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Daniel Herwitz

Name: Daniel Herwitz

Title(s):

  • Director
  • Mary Fair Croushore Professor
  • Professor

Contact Information: 734.936.3518 , herwitz@umich.edu

International Institute Affiliation(s):

  • CES-EUC
  • WCED

Department Affiliation(s):

  • Institute for the Humanities
  • History of Art

Education Background: Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1984

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

  • European Studies
  • African Studies

Related Countries:

  • South Africa

Research/Teaching Specialization: Liberalism, theory of justice and human rights in "transitional societies"; non-western modern and contemporary art, aesthetics of modern and contemporary film, media, architecture, plastic art, literature music, history of philosophy: poststructuralism/ postmodernism, Wittgenstein, 19th century philosophy

Area/Int'l Course(s) Taught: Art and Architecture Outside the Euro-American Sphere, History of Art 455

Publications:

  • Kierkegaard Writes his Opera. 1996. (Book Chapter)
  • The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera. 1996. (Edited Book)
  • The Future of the Past: on the Legacy of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 2005. (Refereed Journal Article)