I have two books out on Heidegger: (1) Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge (Hackett, 1983), and (2) a collection of essays, The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger (Cambridge, 1993). I co-edited a collection of existentialist writings, Existentialism: Basic Readings, and wrote a long editor's introduction to Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor (both Hackett). My essays in journals have dealt with Wittgenstein, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, and Heidegger. Recent books include a collection of readings called The Good Life, and a co-authored work called Re-envisioning Psychology.
For a number of years now I have been working with a professor of Counseling Psychology on a book on psychotherapy. The title of this book is Understanding and Moral Values in Psychotherapy. Its goal is to criticize and rethink the methods and value commitments of some of the most influential psychotherapy theories of the past century. The first half of the book summarizes the theories of such thinkers as Freud, Adler, Jung, Horney, Sullivan, Kohut, etc., and the second half uses ideas from hermeneutic theory (Heidegger, Gadamer, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre) to try to move toward a conception of psychotherapy that is more clear-sighted about the role of values and meanings in understanding human existence.
I love to talk about films and politics, and take pride in the strong positions I take on these subjects despite the paucity of knowledge I bring to them. Underlying everything I do is a deep- seated concern with understanding what it is to live well--both as a personal/existential issue, and as a moral/political issue.
E-mail address: guignon@chuma1.cas.usf.edu