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Michael Allen Gillespie is an American Philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

. His areas of interest are Political Philosophy

Political philosophy

Political philosophy is the study of such topics as liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it...

, Modern Continental Philosophy and History of Political Philosophy

History of Political Philosophy

History of Political Philosophy is a philosophy and political sciences text book published by the University of Chicago Press, edited by American philosophers Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. The volume is currently in its third edition...

. He has published articles on Montaigne, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, American political thought and the relation between religion and politics.

Works

Hegel, Heidegger and the Ground of History
Nihilism before Nietzsche.
Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics
Ratifying the Constitution
Mutiplicitous Modernity
Nietzsche's Final Teaching. University of Chicago Press, 2012
"On Debt." 21st Century Studies (2011)
"Crime and Virtue: Defending Machiavelli’s Humanism." The Modern Moment. Ed. Kurt Pritzl. Catholic University Press, 2011.
""March Madness"." The Point (2011).
"“Martin Heidegger between Philosophy and Political Theology”." Religion and Modern European Thought,.
"The Theological Origins of Modernity."

Sources

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