David Detmer, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, Philosophy

Research Overview

Detmer is the author of seven books, as well as numerous articles and book chapters on such topics as Sartre, vegetarianism, the Beatles, Rorty, the death penalty, Baudrillard, Woody Allen, the U.S. mass media, Habermas, Husserl, U.S. foreign policy, modern art, existentialism, Gadamer, Ricoeur, Heidegger, Nietzsche and virtue-based epistemology.

Select Publications

• Renaissance (2021)
• Simply Sartre (2020)
• Zinnophobia: The Battle over History in Education, Politics, and Scholarship (2018)
• Phenomenology Explained (2013)