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Galen A. Johnson
Department of Philosophy
170 Chafee Social Science Center
10 Chafee Road
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
Phone: 401-874-4790

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Galen A. Johnson, Professor of Philosophy, received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston University (1977).  He joined the URI Philosophy Department in 1976.  Professor Johnson’s research interests are in contemporary French philosophy, Aesthetics, and American Philosophy, especially Emerson and Thoreau.  He is the author of numerous articles in contemporary continental philosophy and has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council for Learned Societies, and the American Philosophical Society.  He is currently the General Secretary of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle.

Major publications include:

Earth and Sky, History and Philosophy.  New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1989.

Ontology and Alterity in Merleau-Ponty.  Co-editor with Michael Smith.  Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990.

The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting.  Editor.  Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1993.  Second printing, 1995.  Third printing, 1998.

Current research:

The Retrieval of the Beautiful: Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty’s Aesthetics.

Emerson Our Contemporary: Re-reading Emerson through Contemporary Continental Philosophy.

Professor Johnson regularly teaches PHL 204: Theories of Human Nature, PHL 235: Modern Thought: Philosophy and Literature, PHL 324: Recent European Philosophy; and PHL 325: American Philosophy.  He also teaches regularly in the University Honors Program and holds a joint appointment with the Honors Program.

Links:

URI Honors Program: http://www.uri.edu/honors_prog/

The International Merleau- Ponty Circle web site:
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/phl/impc/
 
Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty
http://filosofia.dipafilo.unimi.it/~chiasmi/
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