raising the Tone of Philosophy, TLS, No. 4712, p. 22, 1993.
D. Pears, The False Prison, Vol. II, Philosophical Books, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 156–8, 1990.
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
. He is Director of the Forum for European Philosophy
Forum for European Philosophy
The Forum for European Philosophy is an international philosophical society whose purpose is to promote the discussion of philosophy in Europe. The organization sponsors free public events, such as conferences, reading groups and book forums....
.
Glendinning's work is characterised by the way in which it engages with thinkers and themes from both the 'analytic' and 'continental' traditions in philosophy. His first book, On Being With Others: Heidegger-Wittgenstein-Derrida, is an analysis of the problem of other minds. His later writings are largely concerned with the phenomenological tradition in philosophy. In the Name of Phenomenology is a detailed study of that tradition. The Idea of Continental Philosophy is a critique of the contemporary division between ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’ philosophy, and argues that phenomenological philosophy in particular should not be conceived as an exclusively ‘continental’ tradition.
His father is the Goya specialist, Nigel Glendinning. His mother is the author, Victoria Glendinning
Victoria Glendinning
The Hon. Victoria Glendinning, CBE , is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist; she is President of English PEN, a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was awarded a CBE in 1998 and is Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature.- Biography :She was born in Sheffield...
. He is the youngest of four brothers. The eldest, Paul Glendinning, is a mathematician at the University of Manchester. The second is the photographer, Hugo Glendinning, and the third is sports journalist, Matthew Glendinning. He lives with his partner, Jennie Walmsley, and their three children, Martha, Stanley and Albert, in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, a small village in South Oxfordshire (for which he also plays cricket).
Academic career
Glendinning studied philosophy at the University of OxfordUniversity of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
and at the University of York
University of York
The University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects...
.
Past and present careers
Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE, 2004- current
Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Reading, 1997–2004
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Kent, 1993–97
Published Books and Books in Press
Author, A Very Short Introduction to Derrida, Oxford: OUP, August 2011.Author, In the Name of Phenomenology, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. xi + 268, 2007.
Author, The Idea of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh: EUP, pp. v + 144, 2006.
Author, On Being with Others: Heidegger-Derrida-Wittgenstein, London: Routledge, pp. x + 173, 1998.
Editor (with Robert Eaglestone), Derrida’s Legacies: Literature and Philosophy, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. xxvi + 155, 2008. Includes sole-authored full-length contributing essay as ‘Preface’, pp. xi-xxvi.
Editor, Arguing with Derrida, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 1–143. Includes editor’s preface pp. 1–8 and contributing essay, ‘Inheriting Philosophy: The Case of Austin and Derrida’, pp. 9–35, 2001.
Editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh: EUP, pp. xiii + 683. Includes editor’s introduction, ‘What is Continental Philosophy’, pp. 3–20, 1999.
Published Articles
‘Japheth’s World: The Rise of Secularism and the Revival of Religion Today’, The European Legacy, Vol. 14, No 4, pp. 409–426, 2009.‘Reply to Jack Reynolds’ Critical Notice of The Idea of Continental Philosophy’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies. Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 273–280, 2009.
‘Europa, secolarizzazione e democrazia liberale’, Teoria, XXVIII, 2, pp. 99–115, (in Italian), 2009.
‘From European Philosophy to Philosophy of Europe’, Oxford Literary Review, Vol. 28, pp. 37–52, 2008.
'What is Phenomenology?’, Philosophy Compass, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-21, 2008.
‘Le plaisir de la lecture: Reading the Other Animal’, Parallax, No. 38, pp. 81–95, 2006.
‘Thinking about (going to) the university’, Critical Quarterly, Vol. 47, Nos. 1-2, pp. 111–117, 2005.
‘Communication and Writing: A Public Language Argument’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 100, pp. 271–286, 2000.
‘From Animal Life to City Life’, Angelaki, Vol. 5, No 3. pp. 19–30, 2000.
‘John McDowell on Experience: Open to the Sceptic?’, (with Max de Gaynesford), Metaphilosophy, pp. 20–33, 1998.
‘Perception and Hallucination’, Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 314–318, 1998.
‘Analytical and Continental Philosophy’, Filosoficky Casopis, Vol. 44, pp. 257–276, (in Czech.), 1997.
‘Heidegger and the Question of Animality’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 pp. 67–86, 1996.
Chapters in Books
‘Argument All the Way Down: The Demanding Discipline of Non-Argumento-Centric Modes of Philosophy, in Postanalytic and Metacontinental: On the Futures of Philosophy?, eds. James Williams and Jack Reynolds, London: Continuum, 2010.‘Merleau-Ponty and the Genius of Man’, in Reading Merleau-Ponty, ed. T. Baldwin, London: Routledge, 2007.
‘The Everydayness of Don Giovanni’, in Philosophy as Film, ed. R. Read and J. Goodenough, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 94–113, 2005.
‘Language’ in Understanding Derrida, eds. J. Reynolds and J. Roffe, London: Continuum, pp. 5–13, 2004.
‘Philosophy as Nomadism’, ‘State of the Art’ contribution to What Philosophy Is, eds. H. Carel and D. Gamez, London: Continuum, pp. 155–167, 2004.
‘The End of Philosophy as Metaphysics’ in Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945, ed. T. Baldwin, Cambridge University Press, pp. 563–575, 2004.
‘Continental Philosophy’ in Fundamentals of Philosophy, ed. J. Shand, London: Routledge, pp. 408–442, 2003.
‘Wittgenstein’s Apocalyptic Librarian’ in Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy: A Reassessment after 50 years, eds. R. Haller and K. Puhl, Vienna: öbv&hpt, pp. 71–80, 2002.
‘Heidegger’, in Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, eds. B. Gaut and D. Lopes, London: Routledge, pp. 107–118, 2001.
‘The Ethics of Exclusion’, in Questioning Ethics, eds. R. Kearney and M. Dooley, London: Routledge, pp. 120–131, 1999.
Reviews
Review Essay of Goodrich, Hoffmann, Rosenfeld and Vismann (eds), Derrida and Legal Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Modern Law Review, 2011.R. C. Solomon, Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts: Experience and Reflection in Camus and Sartre (OUP), Mind, Vol. 117, No. 468, pp. 1135–1139, 2008.
B. Leiter and M. Rosen, The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy, TLS, No. 5502, p. 23, 2008.
J. Powell, Jacques Derrida: A Biography, THES, 20 April 2007.
A. Tannesini, Wittgenstein: A Feminist Interpretation, G. Kitching, Wittgenstein and Society: Essays in Conceptual Puzzlement, Radical Philosophy, 130, pp. 36–40, 2005.
S. Wheeler, Deconstruction as Analytic Philosophy, Philosophical Books, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 51–3, 2004.
R.D. Cumming, Phenomenology and Deconstruction (4 Vols.), TLS. No. 5239, p. 7, 2003
Critical Notice of H. Phillipse, Heidegger’s Philosophy of Being, Ratio, Vol. XIV no. 3, pp. 281–288, 2001.
D. Moran, Introduction to Phenomenology, and R. Sokolowski, Introduction to Phenomenology, Mind, Vol.110, No. 438, pp. 516–523, 2001.
J. Derrida, The Monolingualism of the Other, and C. Howells, Derrida, TLS. No. 5092, p. 32, 2000. (Reprinted in The Hindu Times, Sunday December 3, 2000.)
J. McDowell, Mind and World, Radical Philosophy 73, pp. 40–1, 1996.
J. Derrida, Aporias, Radical Philosophy 69, pp. 46–7, 1995.
P. Fenves (ed.), Raising the Tone of Philosophy, TLS, No. 4712, p. 22, 1993.
D. Pears, The False Prison, Vol. II, Philosophical Books, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 156–8, 1990.