Iain Thomson
University of New Mexico, Philosophy, Faculty Member
- Philosophy of Education, Continental Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Critical Theory, Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche, and 22 morePhilosophy, Martin Heidegger, Philosophy of Art, Deconstruction, Postmodernism, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Technology, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, Critical Pedagogy, Aesthetics, Cultural Theory, Heidegger, History of Philosophy, Émmanuel Lévinas, Existentialism, Heidegger and Technology, Nihilism, Heidegger and Education, Brian Massumi, and Death Studiesedit
- Iain Thomson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. The author of three books and dozens of arti... moreIain Thomson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. The author of three books and dozens of articles in philosophical journals, essay collections, and reference works, Thomson is a leading expert on the thought of Martin Heidegger. A recipient of the Gunter Starkey Award for Teaching Excellence, he is well known for his ability to bring Heidegger's difficult ideas to life for contemporary readers.edit
Introduction to Kelly Becker and Iain Thomson, eds, The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945-2015.
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This landmark achievement in philosophical scholarship brings together leading experts from the diverse traditions of Western philosophy in a common quest to illuminate and explain the most important philosophical developments since the... more
This landmark achievement in philosophical scholarship brings together leading experts from the diverse traditions of Western philosophy in a common quest to illuminate and explain the most important philosophical developments since the Second World War. Focusing particularly (but not exclusively) on those insights and movements that most profoundly shaped the English-speaking philosophical world, this volume bridges the traditional divide between "analytic" and "Continental" philosophy while also reaching beyond it. The result is an authoritative guide to the most important advances and transformations that shaped philosophy during this tumultuous and fascinating period of history, developments that continue to shape the field today. It will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary philosophy of all levels and will prove indispensable for any serious philosophical collection.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Aesthetics, Latin American Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Marxism, and 15 morePhilosophy of Film, Continental Philosophy, Continental Philosophy of Religion (Philosophy), Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Sartre, Heidegger, Jewish Philosophy, Philosophy of Finitude, Continental (vs.) Analytical Philosophy, Contemporary continental political philosophy, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, History of Philosophy, and Continental Philosophy and Aesthetics
Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity offers a radical new interpretation of Heidegger's later philosophy, developing his argument that art can help lead humanity beyond the nihilistic ontotheology of the modern age. Providing pathbreaking... more
Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity offers a radical new interpretation of Heidegger's later philosophy, developing his argument that art can help lead humanity beyond the nihilistic ontotheology of the modern age. Providing pathbreaking readings of Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art" and his notoriously difficult Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), this book explains precisely what postmodernity meant for Heidegger, the greatest philosophical critic of modernity, and what it could still mean for us today. Exploring these issues, Iain D. Thomson examines several postmodern works of art, including music, literature, painting, and even comic books, from a post-Heideggerian perspective. Clearly written and accessible, this book will help readers gain a deeper understanding of Heidegger and his relation to postmodern theory, popular culture, and art.
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The work contains two short pieces by Iain Thomson: “Hearing the Pro-Vocation within the Provocation: Heidegger on the Way to Post-Metaphysical Humanism” (pp. 187–97) and “Ontopoliticosexual Pro(-)vocations” (pp. 206–210), both included... more
The work contains two short pieces by Iain Thomson: “Hearing the Pro-Vocation within the Provocation: Heidegger on the Way to Post-Metaphysical Humanism” (pp. 187–97) and “Ontopoliticosexual Pro(-)vocations” (pp. 206–210), both included in the “Symposium: The Human Being” (which also includes contributions from Kevin Aho, Jill Drouillard, Jesús Adrían Escudero, Tricia Glazebrook, and Róisín Lally), Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual XII (2022), Scott Campbell, ed., pp. 157–205.
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''Thinking Love: Heidegger and Arendt'' explores the problematic nature of romantic love as it developed between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, whom Heidegger later called ''the passion of his life.'' I suggest that three different... more
''Thinking Love: Heidegger and Arendt'' explores the problematic nature of romantic love as it developed between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, whom Heidegger later called ''the passion of his life.'' I suggest that three different ways of understanding love can be found at work in Heidegger and Arendt's relationship, namely, the perfectionist, the unconditional, and the ontological models of love. Explaining these different ways of thinking romantic love, this paper shows how the distinctive problems of the perfectionist and unconditional models played out in Heidegger and Arendt's relationship and how that relationship eventually gave rise to the third, ontological understanding of love. This ontological vision of love combines some of the strengths of the perfectionist and unconditional views while avoiding their worst problems, and so emerges as perhaps the most important philosophical lesson about romantic love to be drawn from studying the lifelong love affair between two of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.
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Research Interests: Technology, Political Theory, Queer Theory, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and 30 morePolitics, Fascism, Neo-Fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Giorgio Agamben, Postmodernism, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Nietzsche, Homophobia, Kierkegaard, Gianni Vattimo, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Richard Rorty, Baruch Spinoza, Heidegger, Spinoza, Derrida, Pluralism, Agamben, Religious Fundamentalism, Soren Kierkegaard, Postmodern, Nazism, Eugenics, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Ontotheology, Foucault, and Donald Trump
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Research Interests: Philosophy, Ontology, Philosophy of Science, Education, Theology, and 15 morePhilosophy of Education, Philosophy of Higher Education, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Object Oriented Ontology, Heidegger's later thought, Heidegger and Technology, Nazism, Hubert Dreyfus, Ontotheology, History of Philosophy, Plato, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and especially Heidegger, Philosophy of Religion, Philospohy of Art, Philosophy of Nature., Phenomenology/Post-Phenomenology, Philosophical Hermeneutics, Early Frankfurt School and Walter Benjamin, Marx and Western Marxism, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Literatureocial and, and Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
Research Interests: Metaphysics, Ontology, Teaching and Learning, Education, Technology, and 25 moreEducational Technology, Art Theory, Teacher Education, E-learning, Higher Education, Educational Research, Learning and Teaching, Poetry, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Authenticity, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Postmodernism, Modernity, Jacques Derrida, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Teachers' professional development, Heidegger, Mortality, Derrida, Late Modernity, Youth, Post-modernism, and Existentialism
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Iain Thomson, interviewed by Gao Haiqing (in Chinese).
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Iain D. Thomson es profesor de filosofía en la Universidad de Nuevo México, donde recibió el reconocimiento Gunter Starkey a la excelencia académica. Sus artículos sobre Heidegger han sido publicados en Inquiry, Journal of the History of... more
Iain D. Thomson es profesor de filosofía en la Universidad de Nuevo México, donde recibió el reconocimiento Gunter Starkey a la excelencia académica. Sus artículos sobre Heidegger han sido publicados en Inquiry, Journal of the History of philosophy, International Journal of Philosophical Studies y Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. Es autor de Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education (traducido al turco) y Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity.
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Abstract This article develops Thomson’s post-Heideggerian view that ontological education is centrally concerned with disclosing being creatively and responsibly. To disclose being creatively and responsibly is to realize the meaning of... more
Abstract This article develops Thomson’s post-Heideggerian view that ontological education is centrally concerned with disclosing being creatively and responsibly. To disclose being creatively and responsibly is to realize the meaning of being, developing our historical understanding of what being means along with our consequent understanding of what it means for us to be, both communally and in the many facets of our own individual lives. As ontological educators, we disclose our own being by becoming who we are, which we do best by learning-in-public, that is, by ‘teaching learning’. In the teaching and learning that belong together in ontological education, we come into our own by helping others (both human beings and non-human entities) to come into their own as well. Thomson explains and develops the crucially meaningful difference between creatively and responsibly disclosing inchoate meanings, on the one hand, and technologically imposing pre-existing plans and ideas, on the other. Responding to five recent essays on Heidegger allows Thomson to elaborate a non-nihilistic way of understanding education, teaching, learning, and being in our late-modern age of increasing technology. This article thereby articulates and embodies some of the important educational possibilities opened up by a more genuinely meaningful postmodern understanding of being.
Research Interests: Cognitive Science, Metaphysics, Education, Educational Technology, Art Theory, and 15 moreHigher Education, Educational Research, Learning and Teaching, Hermeneutics, Authenticity, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Modernity, Jacques Derrida, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Heidegger, Derrida, Late Modernity, Existentialism, and E Learning
7 Understanding Technology Ontotheologically, or: the Danger and the Promise of Heidegger, an American Perspective Iain Thomson NOTICE THIS MATERIAL MAY BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT LAW (TITLE 17, US CODE)... more
7 Understanding Technology Ontotheologically, or: the Danger and the Promise of Heidegger, an American Perspective Iain Thomson NOTICE THIS MATERIAL MAY BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT LAW (TITLE 17, US CODE) Heidegger's famous critique of technology is ...
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... from the German by Valerie Allen and Ares D. Axiotis 2 Truth, Science, Thinking, and Distress 47 David E. Cooper 3 Martin Heidegger, Transcendence, and the Possibility of Counter-Education 65 Ilan Gur-Ze'ev 4 The... more
... from the German by Valerie Allen and Ares D. Axiotis 2 Truth, Science, Thinking, and Distress 47 David E. Cooper 3 Martin Heidegger, Transcendence, and the Possibility of Counter-Education 65 Ilan Gur-Ze'ev 4 The Origin: Education, Philosophy, and a Work of Art 81 Paul ...
... from the German by Valerie Allen and Ares D. Axiotis 2 Truth, Science, Thinking, and Distress 47 David E. Cooper 3 Martin Heidegger, Transcendence, and the Possibility of Counter-Education 65 Ilan Gur-Ze'ev 4 The... more
... from the German by Valerie Allen and Ares D. Axiotis 2 Truth, Science, Thinking, and Distress 47 David E. Cooper 3 Martin Heidegger, Transcendence, and the Possibility of Counter-Education 65 Ilan Gur-Ze'ev 4 The Origin: Education, Philosophy, and a Work of Art 81 Paul ...
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In order to motivate this unlikely call for his conservative Catholic colleagues to recognize the pedagogical primacy of ontological questioning and transform the university curriculum accordingly, Heidegger implies that this... more
In order to motivate this unlikely call for his conservative Catholic colleagues to recognize the pedagogical primacy of ontological questioning and transform the university curriculum accordingly, Heidegger implies that this transformation is made necessary by distinctively ...
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What are the basic coordinates of the dispute between Heidegger and Levinas over “death” and its phenomenological and ontological significance? In what ways do Heidegger and Levinas disagree about how we become genuinely or fully... more
What are the basic coordinates of the dispute between Heidegger and Levinas over “death” and its phenomenological and ontological significance? In what ways do Heidegger and Levinas disagree about how we become genuinely or fully ourselves? By examining the convergences and divergences of Heidegger’s and Levinas phenomenologies of death, “Rethinking Levinas on Heidegger on Death” suggests that Heidegger and Levinas both understood themselves as struggling to articulate the requisite ethical response to the great traumas of the twentieth century. By comparing their thinking at this level, we can better understand the ways in which Levinas genuinely diverges from Heidegger even while building critically on his thinking.
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Research Interests: Aesthetics, Art History, Art, Architecture, Creativity, and 15 moreDeath, Deconstruction, Earth, Culture, Consciousness, Autonomy, Composition, Apophenia, Eugenics, Farming, Counterpoint, Chorus, Fugue, Bloom, and Cliff
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This essay briefly explains Heidegger's critique of the ontotheological danger and the post-modern promise of technological archivization, and then discusses Rorty's response to Heidegger's view.
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Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds. Barnet Newman (famous witticism) The essence of art is not the expression of lived experience …. Nor does this essence consist in the artist depicting reality more accurately... more
Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds. Barnet Newman (famous witticism) The essence of art is not the expression of lived experience …. Nor does this essence consist in the artist depicting reality more accurately and precisely than others, or producing ([that is,] representing) something that gives pleasure to others, that provides enjoyment of a higher or lower type …. But in order to understand what the work of art and poetry are as such, philosophy must first break the habit of grasping the problem of art as one of aesthetics. Heidegger (ET 47/GA34 63–4) INTRODUCTION: HEIDEGGER – AGAINST AESTHETICS, FOR ART Heidegger is against the modern tradition of philosophical “aesthetics” because he is for the true “work of art” which, he argues, the aesthetic approach to art eclipses. Heidegger's critique of aesthetics and his advocacy of art thus form a complementary whole, as I shall show in the next two chapters. Here in Chapter 2, section 1 orients the reader by providing a brief overview of Heidegger's philosophical stand against aesthetics, for art . Sections 2 and 3 explain Heidegger's philosophical critique of aesthetics, showing why he thinks aesthetics follows from modern “subjectivism” and leads to late-modern “enframing,” historical worldviews Heidegger seeks to transcend from within – in large part by way of his phenomenological interpretations of art. In Chapter 3, sections 1 and 2 develop this attempt to transcend modern aesthetics from within, focusing on the way Heidegger seeks to build a phenomenological bridge from a particular (“ontic”) work of art by Vincent van Gogh to the ontological truth of art in general.
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