Dr. Michael Gubser
Professor
gubsermd@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Fields and specialties
European intellectual history; history of international development
Teaching areas
Intellectual history, Central and Eastern Europe, international development
Research interests
European intellectual history, phenomenology, international development
Books
The Far Reaches: Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe. Palo Alto: Stanford Press, 2014.
Time's Visible Surface: Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in fin-de-siècle Vienna. In the series: Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. Wayne State Press: Detroit, January 2006.
Edited Books
The Practice of International Development. Co-edited with Jerrold Keilson. New York: Routledge, 2018.
“Leaving the Past Behind: History and Ahistoricism in International Development Theory and Practice”
Awards
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship - 2021-2022
Franklin Grant, American Philosophical Society - 2021
Ryskamp Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies - 2011-2012
Selected Articles
“Early Phenomenology in Central and Eastern Europe.” Studia Phaenomenologica. 2021.
“Phenomenology contra Nazism: Dietrich von Hildebrand and Aurel Kolnai.” Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica 20: 1 (2019): 115-132.
“Riegl, Phenomenology, and the Ethic of Attention.” Umění [Art] LXVI (2018), 146-157. [Czech Republic]
“The Walls of Kano: USAID Education Programming in North Nigeria and the Problem of Sustainability.” In Gubser and Keilson, eds. The Practice of International Development. New York: Routledge, 95-128.
“The Presentist Bias: Ahistoricism, Equity, and International Development in the 1970s.” Journal of Development Studies 48 (2012): 1-14.
“The Terror and the Hope: Jan Patočka’s Transcendence to the World.” Schutzian Research 3 (2011): 185-202.
“A True and Better ‘I’: Husserl’s Call for Worldly Renewal.” Analecta Husserliana 110: Part II (2011): 579-98.
“The View from Le Château: USAID’s Recent Decentralization Programming in Uganda.” Development Policy Review 29:1 (January 2011), 23-46.
“Rhythm in the Thought of Alois Riegl and his Contemporaries.” In Alois Riegl Revisited: Beiträge zu Werk und Rezeption. Vienna: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010: 89-99.
“Franz Brentano’s Ethics of Social Renewal.” Philosophical Forum 40: 3 (Fall 2009): 339-366.
“A Cozy Little World: Reflections on Context in Austrian Intellectual History.” Austrian History Yearbook XL (2009): 202-214.
“Time and History in Alois Riegl’s Theory of Art.” Journal of the History of Ideas 66: 3 (Fall 2005): 451-74.
Service
"Democracy in Peril?" Speaker Series (Chair, Coordinating Committee)
Personnel Advisory Committee Chair
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