Peter Amato, PhD
Director, Programs in Philosophy
Teaching Professor of Philosophy
Department of English and Philosophy
Center for Science, Technology and Society
Education:
- PhD, Philosophy, Fordham University, 1998
- MA, Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1993
- BA, Anthropology, Fordham University, 1984
Research Interests:
Ethics, Marxism, Continental Philosophy
Bio:
I am interested in the ethical and philosophical dimensions of Karl Marx’s critique of capitalist society, in particular as illuminated by Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics.
Selected Publications:
- “Radical Protest and Dialectical Ethics”, in Peace Philosophy and Public Life: Commitments, Crises, and Concepts for Engaged Thinking, eds. Greg Moses and Gail Presbey, (Rodopi, 2014), 145‐162
- “Decentering and Refocusing Marx”, Review of Marx at the Margins: on Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies by Kevin B. Anderson, University of Chicago Press, 2010, Radical Philosophy Review, 14.2 (2011) 217‐221
- “On the Irrelevance of the Beautiful”, Review of Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism by Kristin Gjesdal, Cambridge, 2009, Research in Phenomenology, 41.2 (2011) 287‐294
- “Marxist Critique and Philosophical Hermeneutics: Outlines of a Hermeneutical‐Historical Materialism”, in Radical Philosophy Today, Volume 4: Philosophy Against Empire, eds. Tony Smith and Harry van der Linden, (Philosophy Documentation Center, 2006), 235‐242