laurence lampert

Research interests: History of Philosophy, Nietzsche.

Graduate education: M.A. with Honors, Northwestern University, 1968; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1971.

Representative publications:

Books: Nietzsche's Teaching: An Interpretation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986) (Named one of the Outstanding Academic Books of 1987 by Choice). Nietzsche and Modern Times: A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993). Leo Strauss and Nietzsche (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). Nietzsche's Task: An Interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001). Nietzsche and Ancient Times: A Study of Plato and Nietzsche (forthcoming). Francis Bacon's Advertisement Touching a Holy War, edited, with an introduction, notes, and interpretive essay by Laurence Lampert (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, 2000).

Articles: "On Heidegger and Historicism," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 34(4) (1974): 586-90. "Review Article of Maurice Mandelbaum, History, Man, and Reason: A Study in Nineteenth Century Thought," Man and World 7(3) (1974): 306-317. "Heidegger's Nietzsche Interpretation," Man and World 7(4) (1974): 343-78. "The Argument of Leo Strauss in 'What is Political Philosophy?'" Modern Age 22(1) (1978): 38-46. "On Visiting Passchendaele," Queen's Quarterly 85 (3) (1978): 414-19. "The Uses of Philosophy in George Grant," George Grant in Process, ed. Larry Schmidt (Toronto: Anansi, 1978), 179-94. "Zarathustra's Dancing Song," Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 8 (2/3) (1978): 141-55. "Feature Book Review, Harold Alderman, Nietzsche's Gift," International Philosophical Quarterly 18(4) (1978): 471-80. "Zarathustra and George Grant: Two Teachers," Dalhousie Review 58(3) (1978): 443-57. "Zarathustra and His Disciples," Nietzsche Studien 8 (1979): 309-333. "Nietzsche's Free Spirit Mask: Beyond Good and Evil," International Studies in Philosophy 16(2) (1984): 41-52. "Who is Nietzsche's Epicurus?" International Studies in Philosophy 24(2) (1992): 99-105. "Yeats's Nietzschean Dialogue," YEATS: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies 11 (1993): 129-58. "Nietzsche, the History of Philosophy, and Esotericism," Journal of Nietzsche Studies 9/10 (1995): 36-49. "'The Exegetics of a Moralist,' Review Essay of Peter Berkowitz's Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist," The Political Science Reviewer 26 (1997): 372-96. "Nietzsche's Best Jokes," in Nietzsche and the Future of the Human, ed. John Lippitt (London: Macmillan, 1998), 65-81. "Who's Who in Plato's Timaeus-Critias and Why," co-authored with Christopher Planeaux, Review of Metaphysics 52 (1998): 87-125. "'Peoples and Fatherlands': Nietzsche's Philosophical Politics," Southern Journal of Philosophy, Suppl. Vol. 37 (1998): 43-63. "Nietzsche and Bacon," International Studies in Philosophy 33(3) (2001): 117-125. "Socrates' Defense of Polytropic Odysseus: Lying and Wrong-doing in Plato's Lesser Hippias," forthcoming, Review of Politics 64(1) (2002).

Selected grants and awards: Earhart Foundation Grant: fall 1988, summer 1990, fall 1997; Looker Foundation Research Grant: spring 1990, spring 1996, spring 2000; SLA Distinguished Faculty Award, 1977; Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA), 1998.

Frequently taught courses: Introduction to Philosophy (P110); Modern Philosophy (P314); Topics in Philosophy (P383); Seminar in the History of Philosophy (P418) (Past seminars on Plato, Bacon, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Leo Strauss). (**For course descriptions, see below.)

Other courses: Classical Philosophy (P210); Nineteenth Century Philosophy (P317): Twentieth Century Philosophy (P316); Philosophy of History (P382).

Course descriptions:

P110: Introduction to Philosophy (3 cr.): An introduction to the methods and problems of philosophy and to important figures in the history of philosophy. Concerns such topics as the nature of reality, the meaning of life, and the existence of God. Readings from classical and contemporary sources, e.g., Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche, and Sartre.

P314: Modern Philosophy (3 cr.): A study of Western philosophy from the rise of modern science through the Enlightenment. Covers such philosophers as Bacon, Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Leibniz, and Kant.

P383: Topics in Philosophy (3 cr.): Advanced treatment of a special topic. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

P418: Seminar in the History of Philosophy (3 cr.): Intensive study of a philosopher or philosophical school of enduring importance.