Joel Weinsheimer
Professor
Ph.D. English, Ohio University, 1973
16 Lind Hall
(612) 625-3503
weins001@umn.edu
Department Affiliations
English
Areas of Expertise
late eighteenth-century literature, especially Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen; literary theory, particularly the hermeneutics of Gadamer and Heidegger
Selected Publications
Untimely Ripped. New York: Author's Choice, 2001.
The Humanities in Dispute: A Dialogue in Letters. Joel Weinsheimer and Ronald Sousa. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1998.
Eighteenth-Century Hermeneutics: Philosophy of Interpretation in England from Locke to Burke. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. (nominated for the Louis Gottschalk Prize)
Jean Grondin. Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography. Trans. Joel Weinsheimer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Yale Studies in Hermeneutics. Series Ed. Joel Weinsheimer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992-
"Charity Militant: Toward a Post-Critical Hermeneutics." Revue Internationale de Philosophie 54 (2000). Rpt. in Literature and Historical Tradition. Ed. Donald Marshall. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
"Meaningless Hermeneutics?" Gadamer's Repercussions. Ed. Bruce Krajewski. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
"Teaching and/or Research: Gadamerian Reflections on a Pseudo-Dilemma." Renascence 55 (2004).
Rev. of Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Ed. Lorraine Code. University of Toronto Quarterly 74 (2004/05).
Rev. of The Middle Voice in Gadamer's Hermeneutics, by Philippe Eberhard. Journal of Religion (2007).
Graduate Courses
The 18th Century British Novel
Johnson
Gadamer
Interdisciplinary Hermeneutics
Literary Theory
Teaching Practicum
Undergraduate Courses
British Literature Survey
Restoration and 18th-century
The Novel
Classics of Literary Criticism
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to Modern Fiction
Introduction to Literary Theory
History of Criticism