Charles Bambach
Professor

Office: JO 5.416
Phone:  972-883-2006
Email:  cbambach@utdallas.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Hermeneutics, contemporary continental philosophy, l9th & 20th-century European intellectual history and philosophy.

Education:  
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1987
Graduate studies in German Philosophy, University of Tubingen, Germany 1977-1978 and 1980-1981
Graduate studies in German Philosophy, University of Heidelberg, Germany 1979-1980
University of Chicago, 1974
B.A. State University of New York at Cortland, 1974

Recent publications:
Heidegger’s Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks (Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 2003)
Heidegger, Dilthey, and the Crisis of Historicism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995).
Chinese Translation of: Heidegger’s Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks, trans. Zhuang Zhenhua (Shanghai: Shanghai VI Horae Publishing, 2008).

Contributions to Books
“Heraclitus between Heidegger and Nietzsche” in Alfred Denker and Holger Zaborowski, eds., Heidegger und die Tradition (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008), 11pp.
"The Politics of Knowledge: Nietzsche Within Heidegger's History of Truth," in Babette Babich and Robert S. Cohen, eds., Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledege, and Critical Theory (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999), 103-119.
Translation of Martin Heidegger, “Wilhelm Dilthey’s Research and the Struggle for a Historical Worldview” (1925) in: John van Buren, ed., Supplements: From Heidegger’s Essays Before ‘Being and Time’ (State University of New York Press, 2002), 221-300.

FORTHCOMING ARTICLES:
“Neo-Kantian Philosophy of History” in: Aviezer Tucker ed., The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of History (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2008)
“Heidegger und die Griechen” in: Alfred Denker and Holger Zaborowski, eds. Heidegger Jahrbuch, vol. 3, (Freiburg: Karl Alber Verlag, 2008).
“Heidegger, National Socialism, and the German Volk” in: Bret W. Davis, ed. Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts (London: Acumen Publishing, 2008).
“The ‘Early’ and ‘Late’ Heidegger in Dialogue” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, vol. LXXII (2008)
“Historicism: Spengler, Neo-Kantianism, Heidegger” in: Peter Eli Gordon, ed., Weimar Thought (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).
Editor, NIETZSCHE : Special Issue American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, vol. LXXXIII (2009)

ARTICLES:
“Bordercrossings: Levinas, Heidegger, and the Ethics of the Other”, Modern Intellectual History (Cambridge University Press), Vol. 4, no. 1 (2007): 205-217.
““Heidegger und die Griechen”, Heidegger Jahrbuch 5 (2007), 12pp.
“German Philosophy and the Enigma of Ethical Life”, Modern Age 48 (1), Spring 2006: 85-89.
“Translating Justice”, Philosophy Today vol. 50, no. 2 (Summer, 2006): 143-155.
“Athens and Jerusalem: Rosenzweig, Heidegger, and the Search for an Origin,” in: History and Theory vol. 44, No. 2, (May 2005), 271-288.
“Heidegger and the Quest for the Sacred”, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly,vol. LLXXVIII, no. 3 (Summer 2004), 518-521.
“Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same,” New Nietzsche Studies, Volumes 5:3/4 and 6:1/2 (Winter/Spring 2004), 208-213.
“Heidegger, Technology and the Homeland”, Germanic Review, vol. 78, no. 4 (Fall 2003), 267-282.
“Heidegger’s Polemos,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly vol. LLXVI, no. 3 (2002), 503-508.
“Historical Destiny and National Socialism in Heidegger’s Being and Time,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, vol. LXXIV, no. 3 (Fall 2001), 440-444
"The Origins of Phenomenology," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, vol. LXXIII, no. 3 (Fall 1999), 362-370.
"Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political," Negations (Winter 1998-99), 56-66.
"The Hermeneutics of Origin," Philosophy Today, vol. 41, no. 2 (Summer 1997), 313-324.