Farhang Erfani Associate Professor Philosophy and Religion
- Degrees
- PhD, Villanova University
BA, University of the Pacific - Languages Spoken
- Persian and French
- Bio
- I joined the 헤라카지노 주소 community in 2005. My teaching and research are focused on democratic theory, globalization, exile, existentialism and aesthetics, particularly philosophy of film.
- See Also
- Philosophy Department
- For the Media
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Teaching
Summer 2024
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PHIL-235 Theories of Democracy
Fall 2024
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PHIL-235 Theories of Democracy
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PHIL-702 Graduate Seminar in Philosophy: Utopias/Political Imagination
Spring 2025
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PHIL-235 Theories of Democracy
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PHIL-485 Selected Topics in Philosophy: Postcolonialism and Philosophy
Partnerships & Affiliations
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Reconstruction
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
- The Aesthetics of Autonomy: Ricoeur and Sartre on Emancipation, Authenticity and Selfhood (Lexington Books: Under contract).
- “Ricoeur and the Pre-Political” (Co-authored with John Whitmire), Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 41 (4), 2008.
- “Fixing Marx with Machiavelli: Claude Lefort’s Democratic Turn”, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 39 (2), May 2008, pp. 200-214.
- “Something New Under the Sun: Levinas and the Ethics of Social Imagination”, PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, Vol. 1 (Spring/Summer) 2007, pp. 46-66.
- “Committed Perception: Merleau-Ponty, Carroll and Iranian Cinema,” Philosophy Today, Accepted (September 6, 2006).
- “Sartre and Kierkegaard on The Aesthetics of Boredom,” Idealistic Studies, Volume 34(3), Fall 2004, pp. 303-317.
- “Being-There and Being-From-Elsewhere: An Existential Analytic of Exile,” Reconstruction, Vol. 2 (3), Summer 2002, pp. 1-24.
- “Exile and the Philosophical Challenge to Citizenship,” (Co-authored with John Whitmire) in Creativity in Exile, ed.
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
Research Associate at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa