Donovan T. Miyasaki

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

386 Millett Hall, Wright State University

Phone: (937) 775-3449

Fax: (937) 775-2892

Email: d.miyasaki@wright.edu

Home Phone: (937) 319-6034

Home Email: miyasaki@woh.rr.com

Education

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2004; B.A., The Colorado College, 1997

Teaching and Research Interests

19^th and 20^th Century Continental Philosophy

Nietzsche, Freud, Existentialism, Aesthetics, Ethics

Current Courses

Fall: Existentialism; Great Books – Political (Plato, Hobbes, Rousseau), Great Books (Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche)

Winter: Major Philosophers – Phenomenology; Great Books (Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche)

Spring: 19^th Century Philosophy; Great Books – Ethics (Aristotle, Hume, Mill)

Recent Courses

Aesthetics – Plato, Nietzsche, Hume, Kant, Contemporary Readings

Existentialism – Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Camus, Beauvoir

19^th Century Philosophy – Fichte, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx

20^th Century Continental – Freud, Heidegger, Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin

20^th Century Continental – Freud, Marcuse, Foucault

Great Books – Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche

Great Books: Ethics – Aristotle, Kant, Mill

Nietzsche and Freud                            

Philosophy of Sexuality 

Publications

“La violence politique comme mauvaise foi dans Le sang des autres” (English version here)

(Re) découvrir l’œuvre de Simone de Beauvoir – Du Deuxième Sexe à La Cérémonie des adieux, May (2008): 367-73

Edited by Julia Kristeva, Pascale Fautrier, Anne Strasser et Pierre-Louis Fort

Éditions Le Bord de l’Eau, Latresne, France

“A Ground for Ethics in Heidegger’s Being and Time”

         Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 38, No. 3 (2007): 261-79

“Against the Moral Appraisal of Interrogative Art: Wayne Booth and the Case of Huck Finn”

         Philosophy and Literature 31, no. 1 (2007): 125-32

“Art as Self-Origination in Winckelmann and Hegel”

         Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 27, no. 1 (2006): 129-50 

“The Evasion of Gender in Freudian Fetishism”

Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society 8, no. 2 (2003): 289-98

“The Confusion of Marxian and Freudian Fetishism in Adorno and Benjamin”

Philosophy Today 46, no. 4 (2002): 429-43        

Conference Presentations

“Can Nietzsche’s Noble be Moral?”

Society for European Philosophy & Forum for European Philosophy, University College, Dublin, Ireland, August 2008

“Political Violence as Bad Faith in Beauvoir’s Le sang des autres” 

Centenaire Simone de Beauvoir, Colloque International de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, January 2008

“Nietzsche's Hermeneutics of Seduction”

Congreso Internacional Nietzsche y la Hermeneutica, Universitat de Valencia, Spain, November 2007

“Nietzsche contra Freud on Bad Conscience”

The Nietzsche Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2005 

“Can We Take Care while Leaping Ahead? Solicitude in Heidegger’s Being and Time”

Existential & Phenomenological Theory & Culture, University of Western Ontario, May 2005

“Against the Moral Appraisal of Interrogative Art: Wayne Booth & the Case of Huck Finn”

Canadian Society for Aesthetics, University of Western Ontario, May 2005

“Domination and Resistance in Nietzsche’s Theory of Pleasure”             

Northwest Philosophy Conference, Bellevue, Washington, October 2004 

“A Critique of Adorno’s Theory of the Regressive Reception of Art” 

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston, November 2003

“The Evasion of Gender in Freudian Fetishism”

Women in Political Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York City, March 2003