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:









 

   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
      2. Academic Advisor (Continuing Ed)        -1983-1985
     
           

 

     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)

Letter to the Editor
   (A response to David Brooks' article "The Merits of Meritocracy" in the May, 2002 issue of The Atlantic Monthly)

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).

"Alfred Baeumler on Hoelderlin and the Greeks: Reflections on the Heidegger-Baeumler Relationship (Part IIIA of III)," Janus Head, 3.2
 (Fall, 2000): 322-342.
                               
"Alfred Baeumler on Hoelderlin and the Greeks: Reflections on the
 Heidegger-Baeumler Relationship (Part II of III)
," Janus Head, 2.2 (Fall 1999): 157-188.

"Alfred Baeumler on Hoelderlin and the Greeks: Reflections on the Heidegger-Baeumler Relationship (Part I of II),"  Janus Head , 1.3 (Spring 1999): 205-224.

"Heidegger and Werner Jaeger on the Eve of 1933: A Possible
 Rappprochement?
" Research in Phenomenology, XXVII (1997): 122-149.

"Heidegger's Interpretation of the 'German 'Revolution,' " Research in Phenomenology, XXIII (1993):153-171.

"Heidegger on Logic, Language, and Revolution: Prelude to 1933,"
Proceedings of the Heidegger Conference, 1993.

"Retreat from Radicality: Poeggeler on Heidegger's Politics,"
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, XIV(2)-XV(1), 1991: 295-321.
                            
"Philosophy, Language,and Politics: Heidegger's Attempt to Steal
 the Language of the Revolution in 1933-34
," Social Research, 57.1
(Spring 1990):197-238.

"Selected Letters from the Heidegger-Blochmann Correspondence,"
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, XIV(2)-XV(1), 1991, Appendix C: 559-577.

Heidegger's Crisis. Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany by Hans Sluga; reviewed in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 33.3(July 1995): 530-532.

The Finitude of Being by Joan Stambaugh; reviewed in  International Studies in Philosophy, 25.3 (1993): 150.

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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Last revision:  December 4, 2000
Please send comments or additional resource materials to Frank Edler ( fedler@mccneb.edu )