Dr Joel C Weinsheimer

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: English, Ohio University , 1973.

Specialties

• late 18th-century literature
• Samuel Johnson
• Jane Austen
• literary theory
• hermeneutics of Gadmamer and Heidegger

Courses Taught

• EngL 5151 - The 18th-century British Novel
• Johnson
• Gadamer
• EngL 8050 - Interdisciplinary Hermeneutics
• Literary Theory
• Teaching Practicum
• British Literature Survey
• Restoration and 18th-century
• EngL 3671 - The Novel
• EngL 3711 - Classics of Literary Criticism
• Introduction to Literature
• Introduction to Modern Fiction
• Introduction to Literary Theory
• History of Criticism

Publications

• The Middle Voice in Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Weinsheimer, Joel, Journal of Religion, 2007.
• "Charity Militant: Toward a Post-Critical Hermeneutics.": Weinsheimer, Joel, Literature and Historical Tradition., 54 , 2005.
• Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer: Weinsheimer, Joel, University of Toronto Quarterly, 74 , 2004/2005.
• "Teaching and/or Research: Gadamerian Reflections on a Pseudo-Dilemma.": Weinsheimer, Joel, Renascence, 55 , 2004.
• "Meaningless Hermeneutics?" Gadamer's Repercussions. Weinsheimer, Joel, Berkeley: University of California Press, Author, 2004.
• Jean Grondin: Weinsheimer, Joel, Yale University Press, Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography, 2003.
• Untimely Ripped. Weinsheimer, Joel, Author's Choice, Author, 2001.
• The Humanities in Dispute: A Dialogue in Letters. Weinsheimer, Joel, Ronald Sousa, Purdue University Press, Co-Author, 1998.
• Eighteenth-Century Hermeneutics: Philosophy of Interpretation in England from Locke to Burke. Weinsheimer, Joel, Yale University Press, 1993.
• Yale Studies in Hermeneutics. Weinsheimer, Joel, Yale University Press, Editor, 1992.