Texts on Texts and Textuality: A Phenomenology of Literary Art. Edited by Ellen J. Burns Paperback - 1999

Eugene F. Kaelin holds two degrees from the University of Missouri, the B.A., awarded with distinction in 1949, and the M.A. in 1950. His next diploma, in higher studies, was awarded by the Universit de Bordeaux, in 1954. The first two degrees were in philosophy; the diploma of higher studies, in social psychology. His Ph.D. in philosophy was awarded by the University of Illinois in 1954. Later, he was a postdoctoral fellow of the University of Illinois at Bordeaux (1954-55), and a traveling scholar, from the University of Wisconsin, at Freiburg-im-Breisgau (1964). He has taught at the University of Missouri as an instructor in philosophy, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was an instructor, assistant, and associate professor. In 1965, after his year in Germany, he was invited to join the faculty of the Florida State University as an associate professor. He was promoted to professor in 1967, and served as chairman of the department from 1969 until 1972. Besides numerous articles and reviews in a number of journals, Professor Kaelin has published the following books: An Existentialist Aesthetic: The Theories of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty (1962), Art and Existence (1970), The Unhappy Consciousness: The Poetic Plight of Samuel Beckett (1981), Heidegger's Being and Time: A Reading for Readers (1988), and An Aesthetics for Art Educators (1989). He has served as a member of the translating team for G.H. Mead's Mind, Self, and Society, which was published in 1962 as L'Esprit, le soi et la socit. Later he was editor of a Festschrift for W. H. Werkmeister, published as Man and Value: Essays in Honor of William H. Werkmeister (1981). Still later, he was co-editor, with Calvin O. Schrag, of a special volume of the Analecta Husserliana dedicated to the development of phenomenology in America; its title: American Phenomenology: Origins and Developments (1989). His swan song appears in this volume.