Steven G. Smith |
smithsg@millsaps.edu | 601-974-1334 | Box 150390, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS 39210 | Fax 601-974-1324
Spring 2010 office hours: MWF 9:00 -10:00, T 10:00-11:30, Th 2:30-3:30
RECENT AND CURRENT CLASSES TAUGHT and their syllabi
THE MUSIC SIDE--information on original music for theater, film and dance; the small college musical Real Life, the Idea; the pop projects Woodpecker Street and The Assemblers
HOOKS: a site for closer looks at great things in rock music. See also The Millsaps Hooks Project
GREAT READING suggestions in various categories; GREAT VIEWING and GREAT LISTENING suggestions too
Chapters of Appeal and Attitude on THE AXIAL AGE IDEAL OF SUPREME APPEAL and THE AXIAL AGE IDEAL OF SOVEREIGN ATTITUDE
Extracts from Gender Thinking on THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN NATURE and THE CONCEPT OF RACE
Academic Background
Florida State University, B.A. (Religion) 1972
Vanderbilt University, M.A. (Religion: Religious & philosophical ethics) 1978
Duke University, Ph.D. (Religion: Systematic & contemporary studies) 1980
Research Interests
Philosophy of religion, philosophical anthropology, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of history, metaphysics
Selected Publications
BOOKS
Appeal and Attitude. Prospects for Ultimate Meaning (Indiana University Press, 2005)
Worth Doing (State University of New York Press, 2004)
Gender Thinking (Temple University Press, 1992)
The Concept of the Spiritual. An Essay in First Philosophy (Temple University Press, 1988)
The Argument to the Other. Reason Beyond Reason in the Thought of Karl Barth and Emmanuel Levinas (Scholars Press, 1983)
SOME RECENT ARTICLES"Hooks." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 67 (Summer 2009), 311-319.
"The Work of Service: Levinas's Eventual Philosophy of Culture." Jeffrey Bloechl, ed., Levinas Studies, Vol. 4 (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2009)
"Historical Meaningfulness in Shared Action." History and Theory, 48 (February 2009), 1-19.
"What Is Scripture? Pursuing Smith's Question." Anglican Theological Review, 90 (Fall 2008), 753-775.
"The Religious Appeals of Transworth and Transtrying." International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 55 (2004), 109-125.
"The Mind-Matter Reversals: Bergson's Conception of Mental and Material Actuality." Southern Journal of Philosophy, 40 (2002), 295-314.
"'The Gates of Greatness Break Open': Religious Understandings of Worth in Action." Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 70 (June 2002), 301-321.
"Worthy Actions." Journal of Ethics, 5 (2001), 315-333.
"Deep Jokes: Reflections on Ultimate Explanation in Metaphysics and Myth." Soundings, 83 (Spring 2000), 21-38.
"Three Religious Attitudes." Philosophy and Theology, 11 (1998), 3-24.
"Comment on Hawkesworth's 'Confounding Gender'." Signs, 22 (Spring 1997), 691-697--reprinted in Provoking Feminisms, ed. Carolyn Allen and Judith A. Howard (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
"Abraham's Family in Children of Gebelaawi [by Naguib Mahfouz]." Literature and Theology, 11 (June 1997), 168-184.
Personal Interests
Music, literature, film
Softball, basketball, kayaking
