John van Buren

Professor, Department of Philosophy
Director, Environmental Studies Program
(718) 817-3301
evanburen@fordham.edu

Ph.D.
McMaster University, University of Tübingen, 1989

Research and Teaching
20th-century continental philosophy, especially Heidegger, Husserl’s phenomenology, philosophy of biology (von Uexkull, Lowith, Jonas), hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), and French post-structuralism (Foucault, Derrida). Environmental philosophy, especially environmental metaphysics and normative environmental ethics from environmental pragmatism to deep ecology, eco-feminism, and eco-phenomenology. Greek philosophy, especially philosophy of nature and philosophical anthropology in the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, and Theophrastus.

Selected Publications

The Young Heidegger: Rumor of the Hidden King (Indiana, 1994)

Editor, Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in His Earliest Thought (SUNY, 1994)

"Critical Environmental Hermeneutics," Environmental Ethics 17 (1995): 259-75.

Editor, Ontology—The Hermeneutics of Facticity (Indiana, 1999)

Editor, Supplements: From Heidegger's Earliest Essays to Being and Time and Beyond (SUNY, 2002)

The Environmental History of Philosophy: Toward a New Metaphysics in the Age of Ecology (forthcoming)