Dr. Wendell Kisner
Program Director, Master of Arts—Integrated Stud
Humanities & Social Sciences
Athabasca University
Canada
Biography
Wendell Kisner is Associate Professor and Program Director of the MA-Integrated Studies Program at Athabasca University, and has been teaching for over twenty five years. His research and instructional interests include the texts of Agamben, Badiou, Deleuze, Derrida, Hegel, Heidegger, Levinas, Nietzsche, Plato, and Zizek, and topical areas of interest include ecological thought, philosophy of biology, phenomenology, hermeneutics, political philosophy, and interdisciplinary theory. He is author of Ecological Ethics and Living Subjectivity in Hegel's Logic: The Middle Voice of Autopoietic Life (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014). He lives in the Canadian Rockies and ventures often into the mountains to experience what Plato called the beginning of philosophy.
Research Interest
political philosophy recent continental thought German idealism environmental philosophy global studies phenomenology/hermeneutics interdisciplinary theory
Publications
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"A Species-Based Environmental Ethic in Hegel's Logic of Life," The Owl of Minerva, Vol. 40:1 (2009), pp. 1-68.
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Ecological Ethics and Living Subjectivity in Hegel's Logic: The Middle Voice of Autopoietic Life. (2014). Palgrave Macmillan
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“Agamben’s curio cabinet, animality, and the zone of indeterminacy.†Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy. Vol. 13, No. 1, 2017.
