Babette E. Babich Curriculm Vitae

Dr. Babette E. Babich
Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University

Education:
1987, Boston College, Ph.D.
1985-86, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
1985, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.; 1984, Universität Tübingen, Germany.; 1980, State University of New York at Stony Brook, B.A
Executive Editor: New Nietzsche Studies


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Books

Words in Blood, Like Flowers:
Philosophy and Poetry, Music and Eros in Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Heidegger. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006. Paperback: 2007


Link to Nicholas Birns' Nietzsche Circle Review


Habermas, Nietzsche, and Critical Theory. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, July 2004. Table of Contents.
Link to Konrad Ott's Nietzsche-Studien Review

Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science: Van Gogh's Eyes, and God, [Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.] Dordrecht. Kluwer. Editor. 2001. Table of Contents

Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge and Critical Theory: Nietzsche and the Sciences I, [Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.] Dordrecht. Kluwer. 1999. Editor (in consultation with Robert S. Cohen). Table of Contents

Nietzsche, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Nietzsche and the Sciences II. [Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.]Dordrecht. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1999. Editor (in consultation with Robert S. Cohen). Table of Contents
Nietzsche e la Scienza: Arte, vita, conoscenza. Translated Fulvia Vimercati.
[Series directed by Giulio Giorello: Scienza e Idee: 19.] Raffaello Cortina Editore. Milan. 1996. Table of Contents

From Phenomenology to Thought, Errancy, and Desire: Essays in Honor of William J. Richardson, S.J. [Phaenomenologica.] Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht. 1995. Editor. Table of Contents
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science:
Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life. State University of New York Press. Albany. 1994. Table of Contents
Continental and Postmodern Perspectives in the Philosophy of Science. Avebury. Aldershot, UK/ Brookfield, USA. 1995. Co-editor (with Debra B. Bergoffen and Simon V. Glynn). Table of Contents "Preface by Babich, Bergoffen, and Glynn. Babich."

Past Secretary Convener: Heidegger Conference May 11-13, 2001, Fordham -Lincoln Center

Link to North American Heidegger Conference

Executive Editor (also founding editor in 1996): New Nietzsche Studies.
Index of Articles: 1996-2006.

SELECTED ARTICLES AVAILABLE ONLINE

"The Genealogy of Morals and Right Reading: On the Nietzschean Aphorism and the Art of the Polemic." In: Christa Davis Acampora, ed., Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals: Critical Essays. (Lanham, Md., Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), pp. 177-190.
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"The Science of Words or Philology: Music in The Birth of Tragedy and the Alchemy of Love in The Gay Science." In: Tiziana Andina, ed., Nietzsche dopo il postmoderno. Revista di estetica, nuova serie, 28 (2005), anno XLV. 47-78.
"From Van Gogh's Museum to the Temple at Bassae: Heidegger's Truth of Art and Schapiro's Art History" Culture, Theory & Critique. 44/2 (2003): 151-169.

"From Fleck's Denkstil to Kuhn's Paradigm: Conceptual Schemes and Incommensurability." International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol 17, No. 1, 2003: 75-92.

"Nietzsche's Imperative as a Friend's Encomium: On Becoming the One You Are, Ethics, and Blessing." Nietzsche-Studien 33 (2003): 29-58.

"On the Analytic Continental Divide in Philosophy: Nietzsche's Lying Truth, Heidegger's Speaking Language, and Philosophy" in C. G. Prado, A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2003), pp. 63-104.

NB: for a look at the debate following in the wake of one author who attempted to document the distinction, see Wikipedia's user_talk:/Lucaas/archive. The monitors of (ah yes, analytic) political neutrality chose to edit out any and all reference to the distinction between analytic and continental philosophy (indeed as of this writing, the current entry on philosophy has no such sub-entry).

The original author quoted an observation I had made regarding the political nature of the analytic-continental divide ... that quote seems to have set off the wiki-tiff. Here are the offending words originally quoted in bold (along with a good bit more context, for continental good measure):

I have maintained that there is a difference between analytic and continental approaches to philosophy not only because it is obvious and not only because as a professor of philosophy I live on the terms of a profession dominated by this noisome distinction but because the claim that there is no such distinctive divide is politically manipulative. Claiming there is no analytic-continental divide is an important step in the analytic appropriation of the mantle (not the substance) of continental philosophy. Why should the analysts want to appropriate the themes of continental philosophy? The short answer is that analytic philosophy has exhausted itself; the extended and more conflictedly interesting answer is because continental philosophy is sexy: the grad students want it -- or think they do. The difference between so-called analytic and so-called continental styles of philosophy is a contentious matter of ideology and taste -- "deflating questions" as opposed to reflecting on what is question-worthy, as Heidegger would say, in a question. This difference also refers to one's scholarly formation (the depth and breadth of the same, or calculated lack thereof), and it is a matter of definition. Thus disputes that dissolve the difference (going in the presumably brave new direction of "just doing good work," or speaking only of "good" -- and by neat exclusion: "bad" -- philosophy), reinstate in a rather more insidious and value-laden way the same distinction. Yet the advantage of denying any difference between modalities of philosophy is considerable because once the denial is in place, continental style philosophy can be dismissed as bad or even as "just not" philosophy and this is needed both to justify one's inattention to the work done by scholars working in the contemporary tradition of continental philosophy and even more importantly because analytic philosphy wants to try its hand at themes formerly left to continental modes of thought. And such an annexation is securely underway.

"Nietzsche and Eros Between the Devil and God's Deep Blue Sea: The Erotic Valence of Art and the Artist as Actor -- Jew -- Woman." Continental Philosophy Review. 33 (2000): 159-188.

"Heidegger's Silence: Towards a Post-Modern Topology," in Charles Scott and Arleen Dallery, eds., Ethics and Danger: Currents in Continental Thought. Albany. State University of New York Press. 1992. Pp. 83-106.

"A Musical Retrieve of Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Technology: Cadence, Concinnity, and Playing Brass." Man and World. 26 (1993): 239-260.

Nietzsche's göttliche Eidechsen: 'Divine Lizards,' Greene Lyons, and Music." in Christa Davis Acampora and Ralph Acampora, eds., A Nietzschean Bestiary. (Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004). Pp. 204-268.

Postmodern Musicology in V. E. Taylor and C. Winquist, eds., Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, (New York: Routledge, 2000), 255-259.

"Nietzsche et eros entre le gouffre de charybde et l'eceuil de dieu: La valence de l'art et l'artiste comme acteur - Juif - femme." Revue Internationale de Philosophie. 211-1 (2000): 15-55.

"Nietzsche's Critical Theory: The Culture of Science as Art," in Babich, ed., in consultation with R.S. Cohen, Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, Critical Theory (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999), pp. 1-24.
"The Relation Between Heidegger and Nietzsche: Connivance, Concinnity, Perspectivalism." New Nietzsche Studies, Vol 3:1/2 (1999): 27-60.
"The Essence of Questioning after Technology: Techne as Constraint and Saving Power." British Journal of Phenomenology. 30/1 (January 1999): 106-124.
"The Hermeneutics of a Hoax: On the Mismatch of Physics and Cultural Criticism." Common Knowledge. 6/2 (September 1997): 23-33.

"Against Analysis, Beyond Postmodernism," with Debra B. Bergoffen and Simon V. Glynn, Continental and Postmodern Perspectives in the Philosophy of Science. Avebury. Aldershot, UK/ Brookfield, USA. 1995.

"From the Ethical Alpha to the Linguistic Omega: Heidegger's Anti-Semitism and the Question of the Affinity Between Ancient Greek and German." Joyful Wisdom: A Journal of Postmodern Ethics. I (Fall 1994) 1:3-25.

"On Malls, Museums, and the Art World: Postmodernism and the Vicissitudes of Consumer Culture." Art Criticism. IX/1 (Fall 1993): 1-16.

SELECTED ARTICLES
"Gay Science: Science and Wissenschaft, Leidenschaft and Music." In Keith Ansell-Pearson, ed., Companion to Nietzsche. (Cambridge: Blackwell, 2006).

La veridad del arte en Heidegger: Salvar el museo entre Schapiro y Gadamer" in Carlos Eduardo Sanbria, ed. and trans., Estética. Miradas contemporáneas. Fondation Universidad de Bogotá, Columbia, 2004. pp. 183-230.

"Música y palabros en Nietzsche: Sobre la cuestión de la ciencia, el estilo y la música de la tegedia antigua." Estudios Nietzsche, 4 (2004): 11-35.

"Nietzsche's Critique of Scientific Reason and Scientific Culture: On 'Science as a Problem' and 'Nature as Chaos'" in Gregory M. Moore and Thomas Brobjer, eds., Nietzsche and Science. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). Pp. 133-153.
"Die Wahrheit des Kunstwerkes: Gadamers Hermeneutik zwischen Martin Heidegger und Meyer Shapiro" in: Günter Figal, ed., Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, Vol. 3. (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004). Pp. 55-80.
"Heidegger Against the Editors: Nietzsche, Science, and the Beiträge as Will to Power," Philosophy Today. 47 (Winter 2003): 327-359.

"Continental Philosophy in Britain and America" in: Kang Ouyang and Steve Fuller, eds., The Map of Contemporary British and American Philosophy. In Chinese (Philosophy/Philosophers, Beijing, 2007 [dated: 2005]). Pp. 22-82.

"Nietzsche's Chaos sive natura: Evening Gold and the Dancing Star." Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia. 57/2 (2001): 225-245.

"Between Hölderlin and Heidegger: Nietzsche's Transfiguration of Philosophy." Nietzsche-Studien. 29 (2000): 267-301.
"The Metaphor of Woman as Truth in Nietzsche: The Dogmatist's Reverse Logic or Rückschluß." Journal of Nietzsche Studies. 12 (1996): 27-29.
"Nietzsche and Music: A Bibliography." New Nietzsche Studies. 1/2:64-78. Fall/Winter, 1996.
"Nietzsche and Lacan," in David Pettigrew and François Raffoul, eds., Disseminating Lacan. Albany. State University of New York Press. 1996.
"Preface." From Phenomenology to Thought, Errancy, and Desire. Dordrecht. Kluwer. 1995. Pp. ix-xiii.
"Heidegger's Philosophy of Science: Calculation, Thought, and Gelassenheit." From Phenomenology to Thought, Errancy, and Desire. Dordrecht. Kluwer. 1995. Pp. 589-599.
"The Poetic Construction of Nature: Hölderlin's Contribution to an Ethos of Nature and Art." Soundings. LXXVII/2 (Summer 1995): 263:277.
"Philosophy of Science and the Politics of Style: Beyond Making Sense." New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture. 30/31 (Summer 1994): 99-114.
"Continental Philosophy of Science: Mach, Duhem, and Bachelard," in Richard Kearney, ed., Routledge History of Philosophy: Volume VIII. London. Routledge. 1993. Pp. 175-221.

"A müvészet posztmodern hermeneutikai ontológiája felé: heideggeri igazság nietzschei stílusban." Translated by Zsélyi Ferenc. Pompeji. III (1990): 99-113.
"Nietzsche and the Condition of Post-Modern Thought: Post-Nietzschean Post-Modernism," in Clayton Koelb, ed., Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra. Albany. State University of New York Press. 1990. Pp. 249-266.
"Nietzsche's Self-Deconstruction: Philosophy as Style." Soundings. 73 (Spring, 1990): 50-12.
"From Nietzsche's Artist to Heidegger's World: The Post-Aesthetic Perspective." Man and World. 22 (1989) 3-23.
"Nietzsche's Style and the Metaphysics of Prejudice." Reports on Philosophy. 11 (1987): 15-27.

Contact Information:
Professor Babette E. Babich
Department of Philosophy
Fordham University
113 West 60th Street
New York, New York 10023 USA
Email: Babich@Fordham.Edu
Telephone: (212) 636 6297

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