Joseph Tanke ( Ph.D.,

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; born 1978) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the

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. His work focuses on

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, the

history of philosophy The history of philosophy is the systematic study of the development of philosophical thought. It focuses on philosophy as rational inquiry based on argumentation, but some theorists also include myth, religious traditions, and proverbial lor ...

aesthetics Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and taste (sociology), taste, which in a broad sense incorporates the philosophy of art.Slater, B. H.Aesthetics ''Internet Encyclopedia of Ph ...

art theory Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and taste, which in a broad sense incorporates the philosophy of art.Slater, B. H.Aesthetics ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy,'' , acces ...

, and historical ontology. Tanke is known for his analysis of major figures in the French philosophical tradition, such as

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and

Jacques Rancière Jacques Rancière (; ; born 10 June 1940) is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII: Vincennes—Saint-Denis. After co-authoring ...

. His book Foucault's Philosophy of Art: A Genealogy of Modernity is one of the first systematic presentations of

's writings on visual art. Tanke is the first scholar to publish a comprehensive critical introduction to the thought of

Career

From 2007 to 2011, Tanke was the Chalsty Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at

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in Oakland and San Francisco, California. In 2012, Tanke joined the Philosophy Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. During the fall semester of 2014, Tanke was the Critical Studies Fellow at the

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in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Tanke is the editor of the series for Global Aesthetic Research, a book series at

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International dedicated to publishing new research in the field of

. Tanke is also the past director of the International Cultural Studies Graduate Certificate Program (ICS) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Publications

Tanke is the author of Foucault's Philosophy of Art: A Genealogy of Modernity (

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, 2009), Jacques Rancière: An Introduction—Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics (

, 2011), and the editor (with Colin McQuillan) of the Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics (

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, 2012).Tanke, Joseph. (2012) The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics.

References

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