Biography:Michael E. Zimmerman
Michael E. Zimmerman (born July 7, 1946) is an American integral theorist whose interests include Buddhism,[1] Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ken Wilber. After a year as assistant professor at Denison University, he was Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University[2] from 1975 to 2005, and Director of the Institute for Humanities and the Arts at Tulane. He is also affiliated with the Integral Institute. Together with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, he wrote a book on integral ecology, Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World. Since 2006, Zimmerman has been a faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Zimmerman is a specialist concerning 20th century German philosopher Martin Heidegger[3] and has published a number of books and peer-reviewed articles on Heidegger's work, and on other conventional philosophical topics.
Publications
Books
- Eclipse of the Self: The Development of Heidegger's Concept of Authenticity. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1981; second edition, 1986).
- Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity: Technology, Politics, and Art Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
- Portuguese translation: Confronto de Heidegger com a Modernidade: Política, Arte, trans. João Sousa Ramos (Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2001).
- Contesting Earth’s Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity (The University of California Press, 1994).
- Chinese translation underway with tentative title: Li Nun Zheng Feng : Ju Jiao Di Qiu Wei Lai (Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publishing Company).
- ed. The Thought of Martin Heidegger, Tulane Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XXXII, (New Orleans, 1984).
- ed. Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1993). Second edition, 1998. Third edition, 2001. Fourth edition 2004.(?)
See also
- Integral theory
References
- ↑ Zimmerman, Michael E.; Zimmerman, Michael (1981). Eclipse of the Self: The Development of Heidegger's Concept of Authenticity. ISBN 9780821405703. https://books.google.com/books?id=IfHWAAAAMAAJ&q=michael+e.+zimmerman+buddhism.
- ↑ "Michael Zimmerman". Archived from the original on January 4, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140104041716/http://www.tulane.edu/~mcgovern/zimmerman/essays/integral_ecology/humanitys_relation_to_gaia.htm.
- ↑ Zimmerman, Michael E. (May 22, 1990). Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity. ISBN 0253114683. https://books.google.com/books?id=0eJa3xPCThsC.
External links
- Official v.v. at University of Colorado
- The Z Files by Mary Ann Travis article on his work with his alien abduction phenomena
- Interview with Laureano Ralón @ Figure/Ground
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