Michael A. Gillespie
Professor of Political Science
Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, works in political philosophy, with particular emphasis on modern continental theory and the history of political philosophy. He is the author of Hegel, Heidegger and the Ground of History, Nihilism before Nietzsche, The Theological Origins of Modernity, and Nietzsche's Final Teaching. He is also co-editor of Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics, Ratifying the Constitution, and Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus. He has published articles on Montaigne, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Existentialism, and various topics in American political thought and public philosophy, as well as on the relation of religion and politics. He is currently completing a sequel to Theological Origins of Modernity, tentatively titled the Theological Fate of Modernity. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Department of Education, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Templeton Foundation, the Liberty Fund, the Jack Miller Foundation, the Smith Foundation, and the Earhart Foundation. He is the Director of the Duke Program in American Values and Institutions, and the Visions of Freedom Focus Program.
Current Research Interests
Finishing a sequel to The Theological Origins of Modernity
An essay on Rhetoric and Poetry in Plato's Republic
An essay on Rhetoric and Poetry in Plato's Republic
Office Hours
By appointment.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of Political Science, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1995
- Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017
- Bass Fellow, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008
Contact Information
- 204G Gross Hall, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708-0204
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mgillesp@gmail.com
(919) 660-4300
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- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., The University of Chicago 1981
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Political Science, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003 - 2008
- Acting Chair, Department of Political Science, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2007
- Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998 - 2001
- Associate Professor with Tenure, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1991 - 1995
- Assistant Professor, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1983 - 1990
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Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke
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Director of the Gerst Program in Political, Economic, and Humanistic Studies, 1998-2005
Director of the Duke Program in American Values and Institutions, 2005-present.
Director of the visions of Freedom Focus Program, 1999-present.
Director of the Visions of Freedom Living Learning Community, 2015-present
Director of the AB Duke Merit Scholars Program, 2013-2018.
Director of the Duke in Oxford Program, 2013-2018.
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Director of the Gerst Program in Political, Economic, and Humanistic Studies, 1998-2005
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In the News
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Awards & Honors
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Subject Headings
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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- Research
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Selected Grants
- Constitution Day 2022 awarded by Jack Miller Center 2022
- The John Locke Project for the Visions of Freedom Living Learning Community awarded by Jack Miller Center 2020 - 2022
- The American Founding and Political Development in the Context of Western Civilization: A Proposal for funding PhD students in Political Science at Duke University awarded by Department of Education 2018 - 2021
- A Constitution Day Celebration at Duke University awarded by Jack Miller Center 2015 - 2016
- The Duke Program in American Values and Institutions awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2004 - 2010
- NEH Summer Institute (1994): Plato and the Polis awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 1993 - 1994
- Ratifying the Constitution: Ideas and Interests in the Several American States awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 1986 - 1988
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Gillespie, Michael. Nietzsche's Final Teaching. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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Gillespie, M. A. The Theological Origins of Modernity, Turkish edition, 2013.
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Gillespie, M. A. The Theological Origins of Modernity, Chinese edition with a new Preface. Human Science adn Technology Press, 2012.
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Gillespie, M. A. The Theological Origins of Modernity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Gillespie, M. A., and G. Brennan, eds. Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus, 2008.
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Gillespie, M. A., and G. Brennan, eds. Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus, 2008.
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Gillespie, M. A. Nihilism Before Nietzsche. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
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Gillespie, M., and M. Lienesch, eds. Ratifying the Constitution. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989.
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Gillespie, M., and T. B. Strong, eds. Nietzsche’s New Seas: Exploration in Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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Gillespie, M. A. Hegel, Heidegger, and Ground of History. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1984.
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Academic Articles
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Gillespie, M. A. “The Theological Origins and Underpinning of the Longing for Total Revolution.” Critical Review 33, no. 2 (January 1, 2021): 157–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/08913811.2021.1960732.Full Text
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Allen Gillespie, M. “On Debt and Redemption: Friedrich Nietzsche's Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence.” Journal of Religious Ethics 46, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 267–87. https://doi.org/10.1111/jore.12218.Full Text
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Gillespie, M. A. “On Nietzsche's final teaching: A response to my critics.” Interpretation (United States) 44, no. 3 (March 1, 2018): 439–46.
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Gillespie, M. A. “The Question of the Examined Life.” Review of Politics 80, no. 2 (March 1, 2018): 223–33. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670517001279.Full Text
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Gillespie, M. “Machiavelli’s modernity and the christian tradition,” January 1, 2017, 13–35.
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Perkins, Lucas Ross, and Michael Allen Gillespie. “The Dangerous Divide: Between Weak Thought and Practical Politics,” 2017, 137–49. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59021-9_19.Full Text
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Gillespie, M. A. “The Anti-Trinitarian Origins of Liberalism,” 2014.
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Gillespie, M. A. “In the Shadow of Modernity” Orientale Lumen IV (2014).
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Gillespie, M. A. “Question for Fuller.” First Things, no. April (2014).
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Gillespie, M. A. “Jean Elshtain: In Memorium.” Review of Politics, 2013.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Doing Nothing or Nothing Doing,” 2013.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Radical Philosophy and Political Theology.” Edited by Graham Ward, George Pattison, and Nicholas Adams, 2013.
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Gillespie, M. A., and J. S. Harpham. “Sherlock Holmes, Crime, And The Anxieties Of Globalization.” Critical Review 23, no. 4 (December 1, 2011): 449–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/08913811.2011.664851.Full Text
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Gillespie, M. A. “'March Madness'.” The Point, 2011.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Response to my Critics.” Review of Politics, October 2010.
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Gillespie, M. A., and L. Perkins. “Political anti-theology.” Critical Review 22, no. 1 (March 1, 2010): 65–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/08913811003625489.Full Text
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Gillespie, M. A., and Luc Perkins. “Political Anti-Theology: Mark Lilla’s The Stillborn God.” Critical Review, March 2010.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Public Choice: Afterword.” Public Choice 137, no. 3–4 (December 1, 2008): 523–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-008-9323-9.Full Text
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McCubbins, M., and D. Brody. “Afterword,” 2007.
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Gillespie, M. A. “'Slouching Toward Bethlehem to Be Born', On the Nature and Meaning of Nietzsche's Superman.” Journal of Nietzsche Studies 30 (2005): 50–70.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Philosophy and Rhetoric in Kant's Third Antinomy.” Political Science Reviewer 30 (2001): 7–33.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Martin Heidegger's Aristotelian national socialism.” Political Theory 28, no. 2 (January 1, 2000): 140–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591700028002002.Full Text
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Gillespie, M. A. “The Theological Origins of Modernity.” Critical Review 13 (1999): 1–30.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Nietzsche and the Anthroplogy of Nihilism.” Nietzsche Studien 28 (1999): 141–55.
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Gillespie, M. A. “The theological origins of modernity.” Critical Review 13, no. 1–2 (January 1, 1999): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/08913819908443520.Full Text
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Gillespie, M. A. “Nietzsche and the Premodernist Critique of Postmodernity.” Critical Review 2, no. 2 (October 1997): 537–54.
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Gillespie, M. A. “The New Hegel.” Political Theory 25, no. 4 (August 1997): 584–97.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Nietzsche and the premodernist critique of postmodernity.” Critical Review 11, no. 4 (January 1, 1997): 537–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/08913819708443475.Full Text
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Gillespie, M. A. “Beyond East and West: A Reply to Isaac.” Political Theory 23, no. 4 (November 1995): 670–74.
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Gillespie, Michael Allen. “Books in Review.” Political Theory 20, no. 1 (February 1992): 173–76. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591792020001014.Full Text
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Gillespie, M. A. “Liberal education and liberal democracy.” Academic Questions 3, no. 4 (September 1, 1990): 65–68. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02682904.Full Text
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Gillespie, M. A. “Liberal Democracy and Liberal Education.” Academic Question 3, no. 4 (1990): 65–68.
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GILLESPIE, M. A. “TEMPORALITY AND HISTORY IN THE THOUGHT OF HEIDEGGER,MARTIN.” Revue Internationale De Philosophie 43, no. 168 (1989): 33–51.Link to Item
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Gillespie, M. A. “History and Temporality in the Thought of Heidegger.” Revue Internationale De Phiosophie 43 (1989): 33–51.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Heidegger's Nietzsche.” Political Theory 15, no. 3 (August 1987): 424–35.
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Gillespie, Michael Allen. “Hegel's Liberalism - Michael H. Mitias: Moral Foundation of the State in Hegel's Philosophy of Right. (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1984. Pp. 197. $23.00, paper.).” The Review of Politics 47, no. 3 (July 1985): 468–69. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034670500037086.Full Text
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Gillespie, M. A. “Montaigne's Humanistic Liberalism.” Journal of Politics 47, no. 1 (February 1985): 40–59.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Montaigne's Humanistic Liberalism.” The Journal of Politics 47, no. 1 (January 1, 1985): 140–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/2131069.Full Text
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GILLESPIE, M. A. “HEIDEGGER 'BEING AND TIME' AND THE POSSIBILITY OF POLITICAL-PHILOSOPHY - BLITZ,M.” Interpretation a Journal of Political Philosophy 11, no. 3 (1983): 399–400.Link to Item
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Gillespie, M. A. “The Problems of Modernity and the Possibilities of Human Thriving (In preparation).” Perspectives Libres 12, no. Sept (n.d.).
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Gillespie, M. A. “Nihilism After Nietzsche (In preparation).” Bollettino Filosofico, no. Nihilism and Modernity. Rethinking Modern Tragicalness (n.d.).
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Gillespie, M. A., and J. Harpham. “Life and Thought: The Structure of Montaigne's Essays and the Idea of the Self (In preparation),” n.d.
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Book Sections
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Gillespie, Michael. ““The Knots of Experience,”.” In Experience – Implikationen Für Mensch, Gesellschaft Und Politik. Festschrift Für Wolfgang Leidhold,. Würzburg: :Königshausen & Neumann, 2021.
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Folch, Christine. “Debt.” In HYDROPOLITICS: THE ITAIPU DAM, SOVEREIGNTY, AND THE ENGINEERING OF MODERN SOUTH AMERICA, 128–56, 2019.Link to Item
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Gillespie, Michael A. “Beyond the Island of Truth: Hegel and the Shipwreck of Science.” In MASTERY OF NATURE: PROMISES AND PROSPECTS, 171–82, 2018.Link to Item
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Gillespie, M. A. “The Inevitable Entanglement of Religion and Politics.” In Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life, 6:57–73, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1082-2_5.Full Text
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Gillespie, M. A. “Machiavelli’s Modernity and the Christian Tradition.” In The Modern Turn. Catholic University Press, 2014.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Doing Nothing or Nothing Doing.” In Nihilism and Contemporary Politics. Van Leer Institute, 2013.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Radical Philosophy and Political Theology.” In Religion and Modern European Thought, edited by Graham Ward, George Pattison, and Nicholas Adams. Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Gillespie, M. A., and Lucas Perkins. “The Dangerous Divide : Between Weak Thought and Practical Politics,".” In On Vattimo and Zabala’s Hermeneutic Communism On Vattimo and Zabala’s Hermeneutic Communism, edited by Silvia Mazzini. Continuum Press, 2013.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Radical Hopes: Apocalyptic Longings in Nineteenth Century Philosophy.” In The Apocalyptic Complex – Origins, Histories, Permanence, edited by Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Matthias Riedl, and David Marno. CEU Press, 2012.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Martin Heidegger.” In The Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: Murder, Madness, and Suicide. Nihilism and the Doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence.” In Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, edited by Jeffrey Metzger. Continuum Press, 2012.
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Gillespie, M. A., and Keegan Calanan. “Toward Noon: Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals.” In A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by Paul Bishop. Camden House, 2012.
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Gillespie, M. A., and Keegan Calanan. “Toward Noon: Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals.” In A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by Paul Bishop. Camden House, 2012.
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Gillespie, M. “Nihilism in the nineteenth century: From absolute subjectivit y to superhumanity.” In The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, 278–93, 2011.
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Gillespie, M. A. “The Tragedy of the Goods and the Pursuit of Happiness.” In In Search of Goodness, edited by Ruth W. Grant. University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Nihilism.” In , Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy. : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
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Gillespie, M. A., and K. F. Callanan. “On the genealogy of morals.” In A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche: Life and Works, 255–78, 2010.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Hegel.” In The International Encyclopedia of Political Science, edited by George Kurian et al, 2009.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Toward a New Aristocracy: Nietzsche Contra Plato on the Role a Warrior Elite.” In Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Philosophy of the Future, edited by J. Metzger. London & New York: Continuum, 2009.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Afterword.” In Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus, 2008.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Players and Spectators: Sports and Ethical Training in the American University.” In Debating Moral Education, edited by Elizabeth Kiss and Peter Euben. Duke University Press, 2008.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Nietzsche.” In The International Encyclopedia of Political Science, edited by George Kurian et al. CQ Press, 2008.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Plato and Nietzsche on Warriors.” In Nietzche’s Nihilistic Anti-Egalitarianism, edited by Jeffrey Metzger. Continuum, 2008.
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Gillespie, M. A. “The Search for Immediacy and the Problem of Political Life in Existentialism and Phenomenology.” In A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, 531–44, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470996508.ch36.Full Text
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Gillespie, M. A. “Sovereign Selves and Sovereign States: Political Theory for a New Millenium.” In Freedom and the Human PErson, edited by Richard Velkley. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 2007.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Where Did All the Evils Go.” In Moral Judgment and the Problem of Evil, edited by Ruth Grant. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Distorting Mirrors: Reflecting on Europe and America,.” In Europe and America in Translation, edited by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Markus Hunemorder, and Meike Zwingenberger. Winter Verlag, 2006.
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Gillespie, M. A. “The Search for Immediacy and the Problem of the Political in Existentialism and Phenomenology,.” In The Blackwell Companion to Phenomenology, edited by Hubert Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Sovereign Selves and Sovereign States: Political Theory for a New Millenium.” In Freedom and the Human Person, edited by Richard Velkley. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 2006.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Where Did All the Evils Go.” In Moral Judgment and the Problem of Evil, edited by Ruth Grant. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Forward.” In The Mask of Enlightenment: Nietzsche’s Zarathustra (Stanley Rosen). New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Nietzsche, Friedrich.” In The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, edited by Hans Hillerbrand. New York: Routledge, 2003.
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Gillespie, M. A. “American Public Philosophy After the Cold War.” In Public Philosophy and Political Science: Crisis and Reflection. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Liberal Education and the Idea of the West.” In The West and the Liberal Arts, edited by Ralph Hancock. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Descartes and the Question of Toleration.” In Early Modern Skepticism and the Origins of Toleration, edited by Alan Levine. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Political Parties and the American Founding.” In American Political Parties and Constitutional Politics, edited by Peter Shramm and Bradford Wilson, 17–43. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993.
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Gillespie, M. A. “George Grant and the Tradition of Political Philosophy.” In By Loving Our Own: George Grant and the Legacy of the Lament for a Nation. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1990.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Masschusetts: Creating Consensus.” In Ratifying the Constitution, edited by Michael Allen Gillespie and Michael Lienesch. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Death and Desire: War and Bourgoisification in the Thought of Hegel.” In Understanding the Political Spirit, edited by Catherine Zuckert. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Nietzsche’s Musical Politics.” In Nietzsche’s New Seas, edited by Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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Gillespie, M. A., and Michael Lienesch. “Religion and the Resurgence of Conservatism.” In The Resurgence of Conservatism in Anglo-American Democracies, edited by Barry Cooper, William Mishler, and Allan Kornberg. Durham: Duke University Press, 1988.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Martin Heidegger.” In The History of Political Philosophy, edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Beyond Secularism: The Inevitable Entanglement of Religion and Political Life (In preparation).” Boston University, n.d.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Hermeneutic Communism (In preparation).” edited by S. Mazzini. New York: Continuum Press, n.d.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Nietzsche's Final Teaching (In preparation).” University of Chicago Press, n.d.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Socinianism and the Political Theology of Liberalism (In preparation).” In Oxford Handbook of Political Theology, edited by M. Kessler and S. Casey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, n.d.
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Other Articles
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Gillespie, Michael Allen. “Radical Hopes: Apocalyptic Longing in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy.” Apocalyptic Complex, 2018.Link to Item
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Gillespie, M. A. “Too Many Wins for North Carolina to Reject Medicaid Expansion.” Raleigh News and Observer, February 19, 2013., 2013.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Martin Heidegger.” Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: Murder, Madness, and Suicide. Nihilism and the Doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence.” Edited by Jeffrey Metzger. Continuum Press, 2012.
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Gillespie, M. A. “The History of Democracy,” 2012.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Michael Gillespie: Life and Thought,” 2012.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Just One of Those We Lost.” Raleigh News and Observer, September 11, 2011.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Nihilism.” : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
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Gillespie, M. A. “The Tragedy of the Goods and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Edited by Ruth Grant. University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Budget Pain Must Fall on All.” Raleigh News and Observer, Op Ed, 2011.
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Gillespie, M. A. “The Tragedy of the Goods and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Edited by Ruth Grant, 2010.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Winners All in NCAA Basketball Championship Game.” The Herald Sun, 2010.
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Gillespie, M. A. “A Place to Learn and Reflect: Course to Explore Ideals of Ethical Life.” Greensboro News Record, 2009.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Players and Spectators: Sports and Ethical Training in the American University.” Edited by Elizabeth Kiss and Peter Euben. Duke University Press, 2008.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Nietzsche.” Edited by George Kurian et al. CQ Press, 2008.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Plato and Nietzsche on Warriors.” Edited by Jeffrey Metzger. Continuum, 2008.
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Gillespie, M. A. “On Gold Medals and Team Sports.” The Durham Herald Sun, 2008.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Sovereign Selves and Sovereign States: Political Theory for a New Millenium.” Edited by Richard Velkley. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 2007.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Distorting Mirrors: Reflecting on Europe and America,.” Edited by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Markus Hunemorder, and Meike Zwingenberger. Winter Verlag, 2006.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Sovereign Selves and Sovereign States: Political Theory for a New Millenium.” Edited by Richard Velkley. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 2006.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Column Was Malicious Nonsense.” Durham Herald Sun, 2006.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Forward, Stanley Rosen.” New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Nietzsche, Friedrich.” Edited by Hans Hillerbrand. New York: Routledge, 2003.
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Gillespie, M. A. “American Public Philosophy After the Cold War.” Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Raise the Cigarette Tax.” Durham Herald Sun, 2002.
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Gillespie, M. A. “County Failing to Control Vicious Packs of Dogs.” Durham Herald Sun, 2001.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Liberal Education and the Idea of the West.” Edited by Ralph Hancock. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Descartes and the Question of Toleration.” Edited by Alan Levine. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Scholarly Issues Guided Lomparis Decision.” Durham Herald Sun, 1994.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Do Subsidies Keep Health Plan Afloat?” Duke Dialogue, 1994.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Political Parties and the American Founding.” Edited by Peter Shramm and Bradford Wilson. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993.
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Gillespie, M. A. “George Grant and the Tradition of Political Philosophy.” Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1990.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Masschusetts: Creating Consensus.” Edited by Michael Allen Gillespie and Michael Lienesch. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Death and Desire: War and Bourgoisification in the Thought of Hegel.” Edited by Catherine Zuckert. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Nietzsche’s Musical Politics.” Edited by Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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Gillespie, M. A., and Michael Lienesch. “Religion and the Resurgence of Conservatism.” Edited by Barry Cooper, William Mishler, and Allan Kornberg. Durham: Duke University Press, 1988.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Martin Heidegger.” Edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
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Digital Publications
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Gillespie, M. A. “Degradation.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 14, 2014.
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Gillespie, M. A. “The Anti-Trinitarian Origins of Liberalism,” 2014.
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Gillespie, M. A. “Science and the Humanities,” 2010.Link to Item
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Gillespie, M. A. “Response to Robert Pippin,” 2010.Link to Item
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Gillespie, M. A. ““Backgammon Anyone?” A response to Alexander Rosenberg’s “The Disenchanted Naturalist’s Guide to Reality,” 2009.Link to Item
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Gillepsie, M. A. “Teaching Human Rights (In preparation).” National Humanities Center, n.d.
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- GERMAN 576S: Nietzsche's Political Philosophy 2023
- PHIL 537S: Nietzsche's Political Philosophy 2023
- POLSCI 577S: Nietzsche's Political Philosophy 2023
- POLSCI 799: Special Readings 2023
- FOCUS 195FS: Special Topics in Focus 2022
- GERMAN 575S: Hegel's Political Philosophy 2022
- HOUSECS 59: House Course 2022
- PHIL 123FS: Freedom and Responsibility 2022
- PHIL 536S: Hegel's Political Philosophy 2022
- POLSCI 175FS: Freedom and Responsibility 2022
- POLSCI 270: Ambition and Politics 2022
- POLSCI 676S: Hegel's Political Philosophy 2022
- POLSCI 890-1: Political Theory 2022
- HOUSECS 59: House Course 2021
- PHIL 566S: Topics in Early Modern Political Thought from Machiavelli to Mills 2021
- POLSCI 493-1: Senior Research Independent Study Political Theory 2021
- POLSCI 579S: Topics in Early Modern Political Thought from Machiavelli to Mills 2021
- POLSCI 890-1: Political Theory 2021
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- “Hobbes, Locke, and the Welfare State”. December 15, 2013 2013
- “Human Rights and the State”.. December 15, 2013 2013
- “Liberty, Politics, and Skepticism in Cicero and Montaigne”. December 15, 2013 2013
- “Machiavelli at 500,”. December 15, 2013 2013
- “Nietzsche and Music”. December 15, 2013 2013
- “Symposium on Judgment,”. December 15, 2013 2013
- “The Politics of Non-Political Spaces". December 15, 2013 2013
- “Human Rights Education,”. June 21, 2013 2013
- “Religion and Realism in Political Thought,”. June 1, 2013 2013
- “Nietzsche, the Greeks, and Our Experience of Sports,”. February 20, 2013 2013
- Distopia and Technology, Con-convenor. November 30, 2012 2012
- Doing Nothing or Nothing Doing. November 30, 2012 2012
- Hobbes and Religion. November 30, 2012 2012
- Human Rights and the Humanities. November 30, 2012 2012
- In the Shadow of Modernity. November 30, 2012 2012
- Machiavelli and the Christian Tradition. November 30, 2012 2012
- The Anti-Trinitarinian Origins of Liberalism. November 30, 2012 2012
- The Engaged Mind. November 30, 2012 2012
- Tragic VIsion, Democratic Hope, Co-convenor. November 30, 2012 2012
- Religion and Politics. April 27, 2012 2012
- Machiavelli and Dante. April 26, 2012 2012
- Education Today. December 5, 2011 2011
- Hegel's Political Philosophy. December 5, 2011 2011
- Kant's Ethical Teaching. December 5, 2011 2011
- Religion and Politics. December 5, 2011 2011
- The Anti-Trinitarian Origins of Liberalism. December 1, 2011 2011
- The Jack Miller Philadelphia Colloquium. November 1, 2011 2011
- Machivelli's Modernism. October 28, 2011 2011
- The Nature of Debt. July 19, 2011 2011
- The Future of Political Theory. February 15, 2011 2011
- Martin Heidegger's Messianism. July 1, 2010 2010
- Strategic Planning in College Athletics. May 26, 2010 2010
- Who are you? Phi Bet Kappa Lecture. May 13, 2010 2010
- Sovereignty in the Twentieth Century. April 1, 2010 2010
- Beyond the Secular. March 1, 2010 2010
- Beyond Secularism: The Inevitable Entanglement of Religion and Political Life. November 6, 2009 2009
- Political Theory and Political Philosophy. May 26, 2009 2009
- Toward a New Aristocracy: Nietzsche Contra Plato on the Training of Warriors,”. May 1, 2009 2009
- “Religion in Modernity: The Secularization Thesis Reconsidered,”. April 16, 2009 2009
- The Incommmenurability of the Good. March 26, 2009 2009
- Author Meets Critics: Michael Gillespie’s The Theological Origins of Modernity. September 1, 2008 2008
- Nietzsche, Strauss, and Mann: The Encounter of Music and Philosophy. April 1, 2008 2008
- Sovereignty and the Right of Revolution. April 1, 2008 2008
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