Matthew R. Calarco, Ph. D.
Professor of Philosophy
Degrees
2001, Ph.D, SUNY Binghamton
Research Areas
Continental Philosophy, Animal and Environmental Philosophy
Publications
Selected Books:
- How Not to Be Human: The Inhumanist Philosophy of Robinson Jeffers. New York: Anthem, 2024.
- The Three Ethologies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.
- Altermobilities: Reflections on Roadkill between Mobility Studies and Animal Studies . New York: Palgrave, 2023.
- The Boundaries of Human Nature: The Philosophical Animal from Plato to Haraway . New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.
- Beyond the Anthropological Difference. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Animal Studies: The Key Concepts. New York: Routledge, 2020.
- Exploring Animal Encounters Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives. New York: Palgrave, 2018. (co-edited with Dominik Ohrem).
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Thinking Through Animals: Identity, Difference, Indistinction
. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015.
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Radicalizing Levinas
. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2010. (co-edited with Peter Atterton)
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The Death of the Animal
(with Paola Cavalieri, J. M. Coetzee, Harlan Miller, and Cary Wolfe). New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
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Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida
. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Scholarly Work
I work primarily at the intersection of Continental philosophy and animal/environmental philosophy.
Current Course Schedule
Spring 2023: Existentialism, Kant and the 19th Century, Intro