Dr. Wendell Kisner

Wendell Kisner is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and has been teaching for over thirty years. His research and instructional interests include the texts of Agamben, Badiou, Deleuze, Derrida, Hegel, Heidegger, Levinas, Marion, Nietzsche, Plato, and Zizek, and topical areas of interest include ecological thought, philosophy of biology, phenomenology, hermeneutics, political philosophy, and interdisciplinary theory. He is author of Ecological Ethics and Living Subjectivity in Hegel's Logic: The Middle Voice of Autopoietic Life (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014). He lives in the Canadian Rockies and ventures into the mountains as often as possible to experience what Plato called the beginning of philosophy.

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Research interests

Topical areas of interest:

• Environmental Ethics
• Phenomenology
• Philosophy of Biology
• Social and Political Thought
• Contemporary Continental Philosophy
• Nineteenth Century German Philosophy

Philosophical texts of:

• Agamben
• Badiou
• Deleuze
• Derrida
• Hegel
• Heidegger
• Latour
• Levinas
• Marion
• Merleau-Ponty
• Nietzsche
• Plato
• Zizek

 

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Educational credentials

• Ph.D. with distinction, Philosophy - DePaul University: Chicago, IL (1996)
• MA, Philosophy - DePaul University: Chicago, IL (1992)
• BA, Summa Cum Laude - Louisiana State University: Baton Rouge, LA (1985)
  
  • Major: Psychology
  • Minor: Philosophy

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Professional affiliations

• Book review editor for the Trumpeter, a peer-reviewed open access environmental journal dedicated to the development of ecological understanding and insight: Oct 2009 - present (http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/index).
• Membership maintained for the MA-IS Program in the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (https://interdisciplinarystudies.org/).

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