Education
- Ph.D., M.A. University of Memphis, 2005
- B.A. Millsaps College, 1996
Courses Taught
- Foucault Seminar
- Phenomenology
- Existentialism
- Africana Philosophy
- Critical Philosophy of Race
- Philosophy of the Enlightenment
- Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
- Philosophy of Art
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Logic
Research Interests
- 20th Century Continental Philosophy
- Phenomenology
- Existentialism
- Philosophy of Time
- Critical Philosophy of Race
Publications
- “From Time to Temporality: Heidegger’s Critique of Bergson.” In The Bergsonian Mind, 332-349. Edited by Mark Sinclair and Yaron Wolf. New York: Routledge, 2021.
- “Two Kinds of Postracialism: Declaration and Aspiration,” Critical Philosophy of Race 9, no. 2 (2021): 270-294. muse.jhu.edu/article/795860
- “Bergson, Henri (1859-1941),” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophers. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350989979-0002
- Translation of Henri Bergson, “Remarks on the Theory of Relativity (1922).” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy - Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française 28, No. 1 (2020): 167-172. https://doi.org/10.5195/jffp.2020.904
- “The Archaeology of Knowledge: Foucault and the Time of Discourse,” in Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism, 79-94. Edited by David Scott. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
- The Origin of Time: Heidegger and Bergson Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015.
- “Bergsonian Intuition: Getting Back into Duration.” In Rational Intuition: Philosophical Roots, Scientific Investigations, 151-173. Edited by Lisa M. Osbeck and Barbara S. Held. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- “‘When Are We When We Think?’ Arendt’s Temporal Interpretation of Thinking and Thoughtlessness.” Philosophical Topics 39 (2013): 71-90.
- Translation of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Institution and Passivity: Course Notes from the Collège de France (1954-1955). Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2010. With Leonard Lawlor.
Heath Massey
Professor of Philosophy
Email: masseyh@beloit.edu Phone: 608-363-2308 Office: Room 106, Morse-Ingersoll HallRelated
- CV.pdf (PDF)
