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John Lysaker, Mentor
Philosophy

Nanda Golden, McNair Scholar

John Lysaker, Associate Professor of Philosophy, received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1995 and joined the UO faculty in 1996. His teaching interests have focused on courses in the philosophy of art, the Frankfurt School critical theory, environmental philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of literature. Current research focuses on three areas: Emerson’s moral perfectionism, the fate of the self in schizophrenia, and the debates between the Frankfurt School and deconstruction. Recent publications include You Must Change Your Life: Poetry and the Birth of Sense, The Pennsylvania State University Press (2002); “Narrative Structure in Psychosis: Schizophrenia and Disruptions in the Dialogical Self,” Theory and Psychology, (forthcoming with Paul Lysaker); “Psychosis and the disintegration of dialogical self-structure: Problems posed by schizophrenia for the maintenance of dialogue,” The British Journal of Medical Psychology, (2001, with Paul Lysaker); “Heidegger’s Absolute Music: What Are Poets for When the End of Metaphysics is at Hand,”Research in Phenomenology, (2000).