John Lysaker

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

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

404.727.4857
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jlysake@emory.edu
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PhD, Vanderbilt University, 1995

Research: philosophical psychology, aesthetics, social & political philosophy, and 19th & 20th century continental and American philosophy.

Selected Publications: Author of Emerson and Self-Culture (Indiana, 2008) and You Must Change Your Life: Poetry and the Birth of Sense (Penn State, 2002). Co-author of Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self (Oxford, 2008), Co-editor of Emerson and Thoreau: Figures of Friendship (Indiana, 2010). Articles, chapters, and reviews published in Schizophrenia Bulletin, The Georgia Review, Research in Phenomenology, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, TriQuarterly, New German Critique, and Philosophy and Social Criticism.

Current work concerns {a} the role of form in philosophical writing; {b} the nature of friendship; {c} the nature of the self, and {d} the good life, as well as essays on figures like Benjamin, Emerson, and Hegel.