Modern European Philosophy
My broad area of specialization is Modern European Philosophy, which means I draw on the philosophical approaches that emerge from Kantian and Post-Kantian traditions in Europe as I think and write about contemporary philosophical problems and areas of investigation. Included among these are contemporary political philosophy, moral psychology, and aesthetics. I have an interest in Japanese philosophy, and utilize comparative approaches in many of my courses.
During the spring 2011 semester Professor Acampora is on research leave as a Mellon fellow with the Interdisciplinary Committee for Science Studies at The Graduate Center. She will return to teaching at Hunter in fall 2011.
Recent and Upcoming Courses
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Journal of Nietzsche Studies
Executive Editor
Penn State Press
Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul, edited with Angela L. Cotten
SUNY Press, 2007
Cultural Sites of Critical Insight, edited with Angela L. Cotten
SUNY Press, 2007
Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals
Rowman & Littefield, 2006
A Nietzschean Bestiary, edited with Ralph R. Acampora
Rowman & Littlefield, 2004
Forgetting the Subject, chapter 2 of Reading Nietzsche at the Margins, edited by Steven V. Hicks and Alan Rosenberg, published by Purdue University Press, 2008, pages 34-56
On Unmaking and Remaking: An Introduction with obvious affection for Gloria Anzaldua, introduction to Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul, edited by Christa Davis Acampora and Angela L. Cotten. Published by SUNY Press, 2007, pages 1-17
On Sovereignty and Overhumanity: Why it matters how we read Nietzsche’s Genealogy II:2, in International Studies in Philosophy 36 no. 3 (2004) 127-146
Revised and republished in Critical Essays on the Classics: Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals (2006): 147-162.
“The End of Nietzsche Studies,” in Dansk Nietzsche Forum 1:1 (August 2006). ISSN 1901-4805: http://www.dansknietzscheforum.net/C.D.Acampora-The_End_of_Nietzsche_Studies.pdf
“Naturalism and Nietzsche's Moral Psychology,” in The Blackwell Companion to Nietzsche, edited by Keith Ansell Pearson (Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 2006): 314-333.
Unlikely Illuminations: Nietzsche and Frederick Douglass on Power, Struggle, and the Aisthesis of Freedom, chapter 8 of Critical Affinities: Nietzsche and African American Thought, edited by Jacqueline Scott and A. Todd. Franklin, published by SUNY Press, 2006, pages 175-202
“Between Mechanism and Teleology: Will to Power and Nietzsche's ‘Gay’ Science,” in Nietzsche and Science, edited by Gregory Moore and Thomas H. Brobjer (Adlershot, Hants, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004).
Paws, Claws, Jaws, and Such: Interpretation and Metaphoric Modalities, Afterward in A Nietzschean Bestiary: Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal-->, edited by Christa Davis Acampora and Ralph R. Acampora. Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, pages 285-300
“Nietzsche's Agonal Wisdom,” in International Studies in Philosophy 35:3 (Fall 2003): 205-225.
“Demos Agonistes Redux: Reflections on the Streit of Political Agonism,” in Nietzsche-Studien 32 (2003): 373-389.
‘The Contest Between Nietzsche and Homer’: Revaluing the Homeric Question, in Nietzsche and the German Tradition, edited by Nicholas Martin (Berne: Peter Lang, 2003)
“Of Dangerous Games and Dastardly Deeds: A Typology of Nietzsche's Contests,” International Studies in Philosophy 34:3 (Fall 2002): 135-151.
Nietzsche Contra Homer, Socrates, and Paul, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 24 (2002) 25-53.
Interview with Daniel Blue, New York Nietzsche Circle.
“Re/Introducing ‘Homer's Contest’: A new translation with notes and commentary,” Nietzscheana 5 (Fall 1996): pp. i-iv and 1-8.
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