Dr. Gregory Burgin is a faculty member with Writers' Studio housed in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts and the School of Applied Sciences and Arts. His research interests emerge from the areas of continental philosophy and comparative East-West thought.
19th Century to Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Comparative East-West thought, and Posthuman Studies.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
“More Than Death: Rethinking The Philosophy of Halloween.” Forthcoming Philosophy in the Contemporary World 30(1-2).
(2024). “The Hand of Thought: A Cross-Tradition Examination of Kosho Uchiyama and Martin Heidegger,” Comparative Philosophy 15(1): 1-18.
(2015). “Danto’s Error: Sustaining Art’s Narrative with the Primacy of the Aesthetic,” The Journal of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World 22(1): 37-49.
Essays:
(Summer 2019). Rhetorical Realism: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Ontology of Things. Scot Barnett, New York: Routledge, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-138-64821-0,Reviewedfor Frontiers of Philosophy in China 14(2): 357-362.
Research Activity
"Beauty as Restraint: Ethically Caring for the Twofold Locality of Beauty." Paper presented at Fonte Aretusa: The Fourth Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Heritage of Western Greece: with a special emphasis on τὸ καλόν to kalon: the beautiful, good, noble, fine at the Sicily Center for International Education, June 2018.
“The Rhetoric of Ruins.” Paper presented at The Twelfth Annual Meeting of The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle at Arizona State University, March 2017.
“The Original Ethics of our Poetic Dwelling in a Technological World.” Paper presented at the Critical Issues in Eastern and Western Philosophy Conference at the Nepal Academy, Nepal, Kathmandu December 2016.
“The Path of the Wounded Healer: The Shamanic Journey in T.S. Eliot’s, Four Quartets.” Paper presented at the Apothecary’s Chest: Magic, Art, & Medication symposium at the University of Glasgow, November 2007.
