Joel Weinsheimer

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

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

Specialties

• Literary theory
• Hermeneutics of Gadmamer and Heidegger
• Jane Austen
• Late 18th-century literature
• Samuel Johnson

Publications

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Publications

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

Courses

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Courses

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