Richard Eldridge

Richard Eldridge
Born	September 14, 1953
Education	University of Chicago (PhD), Middlebury College (AB)
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	Swarthmore College
Thesis	In Pursuit of Self-Reconciliation and Community: Wittgenstein and the Role of Criticism in Philosophy (1981)
Doctoral advisor	Ted Cohen, Alan Donagan, M. Thompson
Main interests	philosophy of art

Richard Eldridge (born September 14, 1953) is an American philosopher and the Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. He is known for his works on philosophy of art.

Books

• Werner Herzog––Filmmaker and Philosopher, Bloomsbury, 2019
• Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject, Oxford University Press, 2016
• Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism, Richard Eldridge and Bernard Rhie (eds.), Continuum, 2011
• The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2009
• Literature, Life, and Modernity Columbia University Press, 2008
• An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art, Cambridge University Press, 2003
• Stanley Cavell (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2003
• Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in The Philosophy and Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2001
• Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism, University of Chicago Press, 1997
• Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 1996
• On Moral Personhood: Philosophy, Literature, Criticism, and Self-Understanding, University of Chicago Press, 1989

External links

• "Richard Eldridge". Swarthmore College.