Thomas R. Flynn
Education
PhD, Columbia University, 1970
Research
Contemporary continental (especially French) philosophy, aesthetics, social and political philosophy, and the theory of responsibility.
Fellowships and Honors
- Review Editor of the international philosophical quarterly, Man and World (1978-97)
- A.C.L.S. Senior Research Fellow (1984-85)
- Mellon Fellow
- National Humanities Center (1991-92)
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
- Institute for Advanced Study (1998-99)
Selected Publications
- Sartre and Marxist Existentialism: The Test Case of Collective Responsibility (Chicago, 1986)
- Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason
- (Vol. 1): Toward an Existentialist Theory of History (Chicago, 1997)
- (Vol. 2): A Post-structuralist Mapping of History (Chicago, 2005)
- Sartre: A Philosophical Biography (Cambridge, 2014)