Richard Schmitt
Professor of Philosophy at Brown University
Ph.D., Yale University
Office: Gerard House, 54 College St.
Office Phone: (401) 863-3225
E-Mail: rschmitt@net1plus.com
Office Hours
Research Interests
Political Theory (Marx, theory of democracy, alienation), Feminism
Current Work
A book tentatively entitled "Alienation and Freedom".
Recent Seminar Topics
Alienation
Race and Racism
Some Published Works
"Racismo y Democracia" forthcoming in Dialectica
"Liberalism and Racism" forthcoming in the Radical Philosophy Review
"Individual and Institutional Racism" forthcoming in Tommy Lott, ed.,
Philosophical
Research on African American Social Inequality (Rowman and Littlefield)
"Large Propagators: Racism and the Domination of Women" forthcoming
in Nancy Tuana, Maurice Hamington, et al., eds Revealing Male Bodies
"Individual Identity and Group Identity" forthcoming in Bat-Ami Bar
On, eds., Jewish Locations in Racialized Formations: Traversing a Strange
Landscape
"Profeminist Men and Their Friends" in Tom Digby, ed.Men Doing Feminism(New
York:Routledge, 1998)
An Introduction to Marx and Engels 2nd edition (Boulder:Westview,
1997)
Beyond
Separateness: The Relational nature of Human beings, their knowledge and
Power (Perseus Books Group, 1996)
"About Losing it: The Fear of Male Impotence" in Larry May, Patrick
Hopkins and Robert Strikwerda eds., Rethinking Masculinities. 2nd
edition (Totowa:Rowman and Littlefield, 1996). Co-authored with Lucy Candib,
MD.
