Mark Wrathall

Mark Wrathall (born 1965) is professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His main interests include phenomenology, existentialism, the philosophy of popular culture, and the philosophy of law. He is considered a leading interpreter of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Wrathall is featured in Tao Ruspoli's film Being in the World

Life

Mark Wrathall received a BA in philosophy at Brigham Young University in 1988. In 1991, he received both a Juris Doctorate from Harvard and an MA in philosophy from Boston College. After clerking for Cecil F. Poole at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, he pursued a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley, graduating in 1996. From 1994 to 1996 he was a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School. He taught at Brigham Young University from 1996 to 2006 (first in the political science department, then from 1999 in the philosophy department). From 2006 to the present he has been a professor at the University of California, Riverside.

Books

2000 Heidegger, Coping and Cognitive Science (MIT Press) - editor with Jeff Malpas
2000 Heidegger, Authenticity and Modernity (MIT Press) - editor with Jeff Malpas
2000 Appropriating Heidegger (Cambridge University Press) - editor with James E. Faulconer
2002 Heidegger Reexamined (Routledge) - editor with Hubert Dreyfus
2003 Religion After Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press) - editor
2005 How to Read Heidegger (Granta; W. W. Norton)
2005 A Companion to Heidegger - editor with Hubert Dreyfus
2006 U2 and Philosophy (Open Court) - editor
2006 A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism - editor with Hubert Dreyfus
2008 U2 ea Filosofia (Madras) - editor
2009 Die Philosophie bei U2 (Wiley-VCH) - editor
2010 Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language, History (Cambridge University Press)

References

http://www.u2station.com/news/archives/2006/12/interview_with_2.php
http://humanities.byu.edu/philosophy/fac_FullTime.htm#markwrathall
http://philpapers.org/autosense.pl?searchStr=Mark%20Wrathall
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,600118407,00.html
http://jaar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/73/4/1257
http://lerner-reviews.blogspot.com/2007/12/mark-wrathall-how-to-read-heidegger.html

External links

• Homepage at Being in the World Movie Website
• Homepage at UCR Philosophy Department Website

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