Martin Schönfeld
Professor of Philosophy

Ph.D. Indiana, 1995. Martin Schönfeld is an artist and a philosopher of nature. He studies the matrix of environmental realities and the patterns of survival, sustainability, and cultural evolution. He explores designs for our post-carbon and post-consumerist futures. He regards global heating and the “long emergency” as market failures, but also as opportunities for social enlightenment. He organized the first international conference on climate and philosophy (2006); is now bringing out the Climate Philosophy Newsletter, and will edit a topic issue on Climate Ethics for Journal of Global Ethics (2009). The Mad Hun studied in Regensburg, München, La Rochelle, Taipei, and Athens, Ga. He earned his PhD from Indiana 1995. He learnt philosophy working blue-collar jobs, walking through Bavaria, kayaking the Missinaibi, and sitting still at a Zen school in rural Taiwan. His ideas are informed by Laozi, Master Eckhart, Kant, and Erich Fromm. Martin Schönfeld is definitely not a member of the ownership society.

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