Battelle-Tompkins 123, erfani@american.edu

Areas of specialization
Continental philosophy, aesthetics, political philosophy

Selected Publications
The Aesthetics of Autonomy: Ricoeur and Sartre on Emancipation, Authenticity and Selfhood (Lexington Books: Forthcoming)

“Sartre and Kierkegaard on the Aesthetics of Boredom,” Idealistic Studies, Vol. 34(3), Fall 2005.

“Democratic Struggle: Tocqueville’s Reconfiguration of Hegel’s Master and Slave Dialectics,” Florida Philosophical Review, Volume III (2), Winter 2003, pp.23-44.

“The Two Faces of Rousseau’s Legislator,” Review Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. I (1-2) 2003, pp. 193-211.

“The Uncanny Proximity: From Democracy to Terror,” Florida Philosophical Review, Volume II (2), Winter 2002, pp. 5-22.

“Pragmatism, Politics and Utopia,” Studies in Social and Political Thought, No. 7, September 2002, pp. 92-114.

“Being-There and Being-From-Elsewhere: An Existential Analytic of Exile,” Reconstruction, Vol. 2 (3), Summer 2002, pp. 1-24.

“Exile and the Philosophical Challenge to Citizenship,” (Co-authored with John Whitmire) in Creativity in Exile, ed. Michael Hahn (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004).

Courses taught
Meaning and Purposes in the Arts
Western Philosophy
Theories of Democracy and Human Rights
Arts and Politics

Education
Ph.D., Villanova University
B.A., University of the Pacific

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