*** MICHAEL PLATT *** [email protected] (old: [email protected]) Friends of the Republic 1275 Knopp School Rd. 1158 Bixby Road Fredericksburg, TX 78624 tele: 830-997-4608 East Wallingford VT 05742 tele: 802-259-2517 STUDY 1956-60 Deerfield Academy (Thomas Mann Award) 1960-64 Harvard College B.A. cum laude . 1964-65 Oxford University (Worcester College). 1965-69 Yale University, M. Phil. (1968); Ph.D. (1971) in English. TEACHING 1969-75 Dartmouth College, Instructor (‘69-’72); Assistant Professor (‘72-’75) in English. 1976-78 Franklin and Marshall College, Assistant Professor in English. 1978-85 University of Dallas, Assoc. Professor, Literature and Institute of Philosophic Studies. 1986-87 + College of Thomas More (Ft. Worth), again in 1996, and in 2000; I remain a Fellow. 1996-97 Southern Virginia College, Professor and Chair of Humanities 1998— George Wythe University (Cedar City and Salt Lake City, Utah), Prof. of Philosophy, Statesmanship & Literature; annual visits for intensive teaching Visiting : 1982-83 Philosophisches Seminar der Universität Heidelberg (during Humboldt Fellowship) 1985-86 Philosophy & Humanities, State University of N. Y. (Geneseo) 1988 Government Department, Dartmouth College (Summer & Fall) 1988-89 Honors Program & Philosophy Department, University of North Texas 1989-90 Literary Studies (January) and then a year in Political Science, Middlebury College 1994 Honors College, University of Houston (Spring) 1994-96 Literature & Philosophy, University of Wyoming 2001 International Theological Institute, Gaming Austria (nihil obstat, Cardinal Schönborn) 2002-03 Baylor University (Honors College, Great Texts, and Political Science) 2006 Institut für Philosophie der Universität Greifswald (Humboldt Fellow) 2007- 08 Greifswald: Nietzsche Circle of Students 2011 Schreiner College (Faculty Seminars on Rembrandt) OFFICES 1979-80 Acting Director of the Graduate Program in Literature, Institute of Philosophic Studies, University of Dallas 1983-86 Chairman of the Nietzsche Society FELLOWSHIPS 1974 Dartmouth Faculty Fellowship 1975-76 Hastings Center for Biomedical Ethics 1977 N. E. H. Summer Stipend (study with Hans-Georg Gadamer) 1978 American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant (Vico in Venice) 1980 N. E. H. Summer Seminar (project on Nietzsche) 1980 Arthur Vining Davis Grant (project on Montaigne) 1982-83 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (work on Nietzsche with Hans-Georg Gadamer and Reiner Wiehl at Heidelberg) 1987-88 N. E. H. Fellowship (work on Nietzsche) 1989 Earhart Fellowship (work on Shakespeare) 1999 Director's Fellowship (for study in the Graduate Institute at St. John's, Santa Fe) 2006 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship Renewal (work on Nietzsche at Greifswald) LANGUAGES German reading, speaking, lecturing knowledge (four years in German-speaking lands) French so so reading knowledge Greek very elementary reading Latin: ancient Old English: old IN NUCE: The inquiries I carry forward in teaching, conversing, and writing address three matters chiefly: the rivalry of philosophy and poetry, the relation of reason and revelation, and the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns. Among my many superior companions have been Montaigne, Homer, Rembrandt, Tolstoy, Pascal, Thomas, Tocqueville, and Lincoln, but also the likes of Haydn, Halifax, Manzoni, Keller, and Cather. However, most helpful have been and are Nietzsche, Plato, the Bible, and Shakespeare, Shakespeare for the longest time. BOOKS Rome and Romans According to Shakespeare . Salzburg Studies in English Literature. Salzburg: University of Salzburg, 1976. (301 pages). Reviews: Shakespeare Jahrbuch (West) 1977, p. 195. (Hermann Heuer); Independent Journal of Philosophy , III (1979), pp. 144-46. (John Alvis); Times Literary Supplement (3 July 1981) listed among the few books that make Shakespeare studies as “inviting and stimulating as the ocean.” SECOND EDITION (with added chapters) . Lanham: University Press of America, 1983 (336 pages). Reviews: Will Morrisey, Interpretation: Journal of Political Philosophy , XIV (1): January, 1986, pp, 115-133. Shakespeare Jahrbuch (West) 1986, Ina Schabert, “Shakespeare als Politischer Philosoph: Sein Werk und die Schule von Leo Strauss,” pp. 7-25. THIRD EDITION. Lanham: University Press of America, 2013 (so I hope; ca. 125, 000 words) BOOKS in slow Progress: Mss Shakespeare's Christian Prince . Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2013 ( so I hope.) (ca. 120,000 words; in 1982, when entitled Shakespeare’s English Prince, it was accepted by UPA/Rowman; being a sequel to Rome and Romans , it might be published together with that book's third edition.) Mss Seven Wonders of Shakespeare , in 2013? (In 1998 when it was 25,000 words, it was warmly desired by Steve Wrinn for Rowman/Lexington Books; but now that it is 125,000 words, its comprehensive character may fit a wider audience; perhaps through internet publication.) Mss The Declaration of America and the Course of American Events (close readings of our founding documents, with study questions, esp. for home-schoolers; ca. 200 pages. 2013 so I hope) Mss MONOGRAPH (or cahier) "Dread of Something, Fear of Nothing" (on Hamlet and Lear ), printed at the St. Johns' College, Santa Fe, bookstore, as delivered there in 2006; to be augmented. Mss The Teenager and the West : my writings on the novelty of the Teenager---there were none before the 1950s--- including “The Myth of the Teenager”, most popular piece ever in Practical Home Schooling, and my “A Different Drummer” (against Rock music); Roger Scruton has agreed to write a preface for this book; first submission will be to Encounter Books, late spring of 2013, after the season of home-schoolers conventions. ARTICLES and ESSAYS (SOME READABLE ON THE GEORGE WYTHE COLLEGE WEBSITE ) “The Rape of Lucrece and the Republic for Which It Stands,” The Centennial Review , XIX (2): Spring 1975, pp. 59-79. (with revisions, in my Rome and Romans ) “Looking at the Body,” Hastings Center Report , V (2): April 1975, pp. 21-28. (Dialogue on anatomizing a corpse and looking at Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp ) Reprinted in Death and Dying , ed. Eleanor E. Goldstein, Social Issues Resources Series: Volume 1, (Boca Raton, Florida: Social Issues Resources, 1980). “On Correcting in Public and in Private,” College English , XXXVII (l): September 1975, pp. 22-27. “Writing Journals in Courses,” College English , XXXVII (4): December 1975, pp. 408-411. “On Asking to Die,” Hastings Center Report , V (6): December 1975, pp. 9-12. ( commentary on the plea of a severely burned young man to have treatment halted ) Reprinted in Death and Dying: Opposing Viewpoints , (St. Paul: Greenhaven Press, 1985). “Interpretation,” Interpretation: Journal of Political Philosophy , V (1): Autumn 1975, pp. 109-130. (dialogue on interpretation and friendship ) “Nietzsche on Flaubert and the Powerlessness of his Art,” Centennial Review , XX (3): Summer 1976, pp. 309-313. “Leo Strauss: Three Quarrels, Three Questions,” Newsletter (of the Politics and Literature Program, University of Dallas), II (2): Winter 1979, pp. 1-6. (incorporated below) “Looking at Bodies,” The Independent Journal of Philosophy (Vienna ), Volume III: (1979), pp. 87-90. (brief chronicle of humanity and dust ) “Falstaff in the Valley of the Shadow of Death,” Interpretation: Journal of Political Philosophy , VIII (1): January 1979, pp. 5-29. Reprinted, with revisions and additions, in Major Literary Characters: Falstaff ed. and intro. by Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1991), pp. 171-202. With further revisions and additions to appear in my Shakespeare’s Christian Prince. “Would Human Life Be Better Without Death?” Soundings , LXIII (3): Fall 1980, pp. 321-338. “Aristotle Gazing,” The College: The St. John's College Review , XXXI (2): January 1980, pp. 68-74. ( on Rembrandt’s “Aristotle with the Bust of Homer” ) “The Future of Death,” Man and Medicine , V (1): Winter 1980, pp. 1-2. “Shakespearean Wisdom?” in Shakespeare as Political Thinker , eds. John Alvis & Thomas G. West (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1981), pp. 257-276. ( on “Sonnet 94” ) Second Edition (Intercollegiate Studies Institute: Wilmington, 2000), pp. 353-379. “Tradition and the Individual Soul,” Intercollegiate Review, XVII (1): Fall/Winter 1981, pp. 47-51. “Woman, Nietzsche, and Nature,” Maieutics , No. 2: Winter 1981, pp. 27-42. “Shakespeare’s Apology for Poetry,” in Shakespeare and the Arts: A Collection of Essays from the Ohio Shakespeare Conference—1981, eds. C. W. Cary and H. S. Limouze (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1982), pp. 231-244. (on Tempest 1.1) “Tragical, Comical, Historical,” in The Existential Coordinates of the Human Condition: Poetic—Epic—Tragic , ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA ; Volume XVIII, ed. A-T. Tymieniecka (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1984), pp. 379-399. ( on Shakespeare ) “Which Secondary Books Should I Read?” Claremont Review of Books , III (4): (Winter, '84), p. 11. “The Striving of the West: Goethe’s Faust in 1982,” in Goethe Conference Proceedings , Hofstra University Cultural and Intercultural Studies (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1987), pp. 163-170. “Leo Strauss: Three Quarrels, Three Questions, One Life,” in The Crisis of Liberal Democracy: A Straussian Perspective [Corrected Edition, w. blue cover] eds. Kenneth L. Deutsch & Walter Soffer (Albany: State Univ. Press of New York, 1987), pp. 17-28. (ca. 1200 errors in uncorrected [purple] edition) “Technology, Science, and Nature,” World and I , (II, 11), November 1987, pp. 627-631. (N. B. several errors in text