Emory University Department of Philosophy

Thomas R. FlynnThomas R. Flynn

Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor

Department of Philosophy
561 S. Kilgo Circle
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

404.727.4316
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tflynn@emory.edu

 

 



PhD, Columbia University, 1970

Research: Contemporary continental (especially French) philosophy, aesthetics, social
and political philosophy, and the theory of responsibility.

Selected Publications: Author of Sartre and Marxist Existentialism: The Test Case of
Collective Responsibility
(Chicago, 1986) and Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason
(Vol. 1): Toward an Existentialist Theory of History (Chicago, 1997), (Vol.2):
A Post-structuralist Mapping of History (Chicago, 2005).

Fellowships and Honors: Review Editor of the international philosophical quarterly, Man and World (1978-97). A.C.L.S. Senior Research Fellow (1984-85); Mellon Fellow, National Humanities Center (1991-92); National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study (1998-99).