Michael Weinman

MICHAEL WEINMAN teaches interdisciplinary courses in the humanities and social sciences at the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin. He completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in 2005. Prior to joining the faculty at ECLA last year, Michael has taught at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be’er Sheva, Israel.

Michael is primarily interested in how our approaches to “fundamental questions” shape and are shaped by questions of an expressly political nature. This interest is developed in three projects currently nearing publication: a monograph (to be published by Lexington Books in fall 2011) on the ethics of subjectification in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves; an essay (“Education: The ethico-political energeia”) in the Continuum Companian to Aristotle; and a book chapter (“Aristotle’s ergon as a contingent foundation for civic republicanism today”) to be published by the University of Toronto Press in an edited volume entitled Ancient Lessons for Global Politics, Vol. 4: Civic Republicanism.