Robert lambert bernasconi I. Personal details date of Birth

VIII. ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

Lexicon der Philosophischen Werke (Alfred Körner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1988). Articles on Collingwood’s An Essay on Metaphysics, Santayana’s The Life of Reason, and Stirling’s The Secret of Hegel.
Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers, edited by J.O. Urmson and revised by J. Rée (London, Unwin Hyman, revised edition, 1989). Article on Levinas.
Encyclopedia of Ethics (Garland, 1992). Articles on Levinas and on Humanism. Revised versions of both articles for the second edition, 2001, pp. 800-803 and 969-971.
A Companion to Aesthetics (Blackwell, 1992). Articles on Heidegger and Gadamer. (Revised 2008 for a new edition.)
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, (Oxford University Press, 1995), ed. Ted Honderich. Articles on Fanon, Foucault, Levy-Bruhl, Merleau-Ponty, The Other, and Racism.
Microsoft Encarta (1995). Article on Jacques Derrida. (CD-ROM version only).
Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society, edited by Paul Barry Clarke and Andrew Linzey, (London, Routledge, 1996), pp. 428-431. Article on Hermeneutics.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Supplement. (Macmillan, 1996). Articles on Derrida, Trace, Supplement, Language in Derrida, Deconstruction, and Overcoming of Metaphysics.
Blackwell’s Companion to Continental Philosophy. (Blackwell, 1998), pp. 478-483. Article on Hannah Arendt.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1997), vol. 5, pp. 579-582. Article on Levinas.
The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 1998). Article on “Heidegger’s Displacement of the Concept of Art,” vol. 2, pp. 377-380.
Dictionary of Existentialism, ed. H. Gordon. (Greenwood, 1999). Article on Levinas, pp. 259-263.
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi, 2^nd ed., (Cambridge, 1999). Article on Gadamer, p. 338.
The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (Routledge, 2000). Article on Levinas, pp. 483-483.
Phenomenology World Wide, ed. Anna-Terese Tymieniecka, (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002). “Hannah Arendt, Phenomenology and Political Theory,” pp. 645-647.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online, (Routledge, 2002). Article on Gobineau.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Macmillan, 2006). Articles on Jacques Derrida(vol. one, pp. 133-134), Alterity(vol. two, pp. 715-719), and Philosophy of Language in Continental Philosophy (vol. seven, pp. 410-412).
The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig, (Routledge, 2005). Article on Levinas, p. 569.
Wörterbuch der Würde. (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013). Article” Rasse” pp. 186-187.
“Arendt, Hannah.” In Hugh LaFollette (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Blackwell Publishers, 2013, pp. 344-8.
“Levinas, Emmanuel.” In Hugh LaFollette (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Blackwell Publishers, 2013, pp. 2994-3000.
“Antenor Firmin.” Haiti: An Island Luminous. Digital Only.

IX. BOOK REVIEWS
The Melancholy Science by G. Rose, The Guardian, February 28, 1979.
Aquinas, God and Action by D.B. Burrell, Clergy Review, LXIV, November 1979.
The Critical Circle by D. Hoy, British Journal of Aesthetics XX, Winter 1980, pp. 90-92.
Radical Phenomenology, ed. J. Sallis, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, XI, 2, May 1980, pp. 199-201.
Phänomenologie des Geistes, Hegel’s Gesammelte Werke IX, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, Spring-Summer 1981, pp. 32-33.
Dialogue and Dialectic by H.-G. Gadamer, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, XII, vol. 3, October 1981, pp. 290-292.
Hegel Contra Sociology by G. Rose, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, Autumn-Winter 1981, pp. 41-43.
The Berlin Phenomenology, ed. M. Petry, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, Autumn-Winter 1982, pp. 29-31.
Hegel’s Development 2: Night Thoughts by H.S. Harris, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, 10, Autumn-Winter 1984, pp. 45-48.
Hegel’s Quest for Certainty by J. Flay, Philosophical Books, vol. 27, no. 1, January 1986, pp. 26-28.
Heidegger on Art and Artworks by J. Kockelmans, British Journal of Aesthetics, XXVI, Autumn 1986, pp. 403-404.
Wissenschaft der Logik, Erster Teil: Die objecktive Logik, Erster Band: Die Lehre von Sein (1832), Gesammelte Werke Band 21 by G.W.F. Hegel and Das Wissen in Hegel’s Wissenschaft der Logik by Hans-Peter Falk, The Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, no. 12, Autumn-Winter 1985, pp. 61-63.
Person and Value by Max Scheler, The Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, no. 12, Autumn-Winter 1985, pp. 61-63.
Hegel and Mallarmé by J. Langan and Walter Pater by W. Iser, The Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, no. 12, Autumn-Winter 1986, pp. 53-54.
Derrida on the Threshold of Sense by John Llewelyn, Philosophical Books, vol. 28, no. 3, July 1987, pp. 170-172.
Heidegger and “the jews”, by Jean-Francois Lyotard, L’Esprit Créateur, vol. 31, 1, Spring 1991, pp. 162-163.
Hannah Arendt: Twenty Years Later, eds. Larry May and Jerome Kohn, Ethics, vol. 107, 4, July 1997, pp. 765-766.
Derrida and the Political, by Richard Beardsworth, Review of Metaphysics, vol. 52, no. 4, June 1999, pp. 931-933.
Entre Nous, by Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics, vol. 110, 1, October 1999, pp. 246-247.
Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas by Jacques Derrida, Ethics, vol. 111, 4, July 2001, p. 841.
French Hegel, by Bruce Baugh, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2004/4/Bernasconi-baugh.html
Beyond Subjectivism, by Abraham Mansbach, Iyyun (Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly), 53, July 2004, pp. 337-340.

X. PUBLIC LECTURES DELIVERED SINCE 1980
“The Good and the Beautiful,” Annual Conference of the British Society for Phenomenology, April 1980.
“Levinas Face to Face with Hegel,” Conference on the Phenomenology of the Body, Manchester Polytechnic, 13 July, 1980.
“The Relevance of Beauty and the Destruction of Aesthetics,” Worth School, 3 October, 1980.
“Hegel, Language and Spirit,” University of Sussex, 21 November and University of Sheffield, 26 November, 1980.
“Levinas on Time and the Instant,” Warwick University Workshop, 5 July, 1981.
“Reply to Lauer,” Joint Conference of the Hegel Society of Great Britain and the Hegel Society of America, Oxford University, 3 September, 1981.
“Hölderlin and Heidegger,” Sussex University, 6 November, 1981.
“Heidegger’s ‘What is Metaphysics?’” Warwick University, 1 December, 1981.
“Heidegger and George,” Warwick University, 2 December, 1981.
“The Origin of Language,” Duquesne University, 15 March, 1982.
“Derrida on Levinas and the End of Philosophy,” Levinas Colloquium SUNY at Stony Brook, 2 April, 1982.
“An Introduction to Derrida,” SUNY at Stony Brook, 21 April, 1982.
“History and Experience in Hegel and Heidegger,” Sixteenth Annual Heidegger Conference, Loyola University of Chicago, 23 April, 1982.
“History is Seldom,” The International Conference for Philosophy and Literature, Northwestern University, Chicago, 13 May, 1982.
“A Trace of Levinas in Derrida,” Warwick Workshop, 10 July, 1982.
“Heidegger’s Way to Language,” a course of three lectures at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, August 2, 4 and 5, 1982.
“The Passage to Absolute Spirit,” Annual Conference of the British Hegel Society, 16 September, 1982.
“Heidegger and the Closure of Metaphysics,” University of East Anglia, 11 November, 1982.
“Gadamer and the Truth of the Work of Art,” South Glamorgan Institute, March 1983 and The Institute of Extra-Mural Studies, London University, May 1983.
“Language as the Existence of Spirit,” SUNY at Stony Brook, April 1983.
“The Heidegger-Gadamer Debate,” University of Edinburgh, May 1983.
“Levinas and the Silent World of the Evil Genius,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, July 1983.
“Levinas’s Reading of Buber,” 4 July, 1983, Warwick University Workshop.
“The Heidegger-Gadamer Debate: The Truth of Tradition and the Truth of Being,” Sussex University, November 1983
“The Heidegger-Gadamer Debate: The Truth of Tradition and the Truth of Being,” Braunschweig University, West Germany, May 1983.
“Levinas and the Other,” The French Institute, London, May 1984.
“The Question Concerning Technology,” a course of three lectures, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, July 1984.
“Hegel’s Faith and Knowledge,” Conference of the British Hegel Society, Oxford University, 14 September, 1984.
“Pascal’s Wager,” Worth College, 19 October, 1984.
“The Truth of Tradition and the Truth of Being,” East Anglian Philosophy Association, 27 October, 1984.
“Heidegger/Derrida,” Invited Lecture, American Philosophical Association, New York, 30 December, 1984.
“Deconstruction and the Possibility of Ethics,” Deconstruction and Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago, 23 March, 1985.
“Confession: An Infinite Task,” Homage to Michel Foucault, Pennsylvania State University, 29 March, 1985.
“Reading Double: Derrida and the Ends of Man,” University of California, Berkeley, 1 April, 1985.
“Introduction to a Double Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit,” Oxford University German Philosophy Society, 15 May, 1985.
“A Footnote to Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” Warwick University, 5 July, 1985.
“Dwelling and the Ethics of Infinity,” a course of three lectures, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, 31 July - 2 August, 1985.
“The Overcoming of Metaphysics and the History of Philosophy,” Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, 28-31 October, 1985.
“Transcendental Symmetry or Empirical Asymmetry?” The McVean Lecture, Vanderbilt University, 19 March, 1986.
“Skepticism in the Face of Philosophy,” DePaul University, Chicago, 25 March, 1986.
“The Place of Descartes in Heidegger’s History of Being,” Reading Heidegger, International Colloquium at Essex University, 17 May, 1986.
“Horizon, Ground, Time,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, 6 August, 1986.
“Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy,” The Merleau-Ponty Circle, University of Notre Dame, 19 September, 1986.
“Derrida and the Ethical Thinking of Levinas,” a series of lectures at Loyola University of Chicago, September, 1986.
“Heidegger on Art and Artworks,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Toronto University, 16 October, 1986.
“Notes on Technology and the Ethics of Praxis,” Taniguchi Symposium, Lake Biwa, Kyoto, 25 October, 1986.
“Empirical Asymmetry and Transcendental Symmetry: Husserl and Levinas,” Tokyo, 29 October, 1986.
“The Theological and Ethical Significance of the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas,” Edinburgh University, 19 February, 1987.
“Fundamental Ontology, Metontology, and the Ethics of Ethics,” Irish Philosophical Society, Dublin, 1 May, 1987.
“Skepticism and Reason,” Reading Levinas, International Colloquium at Essex University, 30 May, 1987.
“Derrida and Transcendental Reflection,” a course of three lectures, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, 27 July - 31 July, 1987.
“Levinas and the Trace of Merleau-Ponty,” The Twelfth Annual International Conference of the Merleau-Ponty Circle, University of Rhode Island, 19 September, 1987.
“Absolution,” Levinas Symposium, Vanderbilt University, 7 October, 1987.
“Commentator on ‘Ancillae. The Concord of the Faculties’,” University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 10 October, 1987.
“Rereading Totality and Infinity,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 16 October, 1987.
“The Infinite Task of Confession,” Taniguchi Symposium, Lake Biwa, Kyoto, 22 October, 1987.
“The Violence of the Face,” Seattle University, 30 October, 1987.
“The Double Concept of Philosophy,” Northwest Society for Phenomenology, Existentialism and Hermeneutics, Seattle, 31 October, 1987.
“Rereading Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit,” St. John’s College, Annapolis, 6 November, 1987.
“Levinas and the Ethical Face of the Other,” Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, 13 November, 1987.
“The Double Concept of Philosophy and the Place of Ethics in Being and Time,” Memphis State University, 16 November, 1987.
“Rereading Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit,” State University of New York at Buffalo, 4 December, 1987.
“Jewgreek is greekjew,” Christian Philosophy Conference, Allen Hall, London, 5 January, 1988.
“Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Its Laws,” Warwick University, 15 February, 1988.
“Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Its Laws,” Cardozo Law School, New York, 27 March, 1988.
“Are We Jews? Are We Greeks?” Beyond Translation Conference, Coventry, 10 July, 1988.
“Locke and the Politics of Fancy,” Taniguchi Symposium, Lake Biwa, Kyoto, 10 November, 1988.
“Culture and Colonization,” Tokyo, 13 November, 1988.
“Conscience and the Other: Levinas and Ethical Responsibility,” Rice University, 16 March, 1989.
“The Dialogue Between Poetry and Thought,” International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Emory University, 4 May, 1989.
“Literary Attestation,” Northwestern University, 11 May, 1989.
“The Art of Dialogue,” Grundprobleme der Hermeneutik im Anschluss an Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Wahrheit und Methode, Wissenschaftsforum, Heidelberg University, 8 July, 1989.
“The Other Origins of The Origin of the Work of Art,” a course of three lectures, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, 17 July - 21 July, 1989.
“Heidegger and Aristotle on Praxis,” Villanova University, 6 September, 1989.
“Thoughts of Justice, Justification and Correctness,” Heidegger Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, 22 September, 1989.
“Rousseau and the Supplement to The Social Contract: Deconstruction and the Possibility of Democracy,” Cardozo Law School, New York, 2 October, 1989.
“Heidegger and Aristotle on Praxis,” Spindel Conference, Memphis, 7 October, 1989.
“Rousseau and the Supplement to The Social Contract - Democracy,” Keynote Address, Tennessee Philosophical Association, Nashville, 3 November, 1989.
“Rousseau and the Supplement to The Social Contract - Democracy,” Keynote Address, Arkansas Philosophical Association, Conway, 10 November, 1989.
“Heidegger and Aristotle on Praxis,” Emory University, 30 November, 1989.
“Absolution, Violence and Peace in the Thought of Levinas,” Johns Hopkins University, 6 December, 1989.
“Absolution, Violence and Peace in the Thought of Levinas,” Princeton University, 8 December, 1989.
“An Ethics Against Ethics: Levinas and the Ethics of Suspicion,” A Series of Three Lectures, De Paul University, 14, 15, 16 February, 1990.
“Deconstructing Rousseau on Democracy: Supplement to The Social Contract,” Faculty Lecture Series, The Center for Humanities, Memphis State University, 23 February, 1990.
“Derrida: His Stake and His Formalism,” 8th Annual Spiegelberg Lecture, Washington University, St. Louis, 22 March, 1990.
“Discipline in Disorder: The Philosophy Curriculum in International and Historical Perspective,” Curricular Imperatives for the 1990s, 8th Annual Regents’ Conference on Higher Education, Nashville, 2 April, 1990.
“Disembodying the Body Politic: Democracy and the Secret Ballot,” 15th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of California, Irvine, 28 April, 1990.
“Heidegger and Dürer,” 24th Annual Meeting of Heidegger Conference, Seattle University, 25 May, 1990.
“Who Constitutes ‘The People?’ Frederick Douglass and the Dred Scott Decision,” On the Necessity of Violence for Any Possibility of Justice, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1 October, 1990.
“What is ‘Man’ Who are the ‘People?’” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Villanova University, 13 October, 1990.
“The Violence of the Face,” American Academy of Religion, New Orleans, Louisiana, 20 November, 1990.
“Author/Authority,” Center for Humanities Faculty Series, Memphis State University, 30 November, 1990.
“Levinas and Multiculturalism,” (with Paul Davies), DePaul University, 15 February, 1991.
“Who is the Neighbor? Who is the Other?” Duquesne University, 8 March, 1991.
“What is ‘Man?’ Who are the ‘People?’” Spring Conference on the Question of Emancipation, SUNY at Binghamton, 15 March, 1991.
“The Jewish Thought of Emmanuel Levinas and Christian Philosophy,” Lambuth College, 3 April, 1991.
“Heidegger on Art and Poetry,” Lambuth College, 4 April, 1991.
“Humanism and Anti-Humanism in Recent French Thought,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 19 April, 1991.
“Alterity and Sexual Difference,” Loyola University of Chicago, 29 April, 1991.
“Commentary on Richardson’s ‘Die Gründung: Dasein and Negativity’” Heidegger Circle, Nashville, 1 June, 1991.
“Questioning Levinasian Alterity. A Series of Four Lectures,” Brigham Young University, 4 June, 1991.
“Truth Through Reason” and “Reason and Social Progress,” Humanities Center, Memphis State University, 10-11 June, 1991.
“I Will Tell You Who You Are,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, 7 August, 1991.
“The Changing Face of Charity,” Taniguchi Symposium, Lake Biwa, Kyoto, 5 November, 1991.
“Derrida’s Reading of Mandela,” American Anthropology Association, Chicago, 30 November, 1991.
“The Anglican Bishop and the Pagan Priests,” Instituto di Studi Filosofici "Enrico Castelli," Rome, 4 January, 1992.
“Heidegger’s Sketch of the History of Being in Basic Problems of Phenomenology,” Thammasat University, Bangkok, 10 January, 1992.
“Locke’s Almost Random Talk of Man,” University of Chicago, 31 January, 1992.
“‘We Philosophers’: Heidegger Rereading Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit,” DePaul University, 3 February, 1992.
“‘We Philosophers’: Heidegger Rereading Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit,” University of Toronto, 13 February, 1992.
“Locke’s Almost Random Talk of Man,” The Humanities Research Institute, University of California at Irvine, 15 April, 1992.
“Between Assimilation and Annihilation,” Reflections on Jewish and Gentile Relations Through the Ages, Memphis State University, 28 April, 1992.
“The Violence of the Face: Levinas and Rodney King,” Persons, Passions, Powers Conference, University of California, Berkeley, 1 May, 1992.
“The Ethics of Deconstruction: A Response,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 15 July, 1992.
“Community: Inoperative and Unavowable,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, 3 August, 1992.
“Deconstructing Nostalgia for Community,” University of Texas at Austin, 18 September, 1992.
“The Ghetto and Other Gated Communities,” Taniguchi Symposium, Lake Biwa, 5 November, 1992.
“The Ghetto and Other Gated Communities,” University of Notre Dame, 19 November, 1992.
“Sartre’s Analyses of Anti-Semitism and Racism,” Great Midwestern Conference Lecture, St. Louis University, 17 February, 1993.
“What is a Text?” Tuskegee University, 18 February, 1993.
Comment on Schmidt’s “Ethical Implications of Philosophical Hermeneutics,” Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, 26 February, 1993.
“Albert Memmi: Colonized Jew,” Emigration and Integration in Jewish History, Bornblum Judaic Studies Conference, Memphis, 2 March, 1993.
“Levinas, Derrida, and the Ethics of Alterity,” Miami University, 26 March, 1993.
“A White Problem: Sartre’s Analyses of Racism,” University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 7 April, 1993.
“A White Problem: Sartre’s Analyses of Racism and Anti-Semitism,” Sartre Society, Trent University, 7 May 1993.
“Language of the Oppressor, Language of the Persecutor,” International Levinas Conference, Loyola University of Chicago, 21 May, 1993.
“Boxes: A Genealogy of the Paradoxes of Social Practice,” A Mini-Course of four lectures, DePaul University, 24-27 May, 1993.
“Heidegger and the Invention of the Western Metaphysical Tradition,” Detraditionalization Conference, Lancaster University, 9 July, 1993.
“Heidegger and the Greek Origin of Philosophy,” a course of three lectures, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, 9-13 August, 1993.
“The Reinvention of the Western Philosophical Tradition from Out of the Soil of Greece,” Humanities Center Lecture, Memphis State University, 15 October, 1993.
“Cultural Diversity and the Limits of Toleration,” Taniguchi Symposium, Lake Biwa, 25 October, 1993.
“Philosophy’s Paradoxical Parochialism: The Reinvention of Philosophy as Greek,” Politics of Identity Conference, Warwick University, 5 March, 1994.
“Hegel and Africa,” Sussex University, 8 March, 1994 and Essex University, 9 March, 1994.
“Hegel at the Court of the Ashanti,” Pennsylvania State University, 22 April, 1994 and SUNY at Buffalo, 29 April, 1994.
“What Goes Around Comes Around: Aristotle, Derrida, and Levinas on the Economy of Alms and the Genealogy of the Gift,” Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought, Calgary, 9 June, 1994.
“Other than the Absolutely Other,” Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, 23 June, 1994.
“‘Ich mag in keinen Himmel, wo Weisse sind.’ Herder’s Critique of Eurocentrism and the Idea of Humanität,” Taniguchi Symposium, Kyoto, 11 September, 1994.
“Sartre’s Gaze Returned,” Philosophy and Race, Hannah Arendt Symposia in Political Philosophy, New School for Social Research, 19 October, 1994.
“Other than the Absolutely Other,” Villanova University, 11 November, 1994.
“Kant’s Essays on Race,” University of Richmond, 16 February, 1995.
“The Limits of the European Idea of Development,” Conference on Social Development between Intervention and Integration, Copenhagen, 3 March, 1995.
“A Response to the U.N. Draft Declaration on Social Development,” Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, 5 March, 1995.
“Casting the Slough: A New Humanism for a New Humanity,” Fanon Today: Readings, Confrontations, Engagements, Purdue University, 24 March, 1995.
“What are Prophets for?” À-Dieu: Theology and Philosophy in Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas, State University of New York at Buffalo, 8 April, 1995.
“Opening the Future: The Paradox of Promising in the Social Contract Tradition,” Bergische Universität, Wuppertal, 20 April, 1995.
“Krimskrams. Heidegger on the Question of the Non-Greek Sources of Greek Philosophy” and “The Challenge of African Philosophy,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, 3 August, 1995.
“Who Invented the Concept of Race?” Humanities Center Lecture Series on the Construction of Race, The University of Memphis, 29 September, 1995.
“Opening the Future: The Paradox of Promising in the Hobbesian Social Contract,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, 13 October, 1995.
“‘And Yet I Swear This Oath.’ Binding Promises, Broken Promises,” Taniguchi Symposium, Lake Biwa, Kyoto, 6 November, 1995.
“Who Invented the Concept of Race?” University of Kansas, 1 December, 1995.
“‘And Yet I Swear This Oath.’ Binding Promises, Broken Promises,” Humanity Center, Vanderbilt University, 13 February, 1996.
“Who Invented the Concept of Race?” Conference on The Academy and Race, Villanova University, 9 March, 1996.
“Boxes. Toward a Genealogy of Social Practice,” Rhodes College, 26 March, 1996.
“With What Must the Philosophy of History Begin?” Florida Atlantic University, 15 April, 1996.
“Who is the Third?” DePaul University, 26 April, 1996.
“On Giving What is Not Mine to Give,” Conference on The Gift, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, 17 May, 1996.
“Can Development Theory Break With Its Past? Endogenous Development and the Old Imperialism,” Conference on Philosophy, Politics and Development in Africa, Binghamton University, 8 June, 1996.
“Krimskrams. Hegel and Heidegger and the Possibility of Non-Western Philosophy,” University of Ottawa, 13 September, 1996.
“‘Who is the Third who walks always beside you?’” Perspektiven phänomenologischer Ethik, Deutschen Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung, Freibury 10 October, 1996.
“Philosophy’s Paradoxical Parochialism. Hegel and the Current Controversy about the Beginnings of Philosophy,” Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 15 October, 1996.
“The Invisibility of Racial Minorities in the Public Realm of Appearances,” Phenomenology of the Political, FAU/CARP Research Symposium, Boca Raton, 26 October, 1996.
“Whose Death is it anyway?” Taniguchi Symposium, Lake Biwa, Kyoto, 4 November, 1996.
“Hegel and the Exclusion of India from the Cross-Cultural Conversation of Philosophy,” The Asiatic Society, Calcutta, 17 January, 1997.
“African-Americans in Philosophy,” Spelman College, Atlanta, 7 February, 1997.
“Philosophy’s Paradoxical Parochialism. Hegel and the Reinvention of Philosophy as Greek,” Sextus Robert Smith Lecture, St. Mary’s College, California, 8 March, 1997.
“Is Race Real?” Applied Philosophy Lyceum, Middle Tennessee State University, 25 March, 1997.
“Race and the Enlightenment,” American Philosophical Association-Pacific Division, Berkeley, 29 March, 1997.
“Who is the Third? Toward a Phenomenology of Politics,” The British Society for Phenomenology, Oxford, 12 April, 1997.
“The Violence of the Face in Levinas and Derrida,” Internationales Kolloquium am Frankreich-Zentrum der Albert-Ludwigs-Universiteit, Freiburg, 19 April, 1997.
“Levinas and the Political,” Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans, 22 April, 1997.
“‘Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again’,” International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Mobile, 8 May, 1997.
“The Horror of the Alien: In Search of Philosophical Pluralism,” Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 9 October, 1997.
“‘Our Duty to Conserve.’ Du Bois’s Philosophy of History,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Lexington, 16 October, 1997.
“Why is a Suburb?,” Taniguchi Symposium, Lake Biwa, Kyoto, 4 November, 1997.
“An Existential Issue Short? Hannah Arendt’s Alleged Evasion of the Question of Jewish Identity. A Response to Richard Bernstein,” American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, 30 December, 1997.
“The Logic of Whiteness,” Annual Conference of the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies of the Claremont Colleges, Pomona College, 6 February, 1998.
“Why is a Suburb?” Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, 11 March, 1998.
“The Horror of the Alien: In Search of Philosophical Pluralism,” Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 16 March, 1998.
“Styles of Eschatology,” Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 17 March, 1998.
“Is Levinas’s Ethics of the Stranger an Ethics of Hospitality?” Franz Rosenzweig Institute, Jerusalem, 18 March, 1998.
“Hegel on Race,” American Philosophical Association, Los Angeles, 26 March, 1998.
“Is Race Real?” Hendrix College, 9 April, 1998.
“Kant as an Unfamiliar Source of Racism,” New School for Social Research, 16 April, 1998.
“Kant as an Unfamiliar Source of Racism,” Loyola University of New Orleans, 24 April, 1998.
“Is Levinas’s Ethics of the Stranger an Ethics of Hospitality?”, Bosphorous University, Istanbul, 20 May, 1998.
“The Horror of the Alien: In Search of Philosophical Pluralism,” Bosphorous University, Istanbul, 22 May, 1998.
“Race as a Privileged Example in Kant’s Third Critique,” University of Sussex, 30 June, 1998.
“The Crisis of Critique: The Responses of Levinas and Derrida,” Critique and Deconstruction, University of Sussex, 2 July, 1998.
“The Phenomenology of the ‘Primitive’,” a Course of Three Lectures, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, 3-7 August, 1998.
“How not to avoid speaking of God,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Denver, 8 October, 1998.
“Kant as an Unfamiliar Source of Racism,” Northwestern University, 16 October, 1998.
“Albert Memmi and the Paradox of Assimilation,” Taniguchi Symposium, Lake Biwa, Kyoto, 4 November, 1998.
“Remembering Anti-semitism as a Form of Race Thinking,” Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and The Holocaust, Washington, DC, 28 December, 1998.
“Being-in-Society,” Sartre Society, Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles, 13 February, 1999.
“‘I needed not to know.’ Fanon’s renegotiation of Sartre’s Dialectic,” University of Notre Dame, 25 February, 1999.
“Du Bois’s Philosophy of History,” The Collegium of African American Research, Münster, Germany, 20 March, 1999.
“Kant as an Unfamiliar Source of Racism,” Villanova University, 26 March, 1999.
“The Denial of World. A Response to Dastur,” Heidegger Circle, DePaul University, 24 April, 1999.
“Heidegger’s Alleged Challenge to the Nazi Conceptions of Race,” Appropriating Heidegger, Park City, Utah, 19 May, 1999.
“The Logic of Whiteness,” University of Oregon, 26 May, 1999.
“Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Race,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Eugene, Oregon, 9 October, 1999.
“Levinas and the Struggle for Existence,” Addressing Levinas, Emory University, 15 October, 1999.
“Race, Ethics, and Eugenics,” Tuskegee University, National Center for Bioethics, 2 November, 1999.
“The Philosophical Significance of Fanon’s