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Curriculum Vita January 2014 Bill Martin Contact information: Philosophy Department primarily email, please: DePaul University [email protected] 2352 N. Clifton Ave., Suite 150 secondarily, home phone: Chicago, IL 60614-3504 785.452.9467 Current position: Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University (hired August 1990; tenured and promoted to Associate May 1996; promoted to full professor May 2001) Visiting appointments: University of Sheffield, U.K., Department of English Literature, Spring 1998 and Spring 2002; Fudan University, Shanghai, School of Philosophy, March 2012 and October 2013; Ibero Panamericana University, Mexico City, October 2014. Areas of specialization: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy; Twentieth-Century Marxism; Marx and the interconnections between Kant and Marx; Sartre, Althusser, Derrida, Davidson, Badiou Areas of competence: Analytic Philosophy, principally metaphysics and epistemology from Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle to Quine and Davidson; Philosophy of Culture, principally literature and music; Education: University of Kansas, Ph.D. Philosophy, May 1991 University of Kansas, M.Phil. Philosophy, June 1988 University of South Carolina: M.A. Philosophy, October 1985 Furman University, B.A. Philosophy, May 1978 Dissertation: "Matrix and line: Derrida and the possibilities of postmodern social theory." Committee: Gary Shapiro (director), Richard T. DeGeorge, Rex Martin, Svetozar Stojanovic, Anthony Genova, Robert Antonio (Sociology, Kansas) Publications ("r" = refereed; "i" = invited) 1. Books Matrix and line: Derrida and the possibilities of postmodern social theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, August 1992). (r) Humanism and its aftermath: The shared fate of deconstruction and politics (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, August 1995). (r) Politics in the impasse: Explorations in postsecular social theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, March 1996). (r) Music of Yes: Structure and vision in progressive rock (Chicago: Open Court, October 1996). (r) Listening to the future: The time of progressive rock, 1968-1978 (Chicago: Open Court, October 1997). (r) The radical project: Sartrean Investigations (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, January 2001). (r) Avant rock: Experimental music from the Beatles to Bjork (Chicago: Open Court, March 2002). (r) Marxism and the call of the future: conversations on ethics, history, and politics. Co-authored with Bob Avakian. (Chicago: Open Court, April 2005). (r) Ethical Marxism: the categorical imperative of liberation (Chicago: Open Court, March 2008). (r) 1.1 Work in progress: Most immediately, a longer book taking account of Alain Badiou’s ideas in a Marxist and post- Marxist context. Next I hope to complete a book on the legacies of French Marxism. At present I am also completing a short book on philosophy and comedy. 2. Book chapters “Foucault and Marxism.” Forthcoming in Leonard Lawlor and John Nale, eds., The Foucault Lexicon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). (i) "Sartre and the Legacy of French Marxism, After Althusser and Badiou." in Benedict O'Donohoe, ed., Severally Seeking Sartre (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013). “Marxist Ethics.” in Byron Kaldis, ed., Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences (London: Sage Publications, 2013). “Postmodern fascism and academic repression: After the Finkelstein case.” In Anthony J. Nocella, Steve Best, and Peter McLaren, eds., Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex (Edinburgh: AK Press, 2010). (i) “To the Stalingrad Station: Marxism in Continental Philosophy.” In John Mullarkey and Beth Lord, eds., The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy (London: Continuum Press, 2009). (i) “A Marxist in the business ethics classroom.” In Mollie Painter-Morland and Patricia Werhane, eds., Continental Approaches to Business Ethics (New York: Springer, 2009). (i) “The difficult ways of God and Caissa: Chess, theodicy, and determinism in James and Gadamer.” In Benjamin Hale, ed., Philosophy Looks at Chess (Chicago: Open Court, 2008). (i) "Redemption in the impasse: an other communism." In Jeffrey Paris and William Wilkerson, eds., New Critical Theory (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). (i) "Eurocentrically distorted communication." In Lewis E. Hahn, ed., Perspectives on the Philosophy of Jurgen Habermas (Chicago: Open Court, 2000). (i) "Interpretation and responsibility: excavating Davidson's ethical theory." In Lewis E. Hahn, ed., The Philosophy of Donald Davidson, a volume in The Library of Living Philosophers (Chicago: Open Court, 1999). (i) "Multiculturalism: consumerist or transformational?" In Cynthia Willett, ed., Theorizing Multiculturalism: A Guide to the Current Debate (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998). (i) "Analytic philosophy's narrative turn: Quine, Rorty, Davidson." In Reed Way Dasenbrock, ed., Literary Theory After Davidson (University Park: Penn State Press, 1993). (i) "Elements of a Derridean social theory." In Arleen Dallery and Charles Scott, eds., Ethics and Dangers: Essays on Heidegger and Continental Philosophy (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992). (r) Also in Steven Jay Gold, ed., Paradigms in Political Theory: Liberalism, Marxism, Postmodernism (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993). (i) 3. Journal articles “Gary Shapiro and the Nietzschean current after 1968.” Forthcoming in New Nietzsche Studies. (i) "Badiou's 'second modernity' and the idea of a Buddhist Marxism." (in Chinese) forthcoming in World Philosophy. "Maoism beyond China: South America, North America, and Western Europe." (in Chinese.) forthcoming in World Philosophy. "Capitalism as the divine kingdom of calculation, and Marxist conceptions of the alternative: A Response to Dr. Zhang Shuangli." (in Chinese.) World Philosophy, 2012 n.6. “A new chapter in the politics of irony: Cynthia Willett’s Irony in the Age of Empire.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, v.24, n.1 (2010), 78-84. ® “What is the opposite of bullshit? Engaged intellectual work, after Sartre.” Reconstruction, 8.1, March 2008. (i) [This is a very long interview with Joseph Ramsey in an online journal.] “Are there rogue philosophers? Derrida, at last.” Radical Philosophy Review, Winter 2006. (i) “Ayn Rand and the music of Rush.” The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, forthcoming 2003. (i) "Community, modernity, legitimation." Journal of Human Studies (1998). (i) "Why I write such flawed books." Social Epistemology, v.9, n.4 (1995). (i) "Political theory at the far edge of modernity." Review essay. Radical Philosophy Review of Books, Autumn 1995. (i) "The idea of enablement." Man and World, v.26 (1993). (r) "Liberalism: modern and postmodern." Social Epistemology, v.7, n.1 (January 1993). (i) "The ambiguous gift of community." Review essay. Praxis International, v.12, n.4 (January 1993). (r) "Radical hermeneutics and liberation theology." In Eugene Bales, ed., Proceedings of the Symposium on Hermeneutics and Catholic Philosophy (Conception, MO: Conception Seminary College Press, 1992). (r) "From alterity to architecture." (letters) From Exile, n.1, Fall 1991. (i) "The moral atmosphere: language and value in Davidson." The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, v.6, n.1 (January 1990). (r) "How Marxism became analytic." The Journal of Philosophy, v.LXXXVI, n.11 (November 1989). (r) "Politics of irony in Paul de Man," and "Postscript: Blindness and Hindsight." Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, v.13, n.3 (Fall 1989). (r) "The feminist path to postmodernity: Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse." Philosophy and Literature, v.13, n.2 (Summer 1989). (r) "Apocalypse Derrida." Auslegung, v.14, n.2 (Summer 1988). (r) "The Enlightenment's talking cure: Habermas." The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, v.4, n.1 (January 1988). (r) "Return to the land of weird theologies." Social Epistemology, v.1, n.2 (April 1987). (i) "Nomad and empire: Nietzsche, guerilla theater, guerilla war." Arena n.77 (Winter 1986). (r) "Foucault: Power/Counter-power." Arena n.73 (Winter 1985). (r) 4. Bibliographies "About 'postmodern': a bibliography." In Gary Shapiro, ed., After the Future: Postmodern Times and Places (Albany: SUNY Press, 1989). (i) 5. Book reviews (all invited) St. Paul Among the Philosophers, edited by John D. Caputo and Linda Martin Alcoff. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009). In Notre Dame Philosophical Review, Feb. 3, 2010. The Latter Day Saints [sic]: A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions, by Ruth Kauffman and Reginald Wright Kauffman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994 [orig. 1912]). In Journal of Mormon History, v.22, n.2 (Fall 1996). Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International, by Jacques Derrida. International Philosophical Quarterly, Spring 1996. Images of Postmodern Society: Social Theory and Contemporary Cinema, by Norman K. Denzin. International Studies in Philosophy, Spring 1995. Social Action and Human Nature, by Axel Honneth and Hans Joas. Book note. Ethics, v.102, n.2 (January 1992). Rereading Levinas, ed. by Robert Bernasconi and Simon Critchley. Book note. Ethics, v.102, n.3 (March 1992). The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernity, by Richard J. Bernstein, and Lifeworld, Modernity, and Critique: Paths between Heidegger and the Frankfurt School, by Fred R. Dallmayr. The Times Higher Education Supplement, February 7, 1992. Politics and Culture: Working Hypotheses for a Post-Revolutionary Society, by