Areas of Study:
 
 
 
   
     
  .Continental Philosophy and Critical Theory
 		 
 
The Rhetoric Department is particularly strong in contemporary French and German thought and in the history of the continental philosophical tradition. The faculty are interested in fields such as aesthetics, psychoanalysis, ethics, phenomenology, philosophy and literature, the history of philosophy, and specialize in major figures including Kant, Heidegger, Foucault, Lacan, Wittgenstein, and Derrida.  
 
     
 

Faculty

Judith Butler
Continental philosophy 19th-20th century

Pheng Cheah
History of philosophy; Kant

Anthony J. Cascardi
Aesthetics; critical theory

Hans Sluga
20th century Philosophy; Wittgenstein; Heidegger

Kaja Silverman
Phenomenology; Lacan

Hubert Dreyfus, Affiliated faculty
Foucault; Heidegger