http://www.fau.edu/divdept/honcol/

                                                                                     Daniel R. White
                                                                                         Professor

                                                                                      dwhite@fau.edu

                                                                                                  

                                                     courses | education | published works

                                                                  Office Hours,  Summer 2008:  T 2:45-3:45
                                                                                     HC 146, x6-8651

                             

                                                                                                                                                           

                                                                           

                                                                                    

                                                                   My Cats, Tigris and Euphrates   

                 

                                                                          
                                                                    Honors Students, Peter Singhofen (incognito, right),
                                                      Ben Dziuba, and I at the helm of a multimedia classroom
 
                                                                                          Conferences

                                       Summer 2008: Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Oxford University,
                                                               July 2-4 2008

                                       Summer 2007: Cultural Studies Now - An International Conference,
                                                              University of East London

                                      Summer, 2006: Rome Metaphysics Conference 2006

                                        Summer, 2005: The Humanities Conference, Cambridge UK
                                        Triennial Classics Conference, Cambridge

                                      Summer, 2004: The Humanities Conference, Prato, Italy
                                         ISSEI: The Narrative of Modernity, Pamplona, Spain                                                     

            Honors College Forum, Fall 2004: The Classical Epic and the Philosophic Imagination

 

COURSES

 

Summer A 2008

· IDS 3932: Psychological Disorders in Film

 

Spring 2008

· LAT 1121: Honors Latin II

· PHI 3682: Environmental Philosophy

· PHI 3227/4930: Media Philosophy

 

Fall 2007

· LAT 1120: Honors Latin I

· PHH 3100: Honors Ancient Greek Philosophy

 

Summer A 2007

· IDS 4933: Chinese & Greek Philosophy & Art

 

Spring 2007

· HUM 3320: Contemporary Multicultural Studies

· PHI 4700: Philosophy of Religion

 

Fall 2006

·  IDS: 3932: Ethics in Business, Government, & Society with Mark Tunick

·  PHI 3682: Environmental Philosophy

·  HUM 2210: Intellectual Traditions I

 

Summer A 2006

·  HUM 4932: Writing in the Humanities II

·  IDS 4933: Critical Social Theory & Media with Wairimu Njambi

 

 Spring 2006

·  PHI 3272: Media Philosophy

·  CLA 4436: Ancient Greece    

 

  FALL 2005 (syllabi online soon)

·  PHI 3682: Environmental Philosophy

·  LNW 2560: Readings in Latin Literature: Cicero

·   LAT 1120: Honors Latin I taught by Laura Colaner
·  IDS 2931 & 4932: Flagler Scholar Seminars I & II

·  PHH 3100: Honors Ancient Greek Philosophy

 

 

 

  Summer 2005
·  HUM 3320: Contemporary Multicultural Studies

·  HUM 2932: Writing in the Humanities I

 

  Spring 2005

· Honors Latin II
· Consilience (With Dr. Wetterer)

 

    Fall 2004

·  PHH 3100: Honors Ancient Greek Philosophy

·  LAT 1120: Honors Latin I (Wheelock)

·  HUM 2211: Honors Intellectual Traditions I (Taught by Instructor)

· IDS 2931 & 4932: Flagler Scholar Seminar

· PHI 3682: Environmental Philosophy

 

   Summer A 2004

·  Contemporary Multicultural Studies

 

· PHI 4804: Critical Theory & Practice

· Technology and Culture 

· Greek & Islamic Philosophy

·  Honors Environmental Philosophy, fall 2003  T & R 12:30-1:50

·  Honors Ancient Greece, fall 2003 T & R 3:30-4:50

·  Honors Latin I (Wheelock) M & W 4:00-5:50 PM

·  Flagler Scholar Seminar, fall 2003

·  Honors Intellectual Traditions II, spring 2003

·  Contemporary Multicultural Studies,  Fall 2002

·   Honors Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fall 2002

·    Honors Environmental Philosophy, Fall 2002

·  IDS: 3932 Ethics in Business, Government, and Society, Sum A 2003

·  Honors Ancient Greece, Spring 2002

·  Latin Via Ovid II, Spring 2002

·  Honors Intellectual Traditions I & II

·  HUM 2211: Honors Intellectual Traditions I Fall 2001

·  Honors Contemporary Multicultural Studies

·  Honors Philosophy of Literature

·  Honors Environmental Philosophy

·  Honors Environmental Philosophy Fall 2001

·  Honors Environmental Philosophy, Alternate Syllabus

·  Honors Ancient Greek Philosophy

·  Honors Seminar in Disney Studies

·  Honors Technology and Culture

·  LAT 1120: Honors Latin via Ovid I

·  Honors Latin II (Wheelock)

·  Honors Writing in the Humanities



Courses Previously Taught

·  Wisdom in Practice: Honors Seminar in Applied Ethics Via Distance Learning

·  Honors Humanistic Tradition I and II

·  Thought Lab:  Philosophy and Psychology 

·  Science, Society and Culture 

·  Contemporary Multicultural Studies 

·  Critical Theory & Practice I 

·  Critical Theory & Practice II 

·  Sexuality, Gender & Philosophy 

·  Asian Humanities: India, China & Japan 

·  Critical Evaluation of the Arts: classical, modern, postmodern 

·  Honors Seminar: Modernism & Postmodernism: Literature and Philosophy 

·  Honors Seminar: Labyrinths of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology 

·  Ancient World: Greece 

·  Ancient Philosophy 

·  Contemporary Continental Philosophy 

·  Latin language and literature
 

 

Education

1984

Florida State University, Tallahassee Degree: Ph.D. in Humanities (Ancient Philosophy & Classics)

1981

University of South Florida, Tampa Degree: B.A. in Classics: Greek and Latin

1978

University of South Florida, Tampa Degree: M.A. in Philosophy: philosophy of science, aesthetics, social philosophy, philosophy of ecology

1974

University of South Florida, Tampa Degree: B.A. in Humanities: Asian studies, twentieth-century arts and letters, American arts and letters


 


Published Works

Books

White, Daniel R.  Postmodern Ecology: Communication, Evolution & Play. Albany: State             University of New York Press, 1998. 

White, Daniel R. and Gert Hellerich.  Labyrinths of the Mind: The Self in the Postmodern             Age. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. With Gert Hellerich. 

White, Daniel R.  Asian Wisdom: India, China & Japan. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall\Hunt,
           1990. 

Guest Editorship :

The European Legacy Special Issue: Philosophy as Critical Theory. June 9, 2009.

 

Selected Peer Reviewed Articles & Chapters:

 

Hellerich, Gert and Daniel White. ‘Eine postmoderne Auseinandersetzung mit dem

             Begriff  „Sinnhaftigkeit“ der Moderne.‘ Psychosozial. No. 112 (June 2008).

             Forthcoming.

 

Hellerich, Gert and Daniel White, “Postmoderne Alltagswelt: jeder Tag ist ein neuer,”

            Psychologie & Gesellschaftskritik, forthcoming spring 2008.

 

White, Daniel R. “The City of Disney, Book X: Bride of Compassionate Conservatism.”

            Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, eds. Critical Digital Studies: A Reader. Toronto:

            University of Toronto Press, 2008. Forthcoming.  

 

Hellerich, Gert and Daniel White. “Postmodern geprägte Hoffnung und ihre Bedeutung in

            der psychosozialen Arbeit.” Sociale Arbeit. 2 (2008). Zeitschrift für soziale und

            sozialverwandte Gebiete. pp. 51-58.

White, Daniel R. 'The Spiraling Circuit (Kreislauf) of Signification: Nietzsche’s Ecologic
             Creativity'. Proceedings. Cultural Studies Now. University of East London, July
             2007.


White, Daniel, “Toward a Cosmopolitan Human Ecology.” The European Legacy Special

             Issue: Ethics of the Holocaust. 12.7 (2007). pp. 873-885.

 

Hellerich, Gert and Daniel White. “Postmoderne soziale und psychologische Aspekte der

             Hilfe in der psychosozialen Arbeit.” Psychosozial  30:108 (2007). pp. 101-110.

                                   

White, Daniel R. “The Mind’s New Architecture: Cognitive Science & the Humanities.” Review

             article on Mindreading: An Integrated Account of Pretence, Self-Awareness, and the

             Understanding of other Minds (Oxford UP, 2003). The European Legacy 11.4 (2006),

             pp. 433-437.

 

White, Daniel R. “The Massacre of the Innocents.” Ctheory.net  8/23/2006.1000 Days of

             Theory.

 

White, Daniel R. “Multiculturalism, Cosmopolitanism, Globalism: A Nietzschean Perspective

             on Postcolonial Culture.” In press. The International Journal of the Humanities. Vol.

             3. No. 7 (2006).

 

White, Daniel R. "Nietzschean Artistry in the New Age of Empire". The International Journal
              of the Humanities Vol.2 No.2 (2005).

 

White, Daniel “The City of Disney, Book X: Terri Schiavo: Bride of Compassionate

              Conservatism. Premier Article in 1000 Days of Theory. Ctheory:
              Theory,Technology,& Culture. 3/30/2005

 

White, Daniel R. “The City of Disney, Book VIII: Christ Comes to Haiti.” Ctheory:
             Theory,Technology, & Culture. 5/5/2004. Online:             .

 

White, Daniel and Gert Hellerich. "Die Postmoderne und der Wahnsinn: Die moderne
             Reduktion des Wahnsinns auf die Krankheit. Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik
            (Berlin). No. 1 (2003), pp. 7-22. Feature article.

 

Gert Hellerich and Daniel White. „Modernes Empowerment und der postmoderne Wille zur
             Macht.“ Sozialmagazin: Die Zeitschrift für Soziale Arbeit (Frankfurt 2003), pp.36-41.

 

White, Daniel R. and Gert Hellerich. “Nietzsche and the Communicative Ecology of Terror.”
             Parts 1 & 2.  The European Legacy.  8.6  (December 2003), pp. 717-737,
             739-757. Online.     

 

White, Daniel R. “Gould, Marx: Toward an Ecology of Power.” Rethinking Marxism. Vol 15,             no.4 (2003), pp. 497-501. Online.

 

White, Daniel R. "Postmodern Environmentalism."  Encyclopedia for Global Environmental             Change. Volume 4. Social and Economic Dimensions of Global Envirnomental             Change. Editor-in-chief, Ted Munn, Volume editor Peter Timmerman.  London:             John Wiley and Sons, 2002.  pp. 408-410.

 

White, Daniel R. “Promethean Fire Sale:  The  City of Disney, Book VI” (Augustine of
             Epcot). Ctheory: Theory,Technology, & Culture.   Online www.ctheory.net
             (11/27/01) Article a100. http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=313

 

Barrett, Laura and Daniel R. White. "The Reconstruction of Nature:  Postmodern Ecology             and the Kisismmee River Restoration Project." Nature and its Discontents: from             Virgin Land to Disney World.  Ed. Bernd Herzogenrath. Amsterdam:  Rodopi. 2001

 

White, Daniel R.  “Dreams in Rebellion:  The Battle of Seattle.”  The City of Disney, Book             IV.  Ctheory: Theory,Technology, & Culture.  3/28/2000. ArticleA080.
            http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=123.                                                                                           

 

White, Daniel R. and Gert Hellerich.  “The Liberty Bell: Nietzsche’s

            Philosophy of Culture.”  Journal of Nietzsche Studies.  Vol. 18

            (1999, actual publication date, December 2000):  1-55.

 

White, Daniel R. "Seneca and the Empire of Signs." Veritatis Amicitiaeque Causa.  Edited             by Shannon N. Byrne and Edmund P. Cueva.  Wauconda: Illinois: Bolchazy-
            Carducci. 1999. pp.

 

White, Daniel R. "The City of Disney,  Book III:  The Philosophy of Consolation or Bombs             and Prayers."  Ctheory: Theory,Technology, & Culture. Event‑scene E072. 
            (1/20/99). http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=205

 

White, Daniel R. and Alvin Wang. "Through the Dark Mirror: UFO's as a Postmodern
            Myth?" Article. Ctheory: Theory,Technology, & Culture. Article 66 (1/06/99).
            http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=109 

 

White Daniel R. and Gert Hellerich. "The Ecological Self: Humanity and Nature in Nietzsche and Goethe." MIT Press and Haifa University, Israel. The European Legacy 3.3 (1998): 39‑61. 

 

White, Daniel R. “Spirit in Flames: Toward a Postmodern‑Ecological Phenomenology.              A‑T. Tymieniecka, ed.  Analecta Husserliana, Vol. LII (1998): 517‑530.

 

White, Daniel R.   Review Essay.:  "Monad to Man:  The Concept of 

           Progress in Evolutionary Biology."  Review Essay. The European

           Legacy 3.3  (1998):  76‑79.

 

White, Daniel R.  "Void Reports, 2.  The City of Disney, Book II." Ctheory: Theory,Technology, & Culture.  Event‑scene E053 (1/29/98). http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=186  

 

White, Daniel R. "Augustine of Epcot." Digital Delirium: The Best of Ctheory. New York and Montreal: St. Martins and New World Perspectives, 1997: 212‑219. 

 

White, Daniel R.  "Augustine of Epcot: Confessions of a Hypermiraculous Age." Ctheory: Theory,Technology, & Culture. Event-scene E037 (3/05/97). http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=170 

 

White, Daniel and Gert Hellerich.  "Nietzsche at the Altar: Situating the Devotee."
             Postmodern Culture(September 1995). 
           

White, Daniel R. and Alvin Wang.  "Universalism, Humanism, & Postmodernism." Comment in The American Psychologist (May 1995): 392‑393. 

 

White, Daniel R. and Gert Hellerich.  "Nietzsche at the Mall: Deconstructing the Consumer." Ctheory  Article A007. (1994) http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=50

 

White, Daniel R. and Gert Hellerich.  "Psychiatry in the Labyrinth: Deconstructing Deviancy."  The Humanistic Psychologist 21.1 (Spring 1993): 65‑80. 

 

White, Daniel R. "Circling from West to East: Information, Mind and Culture." Interdisciplinary Humanities (Winter 1993). 

 

White, Daniel R. "From Ancient Mythos to Modern Logos to Postmodern

            Ecologos." Huntsville: Southern Humanities Press, 1993: 235‑249. Inner Space:             Outer Space:  Humanities, Technology & the Postmodern World Selected Papers             from the 1993 Southern  Humanities Conference.

 

Gert Hellerich and Daniel R. White.  "Psychologie und Postmoderne." Psychologie & Gesellschaftskritik 3/4 (September/October 1992): 5‑16. 

 

White, Daniel R. and Gert Hellerich.  "A Postmodern View of Modern Psychiatry: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM III‑R)." The Humanistic Psychologist 20.1 (Spring 1992): 75‑91. 

 

White, Daniel R. "Postmodern Ecology and the Crisis of Modernity." Postmodern Culture: Talk April 1992: Electronic text. 

 

White, Daniel R.  "Postmodern Ecology." Earth Ethics Report: Journal of the Earth Ethics Research Group December 1991: 67‑72. Proceedings of Earth Ethics Forum '91: An International Symposium on Environmental Ethics. 

 

White, Daniel R. "Literary Ecology and Postmodernity in Thomas Sanchez's Mile Zero and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland." Postmodern Culture 2.1 (September 1991): Electronic text. 

 

White, Daniel R. "Ecology and the Mind." Continuing the Conversation 19 (winter1989‑90): 4‑8. A broadcast concerning the work of Gregory Bateson, part of the series The Ecological Idea, hosted by Elliot Vittes, on WUCF‑FM, fall 1989; published transcript. 

 

White, Daniel R. "Bateson's Cybernetics of Liberation and the Bureaucracy of the

            Sacred." Continuing the Conversation 10 (Fall 1987): 11‑15.

 

White, Daniel R. and Gert Hellerich. ”The Ecological Self: Humanity & Nature in

            Nietzsche & Goethe.” The European Legacy 3.3 (1998): 39-61.

 

 

Recent & Upcoming Conferences:

White, Daniel,  “The Spiraling Circuit (Kreislauf) of Signification: Nietzsche’s Ecologic             Creativity,”  Cultural Studies Now, 19-22 July 2007, University of East London.

 

---.  “The Art of Metaphysics: Nietzsche, the Death of God, and the Reconstruction of Life.”             Presentation accepted for the conference session,  Metaphysics 2006: Rome .              July 2006.

           

---.  "Nietzsche in a New Key", The Humanities in a Knowledge Society, Third International             Humanities Conference, Cambridge University, UK, August 2-5 2005.

 

---.  "Nietzschean Artistry in the New Age of Empire", Second International Conference in             the Humanities, Monash University, Prato, Italy,July 20-23 2004.

 

---.  Toward a Hybrid Human Identity, Session Chair, “The Narrative of  Modernity,” Ninth             ISSEI Conference (International Society for the Study of European Ideas),             University of Pamplona, Spain, Aug.      2-5,2004.

 

---.  “Darwin and Design: Does Evolution have a Purpose?”: Book Symposium with Michael             Ruse, Session Chair, Florida Philosophical Association, Eckerd College, St.             Petersburg, Nov. 2003 13-15., 2003.

 

---.  “Multiculturalism, Cosmopolitanism, Globalism”, The Next World Order: International             Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of the Aegean,             Rhodes, Greece 2-5 July 2003.

---. “From the Classical Polis to the Magic Kingdom.”  Paper presented at Rethinking             Disney, international, peer reviewed, conference in Ft. Lauderdale, November             2000.