Thomas Meyer

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
B.A. Harvard University

Dr. Meyer works in the philosophy of culture, and writes on Kant, Emerson, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Du Bois, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Fanon, and Deleuze.  He is a Lecturer, and Research Fellow in the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought.

Selected Bibliography

• Wittgenstein, Cavell, and the Fall of Philosophy, published in Contributions of the 29th International Wittgenstein Symposium: Culture and Dialogue 2006

• Du Bois, Fanon, and the Philosophy of Immanence, forthcoming in the CLR James Journal edition of the third annual meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2006

• Nietzsche, Du Bois, and the Culture of Decadence, forthcoming in the Heretical Nietzsche Studies anthology of the Heretical Nietzsche Studies conference at Temple University in 2006

Recent Courses

• Ancient
• American Thinkers
• Philosophical Challenges to the Individual
• History of Modern Philosophy

Office phone: 215-204-2847

tmeyer@temple.edu