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ALAN DOUGLAS SCHRIFT Department of Philosophy 1032 Chatterton Street Grinnell College Grinnell, IA 50112 Grinnell, IA 50112 (641) 269-3161 or 269-3157 159 rue du Temple FAX: 641-269-4414 75003 Paris EMAIL: [email protected] France Present Position F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College Executive Co-Director, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (2019-2022) Other Professional Positions General Editor, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Stanford University Press) Member, Editorial Board, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, New Nietzsche Studies, Southern Journal of Philosophy Member, Advisory Board, symplokē Member, HyperNietzsche International Research Group Past Professional Positions Inaugural Director, Grinnell College Center for the Humanities, Grinnell College (1999-2007) Member, Executive Committee, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (2014-17) Member, Committee for the Status of Women, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (2003-2006) Chair, Program Committee, North American Nietzsche Society (1998-2004) Member, Program Committee, American Philosophical Association Central Division (2003, 2006) Editor, International Studies in Philosophy, Annual North American Nietzsche Society issue (1998-2004) Areas of Specialization Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy Nineteenth-Century Philosophy Philosophy of Literature Publications Books Authored Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2006). Selected Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2006. Greek translation: Η γαλλική φιλοσοφία στον 20ό αιώνα. Βασικά θέματα και διανοητές Trans. Vassilis Dzounis. (Athens: Plethron Publishing, 2017). Books Authored (Continued) Nietzsche’s French Legacy: A Genealogy of Poststructuralism, an examination of post-1960 French appropriations of Nietzsche by Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Hélène Cixous (New York: Routledge, 1995). Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction, a comparative analysis of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida’s interpretations of Nietzsche, examining these interpretations as exemplary of their respective approaches to the history of philosophy (New York: Routledge, 1990). Korean translation: 1997. Books Edited Unpublished Fragments (Spring 1885–Spring 1886). Volume 16 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Translated by Adrian Del Caro. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. Co-edited with Duncan Large. Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Summer 1882–Winter 1883/84). Volume 14 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Translated by Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. Co-edited with Duncan Large. Transcendence and the Concrete: Selected Writings of Jean Wahl. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016). Co-edited with Ian Alexander Moore. Beyond Good and Evil/On the Genealogy of Morality. Volume 8 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Translated by Adrian Del Caro. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. Co-edited with Duncan Large. Human, All Too Human II and Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Human, All Too Human II (Spring 1878–Fall 1879). Volume 4 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Translated by Gary Handwerk. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Co- edited with Duncan Large. Dawn. Volume 5 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Translated by Brittain Smith. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. Co-edited with Keith Ansell-Pearson and Duncan Large. General Editor, The History of Continental Philosophy, 8 volumes (London: Acumen Press/Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010). Reviewed as “Essential” by Choice and awarded “Honorable Mention” in the category “Multi-volume Reference Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences” by American Publishers Awards for Scholarly Excellence. Poststructuralism and Critical Theory’s Second Generation, Volume 6 of The History of Continental Philosophy (London: Acumen Press/Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010). Alan D. Schrift 9/27/2019 Page 2 Books Edited (Continued) Nineteenth-Century Philosophy: Revolutionary Responses to the Existing Order, Volume 2 of The History of Continental Philosophy (London: Acumen Press/Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010). Co-edited with Daniel Conway. The New Century: Bergsonism, Phenomenology, and Responses to Modern Science, Volume 3 of The History of Continental Philosophy (London: Acumen Press/Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010). Co-edited with Keith Ansell-Pearson. Modernity and the Problem of Evil, an interdisciplinary collection of new essays on the topic by philosophers, religious studies and political theorists (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005). Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, an interdisciplinary anthology of new essays on Nietzsche (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity, an interdisciplinary anthology of articles by philosophers, anthropologists, and literary theorists (New York: Routledge, 1997). The Hermeneutic Tradition: From Ast to Ricoeur, an anthology of readings on the issues and themes of 19th and 20th century philosophical hermeneutics, edited with an introduction by Alan D. Schrift and Gayle L. Ormiston (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990). Transforming the Hermeneutic Context: From Nietzsche to Nancy, an anthology of recent contributions to interpretation theory, situating these contributions within the hermeneutic tradition, edited with an introduction by Alan D. Schrift and Gayle L. Ormiston (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990) Journal Volumes Edited International Studies in Philosophy 36:3 (2004): Proceedings of the North American Nietzsche Society, 12 essays, 196 pages. International Studies in Philosophy 35:3 (2003): Proceedings of the North American Nietzsche Society, 11 essays, 196 pages. International Studies in Philosophy 34:3 (2002): Proceedings of the North American Nietzsche Society, 12 essays, 194 pages. International Studies in Philosophy 33:3 (2001): Proceedings of the North American Nietzsche Society, 9 essays, 149 pages. International Studies in Philosophy 32:3 (2000): Proceedings of the North American Nietzsche Society, 11 essays, 156 pages. International Studies in Philosophy 31:3 (1999): Proceedings of the North American Nietzsche Society, 12 essays, 156 pages. Alan D. Schrift 9/27/2019 Page 3 Journal Volumes Edited (Continued) International Studies in Philosophy 30:3 (1998): Proceedings of the North American Nietzsche Society, 12 essays, 149 pages. Articles and Book Chapters 1) “Nietzsche and the Emergence of Poststructuralism,” in Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics, ed. Gavin Rae and Emma Ingala (New York: Routledge, forthcoming). 2) “Pluralism = Monism: What Deleuze learns from Nietzsche and Spinoza,” in Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of Freedom: Freedom’s Refrains, ed. Dorothea Olkowski and Eftichis Pirovolakis (New York: Routledge, 2019). Pp. 155-167. 3) Jean André WAHL (1888–1974), encyclopedia entry for the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers, forthcoming. 4) “Nietzsche and Foucault’s ‘Will to Know,’” in Foucault and Nietzsche: A Critical Encounter, ed. Joseph Westfall and Alan Rosenberg (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018). Pp. 59-78 5) “Foucault and Poststructuralism,” in A Companion to Literary Theory, ed. David Richter (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2018). Pp. 176-87. 6) “Should Philosophers Still Read Mauss? Thoughts on Contemporary American Politics,” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 28:3 (2014): 389-400. 7) “Pourquoi les philosophes devraient toujours lire Mauss (aux Etats-Unis d’Amérique en particulier),” in Marcel Mauss, en théorie et en pratique -- Anthropologie, sociologie, philosophie, ed. Erwan Dianteill (Paris: L’Harmattan: Le Sandre / Archives Karéline, 2014). 8) “Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida: A Chronology,” in Between Foucault and Derrida, ed. Nicolae Morar, Vernon Cisney, and Yubraj Aryal (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016): ix-xx. 9) “French Philosophy,” entry article, co-authored with Tim Moore in the Third Edition of The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). Pp. 387-394. 10) “Gilles Deleuze,” entry article in the Third Edition of The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). P. 251. 11) “Poststructuralism,” entry article in the Third Edition of The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). P. 851. 12) “Spinoza vs. Kant: Have I Been Understood?” in Nietzsche and Political Thought, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014). Pp. 107-122. 13) “Man,” in The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, ed. Leonard Lawlor and John Nale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). Pp. 281-287. Alan D. Schrift 9/27/2019 Page 4 Articles and Book Chapters (Continued) 14) “Friedrich Nietzsche,” in The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, ed. Leonard Lawlor and John Nale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). Pp. 662-668. 15) “Discipline and Punish,” in A Companion to Foucault, ed. Christopher Falzon, Timothy O’Leary, and Jana Sawicki (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2013). Pp. 137-153. 16) “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: A Status Report,” Journal of