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Michael A. Gillespie CV

Professor of Political Science
Political Science
Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708-0204
204G Gross Hall, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours By appointment.  
CV

Selected Publications


The Theological Origins and Underpinning of the Longing for Total Revolution

Journal Article Critical Review · January 1, 2021 The longing for total revolution described in Bernard Yack’s seminal book, which he analyzes as an effort to find a place for human freedom and morality in a world governed by natural necessity, can be traced to Reformation debates between predestinarian C ... Full text Cite

Debt

Chapter · 2019 Cite

On Debt and Redemption: Friedrich Nietzsche's Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence

Journal Article Journal of Religious Ethics · June 1, 2018 In this essay, I argue that the notion of monetary debt does not displace but merely conceals our deeper, ontological debt to the sources of our being and way of life. I suggest that first Christianity and then modern science attempted to find a means of r ... Full text Cite

Degradation

Internet Publication · January 14, 2014 Cite

Doing Nothing or Nothing Doing?

Journal Article · 2014 Cite

In the Shadow of Modernity

Journal Article · 2014 Cite

Question for Fuller

Journal Article First Things · 2014 Cite

Too Many Wins for North Carolina to Reject Medicaid Expansion

Other Raleigh News and Observer, February 19, 2013. · 2013 Cite

Jean Elshtain: In Memorium

Journal Article Review of Politics · 2013 Cite

Martin Heidegger

Other · 2012 Cite

Martin Heidegger

Chapter · 2012 Cite

Just One of Those We Lost

Other Raleigh News and Observer · September 11, 2011 Cite

The Tragedy of the Goods and the Pursuit of Happiness

Chapter · April 15, 2011 The eight essays in this volume challenge the dichotomies that usually govern how goodness has been discussed in the past: altruism versus egoism; reason versus emotion; or moral choice versus moral character. ... Cite

Nihilism

Other · 2011 Cite

Budget Pain Must Fall on All

Other Raleigh News and Observer, op ed · 2011 Cite

Nihilism

Chapter · 2011 Cite

'March Madness'

Journal Article The Point · 2011 Cite

Political Anti-Theology: Mark Lilla’s The Stillborn God

Journal Article Critical Review · March 2010 Cite

Science and the Humanities

Internet Publication · 2010 Link to item Cite

Response to Robert Pippin

Internet Publication · 2010 Link to item Cite

Hegel

Chapter · 2009 Cite

Nietzsche

Other · 2008 Cite

Afterword

Chapter · 2008 Cite

Nietzsche

Chapter · 2008 Cite

On Gold Medals and Team Sports

Other The Durham Herald Sun · 2008 Cite

Afterword

Journal Article · 2007 Cite

Column Was Malicious Nonsense

Other Durham Herald Sun · 2006 Cite

Forward

Chapter · 2005 Cite

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Chapter · 2003 Cite

Raise the Cigarette Tax

Other Durham Herald Sun · 2002 Cite

Philosophy and Rhetoric in Kant's Third Antinomy

Journal Article Political Science Reviewer · 2001 Cite

The Theological Origins of Modernity

Journal Article Critical Review · 1999 Cite

Nietzsche and the Premodernist Critique of Postmodernity

Journal Article Critical Review · October 1997 Cite

Scholarly Issues Guided Lomparis Decision

Other Durham Herald Sun · 1994 Cite

Do Subsidies Keep Health Plan Afloat?

Other Duke Dialogue · 1994 Cite

Books in Review

Journal Article Political Theory · February 1992 Full text Cite

Liberal Democracy and Liberal Education

Journal Article Academic Question · 1990 Cite

History and Temporality in the Thought of Heidegger

Journal Article Revue Internationale de Phiosophie · 1989 Cite

TEMPORALITY AND HISTORY IN THE THOUGHT OF HEIDEGGER,MARTIN

Journal Article REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILOSOPHIE · 1989 Cite

Martin Heidegger

Other · 1987 Cite

Martin Heidegger

Chapter · 1987 Cite

Montaigne's Humanistic Liberalism

Journal Article Journal of Politics · February 1985 Cite

HEIDEGGER 'BEING AND TIME' AND THE POSSIBILITY OF POLITICAL-PHILOSOPHY - BLITZ,M

Journal Article INTERPRETATION-A JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY · 1983 Cite

Teaching Human Rights

Internet Publication Cite

Nihilism After Nietzsche

Journal Article Bollettino Filosofico Cite