Babette Babich


Babette Babich is an American philosopher known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Anders, Adorno, and Hölderlin as well as for her work in aesthetics, including philosophy of music but also film, television, and digital media, as well as life-size bronzes in antiquity, and continental philosophy, especially the philosophy of science and technology. In addition, Babich has foregrounded the role of politics in institutional philosophy as well as gender in the academy. A student of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Babich also worked with Jacob Taubes and Paul Feyerabend among others. In 1996, Babich founded the journal New Nietzsche Studies, echoing the spirit of the 1974 book, The New Nietzsche, the pathbreaking collection edited by David Blair Allison.

Career

Following research work at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Université François-Rabelais, Tours, Freie Universität Berlin and Universität Tübingen Babich has a doctoral degree from Boston College. She taught at Denison University and Marquette University before her current position at Fordham University in New York City. She has also taught, as visiting professor, at the Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen, The University at Stony Brook, Georgetown University, the Humboldt University, Berlin, the School of Visual Arts, NYC, University of California at San Diego, and the Juilliard School. She currently holds an honorary appointment as Visiting Professor of Theology, Religion and Philosophy, University of Winchester, England.

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