Mark Adam Wrathall (born February 1,1965[1]) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor at Corpus Christi College,Oxford. He is considered a leading interpreter of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Wrathall is featured in Tao Ruspoli's film Being in the World. According to a reviewer,"Wrathall's writing is clear and comprehensive,ranging across virtually all of Heidegger's collected works.... Wrathall's overall interpretation of Heidegger's work is crystal clear,compelling,and relevant."[2]
From 1994 to 1996 he was a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School. Afterwards,he taught at Brigham Young University from 1996 to 2006 (first in the political science department,then from 1999 in the philosophy department);he then joined the University of California,Riverside,where he served as Associate Professor from 2007 to 2009 and Professor of Philosophy from 2009 to 2017. Since 2017,he has been a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College.
Wrathall has also contributed to the philosophy of popular culture,editing a book on the philosophical themes found in the music of U2[3] and publishing essays on film and philosophy. Wrathall's work on popular culture intersects with his interests in religion. He draws on Heidegger,Kierkegaard,and Nietzsche to describe how secularism and technology undermine belief in objective eternal meanings and values. But Wrathall thinks nihilism also "opens up access to richer and more relevant ways for us to understand creation and for us to encounter the divine and the sacred."[citation needed]
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