Michael Gelven

Michael Gelven, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University, is an author and well-known writer of commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time. Gelven has a wide range of specialties including: metaphysics, Heidegger, Kant, Nietzsche, philosophy in literature, and the philosophy of war.

Bibliography

Books

• A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time (1st edition) (1970)
• Winter, friendship, and guilt; the sources of self-inquiry (1973)
• A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time (2nd edition) (Sep 1989)
• Truth and Existence: A Philosophical Inquiry (Nov 1990)
• Spirit and Existence: A Philosophical Inquiry (Aug 1990)
• Why Me?: A Philosophical Inquiry into Fate (Nov 1991)
• The Quest for the Fine (Jan 1996)
• The Risk of Being: What It Means to Be Good and Bad (Nov 1997)
• This Side of Evil (Jun 1999)
• Truth and the Comedic Art (Sep 2000)
• War and Existence: A Philosophical Inquiry (Jan 30, 2000)
• The Asking Mystery: A Philosophical Inquiry (Mar 2000)
• What Happens to Us When We Think: Transformation and Reality (Jul 2003)
• Judging Hope: A Reach to the True and the False (Jun 2004)

Articles

• “Language as Saying and Showing,” Journal of Value Inquiry (1983)
• “The Literary and the True,” Man and World (1984)
• “Nietzsche's Existential Methodology,” Proceedings of the Heraclitean Society (1985)
• “Is Sacrifice a Virtue,” Journal of Value Inquiry (1987)

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

External links

• Gelven's NIU website