Wilshire, Bruce W(ithington) 1932-

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WILSHIRE, Bruce W(ithington) 1932-

PERSONAL: Born February 8, 1932, in Los Angeles, CA; son of Gilbert B. and June W. Wilshire; married Donna Welch (an actress, playwright, and director), August 15, 1959; children: Gilbert, Rebekah. Education: University of Southern California, B.A. (with honors), 1953; New York University, M.A., 1960, Ph.D., 1966; studied at American Theatre Wing, 1955-56, and American Shakespeare Festival Academy, 1956-57.

ADDRESSES: Office—P.O. Box 270, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-0270. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Teacher of philosophy in public schools in New York, NY, 1959-62; New York University, New York, NY, instructor in philosophy, 1963-66; Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, associate professor of philosophy, 1966-69; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, professor of philosophy, 1969—.

MEMBER: Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (co-executive secretary, 1974-77).

AWARDS, HONORS: National Endowment for the Humanities grant for younger scholars, 1968-69; travel grants from Rutgers Research Council for Poland, 1973-74, 1978.

WRITINGS:

(Editor and contributor) Romanticism and Evolution: The Nineteenth Century, Putnam (New York, NY), 1968.

William James and Phenomenology: A Study of "The Principles of Psychology," Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 1968.

Metaphysics: An Introduction to Philosophy, Pegasus (New York, NY), 1969.

(Editor and author of introduction) William James: The Essential Writings, Harper & Row (New York, NY), 1971.

(Editor, with Ronald Bruzina) Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Volume 7: Crosscurrents in Phenomenology, Marcus Nijhoff (The Hague, Netherlands, and Boston, MA), 1978; Volume 8: Phenomenology, Dialogues and Bridges, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1982.

Role Playing and Identity: The Limits of Theatre As Metaphor, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 1982.

(Editor) William James: The Essential Writings, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1984.

The Moral Collapse of the University: Professionalism, Purity, and Alienation, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1990.

Wild Hunger: The Primal Roots of Modern Addiction, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 1998.

The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA), 2000.

Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 2002.

SIDELIGHTS: Philosopher Bruce W. Wilshire has studied and written numerous books on phenomenology. He researches the effects world view and philosophy have on health and nature, with a special interest in healing and addiction. On his Rutgers University Web site he stated that his research is leading him "toward the formulation of an ontology and epistemology of affective, bodily interplay between Beings-in-the-World."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

American Journal of Sociology, May, 1984, p. 1476.

Change, November, 1990, p. 48.

Choice, November, 1982, p. 445; April, 1990, p. 1369; January, 1999, p. 975; March, 2001, p. 1287.

Comparative Drama, summer, 1984, p. 185.

Educational Studies, fall, 1992, p. 309.

Harvard Educational Review, May, 1991, p. 225.

International Philosophy Quarterly, June, 1985, p. 211.

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, spring, 1984,p. 337.

Journal of Higher Education, July, 1991, p. 473.

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, December, 1999, p. 927.

Library Journal, October 1, 1998, Mary Ann Hughes, review of Wild Hunger: The Primal Roots of Modern Addiction, p. 120; April 1, 2002, Francisca Goldsmith, review of Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy, p. 112.

Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 15, 1982,p. 4.

Parabola, February, 1999, p. 131.

Performing Arts Journal, number 3, 1984, p. 113.

Publishers Weekly, June 22, 1998, review of Wild Hunger, p. 75.

Quarterly Journal of Speech, November, 1985, p. 504.

Reference and Research Book News, February, 1990,p. 24; February, 2001, p. 3.

SciTech Book News, December, 1998, p. 71.

South Carolina Review, fall, 1991, p. 403.

Teachers College Record, fall, 1990, p. 138.

Theological Studies, September, 1999, p. 586.

University Press Book News, December, 1989, p. 17.