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Michael Allen Gillespie

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Michael Allen Gillespie
Born
Michael Allen Gillespie

(1951-01-24) January 24, 1951 (age 73)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (M.A., Ph.D)
Harvard University (A.B.)
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science
Philosophy
InstitutionsDuke University
University of Chicago

Michael Allen Gillespie (born January 24, 1951) is an American philosopher and Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Duke University. His areas of interest are political philosophy, continental philosophy, history of philosophy, and the origins of modernity.[1] He has published on the relationship between theology and philosophy, medieval theology, liberalism, and a number of philosophers such as Nietzsche, Hegel, Heidegger, and Kant.[2]

In his later works, Gillespie has specialized on the relationship between religion and politics.[3] His book "The Theological Origins of Modernity" and his article "The Antitrinitarian Origins of Liberalism" revealed the extent to which modern thought is indebted to Christianity, contributing to the breaking of the cliché that modernity is a decisive break from the Middle Ages.[4][5][6]

Works

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  • The Theological Origins of Modernity, University of Chicago Press, 2008.
  • Socinianism and the Political Theology of Liberalism (a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Political Theology. Ed. M. Kessler and S. Casey)
  • Hegel, Heidegger and the Ground of History
  • Nihilism before Nietzsche
  • Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics (ed)
  • Ratifying the Constitution (ed.)
  • Homo Politics, Homo Economicus (ed.)

References

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  1. ^ "Michael Allen Gillespie". 13 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Michael A. Gillespie, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy and Bass Fellow of Political Science". fds.duke.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  3. ^ "Michael Allen Gillespie, Author at English".
  4. ^ "Michael Allen Gillespie".
  5. ^ Michael A. Gillespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008), xi.
  6. ^ "Political Theory Today: Results of a National Survey". Retrieved April 20, 2016.

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