George Moore

Instructor of French

Contact info:

Office: FR 322
Office Hour: not teaching in fall
Phone: 6-4026
georges@uoregon.edu

Degrees, years, and locations:

Ph. D., Philosophy, Boston College, 1987

B.A., Political Science and Philosophy, College of William and Mary, 1977

Research and teaching interests:

Aesthetic theory; Greek philosophy; Nietzsche; phenomenology; French existentialism; philosophy of music; poetry and music in performance; relationship between madness and creativity; awe and perception.

Courses taught:

COLT 211       Comparative World Literature

COLT 350       Madness and Creativity

COLT 350       Existential Origins

FR 342            Sartre and Camus

FR 342            French Surrealism

HC 408            Revolution and Rebellion

GER 352          Kafka

ENG 392         The American Novel: 1900 to the present

PHIL 355/543    Nietzsche

PHIL                Philosophy of the Arts

Freshman seminars:

RL 199            The Making of Metaphor

RL 199            Film and Literature: Love & Exile

FR 151            Francophone Cinema

ENG 105         Introduction to Drama

ENG 104         Introduction to Literature

Publications

• Books:                 Audience of Trees, Boston, 1983

Rooftops and Ledges (poetry and translations), Berlin, 1987 

• Poems:                 Fire Readings (Paris, 1992)

Frank (Paris, 1982 & 1988)

Thoughts for All Seasons (1988)

Reizendetrasse (1987)

The Journal of New Jersey Poets (1987)

Venture (1986)

The Literary Review (1985)

• Under consideration:

- Fiction: Berlin Trilogy; Watertower Girl

- Philosophy: Reason and Expression; Nietzsche's Concept of Poetry

• Work in Progress
  
  Noticing and Awe. This book describes awe and its alienation and explores noticing in its sharpening or amplification through art and science.

Chap 1: Awe. Chap. 2: Alienation from Awe. Chap. 3: Noticing. Chap.4: The Spectrum of Expressibility. Chap. 5: The Full Draft of Being. Chap. 6: Dilation of the soul. Chap. 7: The Performance of Logos. Chap. 8: Radiance.

Recent Papers

·         “Politics and the Art of Alienated Awe,” Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, New York, October 15-17, 2008.

·         “Dilation of the Soul (The Performance of Logos),” Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, New York, October 17-19, 2007.

·         “Novelty and Awe,” Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, New York, October 2006.

·         “Apocalyptic Solidarity,” Camus Symposium, School of Visual Arts, New York, December 2004.