Crispin Sartwell

Crispin Sartwell
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Maryland, College Park (BA)
Johns Hopkins University (MA)
University of Virginia (PhD)
Doctoral advisorRichard Rorty[1]
Academic work
DisciplinePhilosophy
Communication
Political science
InstitutionsDickinson College
Vanderbilt University
University of Alabama
Maryland Institute College of Art
Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Crispin Gallagher Sartwell is an American academic, philosopher, and journalist who was a faculty member of the philosophy department at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania until he retired in 2023.[2] He has taught philosophy, communication, and political science at Vanderbilt University, University of Alabama, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Dickinson College.[3]

Career

As a philosopher of aesthetics as well as of language, Sartwell has seen the issues of beauty as being a constant in the search for meaning. His 2014 book How to Escape: Magic, Madness, Beauty and Cynicism, looked at a wide variety of artistic expressions and experiences from an aesthetics perspective. This followed his previous work, 2004's Six Names of Beauty, in which he used different words for beauty in a variety of languages including Greek, Sanskrit, Japanese, and Navajo as a gateway to understanding the cultural diversity and similarities between ideas and manifestations of beauty.[4][5]

On March 3, 2016, Sartwell was placed on leave from his faculty position at Dickinson College in response to posts on his blog in which he accused other philosophy professors of plagiarism.[6] According to Sartwell, the action is related to a video, embedded in the blog post, of Miranda Lambert singing "Time to Get a Gun."[7] In September 2016, The Dickinsonian reported that Sartwell had returned to his position and would resume teaching in the spring of 2017.[8]

Books

  • The Art of Living: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions. Albany: SUNY, 1995.
  • Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality. Albany: SUNY, 1996.[9][10]
  • Act Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998.[11][12][13]
  • End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History. Albany: SUNY, 2000.
  • Extreme Virtue: Leadership and Truth in Five Great American Lives. Albany: SUNY, 2003.
  • Six Names of Beauty. New York: Routledge, 2004.
  • Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre — Anarchist, Feminist, Genius (co-edited with Sharon Presley). Albany: SUNY, 2005.
  • Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory. Albany: SUNY, 2008.
  • Political Aesthetics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010.[14]
  • Editor, The Practical Anarchist: Writings of Josiah Warren. New York: Fordham, 2011.
  • How to Escape: Magic, Madness, Beauty, and Cynicism. Albany: SUNY, 2014.
  • Entanglements: A System of Philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press, 2017.
  • Beauty: A Quick Immersion. New York: Tibidabo Publishing, Inc., 2022.

In addition to his books, Sartwell has published more than 40 articles in academic journals such as the British Journal of Aesthetics, Philosophy Today, and American Philosophical Quarterly.

Articles

  • Sartwell, Crispin (January 29, 2017). "The Wax Presidency Wanes as a Human Comes to the White House". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on April 28, 2021. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  • Sartwell, Crispin (February 23, 2021). "Opinion: Humans Are Animals. Let's Get Over It". The New York Times. Retrieved February 24, 2021.

See also

References

  1. ^ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-12-oe-sartwell12-story.html
  2. ^ "Well, I have retired from Dickinson College, as of yesterday". July 1, 2023
  3. ^ Sartwell, Crispin. Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory. SUNY Press, 2008. p. 14.
  4. ^ Le Morvan, Pierre (2002). "Is Mere True Belief Knowledge?". Erkenntnis. 56 (2): 151–68. doi:10.1023/A:1015649505115. JSTOR 20013113. S2CID 189869049.
  5. ^ Lycan, William G. (1994). "Sartwell's Minimalist Analysis of Knowing". Philosophical Studies. 73 (1): 1–3. doi:10.1007/bf00989741. JSTOR 4320457. S2CID 170460285.
  6. ^ Rachel Bunn (2016-03-04). "Dickinson professor placed on leave following a series of blog posts". The Patriot-News. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  7. ^ Lizzy Hardison (2016-03-03). "Philosophy Professor Placed on Temporary Leave". The Dickinsonian. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  8. ^ Rachael Franchini (2016-09-08). "Sartwell Returns". The Dickinsonian. Retrieved 2016-12-13.
  9. ^ Stuhr, John J. (1996). "Review of Sartwell, Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality". The Personalist Forum. 12 (2): 191–92. JSTOR 20708734.
  10. ^ Jeffrey, Timm (1997). "Review of Sartwell, Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality". Philosophy East and West. 47 (3): 447–48. doi:10.2307/1399919. JSTOR 1399919.
  11. ^ Lazarre, Jane (1999). "Review of Sartwell, Act Like You Know". American Literature. 71 (3): 598–99. JSTOR 2902751.
  12. ^ Watkins, James H. (1999). "Review of Sartwell, Act Like You Know". South Atlantic Review. 64 (1): 176–79. doi:10.2307/3201777. JSTOR 3201777.
  13. ^ Olney, James (1999). "Review of Sartwell, Act Like You Know". African American Review. 33 (4): 696–97. doi:10.2307/2901359. JSTOR 2901359.
  14. ^ Voice, Paul (2011). "Review of Sartwell, Political Aesthetics". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 69 (4): 434–36. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01485_10.x. JSTOR 23883698.

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