Michael Allen Gillespie

Michael Allen Gillespie (born January 24, 1951) is an American philosopher and Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Duke University. He completed his undergraduate work at Harvard University with an interdisciplinary major in philosophy and government. His graduate work was completed in Political Science at the University of Chicago. His areas of interest are political philosophy, continental philosophy, history of philosophy, and the origins of modernity. He has published on the relationship between theology and philosophy, medieval theology, liberalism, and a number of philosophers such as Nietzsche, Hegel, Heidegger, and Kant.

In his later works, Gillespie has specialized on the relationship between religion and politics. His books "Nihilism Before Nietzsche," "The Theological Origins of Modernity" and his article "The Antitrinitarian Origins of Liberalism" revealed the extent to which modern thought is indebted to Christianity, contributing to the breaking of the cliché that modernity is a decisive break from the Middle Ages. He is considered a Straussian. His former student is Darren Beattie, a right wing author and diplomat who currently serves in the Trump administration.

Works

* Nietzsche's Final Teaching, University of Chicago Press, 2017
* The Theological Origins of Modernity, University of Chicago Press, 2008.
* Nihilism before Nietzsche, University of Chicago Press, 1995
* Hegel, Heidegger and the Ground of History, University of Chicago Press, 1984
* Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics (ed), University of Chicago Press, 1988
* Ratifying the Constitution (ed.), University Press of Kansas, 1989
* Homo Politics, Homo Economicus (ed.), ''Public Choice'', special issue (2008)
* “Martin Heidegger’s Aristotelian National Socialism,” ''Political Theory'' 28, no. 2 (April, 2000):140-66.
* “Where Did All the Evils Go,” ''Moral Judgment and the Problem of Evil'', ed. Ruth Grant (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 15-34.
* “Players and Spectators: Sports and Ethical Training in the American University,” in ''Debating Moral Education'', ed. Elizabeth Kiss and Peter Euben (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 296-316.
* “Sherlock Holmes, Crime and the Anxieties of Globalization,” (with John Harpham), ''Critical Review'' 23, 4 (2011):449-74.
* “March Madness,” ''The Point'' (February, 2011), 124-31.
* “On Debt,” ''21^st Century Studies'' (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013), 56-71.
* “Nihilism After Nietzsche,” ''Bollettino Filosofico'' 30 (2015):80-100.
* “Machiavelli's Modernity and the Christian Tradition,” in ''The Modern Turn'' (Washington, DC: Catholic University Press, 2017), 106-28.

References

Sources

On Michael Allen Gillespie

Michael Gillespie at Duke University Website

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1951 births
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21st-century American philosophers
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Duke University faculty
Philosophers of nihilism
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