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Arnold I. Davidson

Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the Divinity School, and the Department of Comparative Literature

Director, France-Chicago Center

M.A. (Georgetown University)
Ph.D. (Harvard University)

Arnold Davidson is interested in the historical and systematic relationships between philosophy and theology. He has written about, and taught courses on, twentieth-century European philosophy and theology, as well as on the history of philosophical theology—ancient, medieval, and modern. He has a more general interest in methodological problems concerning the history of systems of thought. He is the author of The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts. He has edited and written an introduction to Pierre Hadot’s Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault (of which he is also editor of the French edition), and has co-authored a book of conversations with Pierre Hadot, La philosophie comme manière de vivre. He is the co-editor of the official French anthology of Michel Foucault’s writings, Michel Foucault. Philosophie, and is the English-language editor of the thirteen volumes of Michel Foucault’s courses at the Collège de France. He has published articles in Italian on, among other topics, the tradition of spiritual exercises and St. Francis of Assisi, and he teaches regularly at the University of Pisa. He is executive editor of the journal Critical Inquiry.