GARY SHAPIRO

Gary Shapiro is Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Richmond. His most recent book is Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying (Chicago, 2003). His other books are Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art After Babel (California, 1995), Alcyone: Nietzsche on Gifts, Noise, and Women (State U. of New York, 1991), and Nietzschean Narratives (Indiana, 1989). Shapiro has also co-edited Hermeneutics: Questions and Prospects (with Alan Sica; Massachusetts, 1984), and edited After the Future: Postmodern Times and Places (State U. of New York, 1990; based on the 1987 IAPL conference). He has written widely on the history of philosophy and the philosophy of art and literature, with emphasis on Hegel, Nietzsche, and twentieth century French and German thought. Shapiro is currently working on a conceptual and historical study of human space, exploring the explicit and implicit philosophical senses of various regimes of environmental order, and the relations between the aesthetic and the political in constructed and imagined spaces. This project involves geophilosophical analyses of such thinkers, artists, and writers as Kant, Goethe, Nietzsche, Thoreau, F.L. Olmsted, Heidegger, Foucault, and Deleuze-Guattari.