CURRENT RESEARCH
Professor Warnek is developing an interpretation of the Platonic dialogues
which demonstrates how that text is engaged in a transformative appropriation
of what the Greeks called physis. This question is opened through the
themes of generation, degeneration and regeneration, and other related
themes in the dialogues which concern sexual difference, birth and death,
youth and aging, health, healing and sickness, community, friendship
and filiation, and writing and the hearing repetition of the logos.
At issue is the inception of the historical movement whereby physis
is already on its way to becoming "nature," namely one region of possible
inquiry over and against other regions. This interpretation of Plato
also concerns itself with the hermeneutic problems involved in articulating
and investigating such a question, given, on the one hand, the historical
distance that separates us from the Greeks and, on the other hand, the
decisive and commanding role they continue to play in the history of
philosophy. The mythic dimension of the Platonic dialogues in this regard
becomes especially important.
Professor Warnek's research also extends to other historical periods.
He is interested in the reception of antiquity in German idealism and
contemporary continental thought. The primary concern is the originally
disclosive character of art and myth and how this relates to any possible
philosophy of nature. Of special interest is Schelling's work on art,
nature and mythology.
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PUBLICATIONS
Translator: Martin
Heidegger, German Idealism (Fichte, Schelling, Hegel) and the Philosophical
Condition of the Present Age (Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, Forthcoming).
Translator, with Walter Brogan: Martin Heidegger, Aristotle's Metaphysics
Theta 1-3: On the Essence and Actuality of Force (Bloomington: Indiana
U. Press, 1995).
"Reading Plato before Platonism (after Heidegger)," Research in Phenomenology,
Vol. XXVI, 1996.
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Charter member of
the Ancient Philosophy Society and Program Committee Member (1998-present).
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TEACHING INTERESTS
History of Philosophy,
Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenism, Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Nietzsche,
Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Derrida, Metaphysics, Philosophy and
Myth, Philosophy and Art, Concepts of Time and History, Philosophy and
Medicine.
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COURSE LINKS
PHIL
211: Existentialism
PHIL
670: Issues in Metaphysics
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