Michael D. Barber, S.J.
Emeritus Faculty
Philosophy
Education
Ph.D., Yale University, 1985
MDiv., Loyola University, 1979
B.A., 天美传媒制片厂, 1971
Research Interests
Phenomenology, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy and Race
Publications and Media Placements
- "Alfred Schutz and the Second-Person Experience,鈥� , ed. Michael Barber. London, New York, Delhi: Anthem Press, 2022.
- 鈥淧ragmatic Encroachment, Phenomenology, and Religious Experience,鈥� 13(7) (2022), special edition: Religious Experience and Metaphysics
- 2022 鈥淣ietzsche and Levinas against Innocence,鈥� 13 (4) (2022) , special edition: In the Shadows of Religious Experience: Hostility, Violence, Revenge
- 鈥淥n the Epoch茅 in Phenomenological Psychology: A Schutzian Response to Zahavi,鈥� The Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 52 (2021): 137鈥�156.
- 鈥淎frican-American Humor and Trust,鈥� 44 (2021): 151-169.
- 鈥淣oetic and Noematic Dimensions of Religious Experience.鈥� Phenomenology of Religious Experience IV: Religious Experience and Description. Open Theology 6 (2020): 1-18.
- 鈥淗onneth on Recognition: From Mead to Schutz to the Moral Lifeworld,鈥� in Ph盲nomenologie und Kritische Theorie, ed. Jochen Dreher, Alexis Gros, Harmut Rosa. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, forthcoming.
- 鈥淚nstitutions, Imposed Relevances, and Creativity,鈥� in Macrophenomenology: The Entanglement between Experience and Large-Scale Social Phenomena, ed. Carlos Belevedere and Alexis Gros. New York: Palgrave Macmillan or Routledge, forthcoming.
Honors and Awards
He has authored seven books and more than 100 articles in the general area of phenomenology and the social world. His seventh book, Religion and Humor as Emancipating Provinces of Meaning, was published in 2017 by Springer Press. He is also editor of Schutzian Research, an annual interdisciplinary journal.
Professional Organizations and Associations
- President of the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists
- Member of the executive council of the International Alfred Schutz Circle for Phenomenology and Interpretive Social Science
- Member, Executive Committee of SOPHERE (Society for Phenomenology of Religious Experience)
- Member, Board for Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences