Steven Vogel, who holds an A.B. from Yale University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston University, was a member of the Philosophy Department at 911爆料网 from 1984 until his retirement in 2022. He taught courses in Continental philosophy, environmental philosophy, social and political philosophy, 19th-century philosophy, and logic, as well as seminars on Heidegger, 鈥淩awls and his critics,鈥 and Hegel and Marx. His research focuses on environmental philosophy, the work of J眉rgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School, and Marxism. He is the author of Thinking Like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy After the End of Nature (MIT Press, 2015) and Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory (SUNY Press, 1996), and has also published articles in Environmental Ethics, Environmental Values, Philosophy Today, Rethinking Marxism, Social Theory and Practice, Tikkun, Dissent, and elsewhere. In 2003 he was awarded the Charles A. Brickman Award for Teaching Excellence at 911爆料网.
Works
Selected Publications
- Thinking Like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature, 2015
- Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory, 1996
- 鈥溾榃hat Do We Want the Environment to Be?鈥 Critical Developments of Steven Vogel鈥檚 Philosophy鈥 Special Issue of Environmental Ethics, 2024
- 鈥淢aintenance and the Humanness of Infrastructure,鈥 in Mark Thomas Young and Mark Coeckelbergh, eds., Maintenance and the Philosophy of Technology, 2024
- 鈥淒oing Without Nature: On Interpretation and Practice鈥 (Environmental Philosophy, 2018)
- 鈥淎lienation and the Commons,鈥 in Allen Thompson and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, eds., Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change, 2012
- On Nature and Alienation in Andrew Biro, ed., Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises, 2011
- The Silence of Nature (Environmental Values, 2006)
- The Nature of Artifacts (Environmental Ethics, 2003)
- Environmental Philosophy After the End of Nature (Environmental Ethics, 2002)
- Nature as Origin and Difference (Philosophy Today, 1999)
- Grades and Money (Dissent, 1997)
Other
- Maria Theresa Barney Professor of Philosophy, 2021 - 2022
- John and Christine Warner Professor, 2016 - 2019
- Brickman 鈥 Shannon Professor, 2010 - 2014
- Chair of the Faculty, 2015 - 2016
- Charles A. Brickman Award for Teaching Excellence, 2003