Real name:
Biography:
Dr. James M. Magrini serves on the Editorial Board of Turning Toward Being: The Journal of Ontological Inquiry in Education. He taught philosophy and ethics at the College of Dupage for fifteen years. During his tenure he received the following awards and distinctions: (1) 2013 Outstanding Part-Time Faculty Teaching Award for Liberal Arts (College of Dupage) and (2) 2017 Michael Oliker Award (Society for Philosophical Study of Education) for his book, Plato's Socrates at the Limit of Education (Routledge Press). He has recently contributed a chapter to the newly published: Heidegger and the Holy, "Heidegger's Reading of the Holy in Greek Tragedy: Necessity, Measure, and Law," ed., Richard Capobianco (Rowman & Littlefield/New Heidegger Research Series). Magrini's writings on Heidegger are featured on the well-known international Heidegger site Beyng.com
Recent scholarly activity:
I have just published two new articles: (1) Inscribing the Disaster (a meditation on death and loss), (2) I Pray This Letter Reaches You In Time (a review of Thomas Townsley's latest poetry book), and (3) Poietic Truth (Aletheia) in Archaic Greece: Comparative Anthropology and Heideggerian Implications: Link to articles: https://thedecadentreview.com
A recent paper published in Merion West Internet Political Journal, "Heidegger and Nazism: The Philosophy of Being and the Politics of National Socialism" is available at:
https://www.academia.edu/103357343/Heidegger_and_Nazism_The_Philosophy_o....
I have also published a new book with Cambridge Scholars Publishers titled: Philosophical Sojourns in Aesthetics, Existenz, and Education. Cambridge Scholars Publishin, 2023.
Recent publications:
Author:
Philosophical Sojourns in Aesthetics, Existence, and Education (Cambridge Scholars Publishers)
Politics of the Soul in the Alcibiades I (Peter Lang 2021)
Ethical Responses to Nature's Call: Reticent Imperatives (Routledge 2019)
Heidegger on Literature, Poetry, and Education After the Turn (Routledge 2018)
Plato's Socrates: Philosophy and Education (Springer 2017)
Plato's Socrates at the Limit of Education (Routledge 2016)
Social Efficiency and Instrumentalism in Education: Essays in Ontology, Phenomenology, and Philosophical Hermeneutics (Routledge 2014)
Contributor:
Heidegger and the Holy, ed., Richard Capobianco (Rowman & Littlefield 2022)
Problematizing the Profession of Teaching: An Existential Perspective, ed., Aaron Zimmerman (IAP 2022)
Forthcoming research:
I recently had the privilege of publishing my essay, "Reading the Jefferson Bible: Elucidating the Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth," in The Independent Scholar (official journal of NCIS). - to be published in December 2023.