Babette Babich

Babette E. Babich (born in New York City in [1956] ) is an academic philosopher and historian, known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger and Holderlin as well as for her work in aesthetics and continental philosophy of science.

Babich is currently Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City and Adjunct Research Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She has been Visiting Professor at the University of Tübingen and SUNY Stony Brook. She received her Ph.D from Boston College in 1987, after studying with Gadamer, Jacques Taminiaux and William J. Richardson, S.J. She has held three Fulbright Fellowships to Germany (Tübingen, Berlin, Weimar) as well as a fellowship to Belgium and was a Fellow of the Nietzsche-Kolleg in Weimar in 2004. She is currentlz Executive Director of the Nietzsche-Society in the United States (est. 1978) and Executive Editor of the journal "New Nietzsche Studies" (which she founded in 1995 and co-edits with David B. Allison).

Babich has written extensively on aesthetics, philosophy of science and technology (Feyerabend, Fleck, Kuhn, Mach, Duhem, Bachelard, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Heelan, Badiou) as well as on architecture, sculpture (particularly ancient Greek bronzes), and postmodern music. She has also written political analyses of the analytic-continental divide in philosophy and the Sokal hoax.

Bibliography

Author

* "Words in Blood, Like Flowers: Philosophy and Poetry, Music and Eros in Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger." Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006, paper: 2007. [http://www.nietzschecircle.com/review16.html]
* "Nietzsche e la Scienza: Arte, vita, conoscenza". Translated by Fulvia Vimercati. Raffaello Cortina Editore. Milan. 1996.
* "Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science: Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life." State University of New York Press. Albany. 1994.

Editor and Contributor
* "Nietzsche, Habermas, and Critical Theory". Amherst, New York. Prometheus Books Humanity Books Imprint. 2004.
* "Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh's Eyes, and God: Essays in Honor of Patrick A. Heelan. S.J." [Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.] Dordrecht. Kluwer. 2002.
* "Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge and Critical Theory: Nietzsche and the Sciences I" [Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.] Dordrecht. Kluwer. 1999.
* "Nietzsche, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Nietzsche and the Sciences II" [Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.] Dordrecht. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1999.
* "From Phenomenology to Thought, Errancy, and Desire: Essays in Honor of William J. Richardson, S.J." [Phænomenologica] Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht. 1995.
* "Continental and Postmodern Perspectives in the Philosophy of Science". (with Debra B. Bergoffen and Simon V. Glynn) Avebury. Aldershot, UK/Brookfield, USA. 1995.

Selected Recent Articles
* “Heidegger’s Will to Power.” "Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology". 38 (2007): Pp. 37-60.
* “Nietzsche’s ‘Artists’ Metaphysics’ and Fink’s Ontological ‘World-Play’.” "International Studies in Philosophy". XXXVII. 3 (2006): Pp. 163-180.
* “The Genealogy of Morals and Right Reading: On the Nietzschean Aphorism and the Art of the Polemic.” In: Christa Davis Acampora, ed., "Critical Essays on the Classics: Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals." Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2006. Pp. 171-190.
* [In German] “Heideggers Beiträge zwischen politische Kritik und die Frage nach der Technik.” In: Stefan Sorgner, H. James Birx, and Nikolaus Knoepffler, eds., "Eugenik und die Zukunft", Jena:Angewandten Ethik. Freiburg: Karl Alber Verlag, 2006. Pp. 43-69.
* “Gay Science: Science and Wissenschaft, Leidenschaft and Music.” In: Keith Ansell-Pearson, ed., "Companion to Nietzsche." Cambridge: Blackwell, 2006. Pp. 97-114.
* [In German] “Dichtung, Eros, und Denken in Nietzsche und Heidegger: Heideggers Nietzsche Interpretation und die heutigen Nietzsche-Lektüre.” "Heidegger und Nietzsche".
* "Heidegger-Jahrbuch II". Freiburg: Karl Alber Verlag 2005. Pp. 239-264.
* “The Science of Words or Philology: Music in The Birth of Tragedy and The Alchemy of Love in The Gay Science.” In: Tiziana Andina, ed., "Revista di estetica". n.s. 28, XLV. Turin: Rosenberg & Sellier, 2005. Pp. 47–78.
* “Heidegger’s Work of Art: Saving the Museum Between Schapiro and Gadamer.” In: André Wiercinski, "Between Description and Interpretation: The Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology." Toronto: The Hermeneutic Press, 2005. Pp. 442–64.
* [In Spanish] “Música y palabras en Nietzsche: Sobre la cuestión de la ciencia, el estilo y la música de la tragedia griega Antigua.” Trans. Marco Parmeggiani. "Estudios Nietzsche" 4 (2005): 11-35
* [In Spanish] “La veridad del arte en Heidegger.” In: Carlos Eduardo Sanabria, trans. and ed. Carlos Eduardo Sanbria, ed. and trans., "Estética. Miradas contemporáneas". Fondation Universidad de Bogotá, Colombia, 2005. Pp. 183–230.
* “Nietzsche’s Critique of Scientific Reason and Scientific Culture: On ‘Science as a Problem’ and ‘Nature as Chaos’.” In: Gregory M. Moore and Thomas Brobjer, eds. "Nietzsche and Science." Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. 133-153.
* [In German] “Die Wahrheit des Kunstwerkes: Gadamers Hermeneutik zwischen Martin Heidegger und Meyer Shapiro” in Günter Figal, ed., "Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, Vol. 3". Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004. Pp. 55-80.
* [In German] “Manfred Riedel begegnen: Daimon und Tyché.” In Harald Seubert, ed., "Verstehen in Wort und Schrift". Cologne: Böhlau, 2004. Pp. 90B95.
* “On Schapiro’s Transfiguration: Claude Lorraine and Raphael.” "New Nietzsche Studies". Vols. 5:3/4 and 6:1/2 (Winter 2003/Spring 2004): 181-193.
* “Reading David B. Allison’s Reading the New Nietzsche.” "Symposium". Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring 2004). 19-35.
* “On the Analytic-Continental Divide in Philosophy: Nietzsche’s Lying Truth, Heidegger’s Speaking Language, and Philosophy.” In C. G. Prado, ed., "A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy". Amherst, NY: Prometheus/Humanity Books. 2003. Pp. 63-103.
* “From Fleck’s Denkstil to Kuhn’s Paradigm: Conceptual Schemes and Incommensurability.” "International Studies in the Philosophy of Science", 71/1 (2003): 75-92.
* “Heidegger Against the Editors: Nietzsche, Science, and the Beiträge as Will to Power.” "Philosophy Today". 47 (Winter 2003): 327-359.
* [In German] “Die Wissenschaftsbegriff bei Martin Heidegger und Medard Boss: Philosophisches Denken und Daseinsanalyse.” In: Harald Seubert, ed., "Heidegger und Daseinsanalyse." Köln: Böhlau, 2003. Pp. 249-268.
* “From Van Gogh’s Museum to the Temple at Bassae: Heidegger’s Truth of Art and Schapiro’s Art History.” "Culture, Theory & Critique." 44/2 (2003): 151-169.
* “Paradigms and Thought Styles: Incommensurability and its Cold War Discontents from Kuhn’s Harvard to Fleck’s Unsung Lvov.” "Social Epistemology." 17 (2003): 97-107.
* “Nietzsche’s Imperative as a Friend’s Encomium: On Becoming the One You Are, Ethics, and Blessing.” "Nietzsche-Studien," Vol. 33 (2003): 29-58.
* “Continental Philosophy of Science: Mach, Duhem, and Bachelard.” In: Richard Kearney, ed., "Routledge History of Philosophy: Volume VIII". London. Routledge. 2003. New paperback edition. Pp. 175-221.
* “The Hermeneutics of a Hoax: On the Mismatch of Physics and Cultural Criticism.” "Common Knowledge". 6/2 (September 1997): 23-33.
* “Against Postmodernism and the “New” Philosophy of Science: Nietzsche’s Image of Science in the Light of Art.” In: R.S. Cohen and Dimitri Ginev, eds. "Issues and Images in the Philosophy of Science." Dordrecht. Kluwer. 1997. Pp. 27-45.
* “Physics vs. Social Text: Anatomy of a Hoax”. "TELOS" 107 (Spring 1996). New York: [http://www.telospress.com Telos Press]
* “On the Order of the Real: Nietzsche and Lacan.” In: David Pettigrew and François Raffoul, eds., "Disseminating Lacan". Albany. State University of New York Press. 1996. 48-63.
* “The Logic of Woman in Nietzsche: The Dogmatist’s Story.” "New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture." 36 (1996): 7-17.

External links

* [http://www.fordham.edu/gsas/phil/babich/babich.htm Babich's CV]