Joshua Kates (Email; phone 812-856-1402)
Associate Professor
Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, 1991
M.A. State University of New York at Buffalo, 1989
B.A. St. John’s College, Md., 1980

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Literary theory, Jacques Derrida, phenomenology, philosophy of language, Modernism, Shakespeare, theories of modernity, political theory.

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PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Books:
Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction
(Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Northwestern University Press, November 2005)

Articles and Chapters:
“A Transcendental Sense of Death?: Derrida and the Philosophy of Language” Modern Language Notes Comparative Literature Issue (forthcoming)

“A Problem of No Species; or, Derrida’s Contribution to Phenomenology,” commemorative issue of The New Yearbook for Phenomenology (guest editor; forthcoming)

“Modernity and History: Klein and Derrida,” SPEP Supplemental Volume of Philosophy Today, Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, (forthcoming)

“Derrida, Husserl, and the Commentators: Introducing a Developmental Approach,”
Husserl Studies 19.2 (Summer 2003): 101-29

“Tossings and Turnings: On the Alleged Shift from Theory to History in the Humanities,” in The Ends of Theory, ed. Jerry Herron et al. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1996: 146-65

“The Voice that Keeps Reading: Evans’ Strategies of Deconstruction ,” Philosophy Today 37:3 (Fall 1993): 318-335

Selected Talks:
“Politics and Modernity: Derrida and Hegel,” Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 2005

“Derrida and Shakespeare,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Salt Lake City, November 2005

“Deconstruction and the Liberal Arts,” Seattle University, May 2005

“To What Question is Foucault the Answer?” Department of French, UC Davis, May 2000

“Heidegger on ‘Cultural Criticism’: The Age of the World Picture,” Department of English, Dartmouth College, 1995

“What is Historicity and Why?” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Montreal, 1991