Hugh J. Silverman Professor Department of Philosophy 203 Harriman Hall Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-3750 hsilverman@ms.cc.sunysb.edu

Hugh J. Silverman is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature and Executive Director of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL). The inaugural Fulbright-Distinguished Chair in the Humanities at the University of Vienna (2001), he has also been Visiting Professor at Warwick and  Leeds (UK),  Turin and Rome-Tor Vergata (Italy),  Vienna and Klagenfurt (Austria),  Helsinki and Tampere (Finland), Sydney and Tasmania (Australia), Trondheim (Norway) and Nice (France).  In 1998-2000, he was President of the Stony Brook Arts & Sciences Senate.   Author of Textualities: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (Routledge, 1994, German ed:, 1997, Italian ed:, 2004) and Inscriptions: After Phenomenology and Structuralism (2nd ed., Northwestern, 1997), editor of the Routledge Continental Philosophy series, including Philosophy and Non-Philosophy since Merleau-Ponty (1988/1997), Derrida and Deconstruction (1989), Postmodernism, Philosophy and the Arts (1990), Gadamer and Hermeneutics (1991), Questioning Foundations (1994),  Cultural Semiosis (1998), Philosophy and Desire (2000) and Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics, and the Sublime (2003), his many edited/co-edited books include studies of Piaget, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, hermeneutics, deconstruction, postmodernism.