Michael E. Zimmerman is an integral theorist

Integral Theory

Integral Theory is a philosophy posited by Ken Wilber that seeks a synthesis of the best of pre-modern, modern, and postmodern reality. It claims to be a "theory of everything," and offers an approach "to draw together an already existing number of separate paradigms into an interrelated network of...

  whose interests include Buddhism

Buddhism

Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...

, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Ken Wilber

Ken Wilber

Kenneth Earl Wilber II is an American author who has written about mysticism, philosophy, ecology, and developmental psychology. His work formulates what he calls Integral Theory. In 1998, he founded the Integral Institute, for teaching and applications of Integral theory.-Biography:Ken Wilber was...

. After a year as Assistant Professor at Denison University, he was Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University

Tulane University

Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...

 from 1975 to 2005, and Director of the Institute for Humanities and the Arts at Tulane. He is also affiliated with the Integral Institute

Integral Institute

The Integral Institute is a think-tank founded in 1998 by American author Ken Wilber. The purpose of the Institute is to gather and attempt to integrate the various viewpoints found in a number of major fields of knowledge...

. Together with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens is an integral theorist associated with Ken Wilber's integral approach. He is a founding member of Integral Institute. Esbjorn-Hargens is a professor of Integral Studies at John F. Kennedy University...

 he wrote a book on integral ecology

Integral ecology

Integral ecology is an emerging field that applies Ken Wilber's integral theory to environmental studies and ecological research. The field was pioneered in the late 1990s by integral theorist Sean Esbjörn-Hargens and environmental philosopher Michael E. Zimmerman.-Teachings:Integral ecology...

, Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World. Since 2006 Zimmerman has been a faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

He additionally is a specialist on Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."...

and has published a number of books with major university presses and many peer-reviewed articles on his work, and on other conventional philosophical topics.

Books

• Eclipse of the Self: The Development of Heidegger's Concept of Authenticity. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1981; second edition, 1986).
• Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity: Technology, Politics, and Art Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
  • Portuguese translation: Confronto de Heidegger com a Modernidade: Política, Arte , trans. João Sousa Ramos (Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2001).
• Contesting Earth’s Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity (The University of California Press, 1994).
  • Chinese translation underway with tentative title: Li Nun Zheng Feng : Ju Jiao Di Qiu Wei Lai (Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publishing Company).
• ed. The Thought of Martin Heidegger, Tulane Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XXXII, (New Orleans, 1984).
• ed. Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1993). Second edition, 1998. Third edition, 2001. Fourth edition 2004.(?)

External links

• Official v.v. at University of Colorado
• The Z Files by Mary Ann Travis article on his work with his alien abduction phenomena