Allen Speight
Allen Speight | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1962 (age 62–63) |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Chicago (PhD) |
| Thesis | Agency and tragedy in Hegel's philosophy of action (1993) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | German Idealism |
| Institutions | University of Boston |
| Website | https://www.bu.edu/philo/profile/c-allen-speight/ |
C. Allen Speight (May 24, 1962) is a professor of philosophy and former chair of Department of Philosophy at Boston University.[1][2]
Life and work
[edit]Speight began his academic life at St. John’s College in Maryland studying journalism with an interest in political coverage. He received his doctorate at the University of Chicago, where he completed his dissertation on Georg Hegel, Agency and tragedy in Hegel's philosophy of action, in 1993.[3] Before coming to Boston University, He taught at St. Xavier University and the University of Chicago.[2]
In the book Hegel, Literature, and the Problem of Agency, he argues that Hegel's treatment of three literary genres, tragedy, comedy, and the Romantic novel (through the works of Sophocles, Diderot, Schlegel and Jacobi) actually trace three moments of human agency: retrospectivity, theatricality and forgiveness. Therefore, Hegel's philosophical project The Phenomenology of Spirit is actually understanding the issue of human agency in the modern world.[4] The book has the subject of a number reviews by Martin Donougho,[5] Terry Pinkard,[6][7] Andreas Großmann,[8] Michael Baur,[9] and Simon Lumsden.[10]
Selected publications
[edit]- Speight, Allen (2001). Hegel, Literature, and the Problem of Agency. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511612831. ISBN 978-0-521-79184-7.
- Speight, Allen (2008). The Philosophy of Hegel. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-3407-0. JSTOR j.ctt7zt3cj.
Honors and awards
[edit]- 2012: Fulbright Professor at Leuphana Universität of Lüneburg
- 2002: Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin
- 1990: Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- 1991-1992: Fulbright Scholar at the Hegel Archive of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
References
[edit]- ^ SCC at Boston University (2016-03-25). "Professor in the Spotlight: Dr. C. Allen Speight". Medium. Archived from the original on 2017-01-12. Retrieved 2025-05-24.
- ^ a b "C. Allen Speight | Philosophy". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-24.
- ^ "Agency and tragedy in Hegel's philosophy of action / Library Catalog". catalog.lib.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-24.
- ^ Speight, Allen (2001). Hegel, Literature, and the Problem of Agency. Modern European Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511612831. ISBN 978-0-521-79184-7.
- ^ Donougho, Martin (January 2003). "Allen Speight, Hegel, Literature, and the Problem of Agency (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. xii + 154. ISBN 0521791847. £11.95". Hegel Bulletin. 24 (1–2): 105–114. doi:10.1017/S0263523200001865. ISSN 0263-5232.
- ^ Pinkard, Terry (October 2002). "Allen Speight, Hegel, Literature, and the Problem of Agency". Ethics. 113 (1): 176–179. doi:10.1086/340682. ISSN 0014-1704.
- ^ Pinkard, Terry; Speight, Allen (2002). "Book Reviews". Ethics. 113 (1): 176–179. doi:10.1086/340682. ISSN 0014-1704. JSTOR 10.1086/340682.
- ^ Großmann, Andreas; Speight, Allen (2002). "Review of Hegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency. (Modern European Philosophy), SpeightAllen". Hegel-Studien. 37: 225–227. ISSN 0073-1587. JSTOR 26589543.
- ^ Baur, Michael (2003). "Hegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency (review)". Journal of the History of Philosophy. 41 (1): 134–135. doi:10.1353/hph.2002.0092. ISSN 1538-4586.
- ^ "Book Reviews". International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 10 (2): 219–233. 2002-01-01. doi:10.1080/09672550210121487. ISSN 0967-2559.