Megan Craig Megan Craig Assistant Professor
Megan Craig, Assistant Professor

Education

B.A., Yale University, Philosophy, 1997
Ph.D., New School for Social Research, Philosophy, 2006

Phone: (631) 632-7570
E-mail: megan.craig@sunysb.edu


Areas of Interest

Emmanuel Levinas's ethics; the relationship between Levinas's phenomenology and William James's radical empiricism; and the aesthetic dimensions of Levinas's prose; memory and trauma in Freud and Kristeva; subjectivity and embodiment; and notions of experience, limits, and pivots phenomenology and painting; considering the state of painting after the "death" of painting; the challenges contemporary art poses to traditional aesthetic categories; and the value of phenomenology for destabilizing philosophic discourse on art.

Recent Publications

Books:
Fré Ilgen, Art? No Thing! Analogies between Art, Science and Philosophy (Netherlands: PRO Foundation, 2004). 395 pages / 32 color.

Articles:
"On the Side of the Angels: Richard Bernstein and His Quest for Truth." Pragmatism in the 21st Century (New York: The New School for Social Research, 2003) 4 - 8. (Published conference proceedings).
"Strange Love: Freud's Mourning," Women in Philosophy Third Annual Journal of Papers, 3 (2004): 103 - 119.
"Intervention and the Ideal of Perpetual Peace" Women in Philosophy First Annual Journal of Papers, 1 (2002): 8 - 21.
"The View From Here," Radical Society Review of Culture & Politics, 29.3 (2002): 15 - 16.
"Statement," Site Matters: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Trade Center Artists Residency 1997-2001 (New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2004). A Short statement about perspective in New York after September 11th.
"Painting and Perspective," 7 Carmine, Volume 5 (2004). Limited edition hand-bound poetry collection. Published online March 2004 and delivered at Halcyon in Brooklyn, NY.

Curriculum Vitae

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