Stephen Mulhall

Stephen Mulhall
Born	1962
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford, All Souls College, Oxford
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy, postanalytic philosophy
Institutions	New College, Oxford
Main interests	Wittgenstein studies, ethics, philosophy of religion, post-Kantian philosophy, philosophy of literature, philosophy of film
Notable ideas	Linguistic film theory Experience of meaning[1]

Stephen Mulhall (/ˈmʌlhɔːl/; born 1962) is a British philosopher and Fellow of New College, Oxford. His main research areas are Ludwig Wittgenstein and post-Kantian philosophy.^[2]

Education and career

Stephen Mulhall received a BA in philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford in 1983.^[3] He then pursued an MA in philosophy from The University of Toronto in 1984, during which time he spent several weeks studying under Sir Isaiah Berlin at Harvard.^[3] Between 1984 and 1988, he attended Balliol College and All Souls College, Oxford for his DPhil in Philosophy.^[3] From 1986 to 1991 he was a Prize Fellow at All Souls College and in 1991 he became a Reader of Philosophy at the University of Essex.^[3] From 1998 to the present he has been a fellow at New College, Oxford.^[3]

He has published extensively on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the American philosopher Stanley Cavell.

Books

Source:^[3]

• 1990 On Being in the World: Wittgenstein and Heidegger on Seeing Aspects (Routledge)
• 1992 Liberals and Communitarians (Blackwell) - with Adam Swift
• 1994 Stanley Cavell: Philosophy’s Recounting of the Ordinary (OUP)
• 1994 Faith and Reason (Duckworth)
• 1996 Heidegger and Being and Time (Routledge)
• 1996 Liberals and Communitarians: A Revised Edition (Blackwell) - with Adam Swift
• 1996 The Cavell Reader (Blackwell) - editor
• 2001 Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard (OUP)
• 2002 On Film, London/New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-24795-0 ISBN 9780415247955
• 2005 Philosophical Myths of the Fall (Princeton)
• 2005 Heidegger and Being and Time (second edition)
• 2006 Martin Heidegger International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought (Ashgate) - editor
• 2006 Wittgenstein's Private Language (OUP)
• 2007 The Conversation of Humanity (University of Virginia Press)
• 2008 On Film (second edition; Routledge)
• 2008 The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality (Princeton)
• 2013 The Self and Its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts (Oxford University Press)
• 2014 On Being in the World: Wittgenstein and Heidegger on Seeing Aspects (second edition; Routledge)
• 2015 The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy (Oxford University Press)
• 2021 The Ascetic Ideal: Genealogies of Life-Denial in Religion, Morality, Art, Science, and Philosophy (Oxford University Press)
• 2023 In Other Words: Transpositions of Philosophy in J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy (Oxford University Press)

References

1. Stephen Mulhall, On Being in the World: Wittgenstein and Heidegger on Seeing Aspects, Routledge, 2014 [1990], p. 35; see also: Donald K. Barry, Forms of Life and Following Rules: A Wittgensteinian Defence of Relativism, BRILL, 1996, p. 58.
2. "Stephen Mulhall". New College. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
3. "Dr. Stephen Mulhall". Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. Retrieved 2 May 2011.