Robert Bernasconi

The Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy, Memphis University

Robert Bernasconi holds the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. Educated in England, Prof. Bernasconi speaks and writes extensively on the work of Derrida, Heidegger, Gadamer, Levinas, Arendt, Sartre, Hegel, Locke, Rousseau, and others, in addition to political and ethical theory. He is author of The Question of Language in Heidegger's History of Being and Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing and co-editor of several books on Levinas including Re-Reading Levinas and Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings. He has composed as editor several books on race including Race and the eight-volume collection Concepts of Race in the Eighteenth Century and is co-editor of the book series Philosophy and Race for SUNY Press. In addition, he has held several visiting scholar appointments throughout his academic career.