Bernard Flynn
Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Empire State College
State University of New York
225 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014
ph. 212-647-7862
email: bernard.flynn@esc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
1967, Dissertation: The Development of Sartre's Philosophy:
From Ontology to Anthropology
- M.A., Philosophy, Duquesne University, 1964, Thesis:
Temporality and Subjectivity in the Philosophy of
Merleau-Ponty
- B.A., Philosophy/Economics, Duquesne University, 1961
Grants and Awards
- 1999, One of twenty philosophers included in Portraits of
American Continental Philosophers, Indiana University Press,
Bloomington, IN. (ed.) James Watson
- 1992, Elected to the Executive Committee of the Society for
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)
- 1992, Distinguished University Teaching Award, New School
For Social Research, New York City, New York
- 1991, State University of New York Faculty Scholar
- 1983, Excellence in Scholarship Award Empire State College
/ State University of New York
- 1982, National Endowment for the Humanities, Boston
University, Boston, Massachusetts, Summer Seminar on the thought of
Habermas and Gadamer
Teaching Experience
- September 1972 - Present: Professor, Empire State College - State
University of New York, New York City, New York
- September 1983 - Present: Adjunct Professor, New School For Social
Research, Graduate Faculty, Department of Philosophy, New York City,
New York
- Spring 1994: Invited Visiting Professor, The Institute of
Philosophy, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- July 1993: Lecturer, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia,
Italy
- Spring 1990, Invited Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes,
Paris, France
- August 1990, Lecturer, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia,
Italy
- September 1970 - June 1972, Assistant Professor, Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, New York
- September 1968 - June 1970, Assistant Professor, Concordia
University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- September 1967 - June 1968, Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale, Illinois
- September 1966 - June 1967, Assistant Professor, Carlow College,
Pittsburgh, Pensylvania
Publications
Books
- The Philosophy of Claude Lefort : Interpreting the
Political, Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 2005,
forthcoming
- Merleau-Ponty and the Possibility of Philosophy, Bernard
Flynn & Wayne Froman (ed.), 2004, forthcoming
- Political Philosophy at the Closure of Metaphysics,
Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1992.
Articles
- Foucault and Marx: The Law as Praxis.” In Foucault:
Archeology/Genealogy, ed. Hugh Silverman, forthcoming
- “Commentaire sur ‘La Question du bien et du mal et la
question de la foundation socio- politique’,”Hannah Arendt:
L'Humaine Condition Politique, ed. Etienne Tassin. Paris:
L'Harmattan, 2001.
- “Merleau-Ponty and Benjamin:
Language/Loss/Restoration,” Etudes Phenomenologie,
Special Issue on the Philosphy of Merleau-Ponty 31-32, 2000
- “From Bad Infinity to Hyper-Reflection.” In
Portraits of American Continental Philosophers, ed. James R.
Watson. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Translated in German as “Von schlechten Unendlichkeiten zu
Hyper-Reflexionen.” In Amerikanische PhilosophInnen in
Selbstdarstellungen, Vienna, Austria: Turia/Kant
- “Merleau-Ponty et la Position Philosophique du
Scepticisme.” In Merleau-Ponty:
- “Notes Cours sur ‘L'Origine de la Geometrie’ de
Husserl suivi de Recherches sur la Phenomenologie de
Merleau-Ponty”, ed. Renaud Barbaras. Paris: Presses
Universitaires de France, 1998.
- “Benjamin und Merleau-Ponty: Sprache/Verlust/
Restitution.” In Walter Benjamin und Die Franzosische
Moderne, ed. & trans. Asraf Noor. Freiburg: Rombach Verlag,
1997.
- “Phenomenological Ethics.” In How Natural is the
Law? ed. Cobben and Heyde. Tilburg, The Netherlands: Tilburg
University Press, 1997.
- “The Philosophy of Lefort.” In A Companion to
Continental Philosophy, ed. Simon Critchley. Oxford: Blackwell,
1997
- “Merleau-Ponty and Nietzsche on the Visible and the
Invisible.” In Merleau-Ponty: Difference, Materiality,
Painting, ed. Veronique Foti. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities
Press, 1994.
- “Merleau-Ponty and Derrrida: Convergence/Divergence.”
In Ecart and Difference: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on Seeing and
Writing, ed. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press,
1994.
- “Between Ethics and Politics in the Thought of Lefort.”
In Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics, ed.
Philippe Van Haute. Kampen, The Netherlands: Kok/Pharos Press,
1994.
- “The Concept of the Political and Its Relationship to
Plurality.” In Hannah Arendt et la Modernité,
Annales de l'Institut de la Philosophie de l'Universite de Bruxelles.
Paris: Vrin, 1992.
- “The Places of the Work of Art in Arendt's Philosophy.”
Philosophy and Social Criticism 17 (3), 1991. Translated into
French as “Positions de l'Oeuvre d'Art dans la Philosophie de
Hannah Arendt,”in Dossier: Art et Phenomenologie, La Part de
l'Oeil Revue Annuelle 7: 73-81.
- “Derrida and Foucault: Madness and Writing.” In
Derrida and Deconstruction, ed. Hugh Silverman, Continental
Philosophy, vol. 2. New York: Routledge, 1989.
- “Arendt's Appropriation of Kant's Theory of Judgment.”
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 19 (2)
128-140, 1988.
- “Claude Lefort: The Political Forms of Modern Society.”
Philosophy and Social Criticism 13 (1): 85-103, 1987.
- “Foucault and the Body Politics.” Man and
World 20: 65-84, 1987.
- “Political Theory and the Metaphysics of Presence.”
Philosophy and Social Criticism 11 (3): 245-259, 1986.
- “Kant's Doctrine of Subjectivity: From Finitude to the
Absolute.” Philosophy Today 29 (4): 284-302, 1985.
- “Reading Habermas Reading Freud.” Human Studies: A
Journal for Philosophy and Social Sciences 8: 57-76, 1985.
- “The Question of an Ontology of the Political: Arendt,
Merleau-Ponty and Lefort.” International Studies in
Philosophy, 1984
- “Textuality and the Flesh: Derrida and
Merleau-Ponty.”Journal of the British Society for
Phenomenology 15 (2), 1984; Translated into French as “Chair
et Textualite: Merleau-Ponty et Derrida,” in Actualites de
Merleau-Ponty, Les Cahiers de philosophie 7 (1989); Translated
into Italian as “Testualita e Carne: Derrida e
Merleau-Ponty.” In Negli Specchi dell'Essere: Saggi sulla
filosofia di Merleau-Ponty, cura di Mauro Carbone e Claudio
Fontana. Italy: Hestia Edizioni, 1993.
- “Descartes and the Ontology of Subjectivity.” Man
and World 16: 3-23, 1983.
- “Sexuality, Knowledge and Power in the Thought of
Foucault.” Philosophy and Social Criticism: 329-349,
1982
- “Michel Foucault and the Husserlian Problematics of a
Transcendental Philosophy of History.” Philosophy Today,
22 (3): 224-239, 1978.
- “Methodology in the Work of Foucault.” Philosophy
and Social Criticism: 147-158, 1978.
- “The Question of Ontology: Sartre and Merleau-Ponty.”
In Horizons of the Flesh: Critical Perspectives on the Thought of
Merleau-Ponty, ed. Garth Gillan. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern
Illinois University Press, 1973.
- An Introduction to Husserl's Phenomenology. Albany, N.Y.:
State University of NewYork Press. (Booklet), 1973.
- The Marxist Dialectic: The Development of the Concept of the
Dialectic from the Second International to the Structuralism of
Althusser. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.
(Booklet), 1973
Book Reviews
- 2003, Philippe Van Haute, Against Adaptation: Lacan's
“Subversion” of the Subject (Other Press) Graduate
Faculty Philosophy Journal, 24:1 The New School For Social
Research, New York City, New York
- 2002, The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt, ed. Dana
Villa, The Review of Metaphysics, Catholic University of
America.
- 1996, Dominique Janicaud, The Power of the Rational
(Indiania University Press, 1994). Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal,
19:1, The New School For Social Research, New York City, New York.
- 1992, Merleau-Ponty, Texts and Dialogues (Humanities
Press, 1992). Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 16:1, The
New School For Social Research, New York City. N.Y.
- 1991, Gilles Deleuze, Logic of Sense (Columbia Univ.
Press, 1990). Canadian Philosophical Reviews, October
- 1984, Cornelius Castoriadis, Crossroads in the Labyrinth
(MIT Press, 1984). Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 10:1.
The New School For Social Research, N.Y.C., N.Y.
- 1983, Reiner Schurmann, Le Principle d'Anarchie: Heidegger et
la Question de l'Agir. (Paris: Editions de Seuil, 1982) The
Review of Metaphysics
Lectures
“Janicaud Between Two Angels,” International Philosophy
Symposium, Perugia, Italy. At the annual meeting of the Society for
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston, Massachusetts.
“The Body Politics, Only a Metaphor?,” International
Philosophy Symposium, Perugia, Italy.
“The Temptation of Origins: Benjamin and Merleau-Ponty.”
Executive Committee of the International Association of Philosophy
and Literature, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia.
“Merleau-Ponty and the Philosophical Position on
Skepticism.” University of Sussex Philosophy
Society, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
“Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics of the Visual World.” Cooper
Union School for the Arts, New York City, New York..
“The Political Philosophy of Lefort.” Faculty
Research Seminar, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
“Why Lefort Now?” Forum for European
Philosophy, University of London, School for Advanced Studies,
London, United Kingdom.
“Psychoanalytic Aspects of Lefort's Concept of
Totalitarianism.” Annual Meeting of the Association of
Psychoanalysis and Culture, Columbia University, New York
City.
Discussant of a paper entitled “Truth, Plurality and
Politics” presented by Prof. Anne Maria Roviello (Free University
of Brussels), at the International Symposium on
Phenomenology, Urbino, Italy.
“The Effacement of the Image in the Political Thought of
Lefort.” Annual Meeting of the International Association of
Philosophy and Literature, University of California at Irvine,
Irvine, California.
“Machiavelli as Phenomenologist of the Political Life
World.” Annual Meeting of the Society of Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy, University of Colorado, Denver,
Colorado.
“Lefort's Critique of Neo-Liberalism.” Conference on
the Work of Lefort (in conjunction with Lefort's being awarded the
Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought from the City of
Bremen) Bremen, Germany.
“The Concept of Metaphysics After Nietzsche.” Monthly,
Meeting of the Filosfisk Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark.
“Merleau-Ponty and the Philosophical Position of
Skepicism.” Filosofiska Institutionen Stockholms
Universitet, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
“Merleau-Ponty and the Philosophical Position of
Skepticism.” Vierailuluento Filosofian
Laitoksen, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
“Merleau-Ponty et la Position Philosophique du
Scepticisme.” Conference on Merleau-Ponty et les Figures
du Sensible, Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France.
Respondent to Free University of Brussels Professor Marc
Richir's
“Societe et au-dela de la Societe? Billy Budd et
le Grand Inquisiteur.” Conference on Hannah Arendt:
Elucidation Philosophique de la Condition Politique,
University of Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
“Benjamin and Arendt: On Language and Narration.”
Internationl Conference on Benjamin et la Representation Francaise
de la Modernite at the University of Freiburg, sponsored by
College International de Philosophie of Paris and the
Frankreich-Zentrum of the University of Freiburg,
Freiburg, Germany.
“Between Ethics and Politics in the Work of Lefort .”
Lectures in Philosophy Series at the Institute of Philosophy,
University of Leuven, Belgium.
“Lefort: Democracy and Modernity.” Conference on
Phenomenology and Politics at the Annual Meeting of The
British Society for Phenomenology, St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford
University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
“Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Convergence/Divergence.”
Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the International Association for
Philosophy and Literature, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
“Lefort on Democracy.” Invited lecture at the Insitute
of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
“Lefort in Context.” Conference on The Philosophy of
Lefort (in conjunction with Lefort's receiving an Honorary
Doctorate from at the University of Tilbourg) Tilbourg, The
Netherlands.
“Lefort and the Phenomenology of the Empty Place.”
Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy, Boston, Massachusettts.
“Modernity and Secularization: Vatimo/ Bloomenberg.”
International Philosophical Seminar, Alto Adige, Italy.
Commentary on Lefort's lecture “The Question of the Subject
and Voluntary Servitude.” Symposium on Literature and
Psychoanalysis, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo,
New York.
“Rights and Their Bearers in the Political Philosophy of
Lefort.” The Benjamin Cardoza Law School's Speakers Series on Law
and Humanism, New Yor City, N.Y.
“The Places of the Work of Art in Arendt's Philosophy.”
Thirtieth Annual Meeting of Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Memphis, Tennessee.
“On Merleau-Ponty's Texts and Dialogues.”
Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Merleau-Ponty Circle, University of
Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado .
“Truth in Painting/ ‘Eye and Mind’.” The
International Philosophical Seminar, Alto Adige, Italy.
- 1988 “Derrida and Foucault: Madness and Writing.”
Interdisciplinary Forum for the Social Sciences and
Humanities, The New School For Social Research, New York City, New
York..
- 1987
“Foucault: Three Forms of Genealogy.” Group for
French Philosophy, Graduate Faculty, City University of New York,
New York City, New York.
“Style and Essence: Nietzsche/ Merleau-Ponty.” Eleventh
Annual Meeting of the International Association of Philosophy and
Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
“Foucault and the Body Politic.” Conference in
Homage to Michel Foucault, Pennsylvania State University,
State College, Pennsylvania.
“Toward an Ontology of the Political: Arendt/ Merleau-Ponty/
Lefort.”Monthly Colloquium on Social and Political
Philosophy, Graduate Faculty, New School For Social Research, New
York City, New York.
“Political Theory and the Metaphysics of Presence.”
Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy, University of Missouri, St. Louis,
Missouri.
“Reading Habermas Reading Freud.” Colloqium of the
Graduate Faculty of Philosophy, The New School For Social
Research, New York City, New York.
“The Question of an Ontology of the Political.”
Seventh Annual Conference of the Merleau-Ponty
Circle, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York.
“Sexuality/ Knowedge/ Power in the Thought of Foucault.”
Semi-Annual Philosophy Colloquim, State University of
New York at Stony Brook.
“Methodology in the Thought of Foucault.” Sixth Annual
Meeting of the International Society for Comparative Study
of Civilizations, Bradford College, Haverhill, Mass.
“Toward an Anti-Humanist Reading of Marxism.” Conference
on Current in Contemporary Marxism, Department of
Philosophy, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska.
“The Structuralist Critique of Subjectivity.” Lecture at
the Department of Philosophy, Southeastern Massachusetts University,
North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
“Foucault and the Husserlian Problematic of a Transcendental
Philosophy of History.” Semi-Annual Philosophy
Colloquium, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony
Brook, New York.
“Husserl's Concept of Intentionality.” Semi-Annual
Philosophy Colloquium, State University of New York at Stony
Brook.
“Critical Reflections on the Work of Althusser.”
Faculty Discussion Group of Salmagundi Magazine,
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.
“Transcendental Idealism in Kant and Husserl.”
Colloquium of the Department of Philosophy, Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.