Richard J. White, Ph.D.

Philosophy Department

Creighton University

Omaha, Nebraska 68178

Telephone: (402) 280-2642

e-mail: rwhite@creighton.edu

EDUCATION

State University of New York at Stony Brook, Ph.D., 1986

State University of New York at Stony Brook, M.A., 1983

Warwick University, England, B.A. (in Philosophy and Literature), 1978

EMPLOYMENT

Professor, Creighton University 2002-present

Associate Professor, Creighton University 1994-2002

Assistant Professor, Creighton University 1989-1994

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of San Diego, 1988/1989

Lecturer, San Diego State University, 1986-1988

Lecturer, National University, 1986-1987

TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Philosophy and Virtue

Philosophy of Love and Sex

Recent Continental Philosophy

Nineteenth Century Philosophy

Philosophy and Literature

Nietzsche

Multiculturalism

ADMINISTRATION

Director of the MALS (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies) program at Creighton University, 1998-present

Director of the Diversity Seminar on Teaching Multiculturalism and Ethics, 1999-2001.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

3. Love's Philosophy (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, September, 2001)

Love comes in many forms and touches all our lives, and in spite of its changing history, it remains a constant in human experience. In this book I examine friendship, romance, parenthood and humanitarian love using classical and contemporary perspectives in philosophy and in literature. I argue that the philosophical neglect of love has been a mistake; and by illuminating the historical and contemporary formations of love, I propose alternative models to guide both our thinking and our experience of what love is. This book is an original discussion on the nature of love.

INTERVIEW about this book with Prof. Wendy Wright, the Kenefick Humanities Chair, on the DVD Books that Humanize.

2. Nietzsche and the Problem of Sovereignty (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997)

Nietzsche was inspired and directed by the question of personal "sovereignty" and in his writings he sought to provoke the very sovereignty that he described. In this book, I show how Nietzsche's philosophy allows us to go beyond the self-dispossession of mass society and its alternative of selfish individualism, to fully understand how one becomes what one is. In the course of this inquiry, I offer a close reading of all of Nietzsche's major texts, and I show how he contributes to a tradition whose focus is on the value of the individual life.

1. Nietzsche: Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2002)

In this volume, part of an important series in the history of philosophy, I present the best recent writing on Nietzsche covering all of the main aspects of his philosophy. I provide an extensive critical introduction and bibliography, and I bring together more than 30 essays written on Nietzsche over the past 25 years.

ARTICLES IN REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:

28. “Herder and the Problems of Nationalism,” in Humanitas (forthcoming, 2004).

27. “Liberalism and Multiculturalism: the Case of Mill,” in The Journal of Value

Inquiry (no. 37, 2003).

26. “Reflections on the Scream: Francis Bacon, Lessing, and the Aesthetics of the

Beautiful and the Sublime,” in Philosophy Today (vol.47:1, Spring 2003).

25. "Thinking about Love: Teaching the Philosophy of Love (and Sex)," in Teaching Philosophy (vol.25 no. 2, June 2002).

24. "Kaspar Hauser: Crossing the Boundaries of Humanities and History," in International Studies in Philosophy (forthcoming, 2004).

23. "The Theory and Practice of Teaching Multiculturalism," in Listening (vol.37, no.1, Winter 2002).

22. "Reading the Secondary Text (on Nietzsche)," Journal of Nietzsche Studies (No. 20, Fall 2000).

21. "Friendship and Commitment" in The Journal of Value Inquiry (No. 33, 1999).

20. "Luce Irigaray: Elemental Passions and the Nature of Love," in Philosophy Today (Spring, 1999).

19. "Friendship: Ancient and Modern," in International Philosophical Quarterly XXXIX no. 1 (March, 1999).

18. "The End of Nihilism" in The Personalist Forum (vol. 13 no. 2, Fall 1997)

17. "The Future of Romantic Love" in International Studies in Philosophy XXIX, no. 2 (1997).

16. "The Sublime and the Other" in The Heythrop Journal 38, no. 2 (April 1997).

15. "Georges Bataille and the Philosophy of the Sacred" in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 26, no. 1, (1995).

13,14. "Zarathustra and the Progress of Sovereignty: from the Overman to the Eternal Recurrence" in International Studies in Philosophy XXVI, no. 3, (1994). This essay also appears in Nietzsche: Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2002).

12. "Morality as a Self-Relation" [on Kant's ethics] in Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 66 (1992).

11. "Autonomy as Foundational" in Questioning Foundations: Truth, Subjectivity, Culture ed. Hugh Silverman (London: Routledge, 1993).

10. "Autobiography Against Itself" [on the philosophical problems of autobiography with special reference to Sartre and Nietzsche] in Philosophy Today 35, no. 3/4 (Fall 1991).

9. "Historical Perspectives on the Morality of Virtue" in The Journal of Value Inquiry 25 (Spring 1991).

8. "Love, Beauty, and Death in Venice" (Thomas Mann's Reply to Plato) in Philosophy and Literature (April 1990).

7. "Nietzsche Contra Kant and the Problem of Autonomy" in International Studies in Philosophy XXII, no. 2 (1990).

5,6. "The Return of the Master: An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (June 1988). A modified version of this essay also appears in an anthology, Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality ed. Richard Schacht (University of California Press, 1994).

4. "Hume's Dialogues and the Comedy of Religion" in Hume Studies (December 1988): Special issue on Hume's moral and religious philosophy.

2,3. "Art and the Individual in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy" in The British Journal of Aesthetics (Winter 1988). This essay also appears in Nietzsche: Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2002).

1. "Heidegger and the Question of Value" in Postmodernism and Continental Philosophy ed. H. Silverman (SUNY Press, 1987).

OTHER:

“The Philosophy of Love” in Creighton University Magazine, Spring 2003

REVIEWS AND TRANSLATIONS:

I am a regular philosophy reviewer for the library journal, Choice.

Reading Nietzsche Rhetorically by Douglas Thomas in International Studies in Philosophy, forthcoming, 2001.

The Illusion of the End by Jean Baudrillard in International Studies in Philosophy XXIX, no 2. (1997).

"Scepticism and Reason" a translation from the French by J. de Greef in Face to Face with Levinas ed. R. Cohen (SUNY Press, 1986).

SOME RECENT LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS:

“Lyotard on the Ethics of Posthumanism” presented at the European Studies Conference, Omaha, October 2004.

“George Orwell and the Case for Ethical Socialism” presented at the European Studies Conference, Omaha, October 2003.

“Francis Bacon, Lessing and the Scream” presented at The International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Leeds UK, May 2003.

“Herder and Nationalism” presented at Creighton University, April 2003.

“The Meaning of Love” presented at The Matrix (local intellectual organization), Omaha, February 2003.

“The Possibility of Love” at the W. Dale Clark Library, Omaha, Symposium on Creativity, October 2002.

“Herder and the Problems of Nationalism” presented at the European Studies Conference, Omaha, October 2002.

“Freud and the Problem of Universal Love” at the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Omaha, April 2002.

“Reflections on the Scream,” presented at Creighton University, March 2002.

“On Romantic Love” at The Matrix (local intellectual organization), Omaha, February 2002.

“Francis Bacon and the Scream" at the W. Dale Clark Library, Omaha, Symposium on Creativity, October 2001.

"Reflections on the Scream: Francis Bacon, Lessing and the Aesthetics of the Beautiful and the Sublime," presented at the European Studies Conference, Omaha, October 2001.

"Before Multiculturalism: John Stuart Mill," presented at the European Studies Conference, Omaha, October 2000.

"The Provocation of Art" at the W. Dale Clark Library, Omaha, Symposium on Creativity, October 2000.

"Crossing the Boundaries of Humanities and History: the Case of Kaspar Hauser" presented at the IAPL (International Association for Philosophy and Literature), SUNY at Stony Brook, May 2000.

"Kasper Hauser, the Child of Europe," presented at the European Studies Conference, Omaha, October 1999.

"The Discovery and Conquest of "America," " presented at the European Studies Conference, Omaha, October 1998.

"Friendship and Commitment," presented at the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, December 1997.

"Luce Irigaray: Rethinking Woman and the Nature of Love," presented at the European Studies Conference, Omaha, October 1997.

"Rethinking Nihilism," "Romantic Love," and "Nietzsche's Philosophy," a series of invited lectures presented at the University of Maine at Farmington, April 1996.

"The Future of Romantic Love," presented at the American Philosophical Association, New York, December 1995.

"The End of Nihilism," presented at the European Studies Conference, Omaha, October 1995.

"On the Sublime," presented at the American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Grove, CA, April 1994.

"From the Overman to the Eternal Recurrence: Zarathustra and the Progress of Sovereignty," presented at the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April 1993.

"Morality as a Self-Relation," presented at the American Catholic Philosophical Association, San Diego, March 1992.

"Georges Bataille and the Place of the Sacred," presented at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Memphis, October 1991.

"Schopenhauer and the Paradox of Individuality," presented at the American Philosophical Association, April 1990.

MISCELLANEOUS

GRANTS:

Creighton University Summer Development Teaching Fellowship, 2001

- Awarded for the development of a Senior Perspective class on Multiculturalism

Creighton University Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship, 1993

- Awarded for research on philosophy and its relation to the sacred

N.E.H. Summer Stipend, 1992

- Awarded for research on Nietzsche and the philosophy of sovereignty

EDITORIAL WORK:

Advisory editor (reader of manuscripts) for:

Humanities Press 1997-present

Journal of the History of Philosophy 1992-present

International Studies in Philosophy 1995-present

Broadview Press 2001-present

Journal of Nietzsche Studies 2003-present

Religion in Society 2003-present

Consulting editor for work on ethics of love and ethics of literature for online

journal, Ethics Reviews (http://EthicsReviews.sandiego.edu)

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

American Philosophical Association

North American Nietzsche Society

North American Schopenhauer Society

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

International Association for Philosophy and Literature

Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love