Philosophy Department Faculty

Gregory Fried

Professor; Convener of M.A. program in Philosophy, Law, and Policy

Department

Philosophy

Profile

Professor Fried has taught at the University of Chicago, ֱ University, California State University Los Angeles, and Suffolk University. He teaches and publishes in political philosophy, with a particular interest in responses to challenges to liberal democracy and the rise of ethno-nationalism. He also works in philosophy of law, especially law and hermeneutics; philosophy and race; practical ethics, including just war theory; public philosophy; the history of ethics; Ancient philosophy; and 20thcentury Continental philosophy, especially Heidegger.

Other Professional Activities

Book series co-editor, “New Heidegger Research,” Roman and Littlefield International

Co-founder and director, “”

Executive producer, “,” directed by Derek Burrows

Books

Towards a Polemical Ethics: Between Heidegger and Plato (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, forthcoming 2020).

Confronting Heidegger: A Critical Dialogue on Politics and Philosophy (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, forthcoming 2019).

With Charles Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010).

𾱻𲵲’s Polemos: From Being to Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).

Recent Publications

“Odysseus on the Beach: Humanity between the Anthropocene and the Hubriscene,” in The Task of Philosophy in the Anthropocene: Axial Echoes in Global Space, Richard Polt and Jon Wittrock, eds. (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, forthcoming 2018).

“On Beyond Heidegger,” in After Heidegger? Gregory Fried and Richard Polt, eds. (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017).

“Whitewashed with Moralism: On 𾱻𲵲’s Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism,” in Heidegger and Jewish Thought: Difficult Others, Elad Lapidot and Micha Brumlik, eds. (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017).

“Epochale Polemik: Nach den Schwarzen Heften mit und gegen Heidegger denken,” in Martin Heideggers ‘Schwarze Hefte’: Eine philosophisch-politische Debatte (Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2016).

“The King Is Dead: Martin Heidegger after the Black Notebooks,” in Reading 𾱻𲵲’s Black Notebooks, 1931-1941, Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas, eds. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016).

ٰ𱹾Բ Dzê: Heidegger on the Essence of Politics,” Continental Philosophy Review 47:3 (September 2014).

“Heidegger, politics and us: Towards a polemical ethics,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 39:9 (November 2013) 863-75.

“A Freakish Whiteness: The Circassian Lady and the Caucasian Fantasy,” The Mirror of Race (April 2013): available online at http://mirrorofrace.org/wp/circassian/.