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Tony Oursler, "Let's Switch" (1996); courtesy the Artist and Metro Pictures Gallery

To learn more about Professor Horowitz, read his interview: Modernity, Art, and Critique

Gregg M. Horowitz

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Contact Information

Email: gregg.horowitz@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 111 Furman Hall
Phone: 615-322-2637
Fax: (615) 343-7259

Degrees

Ph.D. Rutgers University

Research Area

He works on the philosophy of art and art history, political philosophy, and psychoanalysis. He has special research interests in the relation of aesthetics and cultural theory to critical social theory.

Publications

  • "The Authority of Dreams" in Barbara Hahn and Meike Werner, ed., Sleeping, I Am More Awake (Rodopi, forthcoming 2009).
  • "The Residue of History: Dark Play in Schiller and Hegel," in German Idealism - An International Yearbook (Walter de Gruyter, 2007), pp.179-98.
  • "'I sat Food on my knees': The Promise of Beauty in Arthur C. Danto's The Abuse of Beauty", Inquiry 48:2 (April 2005), pp.155-71.
  • Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life (Stanford University Press, 2001).
  • "Art and Lamentation", Constellations (June 2000).
  • The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste, with A. Danto and T. Huhn (Gordon and Breech, 1998).