David Wood (philosopher)

David Wood

Full name	David Wood
Era	19th century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Continental Philosophy
Main interests	Ontology Ethics · Metaphysics · German Idealism  · Philosophy of Nature  · Phenomenology · Deconstruction
Influenced by German Thought

David Wood (born 1946, Oxford, England) is a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

Career and interests

Wood has taught philosophy in Europe and the United States for over thirty years and has published 16 books. In addition to teaching at Vanderbilt University, where he is Centennial Professor of Philosophy, and Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor, he also co-directs (with Beth Conklin) a research programme in Ecology and Spirituality for the Centre for the Study of Religion and Culture.

He was an undergraduate at the University of Manchester where he was introduced to phenomenology by Wolfe Mays. He went on to graduate work in philosophy at New College, Oxford (1968–71), where through the good offices of Alan Montefiore (at Balliol College) Derrida was a frequent visitor. Under the influence of a group of animal rights activists led by Roslind and Stanley Godlovitch (Peter Singer, of Animal Liberation fame, graduated from that group), he became a vegetarian and started Ecology Action, a short-lived environmental group. He was subsequently hired by the University of Warwick where he went on to become chair of the philosophy department and director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature.

In 1974 he studied in Paris, and attended lectures by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricoeur and Michel Serres. He left Warwick for Vanderbilt in 1994, where he became chair in 1995.

He has been a visiting academic at Berkeley, Yale and Stony Brook, and has taught at Duquesne and Turin. He is an honorary Professor of Philosophy at Warwick where he ran a research seminar (Fatal Projections: Pathologies of Alterity) in Spring 2006.

He is also an active sculptor and earth-artist.

Bibliography

Books authored

• Time after Time (2007).
• The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction (2005).
• Thinking after Heidegger (2002).
• Philosophy at the Limit (1990).
• The Deconstruction of Time (1988; 2nd edn. 2001).

Books edited

• Truth (2005). With Jose Medina.
• On Derrida, Heidegger and Spirit (1993).
• Derrida: A Critical Reader (1992).
• On Paul Ricoeur: Narrative and Interpretation (1992).
• Writing the Future (1990).
• Philosophers' Poets (1990).
• The Provocation of Levinas (1988). With Robert Bernasconi.
• Exceedingly Nietzsche: Essays in Contemporary Nietzsche Interpretation (1988). With David Farrell Krell.
• Derrida and Differance (1985). With Robert Bernasconi.
• Time and Metaphysics (1982). With Robert Bernasconi.
• Heidegger and Language (1981).

Interviews

• http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/faculty/wood_interview.html Thinking Against the Grain (with Darren Hutchinson)
• http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/faculty/wood_interview2.html Food for the Imagination (with William McClure)
• http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/faculty/wood_interview3.html Contretemps Interview (with John Dalton)

See also

• List of deconstructionists

External links

• http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/faculty/wood.html
• http://www.artsnashville.org/registry/index.php?scan=az&main=artist&id=193
• http://www.vanderbilt.edu/chronopod/
• http://www.earth-art.org/

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