Heidegger and Rhetoric

Contributors

185 Contributors
John Bailiff (1936) is emeritus professor of philosophy, University of Wisconsin , Stevens Point. After undergraduate work at Stanford University he received his PhD in philosophy from Penn State. He taught philosophy for thirty-five years at Penn State, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, and the University of Wisconsin in Stevens Point. He is a founding member of the North American Heidegger Conference. The Paths of Heidegger’s Life and Thought, his translation of Otto Pöggeler’s Neue Wege mit Heidegger, appeared in the series Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences, edited by Hugh Silverman and Graeme Nicholson (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1997). Aesthetic Thinking, his translation of Wolfgang Welsch’s Ästhetisches Denken is forthcoming from Humanity Books. Jamey Findling teaches philosophy at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas. His dissertation, completed at Villanova University, dealt with Gadamer’s interpretation of Plato. He is the author of essays on Gadamer and on Greek philosophy, and has previously published a cotranslation (with Snezhina Gabova) of Gadamer’s essay, “Plato als Porträtist.” Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002), Dr. phil., was emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, where he held the chair of Karl Jaspers since 1949. Gadamer began his university studies at Breslau in 1918, continuing at Marburg in 1919, where he received his first doctorate under Paul Natorp in 1922. In 1923 he went to Freiburg to listen to Martin Heidegger. After returning to Marburg with Heidegger in the same year, Gadamer served as his assistant while studying classical philology and completing a second doctorate in 1928 entitled Platos dialektische Ethik. His own teaching and research reached a first conclusion in 1960 186 Contributors in his masterwork, Wahrheit und Methode (Truth and Method). After becoming professor emeritus in 1968, Gadamer continued lecturing as a visiting professor in universities around the world, enjoying a special relationship with Boston College in the United States. Daniel M. Gross (PhD, Berkeley) has been assistant professor of rhetoric and POROI (Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry) at the University of Iowa since 2000. Previously he studied philosophy and rhetoric in Berlin and Tübingen, and taught comparative literature while on a two-year Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at the UCLA Humanities Consortium, Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies. His work on the history and theory of rhetoric appears among other places in the journals Rhetorica, Clio, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and History of the Human Sciences, as well as in his book, The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006). Michael J. Hyde (PhD, Purdue) is the University Distinguished Professor of Communication Ethics, Department of Communication, Wake Forest University. He is the author of numerous articles and critical reviews appearing in various scholarly journals and texts and is the editor of Communication Philosophy and the Technological Age (Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1982), and The Ethos of Rhetoric (South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2004), coeditor of Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in our Time (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), and author of the award winning The Call of Conscience: Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate (South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2001), as well as The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgment: A Philosophical and Rhetorical Inquiry (West Lafayette, Purdue University Press, 2005). He is the recipient of the Scholar Award for Communication Excellence in Ethics Education for the Mind, the Heart, and the Soul by the Communication Ethics Center, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Duquesne University. Ansgar Kemmann is project manager of the German Federal Contest “Jugend debattiert” (“Youth Debate”) at the Hertie Foundation, one of today’s largest foundations in Germany. Previously he taught practical rhetoric at the universities of Tübingen and Munich (1992–2003). He is author of various articles in encyclopaedic reference works including the Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1992), Wörterbuch der antiken Philosophie (Munich: Beck, 2002), and Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003), and he reviews occasionally for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Contributors 187 Theodore Kisiel is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University. He has translated Martin Heidegger’s History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985) and coedited Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in His Earliest Thought (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994). His books include...