Gregory J. Menillo
Ph.D. Student
Philosophy
Education: Ph.D. in Philosophy, Stony Brook University (in progress) • Ph.D. in Music Composition, City University of New York / Graduate Center (2022) • B.Mus. in Music Theory and Composition, New York University / Steinhardt School (2008)
Areas of Specialization: Aesthetics, Critical Theory, German Idealism, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Music
Gregory J. Menillo is a composer and student of philosophy. His compositions are decidedly restricted and distilled, often exploring subtle distinctions by means of limited material resources. His philosophical work focuses on the Frankfurt School, German Idealism, and the aesthetics of music; a current project combines the three in a reading of Hegel’s Logic.
Selected Publications:
“Adorno, Freud, and the Dialectic of the Individual and the Social,” in Sigmund Freud as a Critical Social Theorist: Psychoanalysis and the Neurotic in Contemporary Society, ed. Dustin Byrd and Seyed Javad (Brill Publishers, 2023). Paperback from Haymarket Press, 2025.
“‘Variation Within a Single Paradigm’: The Latent Authoritarian Dynamics of the Culture
Industry,” in How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School, ed. Jeremiah Morelock (Brill Publishers, 2021). Paperback from Haymarket Press, 2022.