CURRICULUM
VITAE: DREW A. HYLAND
Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy
Trinity College
Hartford, CT 06106
Born: February 9, 1939
Citizenship: U.S.A.
Personal: Married, two children
Degrees:
B.A. Princeton University 1961
M.A. The Pennsylvania State University 1963
Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University 1965
Thesis Topic: "Eros and Philosophy: A Study of Plato's Symposium"
Thesis Advisor: Stanley Rosen
Academic Honors:
B.A. Cum Laude
M.A. Cum Laude - excused from
thesis
Recipient of Graduate School
Fellowship. Pennsylvania State University, 1963-64
Renewed from 1964-65 but declined in order to accept teaching position
at University of Toronto
Fellow of the Institute for
Greek Philosophy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 1970
Mellon Symposium Fellow, 1976
Charles A. Dana Professor of
Philosophy, September 1, 1982
Hewlett-Mellon Grant for Course
Development, $1000, Summer 1983
Supplementary Sabbatical,
Trinity College, 1984
National Endowment For the
Humanities Grant: Project Director, Summer Seminars for Secondary School Teachers, 1986
National Endowment For the
Humanities Grant: Project Director, Summer Seminars for Secondary School Teachers, 1988
Brownell Prize for Excellence
in Teaching, 1990
Faculty Research Grant, Fall,
1994
Distinguished Scholar Award,
Philosophical Society For the Study of Sport, June, 1998
Faculty Research Grant, Fall,
2001: "Postmodern Readings of Plato."
Employment:
University of Toronto, Toronto,
Canada, 1964-67
Lecturer, 1964-65; Assistant Professor, 1965-67
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1967-present
Full Professor, September, 1975
Adjunct Professor, The New School For Social Research, 1986,
'05
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Boston University, Fall, 2000
Teaching Interests:
Greek Philosophy
Modern Continental Philosophy,
especially Heidegger, phenomenology, and postmodernism
History of Modern Philosophy,
especially Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche
Introductory courses
Philosophy of Sport
Philosophy of Art
Philosophy of Technology
Special Programs: Director and
professor of special educational project on play and philosophy, winter semester, 1970,
1971,1972
Intensive Study Program In
Cassis, France, Summer, 1977:"French Philosophy and Literature," taught in
cooperation with Professor Michael Pretina, Modern Languages Department, Trinity
College, and La Fondation Camargo, Cassis, France
Steering Committee for the
Development of a special program for highly motivated freshmen, The Guided Studies Program
In The Humanities
Coordinating Committee,
"Interarts,"gateway program for students interested in the arts.
Courses Taught:
Graduate Level:
Plato - University of Toronto, Trinity College,
The New School For Social Research
Heidegger - University of Toronto, Trinity
College
Hegel - Trinity College
Nietzsche - Trinity College
Aristotle - Trinity College
Kant - Trinity College
Philosophy of Art - Trinity College
Nihilism - Trinity College
Postmodern Interpretations of Plato - Boston
University
"Plato's
Memorabilia of Socrates," first course at the Collegium Phenomenologicum series,
"Memory
and Responsibility: Plato, Hegel,
Derrida," July 11-29, 2005, Citta di Castello, Umbria.
Undergraduate Level:
Greek Philosophy
Modern Philosophy
Existentialism
19th Century Philosophy
Philosophy of Sport and Play
Introductory Courses
Phenomenology
Philosophy And Literature
Philosophy of Art
20th Century Continental Philosophy
Publications:
Books:
The Origins of Philosophy:
Its Rise in Myth and the PreSocratics, New York, Putnam's, 1973.
Translated into Spanish, 1979.
The Virtue of Philosophy:
An Interpretation of Plato's Charmides, Athens, Ohio, Ohio University
Press, Spring, 1981
The Question of Play,
Lanham, Md., University Press of America, 1984
The Philosophy of Sport,
New York, Paragon House Publishers, 1990. Translated
into Korean, 2001.
Finitude and Transcendence
in the Platonic Dialogues, Albany, N.Y.; SUNY Press, 1995
Teaching Matters: Essays on
liberal Education at the Millenium, edited with M.W. McLaughlin and Ronald Spencer
(Hartford, Trinity College Press, 1998).
Questioning
Platonism: Continental Interpreters of Plato (Albany, SUNY Press 2004)
Translated into German by Erik Vogt, 2004.
Heterotopias:
In Philosophy, Aesthetics, Politics, edited with Andrew Haas, Lexington
Books, forthcoming
Heidegger
and the Gteeks, edited with John Manoussakis, Indiana University Press,
fall, 2006
Suffering
Beauty: The Question of Beauty in Plato, forthcoming.
Articles:
"Eros, Epithumia, and
Philia in Plato," Phronesis, Vol. XIII, No. 1, 1968
"Why Plato Wrote
Dialogues," Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1968
"Self-Reflection and
Knowing in Aristotle," Giornali di Metafisica, Winter, 1968
"Art and the Happening of
Truth: Reflections on the End of Philosophy," the Journal of Aesthetics and Art
Criticism, Winter, 1971
"Athletics and Angst:
Reflections on the Philosophical Relevance of Play," in Sport and the Body: A
Philosophical Symposium, edited by Ellen Gerber, Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger,
1972
"Is a Science of Man
Possible?", "Book I of Aristotle's De Anima," and "Book III
of Aristotle's De Anima:" in Is a Science of Man Possible?"
Festschrift for Blanchard W. Means, Hartford, Trinity College Press, 1972
"Modes of Inquiry in
Sport, Athletics, and Play," Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Vol. 1,
September, 1974
"And That Is The Best Part
of Us: Human Being and Play," Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Fall, 1977
"Competition and
Friendship," Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Vol. V, Winter, 1979. Also
to be published in Gerber & Morgan (eds), Sport and The Body: A Philosophical
Symposium, 2nd Edition, Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 1979
"Participation In
Athletics: Is It Worth The Suffering?", New York Times, November 26, 1978
"Playing to Win: How Much
Should It Hurt?", Hastings Center Report, April, 1979
"Nietzsche, Nihilism, and
the Aesthetic Justification of Life," Independent Journal of Philosophy,
Vol. 5/6,1988
"Foucault, Schurmann, and
the Intelligibility of History," Independent Journal of Philosophy, 1981
"The Stance of Play," Jahrbuch
fur Bundesinstitut fur Sports-wissenschaft (in German), 1981
"The Stance of Play,"
Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Vol.VII, 1980
"Competition, Friendship,
and Human Nature" in Women, Philosophy, and Sport, edited by B. Partow,
Scarecrow Press, 1983
"The Virtue of Philosophy:
A Response to Mitchell Miller's Review," Independent Journal of Philosophy,
1983
"Toward a Conversation on
Play and Being," in Proceedings of the 17th Annual Heidegger Conference,
University of New Hampshire, 1983
"Opponents, Contestants,
Competitors: The Dialectic of Sport,"The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport,
Vol.XI, Winter, 1985
"Warren Fraleigh's Right
Actions in Sports: Ethics for Contestants" Review Article, Journal of The
Philosophy of Sport Vol. XI, 1985
"Responding to the Tyranny
of Scholarship," Ancient Philosophy, Vol. 5, 1987
"Taking the Longer Road:
The Irony of Plato's Republic," Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale, 3, 1988
"Republic, Book II and the
Origins of Political Philosophy," Interpretation, Vol. 16, no. 2, 1988
"Philosophy and Political
Ideology: The Case of Martin Heidegger," in Ideology and the Academy edited
by W.M. Brown, Trinity College Press 1989
"'When Power Becomes
Gracious'; The Affinity of Sport and Art," in Rethinking College Athletics,
edited by Judith Andre and David James, Philadelphia Temple University Press, 1990
"Plato's Three Waves and
the Question of Utopia," Interpretation, Volume 18, number 1, 1991
"Philosophy and Tragedy in
the Platonic Dialogues," Tragedy and Philosophy, (ed. N. Georgopoulos) (New
York: Macmillan Press, 1993), pp. 123-138.
"Potentiality and Presence
in Plato: The Significance of Place in the Platonic Dialogues," The
Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. VIII, no. 1, 1994. pp.
28-43.
"Presocratics," in Encyclopedia
of Time, (ed. Samuel Macey) (New York: Garland Publishing, 1994), pp. 494-496.
"Caring For Myth:
Heidegger, Plato, and the Myth of Cura," Research in Phenomenology, vol.
xxvii, Fall, 1997; pp. 90-102.
"Reiner Schurman's
Parmenides: Of Unbroken Non-hegemonies," Research in Phenomenology, vol.
xxviii, Fall, 1998.
"Immersion and Intensity:
Collaboration and the Context of Intellectual Life, in Teaching Matters: Essays on
Liberal Education at the Millenium, eds. Hyland, McLaughlin, Spencer (Hartford,
Trinity College Press, 1998), pp. 28-38.
"The Difference the
Difference Makes: The Question of Woman in Plato" in Interrogating Images,
edited by Stephen Barker (Northwestern University Press, forthcoming)
"Against
a Platonic 'Theory of Forms'" in Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretation.
edited by William Welton (New York, Lexington Books, 2002)
"It's
a Good Day to Die," in Epoche, vol. VII, no. 2, Spring, 2003
"First
of All Came Chaos," in Heidegger and the Greeks, edited by Drew A. Hyland
and John Manoussakis, Indiana University Press, forthcoming
"Oude
tis logos oude tis episteme: The Hermeneutics of Beauty," Internationales
Jahrbuch der Hermeneutik, Spring 2005
Book Reviews:
Plato's Symposium, by Stanley Rosen, Journal
of General Education, September 1969
The Unity of Platonic Dialogue, by
Rudolph Weingartner, Man and World, 1974
Plato's Trilogy: Theaetetus, The Sophist,
and the Statesman, by Jacob Klein, The Independent Journal of Philosophy,
pp. 147-148
Aristotle on Mind and the Senses:
Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium Aristotelicum, edited by G.E.R. Lloyd and
G.E.L.Owen, Review of Metaphysics, Vol. XXXII, No. 3, March 1979 pp. 557-558
Right Actions In Sport: Ethics for
Contestants, by Warren Fraleigh, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Vol.
XI, pp. 83-88
The Being of the Beautiful, by Seth
Benardete, Review of Metaphysics, December 1986
Dance and the Lived Body: A Descriptive
Aesthetic, by Sondra Fraleigh, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Vol. XIV,
1987
"Recent Scholarship on Plato's Charmides,"
in Algemine Zeitschrift fur Philosophie Vol. 13, no. 2, 1988
"Claudia
Baracchi's Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic" in Graduate
Faculty Philosophy Journal, Volume 23, no. 2, 2002
Selected Papers
Presented:
"Foucault, Schurmann, and the Intelligibility of
History," Symposium on Modernity, Airlie, Va., June 1980
"The Stance of Play" Presidential Address,
Philosophical Society For the Study of Sport, Karlsruhe, West Germany, July 1980.
Also presented at the annual meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, Boston, December, 1980
"Philosophy of Sport," interview on Sunrise
Semester C.B.S. educational television show, November 30, 1981
"Playing Dangerously: Reflections On the Risk-Taking
Element in Sport," H. Stafford Little Public Lecture, Princeton University, February
23, 1982
"Taking The Longer Road: The Irony of Plato's
Republic," Charles A. Dana inaugural lecture, October 27, 1982; Iowa State
University, November, 1984, Vassar College, April, 1985, Metaphysics Seminar of New
York, April 24, 1987
"Toward a Conversation on Play and Being,"
Heidegger Conference, May 13, 1983
"'When Power Becomes Gracious': The Affinity of Sport
and Art" Olympic Scientific Congress, Eugene, Oregon, July 1984. Also presented
at Connecticut College, October 1984. Also presented at Iowa State University, November
1984, Mt.Allison University, April 15, 1987
"Opponents, Contestants, Competitors: The Dialectic of
Sport" Olympic Scientific Congress, Eugene, Oregon, July 1984
"The Partnership of Play and Dance" CORD
Conference, Hartford, CT, October, 1984, Oberlin College, November 1988
"Postlude and Prelude," Heidegger Conference, New
Orleans, LA, May 24, 1985
"Plato's Three Waves and the Question of Utopia,"
Howard University, July, 1985, Trinity College, September 1985, University of Stockholm,
February 1990
"Playing at Risk: Paternalism and the College
Athlete," Philosophic Society For the Study of Sport, Ft. Worth, Texas, October 1,
1987
"Deconstruction and Understanding," reply to Jane
Love's "Appetite and Violability: Questioning A Platonic Metaphor." SPEP,
Northwestern University, October 1988
"Philosophy and Political Ideology: The Case of Martin
Heidegger," Symposium on "Art, Knowledge, and Ideology," Trinity College,
October 1988
"Philosophy and Tragedy in the Platonic Dialogues,
SPEP, Duquesne University, October 1989
"The Presence and Absence of Plato: On Heidegger's
Reading of Plato," Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Columbia University,
October, 1992; also at Williams College, September, 1992
"Presocratic Political Philosophy," American
Political Science Association, Chicago, September, 1992.
"The Platonic Conception of Eros: Plato's Symposium,"
Tulsa University, November, 1992.
"The Difference the Difference Makes: The Question of
Woman in Plato," Conference on "Difference, Discrimination, and Justice,"
Gotenberg, Sweden, June, 1994.
"Reading Spectres of Marx, Seeing Spectres of
Socrates," International Philosophical Seminar, Castelrotto, Italy, July, 1997.
"Transgressing Boundaries: Sport as Subversive
Activity," given as The Fraleigh Lecture, Philosophical Society For the Study of
Sport, August, 1998
"Sorceress Love: Irigaray and Diotima,"
International Philosophical Seminar, Castelrotto, Italy, July, 1999.
"Simulate This!: The Seductive Return of the Real in
Baudrillard," International Philosophical Seminar, Castelrotto, Italy, July, 2000.
"Oh
my Friend, What is a Friend? Derrida's Reading of Plato" International
Philosophical Seminar, Castelrotto, Italy, July 2001.
"Against
A Platonic Theory of Forms," Ancient Philosophy Society and Society For
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Baltimore, MD, October, 2001
"Technology
and Human Nature: Who's In Charge Here?" Washington and Lee University, March,
2002
"It's
a Good Day To Die," Collegium Phenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, July, 2002
"First
of all Came Chaos," conference on Heidegger and the Greeks, co-organizers, Drew
A. Hyland and John Manoussakis, Athens, Greece, summer 2003
"Oude
tis logos, oude tis episteme: The Hermeneutics of Beauty," Conference on Platons
Hermeneutik, Freiburg im B, summer 2004
"Transgressing
Boundaries: Sport as Subversive Activity," Steirnotte Lecture, Quinnpiac
University, fall, 2005
"Memory
and Responsibility in Plato," Lecture course at the Collegium Phenomenologicum,
Citta di Castello, summer, 2005
"The
Sweatiest of the Liberal Arts: Athletics and Education," Jake McCandless
Lecture, Princeton University, November 2006.
Languages:
Greek: Read
French: Read, speak, write
German: Read, speak, write
Latin: Read
Italian: Read, speak, write
Administrative Posts:
Chairman, Department of Philosophy, Trinity College,
1974-1977, 1988-1991, 2002-2005
Chairman, Educational Policy
Committee, Trinity College, 1974
Member, Athletic Advisory Council, Trinity College, 1967-2005
Executive Council,
Philosophical Society For The Study of Sport, 1975-1977, 1989-1991
President, Philosophical
Society For The Study of Sport, 1979
Co-Chairman, Project One:
President's committee on long-range planning, 1983
Chairman, Appointments &
Promotions Committee, Trinity, 1983-84
Member, General Education
Council, 1986-1991
Member, Faculty Research
Committee, 1986-89
Chairman, Department of
Philosophy, 1988-1991 Executive Council, International Association For Philosophy and
Literature, 1998-
Founding Director, Trinity
Center For Collaborative Teaching and Research, 1997-2000
Executive Committee, Ancient
Philosophy Society, 1999- 2004
1999 IAPL Conference
Coordinator
Executive Committee, IAPL 1999-2004
Selection Committee, Ancient
Philosophy Society
Appointments and Promotions Committee, 2006-2008
