NICKOLAS PAPPAS Professor of Philosophy, City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
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NICKOLAS PAPPAS Professor of Philosophy, City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. [email protected] POSITIONS HELD 2017- Executive Officer (Chair), Program in Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center. 2007- Professor of Philosophy, City College and the CUNY Graduate Center. 2002-2007 Chair, Department of Philosophy, City College of New York. 1999-2000 Chair, Department of Philosophy, City College of New York. 1993-2006 Associate Professor of Philosophy, City College and the CUNY Graduate Center. 1987-1993 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Hollins University. BOOKS 1. Plato’s Exceptional Love, City, and Philosopher, London, Routledge, 2021. 2. The Philosopher’s New Clothes: The Theaetetus, the Academy, and Philosophy’s Turn against Fashion, London, Routledge, 2016. 3. Politics and Philosophy in Plato’s Menexenus: Education and Rhetoric, Myth and History (co-written with Mark Zelcer), London, Routledge, 2015. 4. Guidebook to Plato and the Republic, London, Routledge: first edition 1995, second edition 2004, third edition 2013. Translated into Portuguese (2003), Greek (2005), Chinese (2007), Persian (2013). 5. The Nietzsche Disappointment: Reckoning with Nietzsche’s Unkept Promises on Origins and Outcomes, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 6. Study Guide to accompany Critical Thinking by Brooke Noel Moore and Richard Parker. Mountain View CA, Mayfield Publishing; 5th edition 1998, 6th edition 2001, 7th edition 2004. JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS 1. “Republic” and “Menexenus,” entries in Gerald Press and Mateo Duque (eds.) The Bloomsbury Companion to Plato. London, Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming. 2. “The Lie: Becoming Dreams Being-Dreams of Becoming,” Classics@ (online publication) 2020. 3. “Ancient Conceptions of the Visual Arts,” in Noël Carroll and Jonathan Gilmore (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook for the Philosophy of Visual Art, forthcoming. 4. “Mimesis and Simulacrum in Aristotle and Plato,” in Krešimir Purgar (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies, forthcoming. 5. “Humility and Truth in Nietzsche’s Genealogy: The Humblebrag of the Lambs,” in Mark Alfano, Michael P. Lynch, and Alessandra Tanesini (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility. Oxford and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 84-96. 6. “If Philosophy were a Fashion Show – What Then? Beyond Good & Evil 223 and Like Passages,” in Eugenia Paulicelli et al. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies (forthcoming). 7. “Spike Jonze’s Her: Love and the Science Fiction Film,” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 43.2 (2020): 301-312. 8. “Hippocrates at Phaedrus 270c,” by Elizabeth Jelinek and Nickolas Pappas, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 101.3 (2020): 409-430. 9. “Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of Film,” in Noël Carroll et al. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook for the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures. London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019, pp. 923-945. 10. “Tragedy’s Picture of Mourning,” Politeia 1 (2019): 2-16. 11. “Toward and from Philosophy,” in Heather L. Reid and Tony Leyh (eds.), Looking at Beauty: to kalon in Western Greece. Sioux City, Parnassos Press, 2019, pp. 161-172. Reprinted in Reid and Mark Ralkowski (eds.) Plato at Syracuse: Essays on Plato in Western Greece. Sioux City, Parnassos Press, 2019, pp. 293-304. Nickolas Pappas 2 12. “Home Schooling: Philosophy without Travel,” in Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz (eds.) Philosophy, Travel, and Place. London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, pp. 99-111. 13. “Improvisatory Rhetoric in the Menexenus,” in Harold Parker and Jan Maximilian Robitzsch (eds.) Speeches for the Dead: Essays on Plato’s Menexenus. Berlin, de Gruyter Press, 2018, 71-89. 14. “Crime and Punishment Rereading and Rewriting Plato’s Gorgias,” Journal Mundo Eslavo 16 (2017): 192-198. 15. “‘Philosophy that is Ancient’: Teaching Ancient Philosophy in Context,” APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 17.1 (fall 2017): 8-16. 16. “A Little Move toward Greek Philosophy: Reassessing the Statesman Myth,” in John Sallis (ed.) Plato’s Statesman: Dialectic, Myth, and Politics. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2017, 85-106. 17. “Telling Good Love from Bad in Plato’s Phaedrus,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 30.1 (2017): 41-58. 18. “Anti-Fashion: If Not Fashion, then What?” in Giovanni Matteucci and Stefano Marino (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion. London, Bloomsbury, 2016, 73-89. 19. “Plato’s Aesthetics,” entry in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Electronic publication: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-aesthetics. Revised in 2016 and 2012 from original 2007 entry. 20. “Two Myths of Philosophy’s Beginnings,” Philosophical Inquiry: International Quarterly 40(3-4) (2016): 6-22. 21. “Women at the Gymnasium and Consent for the Republic’s City,” Diálogos 98 (2015): 27-54. 22. “Beauty in Classical Philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus,” entry in Michael Kelly (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2nd edition. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014. Revision of entry previously appearing in 1st edition, 1998. 23. “Nietzsche’s Apollo,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (2014): 43-53. 24. “The Story that Philosophers Will Be Telling of the Sophist,” New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 13 (2013): 339-352. 25. “Introduction” to papers co-edited on Plato’s Sophist, New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 13 (2013): 277-282. 26. “Plato’s Menexenus as a History that Falls into Patterns,” co-written with Mark Zelcer, Ancient Philosophy 33 (2013): 19-31. 27. “The Impiety of the Imitator in Republic 10,” Epoché 17 (2013): 219-232. 28. “Magic and Art in Vertigo,” Katalin Makkai (ed.) Essays on Vertigo, London, Routledge, 2012, 18-44. 29. “Aristotle,” in Berys Gaut and Dominic Lopes (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, 3rd edition. London, Routledge, 2012. Revision of entry previously in 2nd edition, 2005, and 1st edition, 2001. 30. “Republic” and “Menexenus,” entries in Gerald Press (ed.) The Continuum Companion to Plato. London, Continuum Press, 2012, 71-72 & 87-91. 31. “Plato on Poetry: Imitation or Inspiration?” Philosophy Compass 10 (2012): 1-10. Electronic publication. 32. “Autochthony in Plato’s Menexenus,” Philosophical Inquiry 34 (2011): 66-80. 33. Review essay, Catalin Partenie, Plato’s Myths, Philosophical Inquiry 34 (2011): 101-106. 34. “The Naked Truth of Anti-Fashion Philosophy,” in Ronald Scapp and Brian Seitz (eds.) Fashion Statements. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, pp. 143-158. 35. “A Philosopher’s Appreciation for Jean-Pierre Vernant (January 4, 1914 – January 9, 2007),” The Nietzsche Circle 2008. Electronic publication: nietzschecircle.com/Vernant_pappasa.html 36. “Fashion Seen as Something Imitative and Foreign,” The British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (2008): 1-19. 37. “Aristotle’s Aesthetiquette,” in Ronald Scapp and Brian Seitz (eds.) Etiquette: Reflections on Contemporary Comportment. Albany, SUNY Press, 2006, pp. 8 – 17. 38. “Morality Gags,” The Monist 88 (2005): 52-71. 39. “The Eternal-Serpentine,” in Christa D. Acampora and Ralph R. Acampora (eds.), A Nietzschean Bestiary. Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield, 2004, pp. 71-82. Nickolas Pappas 3 40. “Authorship and Authority,” in William Irwin (ed.) The Death and Resurrection of the Author? Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 2002, pp. 317-32; revised from 1989 journal article. 41. “Philhellenism and Greek Philosophy,” The Philosophical Forum 32 (2001): 165-73. 42. “Mimêsis in Aristophanes and Plato,” Philosophical Inquiry 21 (1999): 61-78. 43. “Psychoanalysis and Film: The Question of the Interpreter,” in Robert Prince (ed.) The Death of Psychoanalysis. Northvale NJ, Aronson Press, 1999, pp. 305-320. 44. “Fancy Justice: Martha Nussbaum on the Political Value of the Novel,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 78 (1997): 278-296. 45. “Failures of Marriage in Sea of Love,” in C. Freeland and T. Wartenberg (eds.) Philosophy and Film, London, Routledge, 1995, pp. 109-125. 46. “The Poetics’ Argument against Plato,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 30 (1992): 83-100. 47. “The Despair Ignorant of Being Despair” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 73 (1991): 281-96. 48. “Knowing and Saying that I Know,” Philosophy 66 (1991): 487-502. 49. “A Sea of Love Among Men,” Film Criticism 14 (1990): 14-26. 50. “Socrates’ Charitable Treatment of Poetry,” Philosophy and Literature 13 (1989): 248-61. 51. “Authorship and Authority,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (1989): 325-32. 52. “Plato’s Ion: The Problem of the Author,” Philosophy 64 (1989): 381-89. BOOK REVIEWS 1. Marina Berzins McCoy, Image and Argument in Plato’s Republic, Review of Metaphysics 74.2 (December 2020): 397-398. 2. C. D. C. Reeve (tr.) The Physics of Aristotle, APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 18.1 (fall 2018): 2-7. 3. Rick Benitez and Keping Wang (eds.), Reflections on Plato’s Poetics: Essays from Beijing, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76.3 (2018): 368-371. 4. Myles Burnyeat and Michael Frede, The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter, Philosophical Forum 47.1 (2016): 39-45. 5. Anne Sheppard, Poetics of Phantasia: Imagination in Ancient Athens, Gnomon 88 (2016): 448-449. 6. Lorraine Smith Pangle, Virtue is Knowledge: The Moral Foundations of Socratic Political Philosophy, Classical Review 65.1 (2015): 47-49. 7. C. D. C. Reeve, Blindness and Reorientation: Problems in Plato’s Republic, Ancient Philosophy 34 (2014): 419-424. 8. Gerasimos Santas, Understanding Plato’s Republic, Ancient Philosophy 32 (2012): 185-190. 9. James I. Porter, The Origins of Aesthetic Thought