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Curriculum Vitae
Larry E. Shiner
PERSONAL
Address: 9 Orchard Lane, Springfield, Illinois 62712
Phone: Work: 217-206-7194 Home: 217-529-9802
E-Mail: Work: lshin1@uis.edu
Home: lshiner1@aol.com
Birth Date: May 6, 1934, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Education: Topeka High School, Topeka Kansas 1952
Oberlin College, 1952-1954
Northwestern University, B. A., 1956
Drew University, M. Div. 1959
Université de Strasbourg, Docteur ès Sciences, 1961
Post-doctoral
Study:
“Art and the Emergence of Aesthetics,” NEH Summer
Institute, 1990, (Johns Hopkins)
“French Classical Literature,” NEH Summer Seminar,
Institute, 1986 (Harvard)
“Literature as a Social Institution,” NEH Summer
Institute, Seminar, 1983 (Princeton)
“Workshop on Comparative Method,” Social Science
Research Council, Summer 1970 (Harvard)
“Phenomenology & History,” Society for Values in Higher
Ed., Sept. 1967-May 1968 (Paris)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching & Research
Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield, 2004Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Springfield, 1974-2004
Associate Prof. of Philosophy, Sangamon State University, 1971-74
Associate Prof. of Religion, Cornell College, 1966-1971
Assistant Prof. of Religion, Cornell College, 1962-1966
Assistant Prof. of Philosophy, University of Tampa, 1961-62
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Administration
Dean of Academic Programs, Sangamon State University, 1975-78
Dean of Humanities, Sangamon State University, 1974-75
Editorial
Editor, The Psychohistory Review, 1987-1999
TEACHING AREAS
Philosophy
Philosophy of Art
Philosophy of History
Architecture & Society
Seminars: Rousseau, Tocqueville, Nietzsche
History
Eighteenth Century Europe
French Revolution and Napoleon
Nineteenth Century Europe
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
The Invention of Art: A Cultural History, Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2001 (Translations: Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Korean)
The Secret Mirror: Literary Form and History in Tocqueville’s
Recollections, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
The Secularization of History, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1967.
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES
“Arts Abject Other or the “New Cool?” Should Philosophy Rethink the
Art/Craft Dichotomy?” Aesthetics, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2012
“Artificaton, Fine Art, and the Myth of ‘the Artist,’” Contemporary Aesthetics
11 (2012)
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“Blurred Boundaries? The Concept of Craft in Relation to Art and Design,”
Philosophy Compass (2012)
“On Aesthetics and Function in Architecture: The Case of the Spectacle Art
Museum,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 69, Winter, 2011, 31-41.
“Symbolism and Crime: Architecture of the Vienna Secession,” in Rosina
Neginsky, ed., Symbolism: Its Origins and Consequences (Cambridge: Cambridge
Scholars Press, 2010).
“Functional Beauty, the Metaphysics of Beauty and Specific Functions in
Architecture,” Sztuka I Filozofia (Art and Philosophy), to appear in Fall, 2009, 7899.
“Continuity and Discontinuity in the Concept of Art,” British Journal of
Aesthetics, Vol. 49, No.2, April, 2009, pp. 159-169
“Temptation to Self-Indulgence? Aesthetics and Function in Recent Art
Museum Design,” Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, No. 36-37, 2008-2009, pp. 54-80.
“Architecture vs. Art: The Aesthetics of Art Museum Design,” in
Contemporary Aesthetics 5 (2007), www.Contempaesthetics.org.
“The Fate of Craft,” in Neo-Craft: Modernity and the Crafts, ed. Sandra
Alfoldy, (Halifax, N.S: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2007),
pp. 33-46.
“The Aesthetics of Smelly Art,” (with Yulia Kriskovets), Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 65, No. 2, Summer, 2007, 273-286,
“Transfiguring the Commonplace,” in Vivian Eveloff: Paintings and
Drawings, Springfield: University of Illinois at Springfield, 2005, p. 3-6. (catalog
essay)
“Man of Bronze,” in Machinist Studies: the Sculpture of Michael Dunbar,
Springfield: University of Illinois at Springfield, 2005, p. 5-9. (catalog essay)
“Arnold Berleant,” Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, ed. John R.
Shood, (Bristol, U.K: Thoemmes, 2005).
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“Hilde Hein,” Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, ed. John R.
Shood, (Bristol, U.K: Thoemmes, 2005).
“Western and Non-Western Art: Universality and Authenticity,” in Art and
Essence, ed. Stephen Davies (New York: Greenwood Press, 2003), pp.143-156.
“Psychobiography,” The International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, ed.Alain
de Mijolla, (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 2001).
“Psychohistory,” The International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, ed.Alain de
Mijolla, (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 2001).
“Craft” The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1998).
“Folk Art,” The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1998).
“‘Primitive Fakes,’‘Tourist Art,’and the Ideology of Authenticity,” Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 52, No. 2, 1994, 225-234.
“Flaubert’s Parrot, Agee’s Swan: From Reality Effect to Fiction Effect,”
Journal for the Study of Narrative Technique, Vol. XX, No. 2, 1990, 167-178.
“Rhetoric, Religion and Revolution: Reflections on Tocqueville,” Journal of
Religious Studies, Vol. II, No. 1, 1989.
“Writing and Political Carnival in Tocqueville’s Recollections,” History and
Theory, Vol. XXV, No. 1, 1986, 17-32.
“Foucault, Phenomenology and the Question of Origins,” Philosophy Today,
Vol. 26, No. 4/4, Winter 1982.
“Reading Foucault: Anti-Method and the Genealogy of Power-Knowledge,”
History and Theory, Vol. XXI, No. 3, 1982.
"Foucault and the Unconscious of History," The Psychohistory Review, Vol.
10, No. 1, 1981.
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"Tradition/Modernity: An Ideal Type Gone Astray," Comparative Studies in
Society and History, Vol., 17, No. 2, 1975, 245-252.
"Some Structures of Historiographical Temporality," Southern Journal of
Philosophy, Vol. 11, No. 4, 1974.
"Sacred Space, Profane Space, Human Space," Journal of the American
Academy of Religion, Vo. XL, No. 4, 1972, 426-36.
"Husserl and Historical Science," Social Research, Vol. 37, No. 4, 1970,
151-161.
“Introduction,” in Destiny and Hope of the Future, by Friedrich Gogarten,
Philadelphia: United Church Press, 1970.
“Gogarten and the Tasks of a Theology of Secularization,” Journal of the
American Academy of Religion, XXXVI, No. 2, June, 1968.
"A Phenomenological Approach to Historical Knowledge," History and
theory, Vol. VIII, No. 2, 1969, pp. 260-272.
"The Concept of Secularization in Empirical Research," Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. VI, No. 2, 1967, 207-220. (Reprinted with
revisions in International Yearbook for the Sociology of Religion, Vol. III, 1967,
pp. 51-60. Reprinted in original form in: Secularization, Boletin I, Instituto Fe Y
Secularidad, Madrid, 1970, 5-8; James F. Childress and David B. Harned, eds.,
Secularization and the Protestant Prospect, Philadephia, 1970; Kenneth Thompson
and Jeremy Tunstall, eds., Sociological Perspectives, Baltimore, 1971, pp. 460474; Sabino S. Acquaviva and Gustavo Guizzardi, La secolarizzazione, Bologna,
1973; NorbertBrockman and Nicholas Piediescalzi, Contemporary Religion and
Social Responsibility, New York, 1973, pp. 95-101; William M. Newman, The
Social Meanings of Religion, Chicago, 1974).
“The Theological Contribution of Carl Michalson,” Religion in Life, Spring, 1967.
“Toward a Theology of Secularization,” Journal of Religion, XLV, No. 4, 1965,
pp. 279-295.
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“La Pensée et l’action sociales dans le protestantisme américain: une
introduction,” and “De nouvelles structures pour l’Église dans une société
urbanisée,” in Christianisme Social, 71: 9-12, Septembre-Décembre, 1963, pp.
557-67 and 711-721. (I was Guest Editor for this issue).
“Goodbye Death of God,” Christian Century, (1958).
REVIEW ESSAYS
"The History of Psychoanalysis in France,"The Psychohistory Review, Vol.21,
No.1, 1992, 107-120.
"The Darker Side of Hellas: Sexuality and Violence in Ancient Greece,"
The Psychohistory Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1980, 111-135.
“La question de Dieu,” Revue d’Histoire de de Philosophie Religieuses, No.
2, 1969, pp. 157-161.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
(I have listed only those since 1990.)
“Architecture as/for Art: The Ethos of Museum Design,” American
Society for Aesthetics, Providence, Rhode Island, 2005.
“Hanging Out to Dry: A Tribute to Holly Smith Pedlosky’s
‘Aphrodite’s Girdle, Athena’s Shawl,’ American Society for Aesthetics, San
Francisco, 2003
“Desecrating the Temple: The New Museum and the Boundaries of Art,”
American Society for Aesthetics, Minneapolis, Oct. 2001
“Rousseau, Revolution, and the Festival,” American Society for Aesthetics,
University of Nevada at Reno, Oct. 2000
“Re-reading the History of Aesthetics with Mary Wollstonecraft,” American
Society for Aesthetics, Washington, D.C., Oct. 1999
"Cultural Encounters of the Third Kind: Native American Crafts and the
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Euro-American Idea of Art," American Society for Aesthetics, Santa Fe, Oct. 1997
"The Social Construction of Art in the Eighteenth Century," American
Society for Aesthetics, Montreal, Oct. 1996
"Folk Art between Art and Craft," Pacific Division, American Society for
Aesthetics, Asilomar, April, 1996
"Kristeller, `The Death of Art' and Duchamp's Fountain," American Society
for Aesthetics, St. Louis, Oct. 1995
"The Revenge of Craft," American Society for Aesthetics, Charleston, 1994
"Postmodern Pretentions," International Association for Philosophy and
Literature, Montreal, 1991
"Bad Readers: Flaubert and the Construction of the Reader," Society for the
Study of Narrative, Columbus, 1990