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Frank
H. W. Edler, Ph.D. fedler@mccneb.edu |
| AREA OF
SPECIALIZATION: 20th Century Continental Philosophy (Aesthetics) |
| AREAS
OF COMPETENCE: Ethics, Religion, Literary Criticism, Logic, German Idealism |
| UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION:
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1992: Ph.
D. Philosophy University of Toronto Dissertation: "The Significance of Hoelderlin for Heidegger's Political Involvement with Nazism" Supervisor: Graeme Nicholson Advisor: Thomas D. Langan 1974: M.A. Philosophy New York University Thesis: "Heidegger's Aesthetics: An Introduction" Supervisor: William Barrett 1971: B.A. Philosophy University of Rhode Island |
| TEACHING EXPERIENCE: | 1993-Present Full-time
Instructor
Metropolitan
Community College 1990-1993 Adjunct Instructor Peru State College 1982-1990 Adjunct Instructor Adelphi University 1979-1983 Adjunct Instructor New York University 1979-1980 Adjunct Instructor New School for Social Research 1977-1979 Adjunct Instructor University of Toronto 1975-1977 Teaching
Assistant
University
of Toronto |
| COURSES
TAUGHT: (Philosophy) |
Nature
of
Knowledge
Conceptions
of God: East/ West Introduction to Philosophy Ethics and Society Introduction to Ethics Philosophy of Sexuality Philosophy and Literature Contemporary Issues(Philosophy) History of Aesthetics Philosophy of the Arts Conceptions of Man Great Thinkers in Philosophy Critical Reasoning Reason and Faith |
| (Humanities) |
Philosophy and
Literature World
Literature I and II Integrative Humanities Seminar Romanticism and the Modern World Literary Criticism Sexuality and Western Culture Art and Madness Bible as History History of Western Civilization The Mainstream of Civilization (1792 to Present) (Beginnings to 1500) Senior Seminar (team-taught) American History (to 1865) The World of Ideas American Government Traditional Grammar The Modern Condition Senior Thesis Appreciation of Literature English Composition Advanced English Composition Myth, Modernism, and Multiculturalism |
| SERVICE: | Metropolitan
Community College: 1. College Council member (elected) - 2003-2004 2. General Education Committee - 2003-2004 3. President of MCC Education Ass'n - 2002-2004 (elected) 4. Curriculum Systems Initiative - 2001-2002 5. Committee for Passport Program - 2000-2001 6. Accreditation Review Committee - 2000-2001 7. Co-Chair of Diversity Steering Panel - 1999-2000 8. Faculty Development Committee - 1997-1998 Adelphi University (Long Island):
1. Curriculum Review
Committee
-1989-1990
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| PUBLICATIONS: (Articles and online essays):
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Temporality
and the Constitution of Place: Comments on Heidegger, Mircea Eliade, and
Wright Morris (Paper
given at the Plains Humanities Alliance conference entitled
"Regionalism and the Humanities" held on November 20-22, 2003,
at UNL.) How Accreditation Agencies in Higher Education Are Pushing Total Quality Management: A Faculty Review of the Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) (completed in August, 2003, and submitted to the NEA journal Thought and Action; the article appeared in the Winter 2003 issue of Thought and Action under the new title "Campus Accreditation: Here Comes the Corporate Model.") Open Letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair (July 20, 2003) Review of Theodore Kisiel's book Heidegger's Way of Thought: Critical and Interpretive Signposts, edited by Alfred Denker and Marion Heinz (New York and London: Continuum, 2002.) (The review appeared in the Spring 2003 issue (6.1) of Janus Head.) Myth and the Poverty of Experience: Wright Morris's The Home Place and Walter Benjamin's Dialectical Image (Paper given on April 11, 2003, at the Wright Morris conference entitled "Wright Morris: American Dreamer" held at UNL and sponsored by the UNL-Lincoln Libraries, Plains Humanities Alliance, and Friends of the Libraries, UNL.) Heidegger, Jung, and the Madness of 1933 (Part II) (Talk given on January 31, 2003, as part of the Friday Conferences sponsored by the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.) Is Teaching-Learning Essentially a Business? (Nov. 19, 2002) Heidegger
and Ernst Krieck: To What Extent Did They Collaborate?
(Oct.2002) Heidegger and Lacan (A paper given on January 11, 2002, at the Friday Conferences sponsored by the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Creighton University.) Thomas Sheehan and the Lapsed Heideggerians' Rag: Bombs Away! ( A response to Thomas Sheehan's reviews dealing with Heidegger that appeared in The New York Review of Books in 1988 and 1993. ) Part II of the Conclusion to "Alfred Baeumler on Hoelderlin and the Greeks: Reflections on the Heidegger-Baeumler Relationship" (Fall 2001 issue of Janus Head; Part II is a critique of an essay on Hoelderlin and Heidegger by Karsten Harries.) "Language and Being in Cather's The Professor's House: A Look
Back and Forth from Thoreau to Nietzsche and Heidegger" (presented at the
International Cather Seminar 2000: "Willa Cather's Environmental
Imagination," June 17-24, 2000, at the Lied Conference Center, Nebraska City;
submitted to Cather Studies for publication). |
| ONLINE TEACHING MATERIALS: | Critical
Reasoning Tutorial: http://commhum.mccneb.edu/argument/summary.htm Philosophy Home Page: http://commhum.mccneb.edu/philos/philosmain.htm Aesthetics and Electronic Imaging (online course): http://commhum.mccneb.edu/aesthetics/aeiph_1.htm |
| PAPERS: | "On
Contemporary Philosophies of Technology," presented at the Eastern Division
meeting of the Community College Humanities Association on November 9-11, 2000, in
Rockville, Maryland. "Language and Being in Cather's The Professor's House: A Look Back and Forth from Thoreau to Nietzsche and Heidegger," presented at the International Cather Seminar 2000: "Willa Cather's Environmental Imagination," June 17-24, 200, at the Lied Conference Center, Nebraska City, NE. "Heidegger, Politics, and the Radicalization of Classical Philology," paper given at the Philosophy Colloquium, Creighton University, April 22, 1998. "Heidegger and Werner Jaeger on the Eve of 1933: A Possible Rapprochement?" presented at the annual meeting of the North American Heidegger Conference, University of New Hampshire, May 24-26, 1996. "Heidegger on Logic, Language, and Revolution: Prelude to 1933," paper given at the annual meeting of the North American Heidegger Conference, SUNY (Stony Brook), June 4-6, 1993. "Language and Revolution," talk given at Northwest Missouri State University as part of the Humanities Series, April 21,1993. "Philosophy and Moral Standards in Teaching Values in Literature." paper given as part of the Contemporary American Culture Series, Adelphi University, April 7, 1990. "Heidegger and Nazism," paper given at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Hermeneutics, Laval University, Quebec, Canada, May 28, 1989. "Heidegger, Hoelderlin, and the Nazis," paper presented to the Columbia University Seminar on Religion, February 1, 1988 and at the annual meeting of the Long Island Philosophical Society, November 19, 1988. "Social Change and Moral Dilemmas: The Loss of the Intimacy of Knowledge," paper presented as part of the University Lecture Series, Adelphi University, May 7, 1987. "Heidegger and the Establishment of Non-metaphysical Thinking," paper presented to the Columbia University Seminar on Religion, October 6, 1986. "Representational and Non-repesentational Thinking in the Poetry of Ezra Pound," paper presented at the Conference on Hermeneutics at Adelphi University, April 5, 1986. Commentary on "Osip Mandelstam's Vision of Order" by Maureen Henry; commentary presented at the annual meeting of the Long Island Philosophical Society, March 24, 1983. |
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