Biography:Michael Allen Gillespie

Short description: American philosopher

Michael Allen Gillespie
Born	Michael Allen Gillespie (1951-01-24) January 24, 1951
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Chicago (M.A., Ph.D) Harvard University (A.B.)
Scientific career
Fields	Political science Philosophy
Institutions	Duke University University of Chicago

Michael Allen Gillespie 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. 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.

In his later works, Gillespie has specialized on the relationship between religion and politics. 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.

Works

• 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.)

Sources

• On Michael Allen Gillespie
• Michael Gillespie at Duke University Website
• Review of an article by Gillespie