Career and work

McNeill was educated at the University of Essex

University of Essex

The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...

, and he is now teaching Heidegger at DePaul University. He is a translator of the work of Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."...

, about whom he has written two books. The Glance of the Eye (1999) closely examines the relation between Heidegger's thought and Greek philosophy

Greek philosophy

Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BCE and continued through the Hellenistic period, at which point Ancient Greece was incorporated in the Roman Empire...

, in particular his relation to Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...

. The Time of Life (2006) is an examination of the implications of Heidegger's thought for ethics

Ethics

Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.Major branches of ethics include:...

.

Books authored

• The Time of Life: Heidegger and Ethos (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006).
• The Glance of the Eye: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Ends of Theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999).

Books edited

• Continental Philosophy: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998). Co-edited with Karen Feldman.

Selected articles

• "A Wave in the Stream of Chaos: Life Beyond the Body in Heidegger's Nietzsche," Philosophy Today 50 (2006): 156–61.
• "The Time of Contributions to Philosophy," in Charles E. Scott, Susan M. Schoenbohm, Daniela Vallega-Neu & Alejandro Vallega (eds.), Companion to Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001).
• "A 'scarcely pondered word.' The Place of Tragedy: Heidegger, Aristotle, Sophocles
  Sophocles
  Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides...
  
  ," in Miguel de Beistegui & Simon Sparks (eds.), Philosophy and Tragedy (Minneapolis & Oxford: University of Minnesota Press, 2000).
• "Care for the Self: Originary Ethics in Heidegger and Foucault
  Michel Foucault
  Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
  
  ," Philosophy Today 42 (1998): 53–64.
• "The First Principle of Hermeneutics," in Theodore Kisiel
  Theodore Kisiel
  Theodore Kisiel, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Northern Illinois University, is a well-known translator of and commentator on the works of Martin Heidegger. Kisiel is known for his research on the development of Heidegger's early thought...
  
   & John van Buren (eds.), Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in His Earliest Thought (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994).
• "Spirit's Living Hand," in David Wood
  David Wood (philosopher)
  David Wood is a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University.- Career and interests :Wood has taught philosophy in Europe and the United States for over thirty years and has published 16 books. In addition to teaching at Vanderbilt University, where he is Centennial Professor of Philosophy,...
  
   (ed.), Of Derrida, Heidegger, and Spirit (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1993).
• "Metaphysics, Fundamental Ontology, Metontology," Heidegger Studies 8 (1992): 63–79.
• "Porosity: Violence and the Question of Politics in Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics," Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 14, 2–15, 1 (1991): 183–212.

Heidegger translations

• Pathmarks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Gesamtausgabe
  Gesamtausgabe (Heidegger)
  Heidegger Gesamtausgabe is the term for the collected works of German philosopher Martin Heidegger, published by The Gesamtausgabe was begun during Heidegger's lifetime...
  
  , vol. 9.
• Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister" (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996). With Julia Davis. Gesamtausgabe, vol. 53.
• The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995). With Nicholas Walker. Gesamtausgabe, vol. 29/30.
• The Concept of Time (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992). From Gesamtausgabe, vol. 64.

See also

• American philosophy
  American philosophy
  American philosophy is the philosophical activity or output of Americans, both within the United States and abroad. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes that while American philosophy lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can nevertheless be seen as both reflecting and...
  
  
• List of American philosophers