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Professor of Philosophy and Texas A&M Presidential Impact Fellow

# overview
Theodore George is Professor of Philosophy and Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel's Phenomenology (State University of New York Press, 2006), and numerous articles and book chapters in his areas of expertise, including The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, "Hermeneutics." He is co-ed. with Gert-Jan van der Heiden, The Gadamerian Mind in the Routledge Philosophical Minds series (Routledge, 2021), as well as co-ed. with Charles Bambach, Philosophers and their Poets: Reflections on the Poetic Turn in Philosophy Since Kant (State University of New York Press, 2019) and translator of Gunter Figal, Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy (State University of New York Press, 2010). His writings also include a work of poetry, Motherfisher: a haiku-story of grieving in the age of COVID (Alien Buddha Press, 2021).

George's honorary appointments include Professor (Adjunct appointment), Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary (2021-present) and Professor (Adjunct appointment), College of Fellows, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University (2016-2021). George is category editor, PhilPapers, "Hermeneutics," / leaf editor "Hans-Georg Gadamer." His research has been supported by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Fulbright Commission, the Goethe Institute, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the University of Freiburg, Germany, as well as at Texas A&M University by the Presidential Impact Fellows Program, the Rothrock Fellows Program, and the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. He is a recipient of the Texas A&M Association of Former Students College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award.

Dr. George's administrative and service contributions include two terms as Head of the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, Academic Program Review work in conjunction with Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board mandate, as well as peer-review work for granting agencies such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Commission, as well as for numerous presses and journals. He serves on advisory boards for journals and professional organizations in his areas of expertise, he is a former Director of the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, and former President of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics. Dr. George also serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Brazos Valley Food Bank, Bryan, Texas.

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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831

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5002 History And Philosophy Of Specific Fields

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5002 History And Philosophy Of Specific Fields

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Villanova University - (Radnor, Pennsylvania, United States)

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Villanova University - (Radnor, Pennsylvania, United States)

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Whitman College - (Walla Walla, Washington, United States)

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Philosophy and German (double major), Cum Laude

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Remarks on James Risser's The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics

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The worklessness of literature - Blanchot, Hegel, and the ambiguity of the poetic word

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WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE PAST? GADAMER AND HEGEL ON TRUTH, ART AND THE RUPTURES OF TRADITION

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College of Fellows Roundtable Transcript

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Grieving as Limit Situation of Memory: Gadamer, Beamer, and Moules on the Infinite Task Posed by the Dead

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Are We a Conversation? Hermeneutics, Exteriority, and Transmittability

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Gadamer, German Idealism, and the Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology

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Passive Resistance: Giorgio Agamben and the Bequest of Early German Romanticism

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Gunter Figal's Objectivity

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The Disruption of Health: Shaffer, Foucault, and 'the Normal'

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A Monstrous Absolute: Kant, Schelling, and the Poetic Turn in Philosophy

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The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life

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Hermeneutic Responsibility: Vattimo, Gadamer, and the Impetus of Interpretive Engagement

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Hegel, Romantic Art, and the Unfinished Task of the Poetic Word

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De la invisibilidad: Honneth, Gadamer y el reconocimiento del otro

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Community in the idiom of crisis: Hegel on political life, tragedy, and the dead

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Gadamer on the Significance of the Humanist Tradition for the Human Sciences, or: Truth and Edification

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FROM THE LIFE OF A PEOPLE TO THE DEATH OF OTHERS: ON JEAN-LUC NANCY'S UNWORKING OF HEIDEGGER'S POLITICS

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Forgiveness, Freedom, and Human Finitude in Hegel's The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate

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Art as Testimony of Tradition and Art as Testimony of Ordering

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From Work to Play: Gadamer on the Affinity of Art, Truth, and Beauty

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Beyond Speculative Realism? Gnter Figals phenomenological realism and the exteriority of correlation

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Birth Cry  Or, the Hermeneutics of Facticity, from the Finitude of Language to the Body in Pain

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Motherfisher: A haiku-story of grieving in the time of COVID

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Objectivity The Hermeneutical and Philosophy

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Tragedies of Spirit Tracing Finitude in Hegel's Phenomenology

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Hermeneutics in Post-War Continental European Philosophy

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Objectivity and Finite Transcendence in Gunter Figal's Hermeneutical Philosophy

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Objectivity and the Openness of Language: On Figal's Recent Contribution to the Debate Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

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The Voice of Misery: A Continental Philosophy of Testimony.

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Philosophers and Their Poets: Reflections on the Poetic Turn in Philosophy since Kant

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Texas A&M University; Philosophy & Humanities; 4237 TAMU

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Friedman, James (2012-08). Mark the Music: Heidegger on Technology, Art, and the Meaning of Materiality. Master's Thesis.

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Milam, Alan Clayton (2010-08). Learning from Misunderstanding:  The Application of Hermeneutics in the University. Master's Thesis.

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Gaffney, Jennifer Ann (2016-05). From Citizenship to the Space of Appearance: Arendt, Haiti, and the Problem of Political Exclusion. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Camp, Ty D. (2008-05). From the schematic to the symbolic: the radical possibilities of the imagination in Kant's third Critique. Master's Thesis.

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Taylor, James Michael (2006-08). The question concerning Heidegger: technology and being, a deeper understanding. Master's Thesis.

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Bechtol, Harris Bennett (2016-05). Inflections of the Event: The Death of the Other as Event. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Crist, Alexander Michael (2022-08). A Hermeneutics at the Limit: The Prelinguistic Testimony of Human Finitude. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Elamin, Ali (2007-12). Nietzsche on truth in the contexts of nihilism and health. Master's Thesis.

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Baradaran Mohajeri, Shima (2013-12). On the Dialectic of Silence: Klee, Kahn, and the Space of Transversal Modernity in Iran. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Black, Christopher (2021-08). Beyond Mediation: Thinking About Technology Existentially, Or, The Algorithm That I Also Am. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Seddighikhavidak, Somaye (2021-12). The Mythopoietics of Space. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Leckey, Brittany White (2017-05). Irritatingly Incomplete: The Ontologically Reconsidered Filmic Image. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Pepitone, Anthony J. (2010-05). Kojève and Levinas: Universality Without Totality. Master's Thesis.

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Craig, Benjamin Taylor (2008-05). The aesthetic turn in the face of nihilism. Master's Thesis.

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DeLaFuente, Crystal Zeba (2013-08). Our Place in Nature: Toward a Heideggerian Ethos of the Environment. Master's Thesis.