Salve Regina University

Faculty

Dr. W. James Hersh

Professor

Undergrad: Philosophy

Office Location: Marion 102
Office Phone: (401) 341-3171
Email: hershj@salve.edu

Education

DePauw University B.A. 1965 English Literature, Honors

DePauw University M.A. 1969 Philosophy and Religion

Union Institute Ph.D. 1974 Philosophy and Religion

Interests

Music of all kinds, Tennis, Running, a good cup of tea

Memberships

International Berkeley Society

Nature Conservancy

Amnesty International

Publications/Papers

“The Impossibility of Democracy: Rawls’s and Rousseau’s Unacknowledged Demand for Irony,” The World Congress of Philosophy, University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, August 2008. Presentation

Poeticized Culture: The Role of Irony in Rawls's Liberalism (Rowman & Littlefield, University Press, forthcoming October, 2005); Book

"Totem," in TriQuarterly (Northwestern, 1967). Article

"The Ethnic Uncounscious," in The Journal of Analytical Psychology (Volume 25, #2, 1980, London); Article

"Model-Making and the Promethean Ego," in Spring: Journal of Archetype and Culture (1982); Article

"From Ethnos to Polis: The Furies and Apollo," in Spring: The Journal of Archetype and Culture (1985) and in Gorgo (1987); Article

"Enthroning the Furies in Germany," in Gorgo: Zeitschrift fur archetypisches und bildhaftes Denken, Heft 12 (1987); Article

"Ethnic Cleansing: The Erinyes Are Still Angry" in Spring: Journal of Archetype and Culture #53 (1993); Article

"De la Etnia a la Polis," in Mediterranio Mitico (November, 2003) Article

Research and Scholarly Achievements

My specialty in philosophy of the imagination and political philosophy.

Awards

Class Schedule

Fall 2009 Schedule