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Richard L. Velkley (born March 17, 1949) is an American philosopher and Celia Scott Weatherhead Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. Velkley is known for his expertise on Kant, Rousseau, and post-Kantian philosophy.
111 Newcomb Hall. Education. Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 1978. Biography. Academic Interests. European philosophy since Kant. Political philosophy. Phenomenology, Metaphysics, Recent Continental Philosophy. Ancient philosophy. Early Modern philosophy. Honors and Awards. President, Metaphysical Society of America, 2017-18.
Sarastro's Cave: Letters from the Recent Past is an epistolary philosophical novella by Richard Velkley. It is the story of Clovis Mendling, a professor of history, who tries after a successful surgery to discover a more transparent sense of himself through presenting himself in letters to his friends.
Richard L. Velkley. In Being after Rousseau, Richard L. Velkley presents Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the founder of a modern European tradition of reflection on the relation of philosophy to culture—a reflection that calls both into question. Tracing this tradition from Rousseau to Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schelling, and Martin Heidegger ...
In Freedom and the End of Reason, Richard L. Velkley offers an influential interpretation of the central issue of Kant’s philosophy and an evaluation of its position within modern philosophy’s larger history. He persuasively argues that the whole of Kantianism—not merely the Second Critique—focuses on a “critique of practical reason ...
Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question is a book by Richard Velkley, in which the author offers an assessment of the position of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thought within modern philosophy.
VELKLEY, Richard L. American, b. 1949. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Philosophy, Politics/Government. Career: Alfred University, NY, instructor to assistant professor, 1977-82; Rivier College, Nashua, NH, assistant professor, 1982-85; Stonehill College, North Easton, MA, assistant professor, 1985-90, associate professor of philosophy ...
