James C. Risser Explained

Region:	Western philosophy
Era:	21st-century philosophy
James C. Risser
Birth Date:	1946
School Tradition:	Continental philosophy
Institutions:	Seattle University
Main Interests:	hermeneutics
Thesis Title:	Truth and Aesthetic Experience in Kant's Critique of Judgement
Thesis Url:	https://philpapers.org/rec/RISTAA
Thesis Year:	1978
Doctoral Advisor:	John Sallis
Education:	Duquesne University (PhD)
Influences:	Gadamer, Heidegger

James Conrad Risser (born 1946) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He was Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair of Humanities between 1991 and 1994 and the president of the North American Society of Philosophical Hermeneutics (2012–2015).^[1]

Books

• The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012)
• (Edited) American Continental Philosophy. Edited by Walter Brogan and James Risser. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000)
• (Edited) Heidegger Toward the Turn: The Work of the 1930s. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999)
• Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-reading Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Faculty and Staff - Philosophy Department - Departments - College of Arts and Sciences - Seattle University . www.seattleu.edu.