Svetozar Minkov
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Roosevelt University
History, Art History, and Philosophy/College of Arts and Sciences
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Chicago Campus |
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705A
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312-341-2437
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Email for appointment |
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sminkov@roosevelt.edu |
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| Classes Taught |
Fall 2010: Philosophies of Life. Existentialism.
Spring 2010: Ethics; On Happiness
Fall 2009: Philosophy of Nature (Aristotle's Physics; Dawkins, Heisenberg, etc.); History of Philosophy (Nietzsche's Zarathustra; Rousseau's Second Discourse; Plato's Symposium)
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Spring 2009: on leave (at MIT)
Fall 2008: Philosophy of Religion (Pascal, Lessing, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche); Philosophy of Technology (Aristotle. Bacon, Rousseau, Weber, Jonas, et al.)
Spring 2008: Phenomenology (Heidegger; Erwin Straus)
Fall 2007: History of Philosophy (Aristotle's De Anima; Heidegger's Being and Time and Letter on Humanism); Honors Science and Ethics
Spring 2006: Philosophy of Law (Xenophon; Hart; Fuller; Maritain, et al.); Bioethics (W. May; Nussbaum; Kass; Posner; Judith Thomson et al.)
Fall 2006: Great Ideas (Honors) I (Aristophanes, Plato, Bible, Dante, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Bacon); Great Ideas I; Philosophy of Religion (Plato, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche)
Spring 2007: Great Ideas II (Rousseau, Austen, Flaubert, Hesse, Frayn); Intro to Philosophy (Plato, Nietzsche, et al.); Ethics (Aristotle)
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| Overview |
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Professor Minkov (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2004) teaches a variety of courses, many of which focus on the relation between knowledge of how to live and knowledge of nature. He has published books, essays, and reviews on Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, and Carl Schmitt. He is the recipient of an NEH Enduring Questions grant for a course on happiness to be taught in the spring of 2010. In the spring of 2009, he was a visiting professor at MIT.
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| Recent Publications |
Francis Bacon's "Inquiry Touching Human Nature": Virtue, Philosophy, and the Relief of Man's Estate (Rowman & Littlefield: Lexington Books, May 2010)
Man and His Enemies: Essays on Carl Schmitt, editor and contributor (Bialystok University Press, 2008)
Editor of Enlightening Revolutions: Essays in Honor of Ralph Lerner (Lexington Books, 2006) -- Paperback edition, July 2007.
Baconian Science and the Intelligibility of Human Experience: The Case of Love (Review of Politics, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 389-410)
The Human Good and the Problem of Bacon’s Intention” (Interpretation: a Journal of Political Philosophy), Summer 2008
A review of Rhodri Lewis' Language, Mind and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Review of Politics
A review of Jerry Weinberger's Benjamin Franklin Unmasked, in Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, Volume 33, issue 3, pp. 319-25
A review of Heinrich Meier's Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem (accepted at Die Zeitschrift für
Neuere Theologiegeschichte /Journal for the History of Modern Theology)
A review of Stephen MacKnight's The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's Thought (forthcoming in The Review of Politics, vol. 69, no. 2)
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--Hobbes's Critique of Religion (translation of Strauss -- advance contract provided by the University of Chicago Press -- due in 2010)
--Aristophanes' Thought
--Thoughts on Machiavelli
--Aristotle's Physics |
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On Aristophanes' Wealth, APSA, fall 2009, Toronto
"On the Relation between Scientific and Humanistic Education," lecture at MIT, May 8, 2009
On Lessing's Ernst und Falk, MPSA, spring 2008
Invited participant in a workshop on the foundations of science, MIT, Boston, July 12-15, 2007
Invited participant in a Liberty Fund Colloquium on Tacitus' Annals, Indianapolis, April 18-21,2007
Commentator on a panel, "Bringing Religious Politics to an End," MWPSA, Chicago, April 14, 2007
Chair and commentator (on papers on Bolingbroke and Keiichi Matsushita), APSA, Philadelphia, September 2, 2006
An invited participant in the Second Lehrman Institute, Princeton University, June 19-July 1, 2006 (theme: Are American Principles Universal?).
Law and Reason in Plato, MWPSA, Chicago, April 21, 2006
Bacon on How to Judge a Human Life, an invited Bradley Lecture, Boston College, March 17, 2006
Law and Piety: on Plato's Minos, SPSA, Atlanta, January 7, 2006
The Relation between Political Philosophy and Cosmology, a presentation at a conference at the New School for Social Research in New York , New Perspectives on Leo Strauss from America and Europe, November 17, 2005
Law and the Good Condition of the Human Soul - a Study of Plato's Crito, APSA 2005
Sobriety and Utopianism in Bacon's Thought, a John M. Olin doctoral lecture at the University of Chicago, November 5, 2004
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