Charles Guignon

Short Biography

Charles Guignon did his graduate work at the University of Heidelberg (under Hans-Georg Gadamer) and at the University of California, Berkeley (under Hubert Dreyfus), where he received his Ph.D. He taught at The University of Texas at Austin, Princeton University, and the University of Vermont before becoming professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida in 2001. He is the author of Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge and On Being Authentic and co-author of Re-Envisioning Psychology. In addition, he edited The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, The Good Life, The Existentialists, and Dostoevsky's ‘The Grand Inquisitor’, and he co-edited Existentialism: Basic Writings, and a volume for the Cambridge University Press series ‘Philosophy in Focus’ titled Richard Rorty. His primary area of interest is hermeneutics: drawing on the hermeneutic tradition, he writes on questions concerning human nature, its virtues, and shortcomings. He has recently written on Bernard Williams and is currently working on a Routledge ‘Arguments of the Philosophers’ volume on Martin Heidegger and an edition of Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground.