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Lambert Zuidervaart, PhD (Free University, Amsterdam), MPhil (Institute for Christian Studies) is Professor of Philosophy at ICS, and a member of the Graduate Faculty in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He holds ICS’s Herman Dooyeweerd Chair in Social and Political Philosophy. Zuidervaart’s primary interests lie in continental philosophy, social philosophy, and philosophy of discourse, with an emphasis on Kant, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, feminism, and Critical Theory. He is the author of Social Philosophy after Adorno (Cambridge UP, 2007), Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure (Cambridge UP, 2004), and Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press, 1991); co-author of Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, and the Electronic Media (Eerdmans, 1991); and senior co-editor of The Arts, Community and Cultural Democracy (St. Martin’s Press, 2000), The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory (MIT Press, 1997), Pledges of Jubilee: Essays on the Arts and Culture (Eerdmans, 1995).He is currently conducting new research into theories of truth and theories of globalization. Zuidervaart has received numerous grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Before joining ICS’s faculty in 2002, he taught philosophy at The King's University College in Edmonton (1981-1985) and at Calvin College (1985-2002), where he was Philosophy Department Chair.

Telephone: 416-979-2331 ext. 248
http://www.icscanada.edu/faculty/lzuidervaart/

View my syllabus for: (in reverse chronological order)

Metaphysics after Auschwitz: Adorno's Negative Dialectics
Truth and Authenticity: Heidegger’s Being and Time
Ethics After Auschwitz: Adorno and Levinas
Paradoxes of Progress: Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action