Mark Wrathall is professor of Philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 at the University of California, Riverside

University of California, Riverside

The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system. UCR is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United...

. His main interests include phenomenology, existentialism

Existentialism

Existentialism is a term applied to a school of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual...

, the philosophy of popular culture, and the philosophy of law. He is considered a leading interpreter of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."...

. Wrathall is featured in Tao Ruspoli's

Tao Ruspoli

Tao Ruspoli is an Italian American filmmaker and musician.-Background:Ruspoli is the second son of occasional actor and aristocrat Prince Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri and Austrian-American actress Debra Berger. He is the older brother of Bartolomeo dei Principi Ruspoli , second...

 film Being in the World

Life

Mark Wrathall received a BA in philosophy at Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

 in 1988. In 1991, he received both a Juris Doctorate from Harvard

Harvard Law School

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 and an MA in philosophy from Boston College

Boston College

Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

. After clerking for Cecil F. Poole

Cecil F. Poole

Cecil F. Poole was a prominent African American lawyer and federal judge. Poole was born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....

 at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, he pursued a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

, graduating in 1996. From 1994 to 1996 he was a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located in the area known as the Silicon Valley, near Palo Alto, California in the United States. The Law School was established in 1893 when former President Benjamin Harrison joined the faculty as the first professor of law...

. He taught at Brigham Young University from 1996 to 2006 (first in the political science department, then from 1999 in the philosophy department). From 2006 to the present he has been a professor at the University of California, Riverside.

Books

2000 Heidegger, Coping and Cognitive Science (MIT Press) - editor with Jeff Malpas

Jeff Malpas

Jeff Malpas is an Australian philosopher, currently Professor ofPhilosophy at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Tasmania. Known forhis work across the analytic‚ and continental‚ traditions, Malpas has...

2000 Heidegger, Authenticity and Modernity (MIT Press) - editor with Jeff Malpas

2000 Appropriating Heidegger (Cambridge University Press) - editor with James E. Faulconer

2002 Heidegger Reexamined (Routledge) - editor with Hubert Dreyfus

Hubert Dreyfus

Hubert Lederer Dreyfus is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley....

2003 Religion After Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press) - editor

2005 How to Read Heidegger (Granta; W. W. Norton)

2005 A Companion to Heidegger - editor with Hubert Dreyfus

2006 U2 and Philosophy (Open Court) - editor

2006 A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism - editor with Hubert Dreyfus

2008 U2 ea Filosofia (Madras) - editor

2009 Die Philosophie bei U2 (Wiley-VCH) - editor

2010 Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language, History (Cambridge University Press)

External links

• Homepage at Being in the World Movie Website
• Homepage at UCR Philosophy Department Website