Michael Gubser
Biographic Data
| ID | 2337091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Gubser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Gubser |
| SIGNATURE | GUBSER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jan Patočka’s Transcendence to the World
This essay examines Czech philosopher Jan Patočka’s phenomenology as a philosophy of freedom. It shows how Patočka’s phenomenological concept of worldliness, initially cast within a largely philosophical framework as the domain of human action and transcendence, turned toward a philosophical history of the modern age, viewed as increasingly post-European. Patočka hoped for the moral renewal of a fallen modernity, led first by non-Europeans after …
Phenomenology contra Nazism
This paper discusses the relationship between phenomenology and political activism in the work of two lesser-known second-generation phenomenologists: Dietrich von Hildebrand and Aurel Kolnai. As young philosophers in the 1920s, Hildebrand and Kolnai became staunch adherents of the phenomenological movement. Influenced especially by Max Scheler and Adolf Reinach, they were particularly interested in questions of ethical theory and moral action. I…
The Practice of International Development
Practice of International Development
The Walls of Kano
This essay examines two USAID education projects that ran in northern Nigeria from 2004 to 2009. It argues that development planners need to pay greater attention to historical and contextual factors in project design, implementation, and evaluation. Practitioners often pay lip service to the importance of history in shaping the problems of the present, but strict deadlines and funding caps make it more practical to import models from other count…
Practice of International Development
Joseph A. Amato. Surfaces
In 1967, Jacques Derrida declared that there was nothing beyond the text. Now, fifty years later, the historian Joseph A. Amato has made a cognate claim that there is nothing beyond the surface. Human experience, he maintains, can be summarized through the myriad worldly surfaces—exterior and interior, material and metaphorical, made and found—with which it engages. Ostensibly, Amato's book presents a history of human-surface interaction from pre…
The Presentist Bias
This article examines development thinking in the 1970s, when modernisation templates stressing growth and industrialisation gave way to a direct concern for relieving poverty. Although this new direction broke with development paradigms that presented Western history as a model for universal emulation, equity advocates cultivated new forms of presentism that continued to overlook the local histories of developing nations. An increased sense of t…
Time's Visible Surface
Alois Riegl's art history has influenced thinkers as diverse as Erwin Panofsky, Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Paul Feyerabend, Gilles Deteuze, and Felix Guattari. One of the founders of the modern discipline of art history, Riegl is best known for his theories of representation. Yet his inquiries into the role of temporality in artistic production - including his argument that art conveys a culture's consciousness of time - show him to be a more…
Science Advising and Science Policy in Post-War West Germany
Science Advising and Science Policy in Post-War West Germany
Time's Visible Surface
Alois Riegl's art history has influenced thinkers as diverse as Erwin Panofsky, Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Paul Feyerabend, Gilles Deteuze, and Felix Guattari. One of the founders of the modern discipline of art history, Riegl is best known for his theories of representation. Yet his inquiries into the role of temporality in artistic production - including his argument that art conveys a culture's consciousness of time - show him to be a more…
The Presentist Bias
This article examines development thinking in the 1970s, when modernisation templates stressing growth and industrialisation gave way to a direct concern for relieving poverty. Although this new direction broke with development paradigms that presented Western history as a model for universal emulation, equity advocates cultivated new forms of presentism that continued to overlook the local histories of developing nations. An increased sense of t…
Joseph A. Amato. Surfaces
In 1967, Jacques Derrida declared that there was nothing beyond the text. Now, fifty years later, the historian Joseph A. Amato has made a cognate claim that there is nothing beyond the surface. Human experience, he maintains, can be summarized through the myriad worldly surfaces—exterior and interior, material and metaphorical, made and found—with which it engages. Ostensibly, Amato's book presents a history of human-surface interaction from pre…
The Practice of International Development
Practice of International Development
The Walls of Kano
This essay examines two USAID education projects that ran in northern Nigeria from 2004 to 2009. It argues that development planners need to pay greater attention to historical and contextual factors in project design, implementation, and evaluation. Practitioners often pay lip service to the importance of history in shaping the problems of the present, but strict deadlines and funding caps make it more practical to import models from other count…
Practice of International Development
Phenomenology contra Nazism
This paper discusses the relationship between phenomenology and political activism in the work of two lesser-known second-generation phenomenologists: Dietrich von Hildebrand and Aurel Kolnai. As young philosophers in the 1920s, Hildebrand and Kolnai became staunch adherents of the phenomenological movement. Influenced especially by Max Scheler and Adolf Reinach, they were particularly interested in questions of ethical theory and moral action. I…
Jan Patočka’s Transcendence to the World
This essay examines Czech philosopher Jan Patočka’s phenomenology as a philosophy of freedom. It shows how Patočka’s phenomenological concept of worldliness, initially cast within a largely philosophical framework as the domain of human action and transcendence, turned toward a philosophical history of the modern age, viewed as increasingly post-European. Patočka hoped for the moral renewal of a fallen modernity, led first by non-Europeans after …
Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Business & Economics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies (2 works) · Economic development (2 works)