Norman A. Fischer

Professor

Education:

• University of Washington, Ph.D. 1975 Philosophy
• University of Washington, M.A. 1968 Philosophy
• University of Wisconsin, B.A. 1965 Philosophy

Areas of Scholarly/Teaching Interest:

I work in the areas of social and political philosophy, particularly social ethics, with a special interest in Marxism and German Philosophy. I also work in environmental philosophy, including, ethics, law, politics and aesthetics of the environment. Finally, I also do work in aesthetics, philosophy of culture, and philosophy of literature and film, particularly when they intersect with social ethics and environmental ethics.

Selected Publications:

Articles

1. "Civic Republican Political/Legal Ethics and Echoes of the Classical Historical Novel in Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon," Special Symposium on Pynchon and Law, Oklahoma City University Law Review 4 (1999): 557-88.
2. "Jurgen Habermas' Recent Philosophy of Law and the Optimum Point Between Universalism and Communitarianism," in Radical Critiques of the Law, Stephen Griffin and Robert Moffat, editors (Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1997), 67-82.
3. "Frankfurt School Marxism and Ethical Analysis of Art," Communication Theory 7 (1997): 362-381.
4. "From Aesthetic Education to Environmental Aesthetics," Clio 25 (1996): 365-391.
5. "Hans Jurgen Syberberg's opera film Parsifal: Visual Transformation and Philosophical Reconstruction," Film and Philosophy III (1996): 145-153.

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