James C. Risser

James Conrad Risser (born 1946) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He was Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair of Humanities between 1991 and 1994 and the president of the North American Society of Philosophical Hermeneutics (2012–2015).[1]

James C. Risser
Born1946
EducationDuquesne University (PhD)
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
InstitutionsSeattle University
ThesisTruth and Aesthetic Experience in Kant's Critique of Judgement (1978)
Doctoral advisorJohn Sallis
Main interests
hermeneutics


Books
  • The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics. (Bloomington: Indiana UniversityPress, 2012)
  • (Edited) American Continental Philosophy. Edited by Walter Brogan and James Risser. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000)
  • (Edited) Heidegger Toward the Turn: The Work of the 1930s. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999)
  • Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-reading Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997)

References
  1. "Faculty and Staff - Philosophy Department - Departments - College of Arts and Sciences - Seattle University". www.seattleu.edu.


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