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Department of Germanic Studies
827 University Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607
tel: (312) 355-0875
fax: (312) 413-9839
e-mail
Robert R. Williams is Professor in Germanic
Studies and Religious Studies. He received his Ph.D from Union
Theological Seminary-Columbia
University in New
York
. He has published in both philosophy and
theology, with interests in Continental Philosophy (Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Foucault and Levinas) and German thought from Kant to Nietzsche, specialising in Hegel. He is author of Hegel’s
Ethics of Recognition (1998), Recognition:
Fichte and Hegel on the Other (1992), and Schleiermacher
the Theologian: the Construction of the Doctrine of God (1978); translator
and editor of Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit 1827/8 (Oxford University Press 2007) and I.A. Dorner: The Immutability
of God (1994). A Fulbright Research Professor in Germany (1982),
recipient of several NEH awards, and a fellow of the Humanities Institute
at UIC 2002-3, he was President of the Hegel Society of America (1998-2000).
He is currently completing a project on Recognition, Tragedy and the Death of God: Studies in Hegel and Nietzsche.
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