About
Stephen Gardner, Ph.D., is a professor of social and political philosophy, aesthetics, and philosophy of history (mainly but not only 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 and 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