Jeremiah L. Alberg
University of West Georgia
Philosophy Program
Carrollton, GA 30118
678-839-
07/07- Chair (Interim) of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Tenured)
08/04-06/07 Associate Professor, Director of Philosophy Program, University of West Georgia
09/03 –05/04 Assistant Professor (limited term) Gonzaga University, WA
09/01 – 07/03 Bannan Fellow, Santa Clara University, CA
04/99 – 05/02 Associate Professor of Philosophy with tenure, Philosophy Dept. Sophia University, Tokyo
04/94 – 03/99 Full-time instructor of Philosophy with tenure, Philosophy Dept., Sophia University, Tokyo
04/98 – 05/02 Guest lecturer, Philosophy, Catholic Seminary in Tokyo
01/81 -12/81 Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, St. Louis University
10/88-07/93 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität zu München
Ph.D., magna cum laude
Major: Philosophy
Minor: Theology, Japanese Studies
04/88-9/89 Deutsche Sprachkurs beim Universität München, University language exam for admittance to doctoral Program
04/84-03/88 Sophia University, Tokyo,
M.A., Theology, Faculty of Theology
B.A., Theology, Faculty of Theology
04/83-03/84 Japanese Language Program, Sophia University, Tokyo, University language exam for admittance
08/77-01/82 St. Louis University, Missouri
M.A., Philosophy, Philosophy Graduate Dept.,
B.A., magna cum laude, School of Philosophy and Letters
AREAS of SPECIALIZATION: history of modern philosophy especially Rousseau, Kant, and German idealism, the Kyoto School (Nishida, Tanabe and Nishitani), the relationship of philosophy and theology in German Idealism, violence and religion
AREAS of COMPETENCE: ethics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of culture, the problem of evil, East and West comparative thought, history of medieval philosophy, the thought of René Girard
Reinterpreting Rousseau: A Religious System (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
Die verlorene Einheit: Die Suche nach einer philosophischen Alternative zu der Erbsündenlehre von Rousseau bis Schelling, (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang,1996)
“The Overcoming of Violence in Christianity and Buddhism” in: Menschenrechte, Kulturen und Gewalt: Ansaetze einer interkulturellen Ethic [Human Rights, Cultures, and Violence: Contributions to an intercultural Ethics], Hsg. Ludger Kuehnhardt / Mamoru Takayama, (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2005) pp. 437-448 und “Commentary” pp. 467-469.
“A Scandal to the West, a Folly to the East” in: Zukünftiges Menschsein: Ethik zwischen Ost und West, Hrsg., Ralf Elm / Mamoru Takayama, (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2003), pp. 399-422
“Openness to Mystery : Nakae Chomin’s A Year and a Half – Continued” in: Wandel zwischen den Welten: Festschrift für Johannes Laube [Passage between the Worlds: Festschrift for Johannes Laube], Hg. Hannelore Eisenhofer-Halim (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 17-32.
“In Silence Witness”, Sin and Grace: Humans Standing before God, (Tokyo: San Paulo Publishers, 1996), pp. 268-292 (Japanese)
“Religioeses Leben in der Gegenwart” [Spiritual Life in the Present] in Zusammenleben der Religionen: Eine interreligiös-interkulturelle Aufgabe der globalisierten Welt [Religions Living Together: An Interreligious and Intercultural Task for a Globalized World], Symposium aus der Reihe “Der Osten – Der Westen, (Berlin: Japanisch-Deutschen Zentrum, 2005) pp. 35-43.
“The Place of the Victim”, Victims and Victimization in French and Francophone Literature, French Literature Series Vol XXXII, 2005, pp. 111-118.
“The Scandal of Origins in Rousseau”, Contagion : Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture, Vol 11, Spring 2004, pp. 1-14.
“Rousseau and Original Sin”, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, Tomo LVII-4-2002, pp. 773-790.
“Listening to Nietzsche”, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, Tomo LVII -1-2001, pp. 61-71.
“Rousseau’s First Discourse and Scandal”, International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XLI, No. 1, Issue No. 161,(March 2001), pp. 49-62.
“Das Absolute in Schellings Philosophie und Religion”, Fichte-Studien, Bd. 6, (November, 1999) (Japanese)
“The Dialectical ‘IST’”, Schelling-Jahrbuch, 6.Jahrgang, Bd. 6, pp. 65-74 (July, 1998). (Japanese)
Entry – “Natural Theology”, in: A Kant Dictionary, (Tokyo: Kobunsho, 1997), pp. 206-207, (1997), (Japanese)
Entry – “The Lectures on Rational Theology” in: A Kant Dictionary, (Tokyo: Kobunsho, 1997) pp. 574-576, (1997), (Japanese)
“Das Gehen aus der Natürlichkeit”, Studien zu Hegels Philosophie, Bd. 3, 1997, pp. 39-50 (Japanese)
“Fragment et Force – Considérations sur le Contrat Social de J.-J. Rousseau”, Philosophical Studies, No. 23, 1997, pp. 37-52 (Japanese)
“Rousseau’s View of Original Sin”, Catholic Studies, No. 64. 1996, pp. 35-60 (Japanese)
“An Echo of a Thought in Sight – Some Considerations on Wittgentstein´s Philosophical Investigations”, Philosophical Studies, No. 21, 1977, pp. 57-71 (Japanese).
“The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism According to Nishitani”, The Journal of Sophia Asian Studies, No.12, March 1995, pp. 11-21
“Alfred Delp: Jesuit”, The Month, Vol. CCLII, No. 1483, July 1991, pp. 289-306
“Seeking the Word”, Religion and Intellectual Life, Vol. VI, No. 1, Fall 1988, pp. 25-29.
“Fundamental Theology – A Transcendental-Pragmatic Approach”, Catholic Studies, No. 53, July 1988, pp. 133-153 (Japanese)
“Simon, I Have Something to Say to You”, Review for Religious, Vol. 46, No. 5. Fall, 1987, pp. 759-770.
Robert Spaemann, Happiness and Benevolence (South Bend: Univ of ND Press, 2000)
Naoshi Yamawaki, in Gino Piovesana, Recent Japanese Philosophical Thought 1862-1996: A Survey, with a new survey (1963-1996), (Richmond UK: Japan Library, 1997), pp. 271-288
Robert Spaemann, “On the Concept of Life” in: Zen Buddhism Today, No. 7., Oct.,1989, pp. 77-83
Die Gnade vollendeter Endlichkeit: Zur transzendentaltheologischen Auslegung der thomanischen Anthropologie by Richard Schenk, O.P., (Freiburg: Herder, 1989) in The Thomist, 57, 2, April, 1993, pp. 321-323
Personen: Versuche über den Unterschied zwischen ‚etwas’ und ‚jemand’ by Robert Spaemann, (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1996) in Catholic Studies, No. 66, 1997, pp. 217-228
07/07 “My Trip Through Hell or Forgiving Rousseau” presented at the Vulnerability and Tolerance Conference of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Amsterdam, Holland, July 4-8, 2007
10/06 “The Supplement is a Sort of Scandal” presented at the “Following Derrida: Legacies” Conference, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, October 4-7, 2006
05/06 “For the Letter Kills, but the Spirit Gives Life” presented at the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada, May 31 – June 4, 2006
06/05 “’Unperturbed, Like God Himself’” presented at the XIVth Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, June 9-12, 2005
06/05 “The Scandal of the Good Samaritan Story: Solidarity with the Victim” presented at the 51st Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL, June 2-5, 2005
03/05 “The Scandal of Origins” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, NM, March 30-April 2 2005.
09/04 “Religiöses Leben in der Gegenwart” presented at the 10th Symposium of the Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum, Berlin, September 20-21 2004.
06/04 “Aesthetic Solutions to Philosophical Problems: Rousseau’s Theory of Musical Imitation”, presented at the Music and Language Conference, the University of Aberdeen, June 21-22 2004.
06/04 “Rousseau’s State of Nature and the Scandal of Scripture” for the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, held at the Ghost Spirit Ranch, NM, June 2-5, 2004.
03/04 “Let us Therefore Begin by Setting All the Facts Aside: The ‘Exordium’ of the Discourse on Inequality”, for Society of Eighteen Century Studies, held in Boston, MA.
06/03 “Preventing Fanaticism through Transcendental Violence: The Second Half of the “Profession of Faith” for the Rousseau Association, held at Oxford, UK
05/02 “Is the Omission of Sin a Sin” for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, CA
05/02 “The Girardian Recovery of Rousseau” for the Dominican School of Theology, Berkeley, CA
05/00 “Rousseau and Scandal: The Discourse on Arts and Sciences and its Controversy”, Research Presentation for the annual meeting of the Philosophical Association of Japan, Kyoto
11/98 “Das Auffassen des Absoluten in Schellings Philosophie und Religion und dessen Probleme“; ein Symposium über „Das Absolute bei Fichte, Schelling und Hegel”, beim 14. Tagung der Japanischen Fichte-Gesellschaft, Tokyo (Japanese)
07/97 “The Dialectical ‚IST’”, Research Presentation for the annual meeting of the Schelling-Gesellschaft Japan, Kyoto (Japanese)
10/96 “Leaving Nature: Hegel’s Theory of Original Sin”, Research Presentation for the 30th meeting of the Hegel-Forschungskreis, Tokyo (Japanese)
10/95 “Listening to Nietzsche: A Theory of Tragedy That Effects That of which It Speaks”, Research Presentation for the Philosophical Association of Sophia University, June, 1995
08/93 “Martyrium Jesuitae”, beim Kongress Heilige Sehnsucht Das geweihte Leben in der Ökumene, Hildesheim (German)
I will be presenting a paper titled, “Simone Weil on Paying Attention” at the Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference for Teachers of Undergraduates: “Teaching Matters: “On Paying Attention,” March 30th at Gordon College.
“Preventing Fanaticism through Transcendental Violence: The Second Half of the ‘Profession of Faith”, submitted to Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (provisionally accepted).
“For the Supplement is a Kind of Scandal: Derrida, de Man on Rousseau” (under review by Journal of Literary Theor).
2004-2005
Authored the proposal and received approval to institute three tracks within the Program (Philosophy, Pre-Law, and Religion)
Raised the number of majors from twenty-two to fifty-one
Led the Search Committees for a new tenure-track position. This search lead to the hiring of a full-time instructor for one year.
Led faculty meetings (prepared agenda, led discussions, formalized decisions)
Wrote faculty evaluations including recommendations for merit raises
Oversaw the move of the Philosophy Program into the TLC Building along with its closer integration into the English/Philosophy Department
2005-2006
Led the Search Committee for a new tenure-track position. This lead to the hiring of a new tenure-track assistant professor
Hired a replacement instructor due to the sudden illness of a faculty member
Standardized the pre-requisites for Philosophy courses
Authored budget proposals
Wrote faculty evaluations including recommendations for merit raises
Revised the pamphlet for the Philosophy Program
Graduate seminars:
Hegel’s Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences (4 semesters)
A Preparation for reading Hegel’s Faith and Knowledge: Kant’s Critique of Judgment, Jacobi und der Atheismusstreit, Fichte’s Bestimmung der Menscheit,
Reading Hegel’s Faith and Knowledge
Undergraduate courses:
The overcoming of violence in Christianity and Buddhism
Nietzsche’s Theory of Evil (2 semesters)
Philosophical Anthropology
History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
History of Modern Philosophy
History of Contemporary Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Charles Taylor’s texts (translation course)
Sophomore Seminar: Writing Philosophical Papers; texts included Rousseau’s Discourses, Hegel’s Phenomenology, and Schelling’s Method for Studies
Faith and Reason
Critical Thinking
Introduction to Philosophy
2002 – present Jury member for the Straniak Philosophy Prize 2004, Zurich, Switzerland
2001 – present Permanent Senior Fellow of the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) Rheineische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn, Germany
1996 – 2002 International assistant editor for International Philosophical Quarterly, Fordham University, New York.
1994 – 2001 Member of the editorial board of Catholic Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
System Level
10/07- Core Curriculum Design and Assessment Committee [A subcommittee for Steering Committee of the Core Curriculum Initiative]
07/07- Board of Regents Academic Advisory Committee on Foreign Languages
08/04 – 06/07 Board of Regents Academic Advisory Committee on Philosophy
University Level
08/07- Committee on Graduate Studies
Teaching Education Advisory Council
Chairs’ Council
07/07- Executive Committee, College of Arts and Science
10/06 – Minority Affairs Advisory Committee
06/05 – 12/05 Graduation Taskforce
2005 Committee on Graduation and Retention
College Level
08/05 –05/07 Coordinator – Pre-Law Learning community
Sophia University
1997-2000 Committee for Study Abroad Program
1994-2000 Library Acquisitions for Philosophy Department
1994-1997 Director of Orientation Camp for Freshmen in the Philosophy Dept.
The American Philosophical Association
The Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R)
The Rousseau Association
North American Kant Society
Georgia Circle for Continental Studies
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
The Philosophical Association of Japan
Schelling-Gesellschaft Japan
Japanische Fichte-Gesellschaft
Served on Steering Commitee, 1999-2000
Hegel-Forschungskreis (Tokyo)
The Philosophical Association (Tokyo University)
The Philosophical Association of Sophia University
Served as Faculty Moderator, 1998-2000
08/07 – 05/08 Student Research Assistant Grant
05/07 Excellence in Teaching Award from College of Arts and Sciences, University of West Georgia
07/05 – 06/06 Faculty Research Grant
07/05 Distinguished Service Award from Disability Services UWG
10/04 Awarded a lap-top computer for proposal for On-line learning
03/02 – 06/04 Invited participant in a project sponsored by the research group, “Europäische Identität und Dialog der Kulturen” of the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), entitled “Menschenrechte, Kulturen und Gewalt: Perspektiven einer interkulturelles Ethik”
10/01 – 06/03 Bannan Fellowship at Santa Clara University (California)
09/01 Straniak-Fellowship on the philosophical dialogue between East-Asia and the West at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), Rheineische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn, Germany
Travel stipend, living costs, and honorarium for contribution, entitled “A Scandal to the West, A Folly to the East: J.-J. Rousseau and Nakae Chomin”
04/97 -03/99 Joint Research Project Grant, Japan’s Ministry of Education (Monbusho)
04/97 – 03/99 Joint Research Project Grant, Sophia University
04/95 – 03/97 Joint Research Project Grant, Sophia University
09/89 Adam von Schall Stipendium, Munich,