David Ross Fryer

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David Ross Fryer is an American ethicist and Jewish philosopher working in phenomenology, queer theory, Africana thought, existentialism (in particular Black Existentialism), contemporary Jewish thought, and psychoanalytic theory. [1]

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Education

Fryer completed a B.A. (honors) in Intellectual History and Religious Studies at The University of Pennsylvania, studying under Alan Charles Kors and Stephen Dunning; post-graduate research in Philosophy at The University of Edinburgh, studying under Vincent Hope; and an A.M and Ph.D. in Contemporary Religious Thought and Gender Studies at Brown University, studying under Lewis Gordon, Wendell Dietrich, and Elizabeth Weed.

Career

Fryer's first book, The Intervention of the Other: Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas and Lacan, [2] received positive reviews in both philosophical [3] and psychoanalytic [4] circles. Their second book, Thinking Queerly: Race, Sex, Gender, and the Ethics of Identity [5] and the work within it has both been cited by prominent academics [6] [7] and received attention in the queer blogosphere. [8] They have been affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Judaic Studies, both at Temple University. [1] They are a founding member of the Phenomenology Roundtable. [9] They have been a long-time collaborator with Professors Lewis Gordon and Jane Gordon (University of Connecticut).[ citation needed ] They have taught at institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Drexel University, and, most recently, Lehigh University and Muhlenberg College. They suffer from a genetic condition that required a heart transplant in 2021.

References

  1. 1 2 "David Ross Fryer, Scholar". Institute for the Study of Race & Social Thought. Temple University. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
  2. ↑ Fryer, David Ross (2004). The Intervention of the Other. New York: Other Press. ISBN   978-1-59051-088-9.
  3. ↑ Turner, Donald (2006). "The Psychoanalyst and the Philosopher" (PDF). Janus Head. 9 (1): 260–265. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
  4. ↑ Lichenstein, David. "Publications: Book Reviews Review of The Intervention of the Other Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas and Lacan". Division of Psychoanalysis. American Psychological Association. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
  5. ↑ Fryer, David Ross (2010). Thinking Queerly. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
  6. ↑ Gordon, Lewis R (2008). An introduction to Africana philosophy. Cambridge University Press. p. 186. ISBN   978-0-521-67546-8.
  7. ↑ Gržinić, Marina. "DE-LINKING EPISTEMOLOGY FROM CAPITAL AND PLURI-VERSALITY – A CONVERSATION WITH WALTER MIGNOLO, part 3". Reartikulacjia. Archived from the original on 2 May 2011. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
  8. ↑ "Thinking Queerly: A Review".
  9. ↑ "The Phenomenology Roundtable". Temple University. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
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