About
Stephen Gardner, Ph.D., is a professor of social and political philosophy, aesthetics and philosophy of history (primarily German Idealism and its discontents). His central concerns are the problems of democracy, modernity and the historical-intellectual origins and trajectory of the modern West.
Education
- Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests & Areas of Expertise
- 19th-20th century European thought
- Philosophy of culture and history
- Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Tocqueville, Burke, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Schmitt, Voegelin, Arendt, Camus, Sartre, Girard, etc.
- The philosophical critique of ideology and totalitarianism in the 20th and 21st centuries