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Career and interests

Wood has taught philosophy in Europe and the United States for over thirty years and has published 16 books. In addition to teaching at Vanderbilt University, he co-directs the research program in Ecology and Spirituality for the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture.

He was an undergraduate at the University of Manchester where he was introduced to phenomenology by Wolfe Mays. He went on to graduate work in philosophy at New College, Oxford (1968-71), where through the good offices of Alan Montefiore (at Balliol College) Derrida was a frequent visitor. Under the influence of a group of animal rights activists led by Roslind and Stanley Godlovitch (Peter Singer, of Animal Liberation fame, graduated from that group), he became a vegetarian and started Ecology Action, a short-lived environmental group. He was subsequently hired by the University of Warwick where he went on to become chair of the philosophy department and director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature. The University of Manchester is a large university located in Manchester, England. ... Look up Phenomenology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... College name New College Named after Mary, mother of Jesus Established 1379 Sister College Kings College Warden Prof. ... Full name Balliol College Motto - Named after John de Balliol Previous names - Established 1263 Sister College St Johns College, Cambridge Master Andrew Graham (academic) Location Broad Street Undergraduates 403 Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford... Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher of Jewish descent, considered the first to develop deconstruction. Positioning Derridas thought Derrida had a significant effect on continental philosophy and on literary theory, particularly through his long-time... Peter Albert David Singer (born July 6, 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian Humanist and philosopher. ... Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals is a book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer. ... The University of Warwick coat of arms The University of Warwick is one of the leading universities in the United Kingdom. ...

In 1974 he studied in Paris, and attended lectures by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricoeur and Michel Serres. He left Warwick for Vanderbilt in 1994, where he became chair in 1995. Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss (IPA pronunciation ); born November 28, 1908) is a Jewish-French anthropologist who developed structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture. ... Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: ; English-speakers pronunciation varies) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher. ... Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. ... Paul RicÅ“ur, French philosopher Paul RicÅ“ur (February 27, 1913 – May 20, 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. ... Michel Serres (born September 1, 1930) is a French philosopher and author with an unusual career. ...

He has been a visiting academic at Berkeley, Yale and Stony Brook, and has taught at Duquesne and Turin. He is an honorary Professor of Philosophy at Warwick where he ran a research seminar (Fatal Projections: Pathologies of Alterity) in Spring 2006. The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ... YALE (Yet Another Learning Environment) is an environment for machine learning experiments and data mining. ... Stony Brook University, (SB), otherwise known as the State University of New York at Stony Brook, (SUNYSB), is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York (on the north side of Long Island, about 65 miles east of Manhattan, New York). ... Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ...

He is also an active sculptor and earth-artist.

Bibliography

Books authored

• Time after Time (2007).
• The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction (2005).
• Thinking after Heidegger (2002).
• Philosophy at the Limit (1990).
• The Deconstruction of Time (1988; 2nd edn. 2001).

Books edited

• Truth (2005). With Jose Medina.
• On Derrida, Heidegger and Spirit (1993).
• Derrida: A Critical Reader (1992).
• On Paul Ricoeur: Narrative and Interpretation (1992).
• Writing the Future (1990).
• Philosophers' Poets (1990).
• The Provocation of Levinas (1988). With Robert Bernasconi.
• Exceedingly Nietzsche: Essays in Contemporary Nietzsche Interpretation (1988). With David Farrell Krell.
• Derrida and Differance (1985). With Robert Bernasconi.
• Time and Metaphysics (1982). With Robert Bernasconi.
• Heidegger and Language (1981).

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Interviews

• http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/faculty/wood_interview.html Thinking Against the Grain (with Darren Hutchinson)
• http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/faculty/wood_interview2.html Food for the Imagination (with William McClure)
• http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/faculty/wood_interview3.html Contretemps Interview (with John Dalton)

External links

• http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/faculty/wood
• http://www.artsnashville.org/registry/index.php?scan=az&main=artist&id=193
• http://www.vanderbilt.edu/chronopod/
• http://www.earth-art.org/

See also

• list of deconstructionists