Stephen Mulhall (/ˈmʌlhɔːl/; born 1962) is a British philosopher and Fellow of New College, Oxford. His main research areas are Ludwig Wittgenstein and post-Kantian philosophy.[2]
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Born | 1962 |
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford, All Souls College, Oxford |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy, postanalytic philosophy |
Institutions | New College, Oxford |
Main interests | Wittgenstein studies, ethics, philosophy of religion, post-Kantian philosophy, philosophy of literature, philosophy of film |
Notable ideas | Linguistic film theory Experience of meaning[1] |
Education and career
editStephen Mulhall received a BA in philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford in 1983.[3] He then pursued an MA in philosophy from The University of Toronto in 1984, during which time he spent several weeks studying under Sir Isaiah Berlin at Harvard.[3] Between 1984 and 1988, he attended Balliol College and All Souls College, Oxford for his DPhil in Philosophy.[3] From 1986 to 1991 he was a Prize Fellow at All Souls College and in 1991 he became a Reader of Philosophy at the University of Essex.[3] From 1998 to the present he has been a fellow at New College, Oxford.[3]
He has published extensively on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the American philosopher Stanley Cavell.
Books
editSource:[3]
- 1990 On Being in the World: Wittgenstein and Heidegger on Seeing Aspects (Routledge)
- 1992 Liberals and Communitarians (Blackwell) - with Adam Swift
- 1994 Stanley Cavell: Philosophy’s Recounting of the Ordinary (OUP)
- 1994 Faith and Reason (Duckworth)
- 1996 Heidegger and Being and Time (Routledge)
- 1996 Liberals and Communitarians: A Revised Edition (Blackwell) - with Adam Swift
- 1996 The Cavell Reader (Blackwell) - editor
- 2001 Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard (OUP)
- 2002 On Film, London/New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-24795-0 ISBN 9780415247955
- 2005 Philosophical Myths of the Fall (Princeton)
- 2005 Heidegger and Being and Time (second edition)
- 2006 Martin Heidegger International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought (Ashgate) - editor
- 2006 Wittgenstein's Private Language (OUP)
- 2007 The Conversation of Humanity (University of Virginia Press)
- 2008 On Film (second edition; Routledge)
- 2008 The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality (Princeton)
- 2013 The Self and Its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts (Oxford University Press)
- 2014 On Being in the World: Wittgenstein and Heidegger on Seeing Aspects (second edition; Routledge)
- 2015 The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy (Oxford University Press)
- 2021 The Ascetic Ideal: Genealogies of Life-Denial in Religion, Morality, Art, Science, and Philosophy (Oxford University Press)
- 2023 In Other Words: Transpositions of Philosophy in J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy (Oxford University Press)
References
edit- ^ Stephen Mulhall, On Being in the World: Wittgenstein and Heidegger on Seeing Aspects, Routledge, 2014 [1990], p. 35; see also: Donald K. Barry, Forms of Life and Following Rules: A Wittgensteinian Defence of Relativism, BRILL, 1996, p. 58.
- ^ "Stephen Mulhall". New College. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f "Dr. Stephen Mulhall". Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. Retrieved 2 May 2011.