John Sallis is an American

United States

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 philosopher. Since 2005, he has been the Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College

Boston College

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. He has previously taught at Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

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 (1996–2005), Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

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 (1990–1995), Loyola University of Chicago (1983–1990), Duquesne University

Duquesne University

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 (1966–1983) and the University of the South (1964–1966).

He is the brother of writer James Sallis

James Sallis

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Education

Sallis obtained his doctorate

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 from Tulane University

Tulane University

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 in 1964. His dissertation was entitled "The Concept of World." He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Freiburg

University of Freiburg

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, Germany

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Academic interests

Sallis is well known for his work on imagination

Imagination

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 and his careful readings of Plato

Plato

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. He has also written on phenomenology, Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

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, Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

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, Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant

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, Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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, and Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

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, among many other figures and topics. He is the founding editor of the journal Research in Phenomenology.

Primary literature

• Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art (2008)
• The Verge of Philosophy (2007)
• Topographies (2006)
• Platonic Legacies (2004)
• On Translation (2002)
• Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental (2000)
• Chorology
  Chora
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  : On Beginning in Plato's "Timaeus
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  " (1999)
• Shades: Of Painting at the Limit (1998)
• Double Truth (1995)
• Stone (1994)
• Crossings: Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy (1991)
• Echoes: After Heidegger (1990)
• Spacings—Of Reason and Imagination. In Texts of Kant, Fichte, Hegel (1987)
• Delimitations: Phenomenology and the End of Metaphysics (1986; 2nd edn. 1995)
• The Gathering of Reason (1980; 2nd. edn. 2005)
• Being and Logos: The Way of Platonic Dialogue (1975; 2nd edn. 1986; 3rd edn. Being and Logos: Reading the Platonic Dialogues, 1996)
• Phenomenology and the Return to Beginnings (1973; 2nd edn. 2002)

Secondary literature

• Kenneth Maly (ed.), The Path of Archaic Thinking: Unfolding the Work of John Sallis (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995). Including contributions from Walter Biemel, Peg Birmingham, Walter Brogan, Françoise Dastur, Jacques Derrida, Parvis Emad, Eliane Escoubas, Bernard D. Freydberg, Rodolphe Gasché
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  , Michel Haar, John Llewelyn, Kenneth Maly, Adriaan Peperzak, James Risser, and Charles E. Scott, as well as a response by Sallis.

See also

• American philosophy
  American philosophy
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• List of American philosophers
• List of deconstructionists